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BTCC crashes, accidents, collisions, spins from 1998 season
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00:00five miles an hour bang bang bang one after the other like bullets from a gun
00:04on board now with tim harvey and there's carnage on the right hand side yes one car
00:08i get up a bit of derek warwick more contact more contact well it looks like matt neal is
00:13involved in that one as well we have a look we're on board with will hoy now onto the right there's
00:18warwick he's spinning into the infield hoyd backed off you can hear his engine revs it
00:21whoa and he's being hit from behind he was behind him and me and bincliffe
00:27persia's paul radisic an independent renault man tommy rushtag tangled in the club chicane
00:44the cops graveled bringing out the safety car and bunching up the field
00:48it was an easy afternoon for the scott and the ray mallet built premier
00:51on
00:55leslie's got sideways that's leslie menu to the left there's contact the touch between them
00:59yeah the contact leslie pushed menu onto the grass now he's trying to push james thompson
01:03off on the other side into bridge three abreast and leslie and menu contact and again and menus
01:10off into the gravel three times in the space of two corners this makes derek warwick our
01:15new race leader oh that's tommy rushtag spinning off on board with their car right now looking
01:20back towards peter cox through the earth we're off we're off we're heading straight up huge impact
01:26that's a very very heavy impact indeed record right now pick up the drag towards bridge as
01:31tim harvey a master in the wet finds himself sliding off track and losing a lot of hard in
01:37position as well check out the on-board view from plato's car but don't expect a couple of
01:49racing drivers to share the same opinion now here's a race five into one that's going to end
01:59in tears into and it has ended in tears that's peter cox and that's morbid delhi morbid delhi
02:04and that's the view back from peter cox's honda morbid delhi's off with him i think it was maybe
02:08rushed out in the middle of all of that we're stuck well some of us are stuck morbid delhi's
02:13back up look you've got to rejoin the race look at the front of that is like a scene out of mad max
02:18achieved when an independent team thinks and acts like a works one neil ran as high as third
02:24but suffered the wrath of the factory drivers ricard ridell slotted in behind but further back
02:30matt neil was keeping up traditions too fronted into the barriers at old hall i can't really point
02:36the finger at anybody it's it's just crazy here with this coming together with tim harvey's persia
02:41look at that big leap up as alan menu hits the curbs on the way to and there's contact
02:51there's a spinner it's not cars it skittles down into the first corner we're on board with
02:55paul radisich that's well high ahead in the blue ford mondeo tommy richard the loretto
02:59where radisich dives down the inside bangs into the back of will hoy spins him around
03:05amazing battle between radisich and menu menus looking down the inside and there's contact
03:09and the crowd roar they love it menu thinks i'll
03:12take a look at the replay mansell's a passenger from the moment the wheels lock
03:28rick warwick did a pretty good job on taking out half of the field into the chicane
03:32james thompson and alan menu chief among his targets selected
03:39the replay shows a less than subtle maneuver on warwick's part
03:43but at least del boy did have the decency to admit the error
03:49just missing out on a finish was audi's john bincliffe after he and tommy rushtad decided
03:53to leave their coming together as late as possible basically the last corner
03:57audi would be busy during the break between races reed on the left leslie on the right
04:02side by side side by side two for the hondas and that's there's contact there's one of the
04:07reno's and let's make contact with peter cox and now what happened that's rydell on the right
04:11hand side of your screen and that's contact that's with derrick warwick oh derrick warwick
04:16well we've seen what happened in the first race derrick warwick he got a thousand pound fine he
04:21got a careless driving charge an exclusion and an endorsement he's in second position
04:25he's second position
04:34now here's how he took the lead let's have another look
04:36sideways reed did it himself reed floated sideways i don't know if there'd been any
04:40contact just before that and mansell dug through and john bincliffe's off oh john
04:44bincliffe is having a dog day afternoon pirouetting around and around and around
04:49behind him david leslie's race lasted as long as the first gravel trap
04:53scott appeared to remain remarkably calm about it all
04:57reed is right behind thompson thompson being absolutely crowded talk about crowded look at
05:03reed the hip and shoulder absolute down the pitch i mean i tried earlier than uh
05:09than i did up in a tower but he break on the inside so i had to go around the outside and
05:13just gave me a tower and he decided to turn in and uh we slightly touched and then i was through
05:18man you pushed me in the rear i think he locked up back leslie finally succumbed to another bout
05:23of argy bargy out of the hairpin it was a robust old thing again but it had got rydell the lead
05:28take a look at the replay to see how close the pair got to some big big contact
05:45it is barrel four abreast into riches thompson gets clear and into the lead but reed and menu
05:51touch out of quorum for the first time cleland goes sideways gets hit by menu and cannons into
06:01the snap tires with menu joining in too but in the end the patented derrick warwick battering ram
06:15finds another customer further up another troubled newcomer peter cock seemed to have vowed
06:26no more mr nice guy comes off worse nowhere near as bad as fellow new boy johnny morbidelli
06:33so
06:38the muller magnet attracts another client and this time it's will hoy putting the boot in
06:46back to the high-speed thruxton circuit and pole sitter ricard rydell is out dragged by
06:51antony reed as the train heads towards the complex behind baird has the mother of all
06:56rear-end impacts his monday are becoming a monday a compact against the thruxton tire wall it's
07:02another blow for the new zealander and a character building first btcc season but at least he's able
07:07to walk away from it i just uh went into the first corner and got a tap in the back and it
07:19the replay shows rushtad's laguna wasn't messing around when it went into the tire wall for a nose
07:23jog play-doh makes passing contact as he goes to the left of rydell but the big hit comes from
07:31hoy himself over and out for rydell and it's difficult to see peter cox disagreeing either
07:42as the frenchman forces his way into third
07:46well hoyt on bincliffe takes to the grass unbelievable hard stopping stuff no one hit
07:51more action that's john clallan that's a box all going off over the top of the hill
07:55bang in backwards oh skittles and that's david leslie down the bottom of the hill leslie's off
08:01grab it's off in the distance as well car sliding all over the place pandemonium in the opening start
08:07and the car that hit me was daddy but i don't know whether he was hit by someone else or he
08:11didn't see me or what but and it just pushed me around and around and around and whack
08:16in a barrio
08:20we're all we're all guys
08:24right behind peter's menu then it's rydell the championship leader then plato then muller
08:28and that's paul radicich tangling with leslie leslie's off contact between those two that's
08:33the second time in a couple of laps for david leslie he must be getting sick of this but
08:37leslie's rejoined somehow not being hit by peter cox in the honda antony reed really coming under
08:43menu menus hit him there's been pushed from behind reed's belted down the fairway sliding
08:48round and around trying to get some grip now he's kept it running is he going to rejoin the circuit
08:53yes he has he's cut off a bit of mileage that's given craig baird all the advantage we have seen
08:58but there james thompson hits the tower barrier massive shunt in the honda remember james thompson
09:04changed but he put intermediates in the front wets on the back james thompson following peter cox as
09:10they come out of cloud curb he comes up alongside but there you can see standing water on the outside
09:15of the corner intermediate front tires and bang into the tyre barrier fundamental error trying to
09:21get grip now we're going to go down through the gears again and stop for this corner stop for this
09:26corner matt matt neal completely outbrakes himself reed looking up the inside side by side trying to
09:32have a drag up the hill menu moves across and across and across running reed's run out of town
09:39do things by halves seconds after his teammate will hoy
09:43visits the paddock kitty letter mansell goes off big time on the exit from druids
10:01mansell was playing out his final drama of the afternoon with a second trip into the tyres
10:09and forced the honda man into the pits as well but that still left reed's nissan in control
10:18strong pass by james thompson he took the initiative he forced anthony reed to stay out
10:22now reed dives on the inside bang into the back of the honda and that was simply mission impossible
10:29by the championship contender anthony reed favors it all as we sweep under bridge still on board
10:34lunging down the inside of lm menu menus there somewhere and he's tagged menu more smoke pouring
10:40off the side of his car trying to straddle it one side than the other that's a barn muller looking
10:44for the right way around it picking the way through gently trying to start when there are
10:47cars going off all over the place it's not motor racing it's skittles look david leslie's off that
10:51was contact with peter cox on board with reed ahead of us is one of the voxels spinning there's
10:56grab its car in the gravel all over the place into abby corner that's peter cox in the honda
11:01having a look down the inside of lm menu having more than a look take that peter cox gives lm
11:05menu a punch in the ear on the radio furious that rushtad's down the inside rushtad had a big tank
11:15slapper almost lost it has backed off let me new past and warwick has decided to capitalize on that
11:20oh just one more time with feeling thanks for the memory mystery voxels it's clallandette ahead and
11:26he's bumped him straight off lm menu gives john clalland the two wood up the backside drives him
11:32down the fairway maybe they had an air jack problem and that was what did it and there's
11:36contact that's more with delhi and one of the boards that's bared and that's actually damaged
11:40the side of his door on the way maybe i started to slide first so we hit each other on the sideways
11:45and then he just came back on me so i left a good car and a half width on the inside and then a
11:51second reno and here's roger moan in a honda and what's going off in a honda yeah roger moan took
11:56the long way around mccain's corner find the dirty line