BTCC Crashes 2005

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BTCC Crashes 2005
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00:00But Muller has stormed away. Collard into fourth, but he's made contact with Eves.
00:05Eves and Collard, side by side, rubbing door handles, and Collard loses out.
00:10Oh, and James K has been turned into a spin, hopefully no one collects him.
00:13Well, that could have been very dangerous.
00:15It's Ivan Muller with the early advantage, look at Plato.
00:18Plato on the inside, and the Siano is hit!
00:20He's hit Turkington, I think, and off goes the Vauxhall.
00:24Colin Turkington is on the grass, can he keep it off the tyres?
00:27Oh, he's skating on the grass.
00:29The inside, I think he's going to try and take second.
00:32Rob Collard coming round the outside of the MG.
00:34Oh, and a big slide there.
00:36Almost off, and off goes Luke Hynes.
00:38We've seen some side by side.
00:40Oh, the leader, look, look, look!
00:42There's Matt Neil going for his favourite overtaking place.
00:44Muller wants to hold off, not just Muller, but James K.
00:48This Honda of James K.
00:50Oh, he's sideways, he could be off!
00:52He could be off, he's on the grass.
00:54Takes the Dunlop banner with him.
00:56And Jason Plato now looking for the inside line,
00:59into the chicane.
01:00Oh, he hits Muller!
01:02He's turned him sideways.
01:03Muller's still got his foot in.
01:05Oh, wonderful control!
01:07Now Plato nudges Muller there, you see.
01:09Look how sideways Muller is.
01:11He's completely broadside,
01:13and he still gets it turned into the chicane.
01:15And it's Luke Hynes who has made the best start
01:18and leads as they come into the complex contact there.
01:20And K's off, I think.
01:22Oh, no, it's one of the Vauxhalls that's off.
01:24And Chilton's in trouble, he's on the grass as well.
01:26And so's Turkington.
01:31Oh, that's a great line!
01:33Oh, no!
01:34It's all gone wrong this time.
01:36Collard does manage to gather it back together.
01:44What is he doing?
01:45That's Hynes, I think.
01:46That's Hynes.
01:47And Bickford trying to get past.
01:48Luke Hynes, Jason...
01:50Oh, and there's a spin!
01:51And that's Smith-Gavin Smith in the Vauxhall.
01:54Oh, he's almost missed a gear there.
01:56It seems like he's suddenly dropped back a little bit.
01:58Oh, he's gone wide!
01:59Oh!
02:00He's in the gravel.
02:01Dan Eaves makes a big mistake.
02:03The championship leader is off into the gravel.
02:06And then he brakes perfectly over the bump
02:09and just locks up and goes straight on.
02:11Nearly collects Turkington as well.
02:13And Plato through.
02:15And Collard...
02:16Oh, Collard's hit Turkington!
02:17That was quite a hefty swipe.
02:19No chance for Collard there.
02:20And he's into the tyres.
02:21Well, that was Collard.
02:23Oh, we've got two cars off as well.
02:25Two Seats.
02:26Watch Collard, though.
02:27He's trying to sneak inside as well.
02:28When Turkington moves across,
02:30there's inevitable contact.
02:31He went right behind,
02:32really as a result of the contact in front.
02:34No blame there that you could enforce.
02:37A fantastic second place for everyone behind him.
02:39Oh, Plato's hit him!
02:41He's sideways right in front of Plato.
02:43What's happening around Plato, though?
02:44Plato's sole second.
02:46Collard trying to go around the outside
02:48of James Pinkford through Paddock Hill.
02:49Then sideways goes Collard!
02:51Oh, he's hit the gravel.
02:52He gets it straight.
02:53He loses it.
02:54He's out of the race.
02:56Buried into the gravel trap.
02:57And Rob Collard is out.
03:00Pinkford didn't expect that.
03:02And he just got caught out.
03:03Oh, he just...
03:04Sideways!
03:05He's hit him out there!
03:06And he's going to hit the barrier, surely.
03:07Or does he kick it off?
03:08Just touches the barrier.
03:10Not that hard in the end.
03:12On board with Plato.
03:13This is where Eves might have a look on the inside.
03:15Contact!
03:16Oh, they've hit each other.
03:17Eves just taps the back of Pinkford.
03:19And he's through.
03:20Closing up with them as well.
03:22They're still together.
03:23McNeil takes it.
03:24Oh, and Muller's hit Plato!
03:25Muller has hit Plato!
03:28And Jason Plato a bit wide there from Smith-Jones.
03:30Oh, no!
03:31Teammates hit each other.
03:33Turkington and Smith now.
03:35If you look here,
03:36Turkington's gone wide.
03:38He's cut inside.
03:39He has an overlap now.
03:40Watch.
03:41I mean, well, the contact happened very quickly,
03:44I have to say.
03:46And then the contact is made.
03:47And round goes Smith.
03:48And what do you...
03:49There's just no choice.
03:50Plato has outbraked himself.
03:52And that means Collard has just taken the lead.
03:55And Williams has spinned out.
03:56Might have had a tap from somebody.
03:58Stopped the car.
03:59He was trying everything.
04:00His little cadence braking.
04:01Oh, there's contact between Turkington and Smith.
04:03Well, that's Smith getting his own.
04:05This is through the Jim Clark.
04:07S is going down towards Barkoff.
04:09Very fast part of the track.
04:10125 miles an hour braking.
04:12Oh, and he's just got all the way wide.
04:14Oh, no.
04:15He's got a longer scrub.
04:16If any...
04:17Oh, that is a big shunt.
04:19Now, the safety car is on circuit.
04:21This will neutralize the race, of course.
04:24We ride on board.
04:25Oh, and there's contact.
04:26Matt Neil's been squeezed out by Jason Plato.
04:29Plato's through.
04:30But better look at it.
04:31Matt is wide.
04:32Matt was wide, actually.
04:33Matt didn't defend the inside hard enough.
04:36Left the gap for Plato.
04:37Plato had to go for it.
04:40That was actually Jason defending.
04:44But now he's attacking.
04:45Turkington's having none of it.
04:47Oh, this is great stuff.
04:48Plato could actually lose out to Dan Eaves.
04:49He needs to try...
04:50He goes back inside.
04:51Oh, there's a lot of pushing and shoving.
04:53Oh, this is physical racing, isn't it?
04:55Plato and Turkington trading more than just bait.
04:58And now look at Dan Eaves.
04:59Eaves alongside.
05:00There's not space here for two cars, surely.
05:02They got through there.
05:03That's...
05:04Oh, no.
05:05Both on the grass.
05:06Eaves and Plato.
05:07Oh, no.
05:08It's all gone wrong for both of them.
05:09Here we go.
05:10It's anybody's call.
05:11Somebody's got to give.
05:12Dan's up the inside.
05:13But Jason, they both go in.
05:15I thought it was okay.
05:16But their momentum just takes them out.
05:18Oh, no.
05:19Well, Dan will be livid.
05:21Jason lost out himself just...
05:23Well, he hasn't got it.
05:25Oh, no.
05:26That's tricky.
05:27Well, Smith fall back.
05:28And Matt just put him out on the marbles.
05:30And...
05:31But Plato's being very aggressive.
05:32That was a good layup.
05:33Collar left the door.
05:34And we've seen...
05:35Oh, they're pushing and shoving.
05:36This isn't over yet.
05:37Oh, no.
05:38It's all gone wrong.
05:39Plato very sideways.
05:40Collar goes through.
05:41And Plato recovers.
05:42Well, there was a bit of retaliation going on there.
05:45I've got to say that Jason Plato...
05:47Oh, no.
05:48Now he's just getting out of order.
05:49But Plato almost deserved it.
05:51That's Pic for putting Collar down.
05:53And now Plato's back in front.
05:55Plato's taken advantage of that.
05:56He nipped through on the inside.
05:58It all started with a tiny mistake from Luke Hines.
06:00And now he's...
06:01Hines is off.
06:02Hines into the gravel.
06:03He was held there by James K.
06:04It has all gone a bit tight through the chicane.
06:06Maybe he's got some damage on that car.
06:08Because you wouldn't have expected him to...
06:09Oh, contact.
06:10Oh, Plato's tapped the back of the hips.
06:12And now McNeil's got the inside.
06:14McNeil may well have gone past Jason Plato.
06:16Oh, they're off!
06:17They're off!
06:18Would you believe it?
06:19They're all off down there at Turn 7.
06:21Fiona Leggett got very sideways,
06:23but I think got through.
06:24She's...
06:25Oh, we've got a...
06:26Plato is off.
06:27And Hines is off rather slowly.
06:28Plato's still there.
06:29That's Luke looking back on board
06:32with Rob Collar right behind.
06:33Oh, and it was right behind him
06:35was Plato and Hines were together.
06:39The driver's going to have a go.
06:40Oh, an offscore on Fiona Leggett.
06:42Fiona Leggett ending up in the field
06:44on the outside of Rich's.
06:46Going into the corner,
06:47she just loses it on cold tyres herself.
06:50She was defending the inside.
06:51Yeah, McNeil had a great chance there
06:53because he's really got held up.
06:54He's having a think about it.
06:56Oh, he's hit!
06:57He's hit Hines.
06:58So Danny's tapped the back of Luke Hines
07:01on the turn into the S's.
07:02Hines will try and rejoin.
07:03I hope he can do that without taking anybody with him.
07:06And he turns in.
07:07Oh, just makes it through.
07:09And now Hell might lose second.
07:11Oh, he's been turned around by Turkington,
07:13his ex-teammate.
07:14Oh, no, don't hit the wall.
07:16Oh, that's a really cruel blow for Gareth.
07:18Welcome back to Touring Cars, Gareth.
07:20And let's just take another look.
07:22Well, Gareth pinched across the inside a little bit.
07:24Turkington went across the kerb,
07:26but there just wasn't room for two cars.
07:28And now after having a comfortable lead,
07:30he finds himself back in second place.
07:32Almost pushing him, he is.
07:34Neil's off in the gravel, and Muller's back through.
07:37Not a huge amount of money, so they're...
07:39Oh, I think Curley's lost it.
07:42On the exit of the chicane,
07:44Williams comes through the chicane unsighted.
07:46Oh, and the car's just...
07:48That is disaster.
07:50Nobody's fault at all, but what a shame for the team.
07:56Oh, and is that Neil?
07:58No, it's Eves.
07:59Eves is out.
08:00Well, the safety car's out anyway.
08:01They were still racing, as I was saying.
08:03That looks like K to get through.
08:05Muller's being ultra defensive.
08:07He's got the cars running on three cylinders.
08:09Oh, touch!
08:10I knew that was going to happen.
08:11I couldn't believe it.
08:13What's going to happen here?
08:14Matt Neil's off, surely.
08:15Oh, they're fighting with their towel sideways with Plato.
08:17And it's Plato who's off now.
08:19Matt Neil's got back through.
08:21The way he's driving, that was awful.
08:23I was lucky to get out of it,
08:25which makes it even sweeter, you know,
08:27to come back with a podium.
08:29That was only just by pure luck.
08:31The two leaders just ahead.
08:33Jason Plato moving to the inside.
08:35Look how he's all...
08:36Oh, they make contact on the straight!
08:38And Chilton's backwards on the straight.
08:40Would you believe it?
08:41He's trying to get up the inside.
08:42He's got a little bit of extra speed on him.
08:44A little bit of extra speed.
08:45Contact made there.
08:46And it's at an angle.
08:47And that just turns the car.
08:49And, well, Chilton was a passenger.
08:52Oh, Pickford's off.
08:54Yeah, Pickford.
08:55And that's with his own teammate.
08:57What was going on there?
08:58Oh, Pickford actually...
08:59Oh, they didn't make contact.
09:00I thought there'd been contact between him and Hines,
09:02but nope, that was Pickford's mistake.
09:04And Matt Neil's on the inside,
09:05and he's taken fourth place.
09:07Matt Neil comes from nowhere,
09:08but he gets a bit of a glout from Luke Hines.
09:10More contact.
09:11Would you believe it?
09:12And Matt Neil busily trying to sort all this out.
09:15He's trying to drive for the championship,
09:17and now he's beaten it.
09:18Oh, no, he's been knocked off.
09:19He's been knocked off.
09:20He just stays out of the wall.
09:22But Matt Neil has got to get back on.
09:25He's had no non-finishes at all this year.
09:27Perfectly for Matt Neil.
09:28This is the end of it with Collard up behind him,
09:31pushing him wide.
09:32Collard had got slightly up the inside in Luffield,
09:34but just kept pushing and round he went.
09:37He does not want to get hit.
09:39Jason Plato has a look down the inside.
09:41It's a Panigale bend.
09:42They're side by side.
09:43Collard's off.
09:44Collard's off behind them.
09:45And I think Jason Plato has taken Matt Neil
09:48on the approach to Druid.
09:50This is on the approach.
09:52Well, we're on board with Collard,
09:54and he's going for the apex,
09:55and there's a tap from the rear three-quarter.
09:57Look at your screen.
09:58None of the pass Plato's making.
10:00Ah, well, the Cogner.
10:01Difficult to see, really,
10:03because we couldn't see the braking area for that one.
10:06To the first corner.
10:07But Dan Ives is right with him.
10:09He leans on him.
10:10They're side by side.
10:11A big slide from Ivan Mola.
10:12They're in.
10:13OK, but Turkington's not.
10:14Look at the leaders together.
10:15Close as well.
10:16Dan Ives is very close.
10:18Oh, in touch.
10:19My goodness.
10:20Pickford has the inside line.
10:22Howell goes for a late lunge down the inside.
10:24Oh, there's contact.
10:26Pickford's off,
10:27and Howell is through.
10:29He's at the back of that group as well,
10:31so watch out for him.
10:33He's trying to go down the inside.
10:34Oh, there's contact.
10:35He's hit.
10:36That was Mola who hit Ives.
10:37The two of them are battling for third,
10:39second place in the championship.
10:41Oh, what a shame.
10:42A big accident.
10:43It's a panic hill, Ben.
10:45It's involved several cars,
10:47and it all got a bit too fraught.
10:49Comes up behind.
10:50Suddenly finds everyone on their brakes.
10:52Taps into the back of Ives
10:55and bang, in a split second,
10:57all three cars are out.