BTCC Crashes 2002

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BTCC Crashes 2002
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00:00Come down into Graham Hill Bend, that's Annie Templeton just ahead of us
00:03So Anthony's joined right at the back of the- oh and there's- there's Kars off all over the place
00:07Anthony sneaks his way through the middle. Well, Tim's got all the experience in the world
00:11Oh, we've got a problem at Paddock Hill Bend. Sorry Chris, but Kars off all over the place
00:15There's Mark Thomas bouncing into the barrier. He was involved in that battle for third in the production class
00:21Well, there you can see there Boardman just getting slightly out of shape down the hill out of Paddock Hill Bend, tags Thomas in the rear
00:27He's into the barrier, but there's smoke pouring from the BMW too. Coming down to Clearways
00:32It doesn't really look close enough to try and challenge. Gets on the brakes, the car doesn't want to slow down
00:36Oh, he's off and he's into the tyres. Oh, and it's- as he comes through Paddock Hill Bend
00:41Oh, and there's another accident. Paul O'Neill hits the barrier. Same place we saw Mark Thomas off earlier on today
00:47Well here we have a great view there, the rear of Tom Chilton's car
00:50But look, three cars ahead. Paul O'Neill tries to shut the door going into Druidsk. Gets turned into the barrier
00:55Everyone avoiding the action there. And well, here we see a big impact there for Tom Chilton
01:02So Tim Harvey in the lead in the Peugeot. Look at Warren. Oh, he's hit, he's hit him. He's hit Matt Neil
01:07There- he's got going again. I thought he was going into the gravel trap
01:10You can see Warren Hughes just tags him on the inside. A half-hearted manoeuvre there, but Matt Neil kicks his foot down
01:19Spencer Marsh off into the gravel trap. That's Druids.
01:22That's there from the Vauxhall team. Tom Borman and Mark Thomas. Oh, Thomas has got it. Oh, sideways again
01:28Well, he is a former rallycross racer, you know, and that was some great car control and we've got a car off
01:33That's John B and Q off at the top of the hill. Yeah, here we see the replay. There's John B and Q
01:37They seem to sort of cross each other. There he has a huge helicopter, 360 degree spin
01:43Yeah, here we are on board with David Lesley who's following this incident. And there, Danny just loses it
01:47He does turn in a bit late, but normally you have understeer there. That's what happens
01:51Yeah, well here we see the- it's Annie Templeton
01:54And I think Mark Thomas seem to make a contact there and then Mark Thomas spears across the track to the right and collects
01:59poor old Gavin Piper
02:02Oh, look at this battle going on. Matt Neil now trying to get past Warren Hughes. Oh, he's hit him!
02:06Oh, into the barrier down at Nickerbrook and swings round, rips off the front of the car
02:13Yeah, here we see Matt Neil on board, camera really close behind Hughes in the MG
02:17He just just misses his braking point. Hughes brakes earlier than the Vauxhall
02:20We know the Vauxhall can brake late, plus being so close in that slip. As the leaders come into the complex now
02:25It's Muller ahead of Thompson. Oh, that's Warren Hughes. Warren Hughes completely sideways
02:30I think he might have had a little bit of help there from Tim Harvey
02:32But what a recovery. And here we see the replay of the start there
02:36It's a typical start line incident. Four cars trying to go into one. Templeton there, two Alfa Romeos have saundered
02:42Oh, and Phil Bennett's got off. Phil Bennett sliding. Oh, has he gone off? No, he saved it
02:46That's a really scary place to lose him. Remember, Anthony Reid's a little further behind. Oh, and the leaders have hit each other
02:52Muller's hit the back of James Thompson. Muller, look, Muller really losing a bit of time under pressure from Matt Neil
02:57Oh, in fact, he's gone wide
02:59He's gone right off the track and he's heading for the tyre
03:02It doesn't seem to be anything he could do about that as he comes up to lap them all and Kay's had a little tap there
03:06From Piper. Piper goes for it. It doesn't work
03:09He makes contact and it's Piper who ends up spinning out and it's Ivan Muller with the advantage
03:14James Thompson trying to settle back. Oh, and we've got a spinner at the top. That's Tom Chilton
03:19Oh, and he's been hit by one of the yellow Hondas. A big, big accident at the back
03:23Yes, that's happened at Noble. Very quick corner here
03:25We are on board with Marsh following Fuller Love and Fuller Love there just misses Chilton. Only just, but it's Marsh who hits Chilton
03:32Very unlucky. Very, very close together as they come out of the complex up towards the left-hander and there's a bit of smoke
03:37Oh, and Kate. Kate's in trouble. He's lost it. Flip back end gets away from him and he's on the grass
03:42Yeah, very strange that. Looks like some sort of technical problem
03:46What's going on here? Big squeeze. Oh and contact with Reid Turkington. Matt Neil is out of the way. Prio just avoids it
03:54Oh, let's have a look. And here we are on board with Matt Neil. Gets badly bulked there by Steve Wood
03:59He eventually gets back on the path, but he's lost a massive amount of momentum. You watch on the left-hand side
04:03There's Reid. Gets fantastic run out of the corner. Starts to squeeze Neil
04:07But Neil has nowhere to go because Turkington's come up the inside
04:10Are both mired there in the midfield and we've got a battle here going on. Spencer Marsh gets hit by Tom Boardman
04:16Oh, does he get it back? That's quite a bit of correction going on. Bumps over the grass
04:20Yes, he has saved it
04:22But he's lost a lot of places. That left front's not working very well and another production class car in trouble here
04:27This is Graham Saunders who's had a spin up at Beckett's by the looks of things. Now James Kay on the left
04:33Trying to attack Kelvin Burtt. Kelvin, there's a bit of contact there between the two of them
04:37Kabo and Kay's gone sideways and he gets into a big big slide spins it right round. I think Kelvin Burtt survived
04:44Yes, he's gone wide, but let's take a look in the background. There he is running wide
04:47Yeah, well here he comes out of the paddock bend and there just gets a wheel out on that outside curb
04:52Just loses the grip. Our race leader is Matt Neil, James Thompson
04:56Oh battle for third Howell versus O'Neill and they've gone right out to the edge and look at Leslie
05:01Leslie's nipped through, got some sort of problem. Yeah, so we are on board here
05:04I just think O'Neill probably just didn't have enough of his car in front. Watch his charge as James
05:09Thompson also having to come from the back. Of course Thompson's got a lot to do to get past his traffic. There in front Saunders
05:14Just loses it into that tricky
05:16Yeah, slights gone inside Leslie at the first corner and not really given David any room and then cut across him
05:22In the background, let's see what happened
05:25Yeah, Prio spins through the chicane
05:27I think this is lap one and it's possibly a standard front wheel drive
05:31Problem which is the rear tires stay cold for longer than the fronts and let's take a look here
05:37Yes, O'Neill following Bennett dives very late into the hairpin. It's not really on that moon over there. It's a very tight corner
05:44Yeah, and he cuts the corner
05:46I think we can safely assume that he
05:48Damaged the sun possibly on the curb cutting the corner and there you see the oil burst into flames fairly spectacular
05:55Spectacular exit indeed for Paul O'Neill
05:57And of course, it's laid a lot of oil down on that part of the track and here comes Paul Breeze going through that
06:03Where to go did he complete smokestreet and a slippery track? No chance
06:08And he's looking for that way past the export Astra on board with Warren
06:12Oh, he takes his rear bumper off as they turn in. Oh bang!
06:17Where did he come from?
06:18He launches himself down the inside of Warren and in fact Prio's had his rear bumper taken off by Anthony Reid
06:25Runs a bit wide on the exit. Oh, he's run very wide. In fact, he's on the grass
06:30This is second and I think third as well to Dave Allen. Morrison's gone off. Alan Morrison crashing out. That's on the exit
06:37Well, let's see what happened here. We're on board with David Leslie. Can't see slight at the moment. Bennett's just ahead turning
06:42Oh, there's slight straight into Bennett. Well, I think Aaron was having his own accident there and Bennett just got in the flight path
06:48But he's just locked up a little bit braking late and he's off
06:51He's coming in he gets the signal to come back out. Eves is coming down the pit lane. Oh, they make contact
06:57They make contact coming out of the pit. He dives down the inside. Can he get it turned into the hairpin?
07:02Yes, he can makes it round the outside
07:04Oh, they make contact. Turkington gets spun round onto the field on the inside
07:08And I don't think there's much chance of getting out of there. He's well and truly stuck here
07:12We're on board again. Turkington very quick into the hairpin slides past the Astra of Aaron Sleight
07:18Oh, that's a big impact. I don't think Aaron Sleight was very happy about being overtaken there
07:23Touring cars. Now there's Chilton's teammate Aaron Sleight. Warren Hughes coming up behind him and in fact going past from way past
07:29Sailing past into the gravel again
07:31Holding on to fourth currently. McNeil chasing it. Oh, Boardman's on the kerb. Round she goes
07:37Alan Blenko takes avoiding action
07:39Beautiful piece of ballet there from Tom Board. So McNeil's up into fourth. Paul O'Neill now up to fifth
07:44But he's got into a big big tank slammer here. Oh, and he's in big trouble all over the place
07:50But watch out for James Thompson. He's right behind them. Look at Colin Turkington
07:54Oh, Turkington there was contact there between Colin Turkington and McNeil and Turkington's gone off into the barrier
08:00And it looks as though his race is run already on this opening lap of the sprint race
08:05Yeah, here we are on board as we turn into Graham Hill Bend and there is McNeil
08:09He just catches the back of Colin Turkington's car there and just keeps that position and Turkington doesn't realize he's there
08:15Tries to regain the line as he turns into a championship rival. This is what happened to Dave Allen
08:20Yeah, he came there out of Graham Hill Bend just bounced off the inside of the kerb there
08:25That was enough to unsettle the car and around he goes. So something's happened. Let's take a look back here
08:29Here we are on board with Norman Seamone into Paddock. There on the left is Chilton going off and there he is
08:34Just when we look back here on board with Anthony Reid there does Turkington just
08:38Outbreaks himself and hits Thompson. Thompson's very lucky. Alan Morrison is in the battle there with David Leslie
08:44And he's holding it. They come through Graham Hill Bend side and they make contact and Leslie spins out
08:48Oh, he's into the tire barrier on the outside in the proton end of race
08:52Here we are on board with Morrison as he dives down the inside of Leslie. Leslie seems to leave himself a bit of room there
08:58To let Morrison through. Big impact there as he up the hill towards Druids. It's going to be close run thing into the corner
09:04Oh, and Morris locked up. He's taken Thompson off. He's taken him into the gravel
09:08That is an amazing incident that really shouldn't happen to him
09:11There's Piper there braking as he goes into Druids and leaves the door a little bit open. Seamone there
09:16Sees an opportunity tries to tuck down the inside and there tags
09:19Piper and just spins him into the inside of Druids. There's Piper there
09:23Sees an opportunity tries to tuck down the inside and there tags Piper and just spins him right round
09:29Well, that's Touring Cars for you. Oh, and this is more Touring Cars for us. Tom Boardman and there's been contact there
09:34I think that was Paul O'Neill. He was rounding the hairpin with. Oh and Tom
09:38You can't carry on with your front wheel waving around like that. You've got to get it back to the pits, I guess
09:43Let's see what happened. Yeah, that was quite, it looks quite, I shouldn't really laugh
09:46But that's really Keystone Cops with that sort of front axle spinning around there
09:49Yes contact there. And that looked like a heavily damaged car. Here come the leaders into McLean's Thompson on the inside of Muller
09:55Oh, he hits him. Muller's pushed a bit wide. He gets back on and take another look at that from onboard Aaron Sleight
10:00It was Leslie who got sideways. Sleight then moves up to the outside and then there's, oh and it all gets a bit too tight there
10:06I think Leslie might have been pushed across and bang! Big impact with the wall there for
10:11That had to be a little bit more circumspect. Oh, O'Neill! O'Neill, he's hit Howell
10:16Gareth Howell and Phil Bennett was involved in that as well
10:19But what a move that was from Thompson. And there's another accident there
10:23That's Graham Saunders going off in the Alfa Romeo at the old hairpin. That's quite a big accident
10:27And what happened to him, he was just an innocent victim there in the incident
10:31We saw him go out there on the hairpin. That was Graham Saunders crash
10:34And that, I think that car won't be making it back out for the feature race
10:38Because it looks like he's obviously got some sort of braking problem there
10:41The rear of the car locks up and he just spins him round
10:44Andy Brio leads battle for second, here comes Ivan Muller
10:47Muller has to go for it now, he's got down the inside of McNeil
10:50Bit of door rubbing, oh and he's gone sideways
10:52Neil hits him in the door as well, Muller not really giving McNeil into the S's
10:56Look at Anthony Reid next up, then it's Ivan Muller, Paul O'Neill, he hits Paul O'Neill
11:01Oh and Tom Chilton, Tom Chilton hits the wall
11:05And Reid certainly showing that ruthless trick here
11:08Oh and Howell's made contact with Reid
11:10Howell goes off into the gravel track
11:12Fellow MG driver, the two of them have had it coming together
11:15Here we are on board with O'Neill and we'll see what happens here
11:18Really it's a question of Howell there really trying to go round the outside of Reid
11:22So we'll have to see whether he gets out ahead of Brio when he's made his stop
11:26Boardman under attack here from Spencer Marsh
11:28Who gives him a little helping hand
11:30And Tom goes off, he gets it into gear straight away
11:33Oh, he hasn't quite got it sorted out
11:35Not supposed to be doing doughnuts out there to entertain the crowd Tom
11:38You're supposed to be racing
11:39He's a bit over-enthusiastic there