19 August 2019 Archives

BTCC Thruxton, Honda Hat-trick.

Monday August 19th, 2019 Stephen Hodges

The BTCC on the weekend of August 17th & 18th makes its second trip to the high speed sweeps of Thruxton. Saturday saw a close qualifying which saw Sam Tordoff taking a surprise pole position in the FK2 generation Honda Civic Type R with Jason Plato lining up alongside, the Plato fire seemingly stoked after Snetterton. Race 1 on Sunday saw Tordoff make a strong start in his Civic, Jason Plato meanwhile came to grief before the race had even started, overshooting his grid spot alongside Tordoff earning himself a…

Shortened race at Pocono

Monday August 19th, 2019Sunday August 25th, 2019 Jens Jensen

NTT IndyCar Series was back from summer holiday with the ABC Supply 500 Miles race at Pocono Raceway. Saturday was plagued by rain, so the cars weren’t on the track at all on the first two practices, and the qualifying that should’ve come straight afterwards was also cancelled. That was why the starting grid was decided based on the championship standing. It meant that Josef Newgarden started on Pole Position, ahead of Alexander Rossi, Simon Pagenaud, Scott Dixon, Will Power and Ryan Hunter-Reay. The start was extremely chaotic, where the…