BTCC round-up: thrills, spills and automobiles
James Thompson picked up a £500 fine and a three-point licence endorsement after a hearing was held at Croft into his shunt at Silverstone two weeks earlier with Vincent Radermecker. Thompson hit the Belgian's Vauxhall Vectra, causing the car to spin and the impact heavily with Anthony Reid's Ford Mondeo
Ford will be the only works team which has to worry about success ballast for the next BTCC meeting at Snetterton. Its drivers filled five of the six podium places at Croft, with independent star Matt Neal bagging the sixth. Team Dynamics reckon they'll only have to add nine kilos to the Nissan though (third place warrants 20kg) because Matt's lean 6ft7in frame is already 11kg over the allocated weight for drivers in the overall minimum weight of car and driver.
Class B leader Alan Morrison in his Peugeot 306 was beaten in an on-track scrap for the first time this year at Croft. The man to do the deed was his nearest rival, Honda Accord driver James Kaye. "I got the jump on him at the start and then pushed where the Honda is better and slowed him down where he was quick," explained Kaye, who reckons that a new engine spec he used at Croft - which is still not perfectly mapped - has brought the Accord much closer to the Peugeot's impressive pace.
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