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    Image of BuddyHinton BuddyHinton
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    Plato must've thought he was at Bristol where that crap is legal....
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/06/09

    @BuddyHinton: You mean Altamont?
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    I can't decide which is more amusing. A Daewoo Lacetti BTCC car or a Hyundai Accent WRC car.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/06/09

    @brandegee: Let me answer that for you.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    That's a beautiful piece of driving. Talk about staying calm under pressure. That BMW really was a prick, too. Me, I would have bunted him into the next county, first chance I got.


    Letting off the gas would have had him spinning like a top. So the power was essential, but there was probably a fair amount of steering involved, too, to make it look so smooth and easy.

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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    Is this the first win for Daewoo in BTCC?????
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    Image of Electro Gyrocator Electro Gyrocator
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    Do we have equivalent touring car races here? Where you can see people racing cars that you can actually buy? And I'm not talking about NASCAR! ... Unless I can get a pushrod 4bbl Toyota V8 in my Camry...
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    Image of Uncle Bo Uncle Bo
    04/06/09

    @LamerX - Reverse donuts on your lawn!:


    Speed World Challenge is probably the closest thing to European touring car racing in the US. They have a GT series and a Touring Car series.


    I guess a real world spec road racing series is popular here. I mean, about 500 people watched the Sebring SWC event a couple weeks ago. By comparison, about 150,000 were on hand Sunday (and another 8.6 million more at home) to watch RWD Camry's with carbureted V8's, 4 speed's, solid rear axles and steel wheels held on with lugnuts drive in circles for 500 miles.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    Apparently, your wife putting you on a sex ban if you don't win is the ticket to superhuman driving abilities.


    ...looks like August is going to be a slow month in the _Science household.

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    Image of FasterP FasterP
    04/06/09

    Maybe Jari-Matti Latvala's WRC car's fate wouldn't have been so grim if his significant other threatened a sex ban.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    04/06/09

    @FasterP: Wow.


    He landed ~1/2 mile down the hill.

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    Image of pres pres
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    Looks like he'd have a nice subcontracting career coaching NASCAR drivers.
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    Image of Jon Jon
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    Anyone else notice that Plato locked up the inside rear of the Lacetti just prior to Adams making contact? I know this is a "new" car for Plato (actually a 2008 model, I believe) so perhaps he wasn't used to the braking power, but to me it looked like Plato slowed down too much rather than Adams missing the braking point altogether.


    I'll leave the conspiracy theories about if it was intentional or not to others.


    Either way, a fantastic save.

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    Image of cchannel BLT cchannel BLT
    04/06/09

    @Jon: Thought so too, maybe the 4 sec penalty was not deserved. But bloody brilliant save anyway! The BTCC is a real man's race!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    04/06/09

    @cchannel would love him some X6 M: The part I really liked was the way the scum behind them didn't let up, drove right over that ripped off bumper skin and kept going. I didn't hear anything about a full course yellow being thrown or any of that. Keep your head down, and never let up!
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    Image of Brett Blaske Brett Blaske
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    Lets see Clarkson, Hammond, or May pull that off.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/06/09

    @Brett Blaske: That's not fair on Top Gear, you forgot The Stig. Let's see Tom Ford pull that off.
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    Image of Al Navarro Al Navarro
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    Braking vs. breaking?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    Daewoo faster than BMW... film at eleven.
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    Image of poxpopulus poxpopulus
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    From the looks of it, GM should of replaced Wagoneer with Plato ........
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    Image of .357 .357
    04/06/09

    @poxpopulus:Haha, that was cold. Heart-click
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    Image of .357 .357
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    As you can see, BMW transfer their racing prowess into building their road cars. I mean, look at how they put in the driving characteristics of BMW racing drivers in to the regular BMW drivers.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    04/06/09

    @.357:Half Man-Half Amazing: Driving like a prick is one of the programs in the BMW team.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    You see that? Chevy Lacetti. You can't hide it underneath the Daewoo carpet.
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    Image of 1dollar93 1dollar93
    04/06/09

    In reply to Jason Plato's Epic BTCC Sliding Save
    That's one reason to drive a puller. The rest are.....
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    04/06/09

    @1dollar93: The Mazdaspeed3.


    The Focus SVT.


    The Mini Cooper S Works.


    The Focus RS.


    The Bucciali TAV 8-32 Saoutchik 'Fleche d'Or' Berline.


    The descent into Monaco in the final stage of the Monte Carlo Rally.

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