SNETTERTON BTCC WILL BE COUNTRY'S MOST EXCITING RACE DAY,
SAYS CIRCUIT BOSS
East Anglia's premier motor sport venue of Snetterton will
deliver the most exciting racing anywhere in the country on
13 August when the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship
races there, says circuit boss Jonathan Palmer.
The BTCC is the UK's most popular motor racing series, with
millions of ITV1 television viewers this year having been
gripped by the wheel-to-wheel, door-handle-to-handle action
among big star names such as Matt Neal, Jason Plato, James
Thompson and Colin Turkington. Reigning champion Neal currently
leads the standings in his Team Halfords Honda, but Team RAC
MG driver Turkington is closing fast in second. Neal's rising
Scottish team-mate Gordon Shedden is also one to watch.
Palmer, whose MotorSport Vision company owns Snetterton and
sister BTCC venues Brands Hatch and Oulton Park, believes
the crowds coming to his Norfolk circuit are in for three
of the season's closest BTCC races.
"Nowhere else in the country on that day will come close
to the excitement that the BTCC will generate at Snetterton,"
says Palmer. "The BTCC action has been getting more dramatic
with every round and we've seen at Brands Hatch and Oulton
Park increasingly large numbers of people coming through the
gates to watch the championship.
"Snetterton has the longest straight in the UK, Revett
Straight, and the spectacle of the BTCC cars slipstreaming
one another and then fanning out across the track is something
to behold for the crowds.
"The speeds are among the highest the BTCC cars will
reach all year and there's going to be a lot of frantic scrabbling
as they try out braking one another into the Esses. It's the
same coming through the Russell chicane onto the start-finish
straight where there's often plenty of contact and controversy.
"There's always a lot for the crowds, many of them young
families, to do on BTCC race day and the Snetterton Pit Lane
Walkabout - when the public can come in and meet the drivers
for autographs - is always an enormous hit. The fact that
admission for children is free is another huge bonus point
for people planning their weekends. Everyone at Snetterton
is looking forward to greeting the BTCC crowds on 13 August."
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