BTCC Crashes 1999

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BTCC crashes, accidents, collisions, spins from 1999 season
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00:00But that's where he stayed until hitting Jean-Christophe Bouillon, which in turn allowed David Leslie
00:06through.
00:07Behind there, here's a look, down it was, the old hairpin down the bottom, that's Aiello
00:15in the works Nissan, just kissing the tyre wall, and that was Paul Lecoq in the independent
00:21Honda right behind him.
00:24Anthony Reid punts him off into the gravel at McLean's.
00:29It's a circuit in the UK, Thruxton, for rounds five and six, and the fastest corner on that
00:33circuit is Church Corner, which in the sprint race had its normal list of casualties.
00:38First Alain Meunier and Jason Plato, then David Leslie went all agricultural, and then
00:53Ivan Muller shows them all how really to do it.
00:58Not.
00:59I'm right now, I'll hold the middle line, here's the view from Aiello's car.
01:00Leslie on our left, having a look around the outside, another hip and shoulder, but he's
01:01actually pushed himself off.
01:02Leslie's off into the infield, and he's on!
01:03Leslie's across the middle of us, Anthony Reid is pushing himself off, and he's on!
01:04Leslie's on!
01:05Leslie's on!
01:06Leslie's on!
01:07Leslie's on!
01:08Leslie's on!
01:09Leslie's on!
01:10Leslie's on!
01:11Leslie's on!
01:12Leslie's on!
01:13Leslie's on!
01:14Leslie's on!
01:15Leslie's on!
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01:17Leslie's on!
01:18Leslie's on!
01:19Leslie's on!
01:20Leslie's on!
01:21Leslie's on!
01:22Leslie's on!
01:23See how hard this is, and there he gets the turn, that's almost Anthony Reid is tae boned
01:24him!
01:26Bad luck has played its part in getting us to where we are now, and not just for Aiello.
01:32Certainly I had some bad luck at the beginning of the season.
01:36Great pass, now he's zoned in on Anthony Reid!
01:38On cold tyres after a couple of safety car laps, Menghu throws off his Mondeo at Sertiz,
01:45promoting Muller up to third.
01:46During the feature qualifying.
01:47was during the feature qualifying.
01:53Gave Menuh a pretty good view
01:55of Russell Spence's weekend-ending shunt at Lodge.
02:00Thankfully, some minor bruising aside,
02:02the marshals and Spence escaped unhurt.
02:05He hit the arm core head-on,
02:07and the arm core folded, and then he ended up like...
02:09Aiello on the left, Leslie on the right.
02:12Clement trying to come through, and he's contact.
02:13That's Clément and Menuh.
02:15Jean-Clement off in a pretty big way into the tyre wall.
02:19And more problems. That's James Thompson.
02:21Well, that's it. I mean, I could push.
02:23You've got Riedel on the right,
02:25Pleito in the middle, Menuh on the outside,
02:26but there's the squeeze.
02:28Pleito, Menuh, they've nowhere to go,
02:30and then suddenly,
02:31Jean-Clement finds himself involved in an accident.
02:33He didn't even think he was near anybody.
02:36Menuh just tagged him as the result of that contact.
02:38Here's a view from Pleito's car after the initial impact.
02:41Watch for Alain Menuh coming back across.
02:43Bang! The track there, and hitting James Thompson, who just...
02:46I turned in, Menuh seemed to drive into the back left rear quarter,
02:51and looking, I just walked round the car as I got out of it,
02:54and all the splines for the wheel have been machined away, so it's...
02:58This is the charge down into Old Hall Corner,
03:01on the left-hand side of the track, turning in,
03:03but then all of a sudden,
03:05Clement's car comes across the front,
03:06but what has happened is that Menuh has been hit in the rear,
03:08he's turned right into Jean-Clement,
03:11and then all of a sudden,
03:12an enormous bang on the right, alongside and gets ahead.
03:15Thompson now coming up alongside Matt Deal as they go into Old Hall Corner.
03:18Suddenly action all ahead, and then Thompson puts the brakes on,
03:22Peter Cox doesn't, and the result is the safety car.
03:25Riedel moves to cover, straight in front of Thompson,
03:27it's Aiello behind.
03:28Aiello's clipped somebody in spun, that's Aiello!
03:31In one of the Nissans onto the infield,
03:33everybody else passed him cleanly, luckily for him.
03:36His revs are up, now Thompson looks to be away pretty slowly,
03:39Aiello is really gaining on him.
03:41Looks down the inside, Thompson moves to cover, darts left,
03:44and has obviously tagged someone.
03:45Now, he's hit someone hard enough, or hit the wall hard enough.
03:48He got involved totally unintentionally.
03:51Starting behind Aiello, he goes to the right,
03:53Peter goes to the left, then suddenly Aiello cuts across to the left.
03:57Peter had nowhere to go.
03:58Screaming up towards McLean's for the first time.
04:01He's having a lunge down the inside,
04:03and he's tagged him!
04:04He's tagged Peter Cox.
04:06Verdict, George Watson?
04:07Matt Deal just went too...
04:08James Thompson in that red and white Honda,
04:10side by side with Ricard Rydell.
04:12Talk about bullying!
04:14Rydell gets the hip and shoulder from Thompson, and pushed wide.
04:17Thompson on the right, JCB in the middle.
04:19Muller's got a bit of a tank slapper, he's caught it.
04:21No, he hasn't caught it, he's up on the infield.
04:23It's a goal!
04:25He's just absolutely nailed James Thompson.
04:28James Thompson is moving, we're on board with him now, smoke everywhere.
04:32Through the left into the right-hander, Muller sparks in his groove.
04:36Unbelievable, Muller's dug down the inside,
04:38and Plato's tagged him, Menuh tries to find a way through.
04:41It's not racing, it's skittles, unbelievably.
04:43Ivan Muller did not fall off, that is the save of the season.
04:47Thompson quick to recognise the difference between a puncture and a wheel.
04:50When a wheel comes off, he's off, what happens?
04:53Straight off, trying to turn right as soon as he's put any weight on the back of that car at all.
04:57The car has spun off to try to get back.
04:59Now he's dragging the back of the car, he's turning into the bomb,
05:02whole sparks going everywhere.
05:04Oh, and he's spun again, this is hopeless.
05:06And around, and around, three wheels on my Honda.
05:09You can just see Aiello fainting to the left of Rydell's car.
05:12Rydell under brakes now, left-right, he's tagged Rydell,
05:15he's been tagged as well by Rademecker, Rademecker's been tagged.
05:19Oh, it's like one of those fabulous motorway insurance claims, bang, bang, bang, bang, all into it.
05:23James Thompson's right in the figure, but he's missing a headlight already,
05:26and Matt Neal is having a look down the inside, Matt Neal's tagged him.
05:29Matt Neal's sideways, a tank slapper from Matt Neal, and he's spun in with him,
05:32he's taken James Thompson with him.
05:34That's two, that's a Honda, that's James Thompson, or Peter Cox, is it?
05:36No, it's Cox, the second of the Hondas, just sliding off.
05:40So Matt Neal's view of this situation, James Thompson, he dives up the inside,
05:43this is coming into good, but it was never really on, the gap was not there,
05:47Thompson closed it, legitimately, Matt had to get off the power,
05:50the worst thing you can do in a front-wheel drive race car,
05:52spins off backwards, somewhere there, through the barriers,
05:55Peter Cox is what we've lost for Peter Cox went to.
05:58There's Matt Neal, he just hits that curb on the inside as well, which unsettles his car.
06:02It's a miracle he didn't get taken out by anybody along the way.
06:05Peter Cox, as you see there, spearing off into the distance.
06:08Look, there's the other view again, over that curb, a big hop, that set the car off,
06:12that's why the back end of the car broke away,
06:14he gets back on the power, tries to drive the car out of the slide,
06:17but the pendulum effect takes over, and there through the barriers, Peter Cox.
06:21Matt Neal through this, Rademacher cocking up a wheel as he goes down into the right-hander,
06:25now there's some contact, that's David Leslie, David Leslie is off,
06:28he's made contact, I think,
06:30the one with the Honda is on board now with Jason Plato,
06:33that's Peter Cox off, Thomson as well, Thomson's tagged Cox,
06:37we're on board with Plato, he's up as well, it's not racing, it's skidding mayhem into the first corner.
06:42Turning into the right-hander, that's Thomson ahead of us,
06:45now there's a bit of contact up in front, he just misses Thomson,
06:48Leslie spins to the infield, everyone's still OK apart from David Leslie,
06:53off down into the right-hander, Rydell on the right, contact with Peter Cox on the left,
06:57James Thomson jinxed to the right, but still clips his teammate,
07:00and Jason Plato, I think, caught Peter Cox, one of the Hondas at least, trying to avoid them.
07:05Tried to force his way past Peter Cox, there you can see it again,
07:08no chance whatsoever, Cox just taken out, but then is behind with Thomson,
07:12he's trying to find a way past, but then Cox suddenly gets gripped,
07:16drives across the front of Rydell, clips the back of Thomson,
07:19Plato, who's really doing nothing at all, gets trapped,
07:22back end of the car gets damaged, and that sees the end of Plato's afternoon so far.
07:26Left, right, everyone's through, there's a bit of contact,
07:29it's David Leslie, he's tagged Reed, Reed's spun to the infield,
07:32on board with Reed, he's trying to regroup, here's the view of how he tries to do it,
07:37now he's down the inside of Ricard Rydell, now he's through the door of Ricard Rydell,
07:41Ricard Rydell says, oh really, pushes him back, side by side,
07:44very, very physical stepping up the hill, Rydell not yielding.
07:48Not at all, but look, here's the battle that's going on for second place,
07:51hello, Jason, did you hear this behind you? Big surprise, it's Laurel.
07:55Laurel Aiello is pushing him very hard, very, very hard indeed, he's shuffled him off,
07:59Jason Plato has been lent on and pushed off into the gravel by Aiello.
08:03He's been pushed off by Aiello, with the gravel.
08:06The wobbles from Plato's car, hangs onto it though, and then another tap,
08:10push, push, push, and finally he's gone.
08:13Get out of my way, Plato, he then gets the rear wheels of that railroad off the ground,
08:18that is not something that is approved by the British Touring Car Championship rules.
08:22Yeah, you can bet Laurel will be helping the stewards with their inquiries at the end of this race.
08:27Leslie third, Thompson fourth, Peter Cox up there in fifth place,
08:30there's some contact, a pair of them off in the kidney litter.
08:32Tarquini and Tarquini pushed me off.
08:35Well there you've had it commentated, Muller explains all,
08:37Tarquini pushed him off with a pair of them, finish up in the gravel.
08:41On board with Alan Menuh ahead of us, Maddiel, not for long.
08:46Big turnaround there, someone's tagged the back of Menuh's car.
08:52Will Hoy on the right-hand side of the screen, and there is Ivan Muller, tagging Tarquini and Muck.
08:57This is the view from Ivan Muller's car, but watch Will Hoy on the right, under braking,
09:01he tags the back of Tarquini's Honda, swings him over to the left, collects Muller.
09:05Near in for him is he, yes, on board with Alan Menuh off the back of the grid,
09:09on the back of Will Hoy's car, he's tagged him, he's off.
09:14Really off, slithering down the grass.
09:18Still sliding.
09:20I've got pushed off by Will Hoy.
09:23Three abreast over the hill, this is getting sillier by the minute.
09:27Off!
09:28James Thompson shovels Plato off.
09:30Look at Plato's Renault.
09:32Looks like an engine in the Grand National, not a race car.
09:34Coming in some hurry up by Ellos, there's Paula Cook, Paula Cook is off, locked up,
09:39bang, straight into the tyre wall.
09:41Fails to take the chicane.
09:43That's somebody clawing their way off the track entirely, that's Alan Menuh,
09:47and he's gone off onto the infield.
09:49Oh, yes, he's, I mean, f***ing good, but understeer.
09:52Now, here's another shot of Alan Menuh's incident from Peter Cox's car.
09:56Menuh, he clips that corner marker, but I can't see the understeer
10:00that Menuh complained about.
10:01But one thing's for sure, he just lost the car.