LIVE | Round 1 | Oulton Park | Intelligent Money British GT Championship 

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@@able-fox Check the 2022 DTM grid - only F1 can match that driver quality. I have to admit that GT4 cars can mix up the field which makes BGT exciting to watch 😎

Brits are funny. It's a go-kart track

@Pete V , that's what makes it challenging! Much like the Nurburgring Nordschliefe, the narrowness leaves no room for error. Only the best rise to the top at places like Cadwell Park and Oulton Park.

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The way he harried that McLaren was nuts!!!

Race 2?

It’s not Moro gp and F1 that why - lol Don’t have same data system I imagine

If you watched the start, it crashed, broke the suspension.

@@Dexter037S4 That's a GT4, I think he's asking why no-one entered a GT3. I assume it's just because these are usually hand me down cars from bigger teams and series and no-one has sold a used M4 yet.

@@Yesterzine It was a Gt3 m4. The new Gt4 m4 exists but it's not in customers hands yet.

The M4 GT3 crashed during warmup before the first race. It was repaired in time for the second race thankfully

Why? These race cars have nothing to do with their civil siblings. They are built by racing shops around the bodywork/shape of a civil vehicle. I mean the race Bentley is not worse/slower than the race Audi, and the BMW is no worse/slower than the Ferrari. That said, these races now feature GT4 (semipro category) cars that are much closer to track-oriented civil GT cars (like a civil Porsche GT4 RS or BMW M4 GTS). Unlike professional GT3 race cars, race GT4 cars are not fully built by small racing shops, except for some systems and components: rear wings, front splitters, racing seats, steering wheels, ABS and traction control are not fully civil on them, and stability control has to be removed but I'm not sure about that. It might be present, just like the case with the dual clutch automatic transmission - it might be present or it might be replaced with a manual sequential like on professional GT3 cars. However, it's probably not the cutting edge manual gearbox on GT4 cars, since the GT3 technology got further ahead and now most of GT3 cars feature a clutch on the steering wheel instead of a conventional pedal. As far as know, it's not the case with GT4 cars (it's either a civil dual clutch automatic or an old manual sequential with a clutch pedal near the brake pedal). All this has little to do with civil cars. The commentators and the industry are hush hush about such things. Rich buyers need to believe they are buying similar cars. Little do they now. Say, a civil Bentley weighs over 2 tons, while a GT3 Bentley weighs 1200 kg and doesn't share a single bone with its civil sibling. So a race Bentley GT can easily blow out of the water any GT4 race cars (whether it's a Ferrari or McLaren) as well a civil super cars that often weight over 1500 kg. It's the same with all other pro cars. Now then German civil cars are great, and Germans can also make great race cars and systems. The fact that German civil cars are probably the best has almost nothing to do with race cars. The latter are separate entities but everybody is hush hush about. So, what you say is not 100% correct. Besides, race results depend on the driver skills and team work, and even an element of luck is present during race events.

It allows teams with less money to compete on an equal level to teams that can spend plenty of money training their pit crew all the time. For a regional series that is aimed at gentlemen drivers, it makes a lot of sense.