Touring Car journalist / data aficionado @TouringCarsNet, covering #TCR and #BTCC. Occasional weather tweets. Email me: andrew@touringcars.net.
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I think this fits in with the fact that we're likely to have a strong El Niรฑo too this year? @DaveThroup
Drought to deluge?
Latest seasonal forecast pointing towards a very wet Autumn and Winter.
Wouldnโt rule it out based on recent whiplash events.
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Andrew Abbott ๐ ๐ช๐บ retweeted
#BTCCย :ย Ash Sutton wins by biggest margin in 27 years in race two at Oulton Parkย -ย touringcars.net/2026/06/ash-โฆ
Somewhat depressed to view the profiles of so many of the touring car personalities (in the UK (!)), in a sport I love, spouting and reposting xenophobic right-wing narratives. The BTCC and TCR UK paddock is a place I enjoy with some great people. But then there's the others...
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Rejoining Erasmus is a real opportunity to start repairing the disastrous Conservative Brexit deal. We are pleased the government has finally listened to us on that.
However it must be a first step on a clear roadmap to a closer relationship with Europe. Starting with negotiating a bespoke UK-EU customs union, and committing to a youth mobility scheme for benefit of the next generation.
At least you can't put contaminated electricity into an EV...!
BBC News reports: 'Repairs woe as drivers buy 'contaminated' fuel' in Shrewsbury
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87lโฆ
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Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? ๐ค
ALT Two red buses, one marked 'The lie' which displays the Vote Leave claim that the EU cost ยฃ350M a week that would instead be used on the NHS. Another marked 'The truth' which shows that Brexit has cost the UK ยฃ1.7bn per week in 2025.
So he doesn't sleep much and is undoubtedly a hard worker. But he cannot, simply cannot, be worth more than every primary school teacher combined. It's a mad world.
When I reported to Elon, we would have X product meetings at 5 or 6pm (because he was with the Tesla team for 10 hours before that), then my 1:1 checkin would be at 10pm, but that would regularly get moved to 11pm or midnight or 1am.
Usually around 2am, heโd go take a nap for a couple hours in the office and then repeat the same schedule again the next day with a different set of companies, 7 days a week.
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Reform exec seems to be 'in awe' of Chinese "efficiency"...
Meanwhile, another bridge built by Chinese "efficiency" collapses just months after being built...
bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c231yrโฆ
We should be proud of the fact our infrastructure doesn't collapse just months after opening!
Itโs useful to place Britainโs catastrophic bureaucracy and failure to build into context.
China has just opened the worldโs tallest bridge.
It cut a 2 hour drive down to 2 min, features a theme park, a glass skywalk and a waterfall.ย
It stands 2000 ft above the river and spans 4600 ft.
Built in just 4 years.
Meanwhile the government has guided it will take *10 years* to build a 3rd runway at Heathrow.
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Andrew Abbott ๐ ๐ช๐บ retweeted
#BTCC: Jake Hill announces departure from Laser Tools Racing and the BTCC - touringcars.net/2025/09/jakeโฆ
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Weโre in the โDonโt Look Upโ era.
Climate change is accelerating, the science is clear and yet denial is thriving. Worse still, parties like Reform UK spread deliberate misinformation while the planet burns.
Heat records are tumbling all over the planet on an almost daily basis
New car: CUPRA Leon eHybrid. First time I have owned a car from a brand which is actively involved in touring car racing (yes, I know, its an estate so not quite the same). Had a SEAT Leon before as well, but by then the brand had morphed into CUPRA...
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Initial thoughts - it's great driving around in electric-only mode (I work from home so do a lot of short journeys, school runs etc). The DSG gearbox is good and it's got good power.
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I'm not at all surprised, especially given that many of the elderly who voted in 2016 have since died! Those of us still working and paying our tax (and making money for the UK) overwhelmingly want to be in the EU.
The number of Britons saying the UK was right to vote to leave the EU has hit its lowest level since the referendum, ahead of the fifth anniversary of Brexit on Friday
Right to vote to leave: 30% (-3 from Nov)
Wrong to vote to leave: 55% (=)
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The @BTCC finale yesterday provided some mega racing and a worthy champion in @JakeHillDriver. My stand out move was the Gravettesque move @Tomingram80 pulled at Paddock. It certainly brought back some 1990 memories!
This is appalling.
Would this have more impact if it was shared after the driver's (presumedly incoming) conviction was known?
The 'news' (even via socials) is used to educate what not to do (bad driving), but also to inform of the sentence to be expected if ppl flout the law.
Iโm sure all will agree this is absolutely scandalousโฆโฆ
Overtaking the cyclist just before turning left was unacceptableโฆ..
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