BTCC » Plato hit with reprimand

MATT NEAL IS STILL A CLASS DRIVER AND THE COMMENTS ABOUT HIS DRIVING ARE NOT NECESSARY.WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN MATT AND SHOW THEM WHO IS BEST.

Matt Neal has never been a class driver! He's just barged his way through the BTCC and up to a Championship win. Always throws his toys out of the pram and seems to get away with it. Plato's now getting the same treatment from the officials that Anthony Reid got in 2004 whilst fighting Neal for positions.

Oh for goodness sake take a look at this incident without bias. Plato hit Neal from a long way back and once he got him sideways continued to push rather than back off and let him recover. Whatever Neal has done before is irrelevant - if they start allowing drivers to "even the score" on the track then we might as well watch a "Mad Max" movie. Doesn't matter if it was Plato and Neal or any other driver combination. And the stewards, after listening to everyone and watching the footage, clearly saw it that way too. Don't let your hero worship of one driver blind you to the facts. Plato was at fault... this time.

Well someone talking sence plato hit him hard and kept his foot in till he had pushed him out of the way at no point did he back of or try to avoid it.If were honest plato will lol if mat loses championship by a couple of points now,plato should have been given a time penalty to put him behind mat.

no way did jp do it deliberately he had no control of the car wouldnt be surprised if neal lifted off on purpose neal is just a whining baby

Plato "shoving" Neal (if remoteley dilebrate) is a welcome change from Neal shoving everyone else off the track, if Neal had done it to Plato or anyone else no fuss would have been made at all

Plato is a stuttering idiot, neal is a rich daddies boy, i hope they take each other out of each race for the rest of the year, they are not the class of the field anymore, that belongs to Colin turkington

Am I the only one who finds the BTCC comment about 'general safety' ironic?
The race itself should not have been allowed to go ahead in those conditions - even behind the 'safety' car the cars were aquaplaning - and to have most of the 'race' behind said safety car made the whole thing rather silly and pointless....and dangerous.
Perhaps the race organisers should give themselves some sort of penalty to remind them not to act in such a way (for the sake of the TV schedule?)in future.

Why all the fuss?, they are both great drivers and they share the same basic problem, win at all costs which makes them both dirty drivers. The only solution would appear to be a lengthy ban to give them a chance to rethink their attitudes. The history of tintop racing is not littered with stock car racers and is better of without them when they appear. How interesting that one of the most successful driver of recent times is also the cleanest, namely Giovanardi, also Turkington is not known as a dirty driver, so it can be done!!

Jason Plato is a proper racing driver, Matt Neal behaves like a whingeing child with a selective memory with double standards