Btcc brands hatch

[MG CHRIS]

The 2012 season is about to start a host of changes for 2012 for people who haven't followed the rummor thread here's a preview of the 2012 season.

10 rounds again this year with 30 races at the same track as last year with 24 drivers entered for brands hatch.

Teams and drivers

1 Matt Neal British Honda Yuasa Racing Team Honda Civic (M)
4 Mat Jackson British Redstone Racing Ford Focus (I)
5 Aron Smith Irish Redstone Racing Ford Focus (I)
6 Liam Griffin British Redstone Racing Ford Focus (I)
8 Robert Collard British eBay Motors BMW 320si E90 (I)
11 Frank Wrathall British Dynojet Toyota Avensis (I)
12 Daniel Welch British Welch Motorsport Proton Persona (I)
13 Rob Austin British Rob Austin Racing Audi A4 (I)
17 David Newsham British Team ES Racing.com Vauxhall Vectra (I)
18 Nick Foster British eBay Motors BMW 320si E90 (I)
31 Mark Hazell British Rob Austin Racing Audi A4 (I)
33 Adam Morgan British Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis (I)
34 Tony Gilham British Team HARD. Honda Civic (I)
38 Tom Onslow-Cole British eBay Motors BMW 320si E90 (I)
43 Lea Wood British BINZ Racing Vauxhall Vectra (I)
44 Andy Neate British MG KX Momentum Racing MG6 (M)
48 Oliver Jackson British AmD Tuning.com VW Golf MK5 (I)
50 Tony Hughes British Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis (I)
52 Gordon Shedden British Honda Yuasa Racing Team Honda Civic (M)
55 Jeff Smith British Pirtek Racing Honda Civic (I)
66 John Thorne British Thorney Motorsport Vauxhall Insignia VXR-R (I)
77 Andrew Jordan British Pirtek Racing Honda Civic (I)
78 Chris James British Team ES Racing.com Vauxhall Vectra (I)
99 Jason Plato British MG KX Momentum Racing MG6 (M)
TBA TBA Thorney Motorsport Vauxhall Insignia VXR-R


RML,arena, techspeed, geoff steel, str have left the series.

Several new ngtc cars.

888 to run 2 mg6s
Pirtek 2 civic
Honda 2 civic
Throney 2 insgnia 2nd car out form brands.
Speedworks expand to 2 avensis.

Pher oliver jackson will race for amd tunning vw golf.

No n/a cars are entered this year.

Race coverage on itv4 from 11.30 onwards.

I will be watching it from home can't wait for the action to begin.

[crofty1984]

Will it be on catchup services? I don't have a telly.
Best of luck Ollie!

[playalistic]

crofty1984 said:

Will it be on catchup services? I don't have a telly.
Best of luck Ollie!

Yep, you can watch the individual races on the ITV website. Or at least you could last year anyway

We'll be at Brands spectating all weekend. Can't wait!

[Fast Fuse]

Taking my first trip to Brands to spectate on Sunday. I can't wait either!

[woof]

From what I know - the new rules will really shake things up
It's certainly not an equal playing field.

Will be there on Saturday - instructing at Snet on Sunday

[Andy_sx]

I'll be there on Sunday, really looking forward to it!! going to be interesting with all the cars running to the new regs

Good luck Ollie, and dont get caught oggling your new grid girl, if you need help looking after her, give me a shout

[MG CHRIS]

Andy_sx said:

I'll be there on Sunday, really looking forward to it!! going to be interesting with all the cars running to the new regs

Good luck Ollie, and dont get caught oggling your new grid girl, if you need help looking after her, give me a shout

Not quite there is still s2000 turbo cars not all are ngtc.

[RJB_666]

Been looking forward to the new season starting. Will be at a few races this year but unfortunately Brands is a 3 hour plus drive.

All the best for the season Ollie.

[kimducati]

MG CHRIS said:

Not quite there is still s2000 turbo cars not all are ngtc.

At this stage, the smart money would be on a S2000 'Hybrid' for the title this year - unless they start playing with 'equivalency' to skew things.
The NGTC cars are barges in comparison to the S2000's.
Mat Jackson the one to watch, IMHO.
We'll see - I'll be there marshalling all weekend anyway.

Kim

[MG CHRIS]

kimducati said:

MG CHRIS said:

Not quite there is still s2000 turbo cars not all are ngtc.

At this stage, the smart money would be on a S2000 'Hybrid' for the title this year - unless they start playing with 'equivalency' to skew things.
The NGTC cars are barges in comparison to the S2000's.
Mat Jackson the one to watch, IMHO.
We'll see - I'll be there marshalling all weekend anyway.

Kim

Motorbase and wsr should be strong at the start before the ngtc cars of 888 and dynamics to get stronger latter on in the season. But i think the toyota,audi and proton should be strong from the first round after a year of experience with the new car.

[Andy_sx]

ooops, should have paid a bit more attention :s thinking back next season is the full switch over is it not... bugger!

[Allyc85]

BTCC, WTCC, WSBK and WRC this weekend, I wont be going far!

Cant wait to see how the new cars/teams shape up, especially race 1 with no ballast!

[Big E 118]

I'll be at Brands Sunday, didn't realise that there was a PHer racing, that's who we'll be supporting then!

[iva cosworth]

Is there a sweep on who will be first to lose a rear bumper ?

I will take Rob Collard .

I just hope it isn't going to be a whinge fest for Plato in a new out the box car [MG]

[webby74]

My god,all these posts and not a single bit of plato bashing!

[EDLT]

Only going to be able to see the first race live because I'm working.

They do get put on ITV player eventually don't they, what about the support races?

[The Wookie]

Andy_sx said:

Good luck Ollie, and dont get caught oggling your new grid girl, if you need help looking after her, give me a shout

Errrrm, I have a girlfriend and she see's all! In short, I value my life...

Thanks for all the good wishes everyone, must admit I'm pretty nervous at the moment but I'll get over it

[crofty1984]

The Wookie said:

Andy_sx said:

Good luck Ollie, and dont get caught oggling your new grid girl, if you need help looking after her, give me a shout

Errrrm, I have a girlfriend and she see's all! In short, I value my life...

Thanks for all the good wishes everyone, must admit I'm pretty nervous at the moment but I'll get over it

Some words of advice, a little something I picked up from my half-dozen clubman races:
Try to drive your car as fast as you can round the track. The trick is to drive it faster than everyone else, so that when you're going across the line at the end of the race, they're behind you.

Thank me later.

[IainW]

Allyc85 said:

BTCC, WTCC, WSBK and WRC this weekend, I wont be going far!

European Le Mans Series and a Motors TV live raceday this weekend as well!

[Matt_N]

The Wookie said:

Errrrm, I have a girlfriend and she see's all! In short, I value my life...

Thanks for all the good wishes everyone, must admit I'm pretty nervous at the moment but I'll get over it

Good luck fella.

I'll be cheering you on from the Paddock Hill stand, really looking forward to it.