2016 BTCC silly season

[MG CHRIS]

Speed Badger said:

Getting worked up about team Hard is like worrying what drivers the Forti / Pacific teams were turning up with any given weekend!

That's pretty dam spot on tbh.

[DanielSan]

MG CHRIS said:

Speed Badger said:

Getting worked up about team Hard is like worrying what drivers the Forti / Pacific teams were turning up with any given weekend!

That's pretty dam spot on tbh.

Forti and Pacific were more believable with the stuff they released to the press...

[MG CHRIS]

DanielSan said:

MG CHRIS said:

Speed Badger said:

Getting worked up about team Hard is like worrying what drivers the Forti / Pacific teams were turning up with any given weekend!

That's pretty dam spot on tbh.

Forti and Pacific were more believable with the stuff they released to the press...

Both team where before my time watching f1 but I can well believe that as well. Well atleast we know what team will bring up the back of the grid anyway.

[metalsteve]

Any news on clyde valley racing?

sorry

[DanielSan]

metalsteve said:

Any news on clyde valley racing?

sorry

I'd forgotten then even existed until now! Didn't Shedden start with them?

[marshal_alan]

Shedden did a few races with them way back when he was out of a drive at Dynamics, from memory Clyde valley were a proper bunch of charlatans

[DanielSan]

I had to Google them when I got home just to remember what cars they even ran. The idea of a carbon neutral race team seems daft even now

[btcclee]

There seems to be a lot of uncertainty over whether BMR can have four Scoobies ready for Brands? Is it realistically possible, what would stop it happening?

[MG CHRIS]

btcclee said:

There seems to be a lot of uncertainty over whether BMR can have four Scoobies ready for Brands? Is it realistically possible, what would stop it happening?

From what ive been told 3 have been built to date cant see them getting a 4th ready in time tbh and would they use the 4th as a spare shell. Just have to wait and see on that.

[DanielSan]

They're only running 3 cars anyway.

[jamiebae]

MG CHRIS said:

From what ive been told 3 have been built to date cant see them getting a 4th ready in time tbh and would they use the 4th as a spare shell. Just have to wait and see on that.

Based on what?

Why couldn't they build a 4th car? Given sufficient space, manpower and budget it's not hard to build another car and there's no suggestion BMR are short on any of those things (unless you have some insider knowledge).

Why would they build a car to use as a spare shell rather than run it? That would be commercially mental - tie up cash and time at the start of a season in a shell and then not use it!

[Speed Badger]

Randomly, whatever happened to Adam Jones?







He was a very good driver, always on the attack and got a few podiums in 2008 and finished 9th overall in the Championship. Guessing lack of funds

[Northern_Monkey]

DanielSan said:

They're only running 3 cars anyway.

Let's just wait and see on that one shall we...

[MG CHRIS]

Northern_Monkey said:

DanielSan said:

They're only running 3 cars anyway.

Let's just wait and see on that one shall we...

Well considering this poster was correct on the bmr Subaru deal the bmr/888 deal/move and the tourer entering for Honda im inclined to believe him on that.

[btcclee]

To clear up and as posted elsewhere...
"We’ll be fielding four cars," he said. "Hopefully they will all be Subarus. We’ll be trying to build the four in time. I’m driving one, so there’s one driver still to be announced." From the Motorsport.com story. So that could be one or two CCs if they aren't built in time.

[DanielSan]

Could well be more cash/general change of plan but the last I'd heard was 3 Subaru's with Plato, Turington and one driver tbc, and then 3 MG's one of which I assumed Warren Scott would be driving, but no one could blame him for putting himself into a new car instead.

Either way between the '2 teams of 888 and BMR' there are 6 TBL's.

[peadar]

Have a read "We’ll be fielding four cars and the aim is to make sure they will all be Subarus."
http://www.btcccrazy.co.uk/btcc/warren-scott-remai...

[alsaautomotive]

Great in depth explanation of Rob's decision to move to Handy

http://www.insidebtcc.com/rar-and-handy-motorsport...

[DanielSan]

2 MG's it'll be then.

[GbGaz]

Loving all of this speculation!

So how I see it atm.....and some 'possibilities'

Honda Yuasa Racing, Honda Civic Type R - Gordon Shedden
Honda Yuasa Racing, Honda Civic Type R - Matt Neal
Honda Yuasa Racing, Honda Civic Type R - Andy Neate
Team BMR, Subaru Levorg - Jason Plato
Team BMR, Subaru Levorg - Colin Turkington
Team BMR, Subaru Levorg - Warren Scott
Team BMR, Subaru Levorg - James Cole
888 Race Engineering, MG6 - Josh Cook
888 Race Engineering, MG6 - Ashley Sutton
Motorbase Performance, Ford Focus ST - Andrew Jordan
Motorbase Performance, Ford Focus ST - Mat Jackson
Motorbase Performance, Ford Focus ST - ??? will this happen ???
West Surrey Racing, BMW 125i - Sam Tordoff
West Surrey Racing, BMW 125i - Jack Goff
West Surrey Racing, BMW 125i - Rob Collard
Eurotech Racing, Honda Civic Type R - Jeff Smith
Eurotech Racing, Honda Civic Type R - Martin Depper
Eurotech Racing, Honda Civic Type R - TBA ????
Power Maxed Racing, Chevrolet Cruze - Hunter Abbot
Power Maxed Racing, Chevrolet Cruze - TBA .......Aron Smith????
Speedworks Motorsport, Toyota Avensis - Tom Ingram
Speedworks Motorsport, Honda Civic Type R - Matt Simpson
AMD Tuning, Audi S3 - TBA???
Ciceley Motorsport, Mercedes A Class - Adam Morgan
Laser Tools Racing, Mercedes A Class - Aiden Moffat
Handy Motorsport, Toyota Avensis - Rob Austin
Handy Motorsport, Toyota Avensis - ???
JWT Performance/Maximum Motorsport, Ford Focus ST - Stewart Lines
Team Parker Racing, Ford Focus ST - Alex Martin
Team Hard, Toyota Avensis - Chris Smiley
Team Hard, Toyota Avensis - Jake Hill
Welch Motorsport, ??? - Dan Welch

Edited by GbGaz on Tuesday 1st March 13:37

Edited by GbGaz on Wednesday 9th March 01:13