2016 BTCC silly season

[DanielSan]

The 3rd Dynamics Civic is the Matt Simpson car, it's being run as a a satellite car in the same way Jack Clarke's Focus was from Motorbase.

[brabhambt52b]

DanielSan said:

The 3rd Dynamics Civic is the Matt Simpson car, it's being run as a a satellite car in the same way Jack Clarke's Focus was from Motorbase.

I think it's as the list shows, Speedworks are going to run the Simpson car and Yuasa are going to have their own 3rd Honda Civic, hopefully with a young up and coming driver

[Northern_Monkey]

brabhambt52b said:

DanielSan said:

The 3rd Dynamics Civic is the Matt Simpson car, it's being run as a a satellite car in the same way Jack Clarke's Focus was from Motorbase.

I think it's as the list shows, Speedworks are going to run the Simpson car and Yuasa are going to have their own 3rd Honda Civic, hopefully with a young up and coming driver

Correct - Simpson bought his car from Dynamics and its running under a Speedworks TBL. Driver of the third Dynamics Honda should be made public in the not too distant future.

[MG CHRIS]

GbGaz said:

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 - TBA .....Jack Clarke????
Team BMR, Subaru Levorg - Jason Plato
Team BMR, Subaru Levorg - Colin Turkington
Team BMR, Subaru Levorg - Warren Scott
Team BMR, Subaru Levorg - TBA
888 Race Engineering, MG6 - TBA .......Josh Cook????
888 Race Engineering, MG6 - TBA .......Aron Smith????
Motorbase Performance, Ford Focus ST - Andrew Jordan
Motorbase Performance, Ford Focus ST - Mat Jackson TBC
Motorbase Performance, Ford Focus ST - James Cole TBC
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 .......Kieran Gallagher????
Power Maxed Racing, Chevrolet Cruze - TBA .......Mike Bushell????
Power Maxed Racing, Chevrolet Cruze - TBA .......Dave Newsham????
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 - Simon Belcher
JWT Performance/Maximum Motorsport, Ford Focus ST - Stewart Lines
Team Parker Racing, Ford Focus ST - Alex Martin
Team Hard, Toyota Avensis - TBA
Support our Paras Racing, Infiniti Q50 - TBA
Welch Motorsport, ??? - Dan Welch

collard hasn't been confirmed yet and gallager is doing the btec racing series.

[eastlmark]

wouldn't be a surprise if Ashley Sutton gets the 4th BMR car, whatever it is. Given the age of the other 3 drivers, a bit of young blood on the team will be no bad thing.

[DanielSan]

Northern_Monkey said:

Correct - Simpson bought his car from Dynamics and its running under a Speedworks TBL. Driver of the third Dynamics Honda should be made public in the not too distant future.

Didn't see Simpson already on the list, my mistake.

[btcclee]

Northern_Monkey said:

Correct - Simpson bought his car from Dynamics and its running under a Speedworks TBL. Driver of the third Dynamics Honda should be made public in the not too distant future.

Rumours have said Gio for that car.

[DanielSan]

I know that a driver who won the title recently in a none Dynamics Honda did some genuine enquiries into driving the third car but was informed that as it's a satellite car and wouldn't run in Yuasa livery it wouldn't have all the same upgrades the 2 factory cars will for this year as they don't want to be potentially beaten by a car that doesn't have their branding on it...

Edited by DanielSan on Sunday 24th January 23:58

[GbGaz]

MG CHRIS said:

collard hasn't been confirmed yet and gallager is doing the btec racing series.

No I know, but just speculating lol,,,hadnt heard that about Gallagher though!

[Northern_Monkey]

The driver of the third Honda will be bringing budget to the table

[lickatysplit]

Speed Badger said:

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

A quick search

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Jones_(racing_d...

[Speed Badger]

Yes I had already looked at Wiki, but the last info is about 5 years ago, just wondered what he's up to now, if he packed it all in

[MG CHRIS]

PMR team that's runs the cruzes have a 3rd car which could be run during the year as well.

[acer12]

Interesting comment from Jordan, you can feel the frustration from last season

"I think @AndrewJordan77 this year. Had a year trying to polish a turd now in a great car and very hungry to win 😜 "

https://twitter.com/AndrewJordan77/status/69195745...

[Janesy B]

No doubting the MG6 is past it's sell by date. Did they even manage to sell that ex Marc Haynes car?

[andy97]

acer12 said:

Interesting comment from Jordan, you can feel the frustration from last season

"I think @AndrewJordan77 this year. Had a year trying to polish a turd now in a great car and very hungry to win ?? "

https://twitter.com/AndrewJordan77/status/69195745...

Hmm, not sure that comes across too well. What changed between Plato driving it and AJ? I don't think it was that bad for JP.

[DanielSan]

andy97 said:

acer12 said:

Interesting comment from Jordan, you can feel the frustration from last season

"I think @AndrewJordan77 this year. Had a year trying to polish a turd now in a great car and very hungry to win ?? "

https://twitter.com/AndrewJordan77/status/69195745...

Hmm, not sure that comes across too well. What changed between Plato driving it and AJ? I don't think it was that bad for JP.

Apparently promises/agreements were made regarding car prep and development that were never followed up on. 888 effectively do 4 days a week work on the car and then park it until the next race. Where Eurotech had the car stripped back between every round keeping everything perfect.

[MG CHRIS]

acer12 said:

Interesting comment from Jordan, you can feel the frustration from last season

"I think @AndrewJordan77 this year. Had a year trying to polish a turd now in a great car and very hungry to win ?? "

https://twitter.com/AndrewJordan77/status/69195745...

Tbh think he should keep his mouth shut tbh comes across as a petulant child blaming 888 lets not forget he was in contention for the title even at the last round finished what 5th overall which was the same as in 2014 with the civic so it couldn't have been that bad a car. Also lets be honest goff managed a victory in the car yes it was a reverese grid win but still Jordan has much more experience than goff.
He should also remember where the vectras come from that got him noticed in the btcc in the first place which was 888.

My opinion of him has gone done massively over the off season.

[MG CHRIS]

andy97 said:

acer12 said:

Interesting comment from Jordan, you can feel the frustration from last season

"I think @AndrewJordan77 this year. Had a year trying to polish a turd now in a great car and very hungry to win ?? "

https://twitter.com/AndrewJordan77/status/69195745...

Hmm, not sure that comes across too well. What changed between Plato driving it and AJ? I don't think it was that bad for JP.

Engineering team and plato is a far better driver in getting the most out of a otherwise less superior car than Jordan who frankly with Honda has got the best car on the grid same with the integra and Vectra in the s2000 times.

[emicen]

emicen said:

Team HARD announcement, if I could get a line on it, I'd be putting a considerable wedge on Chris Smiley.

http://www.btcccrazy.co.uk/btcc/chris-smiley-joins-team-hard-for-maiden-btcc-campaign/