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[midgrid]

It's significant that both Turkington and Plato have taken their race engineers with them to BMR as well.

[OvDrone]

Alain Menu will still be here for this year, right? I mean, in the BTCC.

[Sheepmachine]

Plato and turkington in the same car? I predict fireworks!

[Sheepmachine]

Alain Menu will still be here for this year, right? I mean, in the BTCC.

Where would he go though? Triple 8? Motorbase?

[Fastcake]

I'm glad both of them have seats for this season, and most importantly Turkington will be able to defend his title.

[BrokenBaculum]

That's more like it! Glad Turkington's got a drive, and I'm actully glad Plato is still in as well.

 

I'm interested to see what kind of sponsorship package is involved, as there's bound to be plenty of TV time between the three cars, not to mention interviews and other commercial work.

Edited by BrokenBaculum, 17 February 2015 - 22:38.

[karl100589]

I think you'll find the VW will magically find it's way to the front of the grid one way or another...

I'm sure of that, remember Plato getting that junk of a Lacetti competitive all of a sudden after he signed up?

[Callisto]

Great news about Turkington and Plato!

[TecnoRacing]

Wow, what a shot of adrenalin this news is for the series...total dream team.

As a fan of both drivers, I hope everything remains relatively harmonious, and it's BMR vs the rest.

 

 

[purplehaireddolphin]

gonna be good. Can't wait, getting more excited about BTCC than I am about F1

[midgrid]

Dave Newsham has signed for Power Maxed Racing.

[Myrvold]

Now, that team should get good straight line speed. If not...

[JuanPablo]

Turkington getting backing from Philip Shields. That man has some collection of race cars of his own.

https://m.facebook.c...om/motorsportie

[midgrid]

Jack Goff has signed to partner Andrew Jordan at Triple Eight.

[midgrid]

Power Maxed has bought United Autosport's second TBL and will expand to two cars this season.  This also confirms that UA will not be returning to the series.

[midgrid]

Martin Depper remains with Eurotech, alongside Jeff Smith.

[FrAnC1s96]

Another piece of the puzzle to be revealed tonight......

Official Dunlop BTCC @DunlopBTCC  ·  4 hrs 4 hours ago

We've got an exciting 24 hours ahead so keep your eyes peeled. We have two driver announcements - the first coming at 8pm tonight... #BTCC

[BRG]

Martin Depper remains with Eurotech, alongside Jeff Smith.

Waste of a race seat then.  Well, two race seats in fact.

[midgrid]

Another piece of the puzzle to be revealed tonight......

Official Dunlop BTCC @DunlopBTCC  ·  4 hrs 4 hours ago

We've got an exciting 24 hours ahead so keep your eyes peeled. We have two driver announcements - the first coming at 8pm tonight... #BTCC

And the first announcement is that Tom Ingram remains at Speedworks for his second BTCC season.

[midgrid]

Another piece of the puzzle to be revealed tonight......

Official Dunlop BTCC @DunlopBTCC  ·  4 hrs 4 hours ago

We've got an exciting 24 hours ahead so keep your eyes peeled. We have two driver announcements - the first coming at 8pm tonight... #BTCC

The second is that Renault Clio driver Josh Cook will take the second seat at Power Maxed.

[midgrid]

BTCC rookie Stewart Lines will replace Lea Wood this season.  (Wood had already confirmed that he will take on a managerial role in the team.)

 

So only three seats left - two at Motorbase, one at AmD - plus the "spare" TBL.

Edited by midgrid, 11 March 2015 - 12:25.

[FrAnC1s96]

Motorbase to take BTCC sabatical:

http://www.itv.com/b...draws-from-btcc

[Sheepmachine]

Motorbase to take BTCC sabatical:
http://www.itv.com/b...draws-from-btcc

That's a shame Hope they actually do return later in the year.

[midgrid]

Honda has finally revealed the new Civic Type-R that the works team will be running this year.

[Disgrace]

No Marc Hynes this year as he returns to a management role at Manor. I hope he'll be back - he demonstrated improvement in pace even if he was involved in, and created, a lot of accidents.

[BullHead]

Too many. I was surprisedly unimpressed with him.

[Sheepmachine]

No full time drive for Alain Menu this year. http://www.autosport...t.php/id/118162

[midgrid]

Nic Hamilton will race in the second half of the season as a guest entry, driving the ex-Rotek Audi S3 now owned by AmD Tuning.

 

Edit: So, that's 29 entries for the first half of the season, with Hamilton and Motorbase joining in later.

Edited by midgrid, 24 March 2015 - 10:02.

[Victor_RO]

WSR to run as a works team this year according to TOCA.

 

"If something walks like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck".   

[V8 Fireworks]

Gee, there are some properly terrible liveries. http://www.touringca...btcc-media-day/

 

Does anyone know why Team Dynamics are using the old (EP3) Honda Type R logo instead of the current one (from 2007 onwards no less!)?

[Fastcake]

WSR to run as a works team this year according to TOCA.

 

"If something walks like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck".   

 

A welcome display of clear thinking there!

[TimRTC]

Hehe Jeff Smith in a red flag coloured car - seems fitting!

 

Love Hamilton's car and good on the chap.

[king_crud]

Gee, there are some properly terrible liveries. http://www.touringca...btcc-media-day/

 

Does anyone know why Team Dynamics are using the old (EP3) Honda Type R logo instead of the current one (from 2007 onwards no less!)?

 

Some of those are terrible

 

I represent boxo-tools.co.uk, can I pay you to put the name of my company on the side of your car?

 

How much will you pay?

 

Not much

 

[Myrvold]

Slightly curios. What do you guys think about the WSR liveries?

[Kelly391]

Went to Donington yesterday - some cracking looking cars this year.

 

Plato went fastest followed by Turkington.  Their car look awesome all in black but I guess they won't stay like it.

 

Paul O'Neill did a few laps in the Andy Prilaux car as he wasn't able to attend.

 

My friend got to meet Nicolas Hamilton - he said he was a great guy.  Fingers crossed he gets to race later in the year.

[geordiecraig101]

Was a canny day trip out for Media day yesterday, just a pity the rain come when it did as most of the running up till then was done with most teams using old tyres so never go to see many true new tyre runs.

Both Aiden Moffat and Adam Morgan looked fast from the start in the Mercs, they will spring a surprise or 2 this year.

Going to be great to see how things go in the BMR camp as there looks very little to separate Plato and Turkington, again never got see what Aron Smith could do as a gearbox problem cut short his running.

 

Anyway heres my vid of the action:

 

[midgrid]

The Infiniti team will only have one of its cars ready for the first round at Brands Hatch, for Derek Palmer Jnr.  More evidence that the factory involvement is minimal.

[BRG]

Sounds like Infiniti team will be similar to the underwhelming Lexus team form a few years back.  Both were amateur hour efforts.  

 

In both cases the factory is missing/missed a trick.  Infiniti need some exposure if they really want to sell some cars in the UK.  There are only some 2000 Infinitis registered in the UK in total and nobody recognises one if they see one anyway.  I've seen more Teslas than Infinitis.

[TimRTC]

I've seen more Infinitis than MG6s and MG3s - only seen one of each, ever, aside from promotional cars at the races.

[BRG]

I've seen more Infinitis than MG6s and MG3s - only seen one of each, ever, aside from promotional cars at the races.

True.  And the BTCC exposure hasn't helped sales of the MG6 one little bit.  There are just 287 registered in the UK.  Like you, I have never seen one on the road.  

 

MG3s have done a little better with 1,549 registered (& only over one year).  That's despite some quite heavy and presumably expensive TV advertising.  Although I did notice one on someone's driveway just this morning.

 

The problem with Infiniti (2,086 in all -that's all models since 2002) is that the cars are so generic and bland that if you do see one, it simply doesn't register at all.

 

All figures are to quarter 3 of 2014, courtesy of http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk

[superden]

I have never seen an MG3/6 advert.

[BRG]

Well, never mind, perhaps you will one day .

 

Seriously, they pop up on some of the lesser TV channels from time to time.

[superden]

Somehow, I don't feel I'm missing anything.

[DanardiF1]

I've seen more Infinitis than MG6s and MG3s - only seen one of each, ever, aside from promotional cars at the races.

 

I've seen a couple of the saloons here in Reading and a few more of the 4X4's... there is a dealership here though.

 

Don't think I've ever seen one of the MG's on the road...

[Bloggsworth]

Just looked at the BTCC website; clearly they are a forward looking organisation, no idea when the races are taking place, they only have a 2014 calendar...

[BRG]

Really?

[V8 Fireworks]

Slightly curios. What do you guys think about the WSR liveries?

 

They look good.   

 

Not quite as good as these, but not bad!

 

[jr80]

God knows why it works but the btcc ngtc model does.going tomorrow and looking forward to cheering Turington on.

[Bloggsworth]

Really?

 

I sent them an email about it yesterday, and I see that today the site has changed... http://www.btccpages.com/

Edited by Bloggsworth, 04 April 2015 - 11:06.