BTCC 2012 news and rumours - Page 8

KindaUnstuck · 15 February 12, 08:53

WSR announcement:

http://btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=2828

3 turbo charged S2000 BMWs - Collard, Foster and Onslow-Cole

BMW Turbo charged engine, prepared by Neil Brown (same company who supply Honda engines to Dynamics, Pirtek and also Hartmann Racing from the ETCC.

Could be the strongest BMW season for a while, should be good for a couple of wins.

Alex1911 · 15 February 12, 08:53

WSR confirmed TOC , Collard and Foster in turbo BMW

-=Prodrive=- · 15 February 12, 10:58

Great news on 3 cars. Engine should be strong, lets just hope the chassis doesn't suffer with the heavier engine up front and (probably) more savage power delivery...

dansboi · 15 February 12, 13:48

only 1.6 turbo's though, wont everyone else be using 2litres?

Alex1911 · 15 February 12, 13:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by dansboi

only 1.6 turbo's though, wont everyone else be using 2litres?

everyone in BTCC uses 2.0 Turbos!!

-=Prodrive=- · 15 February 12, 14:23

I presume its a BMW block though, yes? Or can they run custom "racing engines?" I forget now with all the reg changes...?

ivaneurope · 15 February 12, 16:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by -=Prodrive=-

I presume its a BMW block though, yes? Or can they run custom "racing engines?" I forget now with all the reg changes...?

According to the rules the engines must be based on production engine from the respective brand - if you race with BMW(either S2000 or NGTC) the NGTC engine must be based on production BMW engine. Citing that WSR will go with Neil Brown BMW engine, IMO WSR/eBay Motors will go with NGTC BMW - either with the new 3 series or with the larger 5 Series. And one more question - is the M3 eligible to enter in the NGTC rules?

Alex1911 · 15 February 12, 17:07

UPDATED Entry list

statistics
14 NGTC
13 S2000
________
27 TOTAL

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex1911

so far we have

BLUE is for old S2000 cars

1) Honda Civic - Honda Racing - Matt Neal
2) Honda Civic - Honda Racing - Gordon Shedden

3) Honda Civic - Pirtek Racing - Andrew Jordan
4) Honda Civic - Pirtek Racing - Jeff Smith

5)Toyota Avensis - Speedworks Motorsport - Tony Hughes
6)Toyota Avensis - Speedworks Motorsport - Adam Morgan

7) Vauxhall Vectra - ES Racing - Chris James
8) Vauxhall Vectra - ES Racing - Dave Newsham

9) Toyota Avensis - Dinojet - Frank Wrathall

10) VW Golf - AMD Miltek - Ollie Jackson

11) Vauxhall Vectra - Central Group Racing - Lea Wood

12) MG6 GT - 888 - Jason Plato
13) MG6 GT - 888 - Andy Neate

14) BMW 320 - WSR - Tom Onslow Cole
15) BMW 320 - WSR - Rob Collard
16) BMW 320 - WSR - Nick Foster

17) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - Rob Austin
18) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - Colin Turkington ????

19) Proton Gen 2 - Welch Motorsport - Dan Welch

20) Vauxhall Insignia - Thorney Motorsport - TBA
21) Vauxhall Insignia - Thorney Motorsport - TBA

22) Ford Focus - Motorbase - Mat Jackson????
23) Ford Focus - Motorbase - ??
24) Ford Focus - Motorbase - ??

25) SEAT Leon - Special Tuning -
26) SEAT Leon - Special Tuning - TBA

27) BMW 320 - Geoff Steel - Tony Gilham ???

KindaUnstuck · 15 February 12, 17:30

Judging by what I have read elsewhere, you can expect to see Tony Gilham in one of last year's Honda Civics, no idea of the team

Aron Smith has now signed for a team

The guy who bought Plato's Cruze is past halfway in putting the funds together (as of last week).

Roll on Media Day and Round 1

Andy81 · 15 February 12, 17:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivaneurope

According to the rules the engines must be based on production engine from the respective brand - if you race with BMW(either S2000 or NGTC) the NGTC engine must be based on production BMW engine. Citing that WSR will go with Neil Brown BMW engine, IMO WSR/eBay Motors will go with NGTC BMW - either with the new 3 series or with the larger 5 Series. And one more question - is the M3 eligible to enter in the NGTC rules?

An M3 yes, but the ones they are using are S2000.

Great news , the BMW should still be a good platform despite the age of the ones WSR are using. Could well get some very good results.
Good to see ToC get a drive too.

Alex1911 · 15 February 12, 17:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by KindaUnstuck

Judging by what I have read elsewhere, you can expect to see Tony Gilham in one of last year's Honda Civics, no idea of the team

that would be a wasted Civic unfortuntly.... Tony simply hasn't shown (yet) that he is a good driver

ivaneurope · 15 February 12, 18:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by KindaUnstuck

Judging by what I have read elsewhere, you can expect to see Tony Gilham in one of last year's Honda Civics, no idea of the team

i tought that all old Civics went in Sweden.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex1911

17) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - Rob Austin
18) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - Colin Turkington ????

Turkington has yet to annonce his plans for the Future. After all spots in WSR are taken, there are 0 chances of seeing Turkington in BTCC. And remove this from RAR. This is another silly speculation that is 0% true.

Alex1911 · 15 February 12, 18:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivaneurope

i tought that all old Civics went in Sweden.

only ONE, the other one was for sale AFAIK

Trebor901 · 15 February 12, 18:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivaneurope

i tought that all old Civics went in Sweden.

Turkington has yet to annonce his plans for the Future. After all spots in WSR are taken, there are 0 chances of seeing Turkington in BTCC. And remove this from RAR. This is another silly speculation that is 0% true.

How can you say its 0% true when Rob Austin on his own twitter was talking about it with Turkington. He isnt tied to WSR, hasnt been since he left them to go to STCC and didnt race with them in WTCC last year.

Motorbase were testing the Focus at brands hatch today, maybe he will end up there? they said they didnt want to name the driver maybe its a big name like Turkington

Alex1911 · 15 February 12, 18:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trebor901

Motorbase were testing the Focus at brands hatch today, maybe he will end up there? they said they didnt want to name the driver maybe its a big name like Turkington

or it was MACDOWELL, you all remember he was scheduled for a test with Motorbase

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7180

KindaUnstuck · 15 February 12, 18:28

I think people get too fixated on how long WSR have had the cars, the shells are no older than the GSR BMWs or at least 3 of the Vectras, and are younger than STR's SEATs. The Wiechers and Proteam WTCC cars are the same age, and Collard's car which is a mid-2008 build is newer than Engstler's cars, so whilst they have been around for a while, they are actually no older than most the other s2000 shells on the grid in BTCC or WTCC.

DoMw94 · 15 February 12, 18:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivaneurope

Turkington has yet to annonce his plans for the Future. After all spots in WSR are taken, there are 0 chances of seeing Turkington in BTCC. And remove this from RAR. This is another silly speculation that is 0% true.

This is a news and RUMOUR thread! How can you say its '0%' true when when its not happened YET!

Until you build a time machine or learn to accuratley tell the future, I suggest you don't demand information to be removed just because you don't like it!

Trebor901 · 15 February 12, 18:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex1911

or it was MACDOWELL, you all remember he was scheduled for a test with Motorbase

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7180

that test happened last week apparently or was meant to

Andy81 · 15 February 12, 18:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trebor901

that test happened last week apparently or was meant to

It was re-arranged due to the snow.

jsmee · 15 February 12, 19:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex1911

or it was MACDOWELL, you all remember he was scheduled for a test with Motorbase

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7180

We can't be sure it is Macdowall (spelt with an A, NOT an E). If it is Macdowall, I'm sure Motorbase would have declared that was the driver as it would be expected. The fact they're secretive suggests it someone else, someone who isn't Griffin, Jackson, Macdowall or Caine...

James

Trebor901 · 15 February 12, 19:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by jsmee

We can't be sure it is Macdowall (spelt with an A, NOT an E). If it is Macdowall, I'm sure Motorbase would have declared that was the driver as it would be expected. The fact they're secretive suggests it someone else, someone who isn't Griffin, Jackson, Macdowall or Caine...

James

Thompson?

jsmee · 15 February 12, 19:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trebor901

Thompson?

I've no idea, but it wouldn't surprise me if this is the case.

I'll try and identify the helmet...

Alex1911 · 15 February 12, 19:28

guys if Turkington gets the Rob Austin deal and Thomo the Motorbase drive , we would have 4 ex Champs on the grid and this 2 are really talented drivers that could stick it to Neal and Plato !!!

KindaUnstuck · 15 February 12, 19:35

It looks like they have used the 2 seater BMW show car for the press release but here's some extra pictures:

Eurostc · 15 February 12, 20:36

James Thompson visited the TCT forum to answer a few questions posted by the users , nice that a race car driver would take the time

Thommo James """ quote
Morning, I love the fact that I have some fantastic support and people really are interested in what I choose to do, but In answer to a couple of points, racing in the UK is dead as a professional driver roughly 96% of the grid pay to drive, so for someone like me that makes it an impossible option as even if I wanted to do it for the love of it its not enough you must bring money.. And lets face it, if the World Champion Championship winning team and former BTCC Champions cannot get the budget/sponsorship to race then leaves little hope for people without personal or family money, its just the changing face of the sport, and no doubt the grids are thriving with people will to pay to race in such a fantastic Championship.

I am very excited about the Lada Sport project, one car this year for me to develope with the team what we are hoping will be a genuinely competitive car by the end of the season, so we hit the ground running in 2013 and onwards all being well..

So Its not a hard descision as to why I might enjoy and relish the prospect of 4 years Lada with the goal to win in the WTCC, compared to trying to raise money to race in BTCC... You never know if things pan out it is possible to combine both this year. Thanks for all the support. JT """""

ivaneurope · 15 February 12, 22:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by KindaUnstuck

It looks like they have used the 2 seater BMW show car for the press release but here's some extra pictures:

It's the touring car version of 320si Facelift. From these pictures they have either bought them from BMW motorsport or from another team.

jsmee · 15 February 12, 22:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivaneurope

It's the touring car version of 320si Facelift. From these pictures they have either bought them from BMW motorsport or from another team.

Read KindaUnstuck's post - he says it's a two seater showcar, not a racecar - I presume WSR will use the same age car as in 2011, the original 2007 design car, as they have three of them. Although it'd be great for them to use this age car, I think it looks great!

DoMw94 · 15 February 12, 22:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivaneurope

It's the touring car version of 320si Facelift. From these pictures they have either bought them from BMW motorsport or from another team.

They wouldn't have needed to buy new cars to get this appearance. You can get the new bumpers and bonnet in a kit from BMW. Motorbase did the same in 2010.

DoMw94 · 16 February 12, 12:52

And it looks like Gilham is doing the VW cup again because a picture of a Golf is on his Facebook page described as 'title contending'.

KindaUnstuck · 16 February 12, 18:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by jsmee

Read KindaUnstuck's post - he says it's a two seater showcar, not a racecar - I presume WSR will use the same age car as in 2011, the original 2007 design car, as they have three of them. Although it'd be great for them to use this age car, I think it looks great!

I presume it's the show car that Collard was driving round for guests towards the end of last year anyway - the decals are pretty much as they were on that car other than the Ebay on the sides and the top picture looked like there may be a second seat, but I'm looking at them on a crappy laptop so may be wrong.

The WSR race cars have always had black mirrors and windscreen strips which is why I thought that it could be the show car they had for their guests at the event they held as that had the mirrors and windscreen strip in white

With the need to get cooling to the turbo, I assume they will do at least what GSR did last year and update the front aero.

ivaneurope · 16 February 12, 18:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by jsmee

Read KindaUnstuck's post - he says it's a two seater showcar, not a racecar - I presume WSR will use the same age car as in 2011, the original 2007 design car, as they have three of them. Although it'd be great for them to use this age car, I think it looks great!

If you look deeper into the pictures, you will see a doorhandles in the rear(behind the drivers it can be seen a small part from the rear left doorhandle).
I don't know if the body parts from the pre and post facelift versions can be altered, but it was mentioned that GSR used BMW with the old front and the new rear.
And one more thing - The car is a racecar. Why? The front bonnet has the holes for the engine bay. Look the GSR BMW from 2011 and compare it with the WSR BMW

Alex1911 · 16 February 12, 18:59

Ivan, seriously who really cares about such a really unimportant detail ??? we will see the WSR cars at Media day in final livery and body !!

DoMw94 · 17 February 12, 11:34

Tony Gilham will not be in the VW Cup after all. He will be racing the remaining ex-Team Dynamics/Honda Racing Honda Civic. He hasn't revealed who will run the car for him yet though.

Alex1911 · 17 February 12, 12:20

this NO Excuses for Tony, if he doesn't constantly do Top 10 finshes in the best car of 2011 then he SUCKS as driver, plain and simple

Front list updated !!

DoMw94 · 17 February 12, 12:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex1911

this NO Excuses for Tony, if he doesn't constantly do Top 10 finshes in the best car of 2011 then he SUCKS as driver, plain and simple

Front list updated !!

I would expect top ten finishes throughout the first half of the season whilst the new cars develop. After that, who knows. TG isn't a superstar driver though :-/

Dan253 · 17 February 12, 12:28

Nice article on BTCC.net saying Motorbase have been testing with their Focus, but don't want to reveal any drivers, can only speculate, but I still believe that Jackson will be staying with the team, and with the turbo fords they used last year.

Alex1911 · 17 February 12, 12:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by DoMw94

I would expect top ten finishes throughout the first half of the season whilst the new cars develop. After that, who knows. TG isn't a superstar driver though :-/

he is not a superstar drive but at least you could expect him to be more on the level as guys such as Newsham, Boardman , or even Neate in terms of pace !!!

ivaneurope · 17 February 12, 13:00

John Thorne will probobly race again with his team. You can put John Thorne as one of the Thorney Insignia drivers.

Dan253 · 17 February 12, 13:30

Newsham showed his pace at the end of last year, he could be a top driver in the future to watch and in 2012!!!

Alex1911 · 17 February 12, 13:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan253

Newsham showed his pace at the end of last year, he could be a top driver in the future to watch and in 2012!!!

should be very interesting how he fares against LEA WOOD who also has a Vectra !!

Alex1911 · 17 February 12, 13:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivaneurope

John Thorne will probobly race again with his team. You can put John Thorne as one of the Thorney Insignia drivers.

actually if I remeber John said next week will be an offcial announcement about their driverS (so he must have sighned someone for second car)

Andy81 · 17 February 12, 15:00

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7214

Gilham in Sheddens Civic from last year. A great oportunity to show what he can do

No clues yet as to the team that will run the car for him.

Alex1911 · 17 February 12, 15:06

updated entry list , I removed Geoff Steel cos frankly I doubt we will see them (at least at the start of season) , we may still reach 30 cars at the opening event if Techspeed and that roumored guy in RML Chevy make it. I hope Special Tuning found 2 drivers

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex1911

so far we have

BLUE is for old S2000 cars

1) Honda Civic - Honda Racing - Matt Neal
2) Honda Civic - Honda Racing - Gordon Shedden

3) Honda Civic - Pirtek Racing - Andrew Jordan
4) Honda Civic - Pirtek Racing - Jeff Smith

5)Toyota Avensis - Speedworks Motorsport - Tony Hughes
6)Toyota Avensis - Speedworks Motorsport - Adam Morgan

7) MG6 GT - 888 - Jason Plato
8) MG6 GT - 888 - Andy Neate

9) Toyota Avensis - Dinojet - Frank Wrathall

10) VW Golf - AMD Miltek - Ollie Jackson

11) Vauxhall Vectra - Central Group Racing - Lea Wood

12) Vauxhall Vectra - ES Racing - Chris James
13) Vauxhall Vectra - ES Racing - Dave Newsham

14) BMW 320 - WSR - Tom Onslow Cole
15) BMW 320 - WSR - Rob Collard
16) BMW 320 - WSR - Nick Foster

17) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - Rob Austin
18) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - Colin Turkington ????

19) Proton Gen 2 - Welch Motorsport - Dan Welch

20) Vauxhall Insignia - Thorney Motorsport - John Thorne ?
21) Vauxhall Insignia - Thorney Motorsport - TBA

22) Honda Civic - ???? - Tony Gilham

23) Ford Focus - Motorbase - Mat Jackson????
24) Ford Focus - Motorbase - ??
25) Ford Focus - Motorbase - ??

26) SEAT Leon - Special Tuning -
27) SEAT Leon - Special Tuning - TBA

ivaneurope · 17 February 12, 18:10

My predictions for the rest of the places(with racenumbers)

BLUE is for old S2000 cars

1) Honda Civic Mk9 - Honda Racing - 1 - Matt Neal
2) Honda Civic Mk9 - Honda Racing - 52 - Gordon Shedden

3) Honda Civic Mk9 - Pirtek Racing - 77 - Andrew Jordan
4) Honda Civic Mk9 - Pirtek Racing - 55 - Jeff Smith

5)Toyota Avensis - Speedworks Motorsport - 50 - Tony Hughes
6)Toyota Avensis - Speedworks Motorsport - 33 - Adam Morgan

7) MG6 GT - 888 - 3 - Jason Plato
8) MG6 GT - 888 - 44 - Andy Neate

9) Toyota Avensis - Dynojet - 11 - Frank Wrathall

10) VW Golf - AMD Miltek - 99 - Ollie Jackson

11) Vauxhall Vectra - Central Group Racing - 43 - Lea Wood

12) Vauxhall Vectra - ES Racing - 78 - Chris James
13) Vauxhall Vectra - ES Racing - 17 or 79 - Dave Newsham

14) BMW 320 - WSR - ? - Tom Onslow Cole
15) BMW 320 - WSR - 8 - Rob Collard
16) BMW 320 - WSR - 18 - Nick Foster

17) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - 13 - Rob Austin
18) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - 31 - Chris Swanwick

19) Proton Gen 2 - Welch Motorsport - 42 - Dan Welch

20) Vauxhall Insignia - Thorney Motorsport - 67 - John Thorne

21) Honda Civic - Tony Gilham - 34 - Tony Gilham

22) Ford Focus - Motorbase - 5 or 7 - Mat Jackson
23) Ford Focus - Motorbase - 20 - Alex MacDowell
24) Ford Focus - Motorbase - 66 - Liam Griffin

Likely entries: Special Tuning, TH Motorsport, GSR, TechSpeed

Trebor901 · 17 February 12, 19:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy81

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7214

Gilham in Sheddens Civic from last year. A great oportunity to show what he can do

No clues yet as to the team that will run the car for him.

crash into people most likely

Street Racer 77 · 18 February 12, 16:37

Toby Moody becomes ITV Sport's new BTCC race commentator.

DoMw94 · 18 February 12, 19:21

Alex MacDowall has said on Facebook he is not doing BTCC or Ginettas but everything will be revaled next week. Probably WTCC in a 4th RML Cruze based on what he's said in the past.

Alex1911 · 18 February 12, 19:25

not a great loss IMO..

ivaneurope · 18 February 12, 19:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex1911

not a great loss IMO..

Not a great loss? This may be true, but every team, driver, brand, car etc. is an important part from a motorsport championship. That leson had learned it when I wrote the same for the RML departure from the series(in the TCT comment scetions). So it's true that Alex MacDowall is not a big loss in terms of perfomance and driver skils, as he didn't impress with something big(like a win for example), but as part of the grid - it is a big loss.
And many drivers departed from BTCC in these past months and they are a big loss for the series - Chilton, Nash, Boardman and MacDowall left and several talented drivers like O'Neil may also follow the same fate due to either sponsorship issues, unable to find another team/car or pursuing other opportunities.

Alex1911 · 18 February 12, 20:02

what is really funny is that Gow tried to please RML with cosntaly restricitng the Turbo cars and pissed off a big team like AON and now both left the champioship !!!

15 February 12, 08:53	#351
KindaUnstuck Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Guernsey Age: 27	WSR announcement: http://btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=2828 3 turbo charged S2000 BMWs - Collard, Foster and Onslow-Cole BMW Turbo charged engine, prepared by Neil Brown (same company who supply Honda engines to Dynamics, Pirtek and also Hartmann Racing from the ETCC. Could be the strongest BMW season for a while, should be good for a couple of wins.

15 February 12, 08:53	#352
Alex1911 Join Date: Oct 2009	WSR confirmed TOC , Collard and Foster in turbo BMW

15 February 12, 10:58	#353
-=Prodrive=- Uploader Join Date: May 2006 Location: London, UK Age: 32	Great news on 3 cars. Engine should be strong, lets just hope the chassis doesn't suffer with the heavier engine up front and (probably) more savage power delivery...

15 February 12, 13:48	#354
dansboi Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: kent, england Age: 23	only 1.6 turbo's though, wont everyone else be using 2litres?

15 February 12, 14:23	#356
-=Prodrive=- Uploader Join Date: May 2006 Location: London, UK Age: 32	I presume its a BMW block though, yes? Or can they run custom "racing engines?" I forget now with all the reg changes...?

15 February 12, 17:30	#359
KindaUnstuck Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Guernsey Age: 27	Judging by what I have read elsewhere, you can expect to see Tony Gilham in one of last year's Honda Civics, no idea of the team Aron Smith has now signed for a team The guy who bought Plato's Cruze is past halfway in putting the funds together (as of last week). Roll on Media Day and Round 1

15 February 12, 18:28	#366
KindaUnstuck Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Guernsey Age: 27	I think people get too fixated on how long WSR have had the cars, the shells are no older than the GSR BMWs or at least 3 of the Vectras, and are younger than STR's SEATs. The Wiechers and Proteam WTCC cars are the same age, and Collard's car which is a mid-2008 build is newer than Engstler's cars, so whilst they have been around for a while, they are actually no older than most the other s2000 shells on the grid in BTCC or WTCC.

15 February 12, 19:28	#373
Alex1911 Join Date: Oct 2009	guys if Turkington gets the Rob Austin deal and Thomo the Motorbase drive , we would have 4 ex Champs on the grid and this 2 are really talented drivers that could stick it to Neal and Plato !!!

15 February 12, 19:35	#374
KindaUnstuck Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Guernsey Age: 27	It looks like they have used the 2 seater BMW show car for the press release but here's some extra pictures:

15 February 12, 20:36	#375
Eurostc Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Central Texas	James Thompson visited the TCT forum to answer a few questions posted by the users , nice that a race car driver would take the time Thommo James """ quote Morning, I love the fact that I have some fantastic support and people really are interested in what I choose to do, but In answer to a couple of points, racing in the UK is dead as a professional driver roughly 96% of the grid pay to drive, so for someone like me that makes it an impossible option as even if I wanted to do it for the love of it its not enough you must bring money.. And lets face it, if the World Champion Championship winning team and former BTCC Champions cannot get the budget/sponsorship to race then leaves little hope for people without personal or family money, its just the changing face of the sport, and no doubt the grids are thriving with people will to pay to race in such a fantastic Championship. I am very excited about the Lada Sport project, one car this year for me to develope with the team what we are hoping will be a genuinely competitive car by the end of the season, so we hit the ground running in 2013 and onwards all being well.. So Its not a hard descision as to why I might enjoy and relish the prospect of 4 years Lada with the goal to win in the WTCC, compared to trying to raise money to race in BTCC... You never know if things pan out it is possible to combine both this year. Thanks for all the support. JT """""

16 February 12, 12:52	#379
DoMw94 Join Date: Apr 2009 Age: 18	And it looks like Gilham is doing the VW cup again because a picture of a Golf is on his Facebook page described as 'title contending'.

16 February 12, 18:59	#382
Alex1911 Join Date: Oct 2009	Ivan, seriously who really cares about such a really unimportant detail ??? we will see the WSR cars at Media day in final livery and body !!

17 February 12, 11:34	#383
DoMw94 Join Date: Apr 2009 Age: 18	Tony Gilham will not be in the VW Cup after all. He will be racing the remaining ex-Team Dynamics/Honda Racing Honda Civic. He hasn't revealed who will run the car for him yet though.

17 February 12, 12:20	#384
Alex1911 Join Date: Oct 2009	this NO Excuses for Tony, if he doesn't constantly do Top 10 finshes in the best car of 2011 then he SUCKS as driver, plain and simple Front list updated !!

17 February 12, 12:28	#386
Dan253 taking over the world!! Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Suffolk	Nice article on BTCC.net saying Motorbase have been testing with their Focus, but don't want to reveal any drivers, can only speculate, but I still believe that Jackson will be staying with the team, and with the turbo fords they used last year.

17 February 12, 13:00	#388
ivaneurope Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: BULGARIA	John Thorne will probobly race again with his team. You can put John Thorne as one of the Thorney Insignia drivers.

17 February 12, 13:30	#389
Dan253 taking over the world!! Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Suffolk	Newsham showed his pace at the end of last year, he could be a top driver in the future to watch and in 2012!!!

17 February 12, 15:00	#392
Andy81 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: England	http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7214 Gilham in Sheddens Civic from last year. A great oportunity to show what he can do No clues yet as to the team that will run the car for him.

17 February 12, 18:10	#394
ivaneurope Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: BULGARIA	My predictions for the rest of the places(with racenumbers) BLUE is for old S2000 cars 1) Honda Civic Mk9 - Honda Racing - 1 - Matt Neal 2) Honda Civic Mk9 - Honda Racing - 52 - Gordon Shedden 3) Honda Civic Mk9 - Pirtek Racing - 77 - Andrew Jordan 4) Honda Civic Mk9 - Pirtek Racing - 55 - Jeff Smith 5)Toyota Avensis - Speedworks Motorsport - 50 - Tony Hughes 6)Toyota Avensis - Speedworks Motorsport - 33 - Adam Morgan 7) MG6 GT - 888 - 3 - Jason Plato 8) MG6 GT - 888 - 44 - Andy Neate 9) Toyota Avensis - Dynojet - 11 - Frank Wrathall 10) VW Golf - AMD Miltek - 99 - Ollie Jackson 11) Vauxhall Vectra - Central Group Racing - 43 - Lea Wood 12) Vauxhall Vectra - ES Racing - 78 - Chris James 13) Vauxhall Vectra - ES Racing - 17 or 79 - Dave Newsham 14) BMW 320 - WSR - ? - Tom Onslow Cole 15) BMW 320 - WSR - 8 - Rob Collard 16) BMW 320 - WSR - 18 - Nick Foster 17) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - 13 - Rob Austin 18) Audi A4 - Rob Austin Racing - 31 - Chris Swanwick 19) Proton Gen 2 - Welch Motorsport - 42 - Dan Welch 20) Vauxhall Insignia - Thorney Motorsport - 67 - John Thorne 21) Honda Civic - Tony Gilham - 34 - Tony Gilham 22) Ford Focus - Motorbase - 5 or 7 - Mat Jackson 23) Ford Focus - Motorbase - 20 - Alex MacDowell 24) Ford Focus - Motorbase - 66 - Liam Griffin Likely entries: Special Tuning, TH Motorsport, GSR, TechSpeed

18 February 12, 16:37	#396
Street Racer 77 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Germany at the Nürburgring	Toby Moody becomes ITV Sport's new BTCC race commentator.

18 February 12, 19:21	#397
DoMw94 Join Date: Apr 2009 Age: 18	Alex MacDowall has said on Facebook he is not doing BTCC or Ginettas but everything will be revaled next week. Probably WTCC in a 4th RML Cruze based on what he's said in the past.

18 February 12, 19:25	#398
Alex1911 Join Date: Oct 2009	not a great loss IMO..

18 February 12, 20:02	#400
Alex1911 Join Date: Oct 2009	what is really funny is that Gow tried to please RML with cosntaly restricitng the Turbo cars and pissed off a big team like AON and now both left the champioship !!!