Unhelpfully...yes. I do recognise it.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiamM
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Unhelpfully...yes. I do recognise it.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiamM
The car looks pretty good. Yellow and blue is a good combination. Can't wait to see the other car and who the drivers are.
On crash.net it says Hughes will start the season in an MG as a sponsor is late paying towards the Integra. Then there will be a seat available in the MG.
I'll have someone to support at Brands now!
Jason Hughes will start the British Touring Car Championship season in the same MG ZS he has campaigned for the last four years, after the delivery of his Honda Integra from Dave Pinkney's workshop was delayed.
Hughes, 38, who drives for his own Kartworld team, had been due to race the Integra for the whole season, but a delay in payment from one of his sponsors has meant that he cannot yet complete the purchase of the Japanese machine.
"It's the way it goes," Hughes told autosport.com. "We had hoped to run the Integra all season, but there were a few hold-ups, so we'll be in the MG at Brands next weekend.
"Hopefully everything can be sorted so we can have the Integra for the next round at Rockingham."
Hughes tested his MG at Rockingham last week and was only three tenths of a second off the pace of Jason Plato's diesel-powered SEAT, despite the test only being scheduled as a shakedown.
"The MG still works then," he added. "It's been totally re-built over the winter, so we just had to check really.
"And I hope that when we get the Honda that we can get someone else to race the MG. We have three or four people interested, so we hope we can get something sorted there soon."
KWR ran a pair of MGs last year under the Kartworld banner for Hughes and Fiona Leggate.
So it's looking good for a ZS in 2008. But has anyone heard anything about Fiona in 08, in BTCC (unlikly!) or another championship?
NOOOOOOOOOO not the frickin MG.
:( Get rid of the pile of crap. The worst thing is he still intends to run it with someone else driving it! :(
Some more entries better get entered soon so he can't. :'(
It ain't a pile of crap, it's a venerable veteran of many campaigns past :p :. It should be as competitive as Michael Doyle's old Civic.Quote:
Originally Posted by VX_Rules
Not exactly queing up to drive it are they?Quote:
Originally Posted by VX_Rules
I agree, looks really nice, kinda reminds me of Alain Menu's Renault livery of the mid 90'sQuote:
Originally Posted by VkmSpouge
Whats wrong with the ZS?
Its still a good midfielder and capable of top 10's in the right hands.
I'll got shot down in flames for this but why don't people moan at the Lexus, Civic, Alfa 156's?!
I think it's Nick Adcock...Quote:
Originally Posted by LiamM
Who was testing Clios for TCR yesterday....
Very mysterious! :p :
Veterans the right word! cant we put it in a museum now to lay to rest?Quote:
Originally Posted by VkmSpouge
Its just so unreliable...
I am not an expert and I will never ever claim to be, but I have to admit even to the uninitiated, like me, the Integra, probably the only other BTC spec car in the BTCC to rival the ZS, does have something that makes it stronger and more competitive over an apparent longer achievable lifespan it appears.
So why is the ZS still running? Is it because it makes for the cheaper therefore more cost effective option?
The Integra is a much newer car. The MG made its first BTCC appearance in 2001, the Integra in 2005.Quote:
Originally Posted by SEATFreak
That's more to do with who is running it rather than the car itself, it was pretty reliable when WSR were running it.Quote:
Originally Posted by VX_Rules
The Mg, was an old car in design even in 2001, from the rover it was based on!
Is it? Jason Hughes' MG suffered 8 retirements in 28 starts in 2007. It's about average reliability for the season (easily beating Lexus and Alfa Romeo) and actually a better record than Gordon Shedden had.Quote:
Originally Posted by VX_Rules
And several of them were the team making mistakes with the preparation rather than the car itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by VkmSpouge
Yet another slur on Kartworld from you! No surprises when Fiona's not there any more! Strange how they didnt seem to have any problems running Hughes in 06?! With the team constantly busy sorting out the lastest damage Fiona had inflicted on her car, no wonder the reliablility of Hughes' slipped a bit!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc W
Come on Alfa Fan, as much as you dislike Fiona, I dont think you can blame her for the drop in reliability that Jason suffered!
I know they had experienced problems, but that was the doing of Fiona or even Jason!
The team was caught-up in a problem that they could not have forseen!
Back on the topic of Xero,Quote:
Originally Posted by LiamM
Similarities anyone?
http://www.nickadcock.net/images/rad...PembSideOn.jpg
It does look like Nick Adcock's helmet, I guess well will find out in a few days.
What do you mean yet another slur?!! I have been avoiding commenting up till now and I still support Kartworld even though Fiona has left. Most of the damage inflicted on her car were by being rammed off by other cars. Jason's car also suffered damage during the season. And a lot of faults occurred during first practice, before either cars had suffered any damage. You really do have an inexplicable hatred of Fiona and anything to do with her and I've never been able to work out why.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfa Fan
He's doing Clios though. As a Xero driver last year, I presume he was called upon to do some shakedown work. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by VkmSpouge
With who?Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain
Not that I am into the Clios. I am just interested.
He was seen testing a clio on thursday!
I didn't ask "in what" or "when". I asked "with who". "With who" means what team he was with.Quote:
Originally Posted by tisme
Calm down Freak! I was just confirming what Iain had posted!
I see you have learnt how to dish out abuse as well now!
You will have to find out from someone else now!
Thanks. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by tisme
I have learned from the best.
The Lime Green could be Holiday Inn Colours??????
They were on two cars last year - VXR & GR Asia so why not do it again.
Holiday Inn could mean Gavin Smith or somebody else whos Irish ????????
Nice!Quote:
Originally Posted by SEATFreak
Holiday Inn are backing SEAT Sport UK this season.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Eurotech
SEAT Freak, seeing as you said in another thread that you had a new favourite team in the supports, you should know who Nick Adcock will be driving for.
The only lime green cars I have seen are the Team48 Alfa's!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eurotech
Are you saying they may have Holiday Inn Sponsorhip as well?
And Holiday Inns green isn't even lime... lol.
I take it the driver/sponsor announcement will be this week? Any news when and what site?
Maybe they will just turn up at the first race with no announcement being made until saturday.
I'm confused now... What team are we talking about?
Xero
adcock was just testing for tcr in the clio nothing more.
Why did he have his official championship mugshot taken then?
http://www.jakobebrey.com/dbpics/preview/417808.jpg
not sure but it was a reliable source from the test maybe they had got it wrong then.