Nothing much i can say that hasn't already been said Rick! Respect is definately due.A word of warning if you think it has been hard work so far you 'aint seen nothing yet! Good luckQuote:
Originally Posted by Iain
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Nothing much i can say that hasn't already been said Rick! Respect is definately due.A word of warning if you think it has been hard work so far you 'aint seen nothing yet! Good luckQuote:
Originally Posted by Iain
Good luck with the car Rick, hope it all goes well for you. It'll be good to have another different type of car on the grid.
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Originally Posted by racerm5
best of luck and hope all the hard work gets you to Brands on time, i think you'll find you'll have a nice bit of support when you get on the track, thanks for keeping us all informed
Good luck Rick
I hope to see the 1 Series out too! If the backing is sufficient enough I reckon the car could do well, so I hope all those sponsors come forward.
I had the good fortune to meet Rick earlier today. Top bloke.
I must say I think what his team AFM Racing are doing with the 1 series is amazing. He is getting help from everyone possible to make his entry into the BTCC.
As he said, he may not be race ready for Brands, but hopefully he will put in an appearance at the media day at Rockingham.
Cool, do you know if a second one will appear?
Ive noticed your last few comments regarding Mr & Miss Leggate in recent posts tbd could it possible that these go hand in hand with Xero plans for 2007?
Nope!Quote:
Originally Posted by dwracing23
I like Fiona and Malcom and try to defend her when i read rubbish written about her by people who hover on the fringes and think they know something!
is fiona waiting to see if danny gets the merc dtm drive and move over to germany for some racing ?
I doubt she will race outside of Britain.Quote:
Originally Posted by captin 1 VXR
I see there's talk of Motorbase having signed a certain GT champion to partner Howell?
would that be matt allison by any chance?
On Allison's website it does say he's looking for sponsorship to race in the BTCC this year. If he's got the money then Motorbase would be right to snap him up quickly.
Cool news if it is true.Quote:
Originally Posted by cos
http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews...b850870c6369c4
The Team Dynamics build here :D
cant see that happening myself but will eat my words!
Griffen do seem to end up with some dodgy deals though
How did Griffin come into all of this? :confused:
MN today says Simon Blankley has picked up an ex-Dynamics Integra to be run by Graham Hathaway Racing. Blankley drove an ST Honda Accord in EuroSaloons last season.
Graham Hathaway Racing ran Robb Gravett in his Honda Accord to the 1997 Independents' Cup title, right?
That's the one. Hathaway himself raced in the BTCC late 80s I think.
he ran an ex mike smith trackstar rs500 briefly in 1990 cant remember what he entrered in previous years
That's great to see an old BTCC hand (like GHR) return to the BTCC.
Supposedly, the decision to go with the Civics was made only in Dec/06. So does that further support rumors they were holding out for a Korean works manufacturer contract? Or could they have been seriously contemplating staying with the old BTC rules? Which theory sounds more likely?Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain VXR
They wanted BMW 320si S2000 cars but after a visit to the Honda factory in Swindon regarding manufacturer support, things changed.
i see everyone has answered my questions from the confirmed thread as to who Simon Blankley, Graham Hathaway, where the news came from and where the cars came from, i wish when people posted news like this they would give all the information instead of posting half the info making it look like its something only they know. cheers for clearing things up on this thread, i assume this is still to be confirmed, or have they stated they thay have everything in place to run this season?
Probably will have to pop into Smiths tomorrow to see what is actually said in the article ;)
I think the MN article said the plans should be confirmed within the week.
its a t d integra ... more than likly dave pinkneys car ?
Or Richard Marsh's? (re my post on the confirmed thread.)
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Originally Posted by CroftPilgrim
i do belive richard never got to buy the car as d p had sold it
Geoff Steel Racing expanding to a two car team? Martyn Bell says on btcc.net he wants 2 BMW 320is E90s for 2008, and that he has some very exciting news to come for this season.
I posted that in confirmed entries...
The team were trying to run more than 1 car this season at one point, but sadly things didn't work out.
something about new sponsors for this season that would change the look of the cari think he saidQuote:
Originally Posted by Alfa Fan
personally i'd love to see some of the names that have been associated with motorsport and the BTCC in particular return to sposnoring teams,
where are the likes of Duckhams, Texaco, Valvoline, Shell, Esso, Mobil 1, etc would be nice to get some big name headline sponsors back on a few cars in the next few years. i can't understand why mototring prducts seem to not bother with BTCC these days whilst all sorts of random companies do, surely it would do a motoring linked comapny good to be associated with motorsport where all the petrolheads know what they are looking at and might actually be interested in the product by association.
coincidentally i had a dream (you know those flu induced weird sh!t vivid dreams) and at some point i saw a Google sponsored BMW being driven in the BTCC, which was random!
Look at the likes of NASCAR though. How many non-automotive sponsors are there? Maybe someone else has realised the marketing potential of the BTCC and wants to advertise their completely unrelated product, yet they will probably still come up with some wacky PR about their product and the BTCC having a "synergy". :p :
I'm still trying to get my head round the Atomic Kitten deal 5 years later.......
i can understand the non-auto products using motorsport as a platform, after all it has a large following both at circuits and on TV, and if the product fits the demographic of the fans (mostly guys between 16-50 i'd think) then it makes perfect sense, what i don't understand is why auto brands don't use the BTCC so much anymore, i know most if not all of the se roducts are known to the fans/viewers already, but the exposure through motorsport would surely give them a competitive edge over their rivals through this association.
after all it hasn't stopped Green Flag, RAC, Dunlop, Halfords in the last few years, but i would have expected to see the Fuel companies, parts (brakes, spark plugs etc), audio/gadgets, tuning, styling etc. you see these guys with stands at events, does this offer better value than sponsoring a team?
who wouldn't want to see a full, Pioneer, Blaupunkt, Shell, Valvoline, Bilstein, Ferodo or Texaco liveried car.
At the end of the day I think it's similar to why there aren't as many manufacturers involved - they're all part of the same group. Not as many independent companies out there nowadays, Total Fina and Elf are now the same group for example.
so we'll only be left with a couple of car companies, a couple of Fuel companies, Mcdonalds, Sony, Coca Cola, Nike, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Virgin soon then!
A lot of the companies mentioned above already have a presence in motorsport though. Blaupunkt is the headline sponsor of the seat cupra championship, with companies such as tom tom (team halfords) and castrol (seat italy wtcc) invloved in touring cars. I suppose that the huge sponsors become invloved in global champs, rather than ones like the Btcc unfortunatly. Companies like halfords and rac are British based which is why we see them in the BTCC.