BTCC 2007 - rumours (merged)

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Originally Posted by tdb

OK.
to get away from silly boys that know nothing!

And is sure to get you all talking!

Fact not rumour!

Kazillimak has bought the astra sport hatches from 888 and will be running 2 cars, him +1 tba driver and will be run by Techspeed.

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YES this rocks http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/cool11.gif. Three different types of Vauxhall next year :s mokin:

I think the black stripe works quite well actually. Fabulous looking car.

Isn't it slightly ironic that a perfectly good car in the MG has been replaced by a BMW?

EDIT: Just realised, all we need is Rick Kerry to paint his 1-Series Orange and we have 3 orange BMWs run by a team that shortens to WSR! This is gonna get confusing i think

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Originally Posted by Robinho

the way i see it he likely rumours look like

WSR - 2 x BMW
Dynamics - 2 x civic (as per MN and other thread)
and the Techspeed/Kizlirmak ex 888 Astras

everything else is more concrete than rumours but still not confirmed - such as Rick Kerry and everything else seems to be mostly pure speculation and a few hints from people who do know something.

from what i remember we are waiting on Kartworld Alfa's, Clyde Valley and others Chevvies, a couple of potential extra BMW's, someone in MG's, as well as confirming drives in most teams

Going back to the rumour mill entry list we seem to be looking at something like this, in rough order of probablility

Dynamics - 2/3 x Honda, probably Civics at the moment, Neal and ?

VX - 2 x Vectra, Chilton and Giovinardi

Seat - 2 x Leon, Plato and? (Turner?)

WSR RAC- 2 x probably BMW's, probably Turkington and ?(Eaves/Howell/Smith/Collard)

Motorbase - 2 x Toledo, for ? (Ferrier? possibly Pinkney?)

GSR - 1/2 x BMW 320, Martyn Bell and ?

Eurotech - 1/2 cars probaly Integra + 1 for Mike Jordan and ?

Quest - 1/2 x Alfas for Eoin Murray and ?

BTC - 2 x Lexus for Stockton and ?

Rick Kerry/West Suffolk - 1/2 x BMW 120d for himself and ?

Kartworld - 1/2 Alfa or MG's for Hughes and ?

Synchro - 1 x Honda probably Civic for James Kaye

Xero - 1/2 Lexus for ? (A Jones may be with another team?)

Enklemen - 2 x Astra Coupe for ?

Techspeed - 2 x ex 888 Astra Sport Hatch for Erkut and ? (Paul O'Neill)

Farecla - 2 x car, 1 Integra for Marsh, 1 ? for ? (peugeot or another S2000)

John George (JAG) - 1 x Integra for John George

Dave Pinkney - possible 1 x S2000 away from motorbase

That leaves us with rumoured entries by:

Arena - BMWs (gone quiet)
Mark Proctor (popular but unlikely)
Mark Smith - Alfa (quiet again, no news on old or new car)
Clyde Valeey - 2 x Chevvy or another, (no new news, no cars available if you believe some, have cars if you believe others! Dan Eaves linked with other teams again now)
DW Racing - (DW reports unlikely)
Howells dads mates new team?
Collard racing - old MG's? (Collard still liked with WSR seat?)
Nick Leason - (gone quiet)

That is a lot of ? marks surrounding drivers and cars for the probable teams, let alone the less probable entries, but still i reckon a conservative estimate of 25+ cars if all the top section put out the minimum number of cars they have been linked to.

Roll on the Autosport show, hopefully we can start filling in the blanks rather than making up new ones!

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888 say thay sold 4 astra s to british teams for btcc ( or brit car )

also 888 say only running 2 cars so why have thay got 8 cars in build up and 2 show cars :dozey: maybe like last year one driver might pick up a late drive with 888

888 said they sold three cars. Can you not count? :p

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Originally Posted by Robinho

That is a lot of ? marks surrounding drivers and cars for the probable teams, let alone the less probable entries, but still i reckon a conservative estimate of 25+ cars if all the top section put out the minimum number of cars they have been linked to.

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25+ cars if all of them showed up at a single race? It would be interesting to see how many would show up on a regular race. I recall the NATCC would have numbered like 20 cars if all of them showed up, but only averaged 10 as cars disappeared/reappeared due to budgets.

It would definitely be awesome to go to the races where the maximum number of cars would show up!

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Originally Posted by Robinho

the way i see it he likely rumours look like

WSR - 2 x BMW
Dynamics - 2 x civic (as per MN and other thread)
and the Techspeed/Kizlirmak ex 888 Astras

everything else is more concrete than rumours but still not confirmed - such as Rick Kerry and everything else seems to be mostly pure speculation and a few hints from people who do know something.

from what i remember we are waiting on Kartworld Alfa's, Clyde Valley and others Chevvies, a couple of potential extra BMW's, someone in MG's, as well as confirming drives in most teams

Going back to the rumour mill entry list we seem to be looking at something like this, in rough order of probablility

Dynamics - 2/3 x Honda, probably Civics at the moment, Neal and ?

VX - 2 x Vectra, Chilton and Giovinardi

Seat - 2 x Leon, Plato and? (Turner?)

WSR RAC- 2 x probably BMW's, probably Turkington and ?(Eaves/Howell/Smith/Collard)

Motorbase - 2 x Toledo, for ? (Ferrier? possibly Pinkney?)

GSR - 1/2 x BMW 320, Martyn Bell and ?

Eurotech - 1/2 cars probaly Integra + 1 for Mike Jordan and ?

Quest - 1/2 x Alfas for Eoin Murray and ?

BTC - 2 x Lexus for Stockton and ?

Rick Kerry/West Suffolk - 1/2 x BMW 120d for himself and ?

Kartworld - 1/2 Alfa or MG's for Hughes and ?

Synchro - 1 x Honda probably Civic for James Kaye

Xero - 1/2 Lexus for ? (A Jones may be with another team?)

Enklemen - 2 x Astra Coupe for ?

Techspeed - 2 x ex 888 Astra Sport Hatch for Erkut and ? (Paul O'Neill)

Farecla - 2 x car, 1 Integra for Marsh, 1 ? for ? (peugeot or another S2000)

John George (JAG) - 1 x Integra for John George

Dave Pinkney - possible 1 x S2000 away from motorbase

That leaves us with rumoured entries by:

Arena - BMWs (gone quiet)
Mark Proctor (popular but unlikely)
Mark Smith - Alfa (quiet again, no news on old or new car)
Clyde Valeey - 2 x Chevvy or another, (no new news, no cars available if you believe some, have cars if you believe others! Dan Eaves linked with other teams again now)
DW Racing - (DW reports unlikely)
Howells dads mates new team?
Collard racing - old MG's? (Collard still liked with WSR seat?)
Nick Leason - (gone quiet)

That is a lot of ? marks surrounding drivers and cars for the probable teams, let alone the less probable entries, but still i reckon a conservative estimate of 25+ cars if all the top section put out the minimum number of cars they have been linked to.

Roll on the Autosport show, hopefully we can start filling in the blanks rather than making up new ones!

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As i wrote in a previous post Adam Jones has no plans to race in a Lexus next season
Pinkney is not in Motorbase's plans,He will team up with Marsh in 2 alfa's probablyrun by Griffin
Dynamics will run 2 cars for Neal and Sheddon,probably Accord's
Turkspeed (I love it!) will run 2 of the ex 888 Astra's for Kizilimark and a driver with BTCC experience, O'neil or Jones
Mark Smith will use his current car (it's at the show) as will Nick Leason
Enckle sport will run 2 cars,again Jones and O'neil are in the frame for that
Question. What will happen to the techspeed Astra coupe now? That would be a great car for a newcomer to use

oooh that team RAC beemer is sexy!!

So far BMW's in the recent BTCC have been a disaster, will the change to S2000 really make a difference?

Main problem has been tyres. I'm sure with the prospect of more of them coming in, Dunlop will be making a big effort to tune the tyres to the RWD cars such as the BMWs and the Lexuses.