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Originally Posted by CroftPilgrim
i do belive richard never got to buy the car as d p had sold it
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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.