BTCC 2013 Season

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New BTCC season is only just over 3 weeks away now!

This years Calendar:

1 Brands Hatch 31/Mar/2013
2 Donington Park 21/Apr/2013
3 Thruxton 05/May/2013
4 Oulton Park 09/Jun/2013
5 Croft 23/Jun/2013
6 Snetterton 04/Aug/2013
7 Knockhill 25/Aug/2013
8 Rockingham 15/Sep/2013
9 Silverstone 29/Sep/2013
10 Brands Hatch GP 13/Oct/2013

Unofficial Entry List:

AMD:
Car: 1x Vauxhall Astra# (NGTC) (won’t start the season)
Driver: TBA

BTC Racing:
Car: 1x Chevrolet Cruze (NGTC)
Driver: Chris Stockton

Cicely Racing:
Car: 1x Toyota Avensis (NGTC)
Driver: Adam Morgan

Dynojet:
Car: 1x Toyota Avensis (NGTC)
Driver: Frank Wrathall

eBay Motors:
Cars: 3x BMW 125i M Sport (NGTC)
Drivers: Rob Collard, Nick Foster, Colin Turkington

Honda Yuasa Racing
Cars: 2x Honda Civic (NGTC)

IP Tech Race Engineering:
Cars: 2x Chevrolet Cruze (NGTC) (One to start the season, one arriving later)
Drivers: Andy Neate, TBA

MG KX Momentum Racing
Car: 2x MG6 GT (NGTC)
Drivers: Jason Plato, Sam Tordoff

Motorbase Performance:
Cars: 2x Ford Focus ST Mk. III (NGTC) + 1x Ford Focus ST Mk. II (S2000)
Drivers: Mat Jackson, Aron Smith, Liam Griffin (S2000)

Pirtek Racing:
Cars: 2x Honda Civic (NGTC)
Drivers: Andrew Jordan, Jeff Smith

Speedworks Motorsport:
Cars: 2x Toyota Avensis (NGTC)
Drivers: Dave Newsham, TBA

Team HARD.:
Cars: 2x Volkswagen Passat CC (NGTC)* + 2x Vauxhall Insignia (NGTC)
Drivers: Tom Onslow Cole (VW), Robb Holland^ (VW), Howard Fuller^ (VW), Jack Goff (VX), James Cole (VX)
*Two more VWs are planned for later in the season
^Howard Fuller and Robb Holland will drive selected rounds, and thus share a car.

Welch Motorsport:
Cars: 1x Proton Persona (NGTC), 1x Ford Focus ST Mk. II (S2000)
Drivers: Daniel Welch (Proton), David Nye (Ford)

WIXRacing.co.uk:
Cars: 2x Audi A4 (NGTC)
Drivers: Rob Austin, Will Bratt


Few shots of the new cars/liveries have been popping up recently:

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Janesy B said:
Toby Moody won't be commentating this year, which is good as he often mixed up cars/drivers even though some had different liveries. David Addison will take over.
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Toby Moody was an awful BTCC commentator, he clearly was never into 4 wheel motorsport.

Hope the new guy knows his stuff, and isn't as dramatic as Toby used to be, used to get on my nerves. Ben Edwards was great and used to enjoy his commentary. Tim Harvey is a bit boring, but certainly knows his stuff
 
Skeeter said:
It will be interesting to see which is quicker over a race.

But locking them into a tyre strategy the day before, and before they have even qualified, is pants.
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I think it's fairly obvious how it will pan out. Select soft tyre for race 3 when you expect all hell to break loose! They are clearly the quicker tyre, but fade much quicker than the rest. So if you are near the front, and can build up a big enough lead while all the action is happening behind you, then it won't be so much of a downfall when they start to deteriorate in the later stages of the race.

Do we know what tyre they are allowed to use for qualifying?
 
Janesy B said:
I don't know what Team Hard were thinking with those Insignias, clearly uncompetitive and will spend the rest of the season back of the grid.
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Team Hard are clueless and unorganised its embarrassing. Tom Onslow-cole spent the day battling with S2000 spec cars, which is highly embarrassing when he is a proven race winner in a higher powered car!

They tweeted on Thursday morning asking if anyone had a spare trailer so they could transport one of their cars to Brands! They were due the same day...

It's a shame really as they have a decent plan and nice cars too, but they are far from technically gifted and lack any true racing pedigree as a team (excluding the drivers).
 
Anyone heading down to Donnington this weekend? I'm heading straight from work today, picking up a mate along the way and stopping in a Travelodge for the weekend!

Hoping for some decent weather down there, been very windy up north lately. Also hoping for a Mat Jackson win :D...
 
Janesy B said:
Travelodge... now that's a good idea, even if that one is in a service station and is a bit grotty.
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Was only £10 a night each...

Can't complain, have always stayed at Travelodge's since I started going to BTCC events 5 years ago, and they are cheap and good for 3 adults (can't find anywhere else that can fit us).

Camped twice, and both were horrendous. Knockhill had gale force winds, then a van parked right outside our tent and decided to run the generator all night. Brand Hatch was a sweat fest with the overnight heat, woke up with a pool of condensation on my sleeping bag

Leaving work about 3:45 and heading down straight away.
 
Skeeter said:
Cheers Marvin. Ill go for a wander around the GP loop. You never seem to see many people round there on the TV coverage? I seem to remember chatting to someone about it and there isn't any speakers for the commentary round there?
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I love going up to the GP loop, it's a much better experience just hearing the cars fly past without any commentary on the speakers.

Janesy B said:
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Our paths must have crossed, I was stood in that tent for quite a while!
 
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