It's unofficially confirmed that the Jack Sears Trophy will cease to exist next season, as the championship becomes fully NGTC. With such low grid numbers for the JST cars, that can only be good, although Lea Wood will inevitably struggle to get onto the grid.
eBay will have to keep Turks, and Collard is catching up, and is likely to stay. Foster, however, could be replaced, but I have no idea who by and won't comment on it.
Motorbase would like to run their 3 cars. Mat Jackson/Árón Smith = arguably best 2 driver line-up of the lot, certainly in the wet. But Michael Caine is busy racing GTs (that's a very likely for next season) and so is Nick Tandy. Dan Cammish will almost certainly test that car, and considering that, after his injury, he's probably going to stay off the F1 radar until he retires, he could easily make a switch, but it's going to be a question of budget. Jake Hill and Liam Griffin are the other 2 guys who've driven with the team, but Hill has a limited budget, and Griffin doesn't have much pace, and seems to be a business man more than a racer.
Pirtek will probably retain their driver line-up if Smith confirms he's staying.
Honda will too.
MG are likely to - Tordoff needs a second season, because now he'll have learnt the car and the circuits, and will probably stick around Plato every single race.
I can also practically guarantee that Dynojet will run Frank Wrathall.
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