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Old 18 Nov 2018, 20:49 (Ref:3864036)   #1
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https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03258629
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04328260

As of last week, Triple Eight Race Engineering, and the parent company Triple Eight Performance Vehicles Limited, are now officially dissolved.
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Old 18 Nov 2018, 23:11 (Ref:3864057)   #2
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All though they've been gone a while it still smarts a little to see the book finally close.

In the day one of the best teams on the BTCC grid; a lessen to all: take nothing for granted in motorsport. Every sponsor is worth their weight in gold.
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Old 19 Nov 2018, 09:45 (Ref:3864171)   #3
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Shame it ended this way. At least Eurotech went out on a high
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Old 19 Nov 2018, 11:04 (Ref:3864187)   #4
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A great BTCC team! As a foreign fan of the BTCC I always connect this team to the figure of Ian Harrison. Without him I fear it hasn't been the same...

They have done history with Vauxhall and it's nice that also an italian - Giovanardi - has been part of all this

Just a shame it ended
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Old 19 Nov 2018, 17:43 (Ref:3864282)   #5
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to me 888 were ian harrison running vauxhalls, the last few years has seen them remain as a name only. there is a few of their cars surviving like the cav and vectra with cleland, one of the s2000 vectras is also preserved, think a couple of astras also
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Old 19 Nov 2018, 20:49 (Ref:3864318)   #6
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I thought i read or heard somewhere that Warren Scott was meant to be reviving the 888 Engineering name for 2019...
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Old 20 Nov 2018, 05:29 (Ref:3864410)   #7
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Shame to read this. At least Triple Eight lives on in sorts with their former Australian Supercar arm Triple Eight Race Engineering.
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Old 20 Nov 2018, 07:58 (Ref:3864416)   #8
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I thought i read or heard somewhere that Warren Scott was meant to be reviving the 888 Engineering name for 2019...
There was something said to that effect. Mind you, lots of things are said. This would seem to have been fantasy not reality.

Unless of course he's forming a new company with 888 in the name?
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Old 21 Nov 2018, 22:12 (Ref:3864860)   #9
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Old 23 Nov 2018, 11:03 (Ref:3865211)   #10
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Some words from H: https://www.touringcartimes.com/2018...cess-era-ends/
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Old 23 Nov 2018, 15:28 (Ref:3865245)   #11
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Nice to hear kind words from Gio too. He seemed to fit in well there.

Must be hard for H, he did so much to get them up there and now it’s all gone
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Old 23 Nov 2018, 18:47 (Ref:3865289)   #12
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Was it ever known which Japanese manufacture they were trying to woo?

Since Nissan, Toyota, Mazda and Honda were already represented around that time, did they set up with a view to taking the contract off another team's hands or were they aiming to bring another brand to the grid?
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Was it ever known which Japanese manufacture they were trying to woo?

Since Nissan, Toyota, Mazda and Honda were already represented around that time, did they set up with a view to taking the contract off another team's hands or were they aiming to bring another brand to the grid?
I'd wager either Nissan (tried to win the contract from RouseSport but lost out to RML) or Toyota (expected them to continue into 1997 but didn't)
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Was it ever known which Japanese manufacture they were trying to woo?

Since Nissan, Toyota, Mazda and Honda were already represented around that time, did they set up with a view to taking the contract off another team's hands or were they aiming to bring another brand to the grid?
Could have been Honda, given Derek Warwick's ties with them as a dealer.
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Honda was the rumoured at the time. Honda switched from MSD to Prodrive the same year that 888 got the Vauxhall gig.
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Honda was the rumoured at the time. Honda switched from MSD to Prodrive the same year that 888 got the Vauxhall gig.
It was definitely Honda, Warwick detailed that in an interview some time back!
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I never realised their name was based on the hope of a Japanese
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I remember reading in John Tipler's Touring Cars book that Warwick and Cleland were rumoured for a Honda drive in 97
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Thanks for the insight, would have been an interesting future, had things panned out differently, just imagine...
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It was definitely Honda, Warwick detailed that in an interview some time back!
As did Roland Dane.

Hard to imagine where Mr Cleland would have gone. You'd have to assume wherever Vauxhall ended up.
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From an interview with Dane:



After his early efforts in motorcycle racing, Dane switched to cars and — with retired F1 racer Derek Warwick as one of his partners — jumped into the BTCC with an outfit that would become the official Vauxhall (the British cousin of Holden) team.


“When we started Triple Eight in England in the mid-1990s we needed a name to do the presentation to Honda, because that was the first target though Derek’s connections as a dealer.


“We needed a name which wasn’t same-same, something racing, and that people would remember. Given all the business I’d done in Asia, in Hong Kong and Singapore, I knew eight is lucky and triple eight is three times as lucky.”
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