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16 Oct 2018, 09:54 (Ref:3857097) | #751 | ||
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Stop talking sense, Viv. It has no place on these webpages.
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16 Oct 2018, 14:50 (Ref:3857125) | #753 | |
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Plenty of BTCC have done one off races in TCR series. Remember Matt Neal did one in the Benelux series in 2016? So let’s not read too much into it yet
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16 Oct 2018, 20:02 (Ref:3857162) | #754 | ||
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Apparently a BTCC announcement tomorrow. Seen one person has hinted on Twitter as to what it may be, but may have left it a little too easy for me...
"Can anyone think of 3 words with the initials T P and C and then combine them with numbers of 17, 10 and 18?" Isn't 'T P C' Trade Price Cars, ie Team HARD. And 17, 10, 18... Dan Welch, AWE and Senna Proctor? From 2018 car numbers. |
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16 Oct 2018, 20:26 (Ref:3857163) | #755 | ||
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Vw cup backmarker Tom Pettigrew-Churchman has announced a drive for Team HARD in car number 45?
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16 Oct 2018, 21:09 (Ref:3857175) | #756 | ||
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17-10-18 is tomorrow's date, 17th Oct 2018 And yes to Trade Price Cars, their Facebook profile now shows that date. Not sure how I'm going to sleep tonight. I can't bare the suspense. |
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16 Oct 2018, 21:20 (Ref:3857179) | #757 | |
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Yes, wouldn’t be the BTCC off season without suspense like this
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16 Oct 2018, 21:27 (Ref:3857181) | #758 | ||
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It’s more likely to be Trade Price Cars announcing sponsorship again rather than driver names I reckon. |
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16 Oct 2018, 22:56 (Ref:3857191) | #760 | ||
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Play nice all!
It's a fair cop. Genuinely hadn't noticed the date tomorrow! |
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17 Oct 2018, 07:10 (Ref:3857220) | #761 | ||
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So the news is that Trade Price Cars have purchased the two Audi A3s and TBLs from AMD and will enter next year, with AMD running the cars....give or take
http://www.btcc.net/2018/10/17/trade...tcc-programme/ |
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I assume this leaves HARD without a title sponsor now? |
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17 Oct 2018, 07:35 (Ref:3857224) | #764 | |
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So how does this fit with Shaun’s radio chat about 4 cars? Are we likely to see 4 AMD cars plus these or are these part of the 4?
If they’re part of it, we still don’t know where the Eurotech cars are... |
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It would seem that two of the cars are the Trade Price Cars Audis - so that would mean the MGs are gone from AmD..... |
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17 Oct 2018, 07:50 (Ref:3857227) | #766 | ||
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Cue some underwhelming announcements about random club racers getting the seats.
I'm sorry to be so negative about it but it's just not exciting. It'll only appeal to the fans who can go follow the guys on twitter and claim they're best mates because they get a selfie with them at every meeting. |
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Jackson at TPC this year with AWE? |
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The Audi's are underwhelming anyway, never really looked front runners, I am surprised they didn't try and take an option on the MG's if AMD are not running them, they at least look like top 10 challengers still |
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For what it's worth I think there is perhaps still some potential in those Audi's. They've never really had a top line driver in them to be fair. I think AWE would've done it justice this year if he had been able to get another year in the car. Ollie Jackson seems like a nice guy and steady pair of hands but isn't exactly considered a top driver, so it would be interesting to get one of the top guys in those cars. Not that I think this will be the case at all though, it'll be some fairly underwhelming drivers and I think the best we can hope for is Ollie Jackson sticking in one. |
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17 Oct 2018, 09:08 (Ref:3857238) | #770 | |
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Ok so as conspiracies go - One of the complications I understand with Hill not being allowed to leave Hard was that a sponsor had paid Team Hard for the season and they wouldn't entertain a mid season refund..
what if that sponsor was actually Trade Priced Cars? who have now left Hard to go it alone, Hill attempted to affiliate himself with AMD who now happen to be running these cars for TPC, so would it be too far fetched to assume Hill could be lined up as the first driver? |
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17 Oct 2018, 10:19 (Ref:3857252) | #771 | |
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Good shout that
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Hill also has brief experience of the Audi standing in at Brands a few seasons back
and in fact, to add fuel to that idea, looking at Trade Price Cars blog, all of their articles relating to BTCC are very much Jake Hill focused rather than any other Hard drivers for 2018 .. http://blog.tradepricecars.com/page/3/ Last edited by btccbloke; 17 Oct 2018 at 11:06. |
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17 Oct 2018, 11:13 (Ref:3857259) | #773 | ||
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So maybe it is the Norlin cars that Shaun has lined up to replace the MGs. It would fit TBL wise, though as has been said the revived MG was way better than the Audi this year.
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Maybe your right, but read through and have a look at the blog headlines: PROMISING DAY FOR TEAM HARD. AND HILL AT SNETTERTON TEST JAKE HILL REACTION TO BTCC SEASON LAUNCH HILL WINS GOODWOOD SPRING SPRINT ON HIS DEBUT JAKE HILL: THE FAN FAVOURITE HILL READY FOR THRUXTON BTCC BLAST HILL SHOWS FIGHTING SPIRIT AT THRUXTON Others are only mentioned in lip service (i.e "Hill's team mate"), and no BTCC blog posts after Snetterton where they put Dan Welch in the car, even then the article was more focused on Hill leaving the team than their performance or expectations moving forward. After this is when I understand it all kicked off when it became more clear Hill wouldnt be getting another outing this year... No mention of TOC testing the car after Jake left -a real superstar! No mention of Bushells upturn in form and good results at Rockingham or Silverstone No mention of new drivers No mention the season ended! This is no coincidence that their interest ended when Hill left the team Last edited by btccbloke; 17 Oct 2018 at 11:50. |
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