BTCC 2018 Annual Predictions Thread

850Estate · 31 Mar 2018, 11:39 (Ref:3812107)

The natural successor to this and not to be confused with Pimmy's excellent Championship.

Here are mine from last year:

1) Team HARD will win a race
2) We'll only have two new race winners
3) At least one manufacturer team will change at least one driver during the season
4) The Team HARD CCs will be referred to as 'Passat CCs' by at least one driver/commentator/interviewee at each round
5) Dave Newsham will find himself on the podium at Knockhill

So here are this year's

2018

1) Norlin will surprise everyone with either a lot of pace, or a serious lack of it after such a good debut campaign.
2) There will be at least three permanent changes of driver this season, one of which will involve Team Hard.
3) The phrases 'best season ever' 'quality has never been higher' and 'pinnacle of UK motorsport' will all be said during the ITV coverage of the first and last rounds.
4) Dan Cammish will be in with a mathematical chance of the title at the final round, and will outscore Matt Neal come the end of the season.
5) The Subarus will win a total of one race win - and Sutton will be the man who will score it.

luckn002 · 31 Mar 2018, 11:47 (Ref:3812110)

Thanks again for running this

1) Ingram will be champion
2) We will match or exceed the number of race winners from last year
3) Every team will score an overall podium at least once
4) Jack Goff will the highest finishing Honda in the championship standings
5) There will be no permanent driver changes this season

luckn002 · 6 Jun 2018, 18:19 (Ref:3827224)

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Originally Posted by luckn002

5) There will be no permanent driver changes this season

Well, that lasted a round less than last year!

Evantra · 30 Sep 2018, 20:16 (Ref:3853637)

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Originally Posted by luckn002

1) Ingram will be champion
2) We will match or exceed the number of race winners from last year
3) Every team will score an overall podium at least once
4) Jack Goff will the highest finishing Honda in the championship standings
5) There will be no permanent driver changes this season

(My old account so this is the same person!)

1 - No. 12 points off (though arguably deserved it more)

2 - Yes. 17 this year! 4 more than 2017.

3 - No. All but TPR, I believe. A valiant effort nonetheless!

4 - Yes. Just barely: 5 points ahead of Matt Neal and 10 ahead of Cammish.

5 - No. Not even close!

2 / 5. Must try harder!

crmalcolm · 31 Mar 2018, 12:22 (Ref:3812114)

1) There will be a full Honda podium at some point in the season
2) Neal for champion, with RWD cars in 2nd and 3rd
3) Cammish will win the Jack Sears
4) Plato will not be driving a Subaru at the last round at Brands
5) There will be less than 25 cars finishing on the lead lap in the 60-mile race

MissClarrpz · 31 Mar 2018, 15:16 (Ref:3812136)

1. Someone will win three races in a row
2. A red flag in every qualifying session
3. Someone who retires in Race 1 will win Race 30
4. 1 last lap pass for the lead that sticks
5. A roll at and only at every circuit which has an 'R' an 'O' and an 'L' in its name (Oulton Park, Knockhill Racing Circuit, Silverstone Circuit)

HopAlong · 31 Mar 2018, 18:33 (Ref:3812157)

1) All 7 of the RWD cars will finish in the top 10 of the 60th special race due to tyre wear.
Alternate 1) Or someone will use a tactical tyre change during a safety car in that race and come from behind and win.
2)The Honda teams will complain about RWD dominating at Knockhill, despite them having dominated Thruxton.
3) Every driver will have scored at least 10 points.
4) Someone from the front 3 rows in the 1st race at the season opener will loose the back end at paddock hill bend on the first lap.
5) Cook will outscore Chilton.

skells22 · 31 Mar 2018, 20:18 (Ref:3812166)

1. someone will roll
2. 3 wet race weekend
3. pile up
4. Ash Sutton will fail in defending his championship
5. 2 new winners

slummingangel · 1 Apr 2018, 12:20 (Ref:3812281)

1. By the end of the season every make of car, except one, will see the podium at some point.
2. In the second half of the season, a championship contender(in the Top 5) will have an absolute howler of a weekend, ruining any chance of winning the championship.
3. There will be a high profile retiree at the end of the season.
4. 10th will be the the most prevalent choice for grid reversal.
5. there will never be a podium where the sum of their race numbers is less than or equal to 10.

skells22 · 30 Sep 2018, 21:00 (Ref:3853653)

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Originally Posted by skells22

1. someone will roll
2. 3 wet race weekend
3. pile up
4. Ash Sutton will fail in defending his championship
5. 2 new winners

1st one nope nobody for the 2nd year running went upside down
on number 2 how close was I on that one
3. Oulton Park pile up at start that brought the red flag out
4. That is a yes, he did fail in defending his championship
5. Again how close was I to this one bearing in mind we had a lot of winners this year

crmalcolm · 1 Oct 2018, 07:17 (Ref:3853729)

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Originally Posted by crmalcolm

1) There will be a full Honda podium at some point in the season
2) Neal for champion, with RWD cars in 2nd and 3rd
3) Cammish will win the Jack Sears
4) Plato will not be driving a Subaru at the last round at Brands
5) There will be less than 25 cars finishing on the lead lap in the 60-mile race

1) - Yes
2) - No
3) - By a long way
4) - No
5) - Yes, 20 cars classified as on the lead lap

3/5, not bad.

Matt K · 31 Mar 2018, 13:56 (Ref:3812121)

Ok, time to join this finally!

1. Subaru will be off the pace for quite a number of weekends
2. Cammish will get the Jack Sears Trophy
3. Alfa will win at least one race
4. MGs will get more Top 10s than last year (minimum 4)
5. Ash Sutton will be top Subaru driver again

Matt K · 30 Sep 2018, 19:55 (Ref:3853626)

Okay, I'll seem to be the first to comment on that post season, hope you all guys join

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Originally Posted by Matt K

Ok, time to join this finally!

1. Subaru will be off the pace for quite a number of weekends
2. Cammish will get the Jack Sears Trophy
3. Alfa will win at least one race
4. MGs will get more Top 10s than last year (minimum 4)
5. Ash Sutton will be top Subaru driver again

1. True, wasn't until Croft when a Subaru finished a race in the Top 3.
2. True, a landslide victory
3. False, only twice on podium
4. True, Butcher alone scored 10 of them
5. True, six wins to one Plato's podium and 256 points to 26 Plato's

Quite good predictions, maybe I'll go for more extreme next year

Racing Harz · 31 Mar 2018, 14:29 (Ref:3812130)

1. Cammish will get the Jack Sears Trophy
2. Sutton will be the best Subaru
3. A. Morgan und A. Moffat will both win min. 1 race
4. Austin will win min. 1 race in the alfa
5. Ingram will be champion

Racing Harz · 1 Oct 2018, 05:43 (Ref:3853718)

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Originally Posted by Racing Harz

1. Cammish will get the Jack Sears Trophy
2. Sutton will be the best Subaru
3. A. Morgan und A. Moffat will both win min. 1 race
4. Austin will win min. 1 race in the alfa
5. Ingram will be champion

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. No
5. No

BillWiskins · 31 Mar 2018, 18:08 (Ref:3812153)

1. Rob Austin to win in the Alfa in the first half of the season igniting championship ambitions which never come to fruition
2. Cammish to bag at least three wins
3. Ingram qualifies pole but drops it / has it dropped for him on the first lap
4. Another anonymous year for Subaru, even though Sutton goes into Brands GP with a mathematical chance after a lot of hard charging
5. The 60th Anniversary long race will be quite dull.

Alfisti · 1 Apr 2018, 13:22 (Ref:3812294)

1. Subarus will run badly, though Sutton will punch above weight and score more points than his teammates combined.
2. One of the HARD drivers will drop out and be replaced.
3. JP will not return in 2019 unless in a coaching capacity.
4. Ash Sutton will run one of the Aussie Supercar enduro events as a co-driver.
5. Ollie Jackson will get a podium.
6. Rob Collard will be eliminated from the Championship with a grim weekend at Knockhill or Rockinghan.
7. Colin Turkington will be the most boring interviewee of the year.
8. JP will use more excuses than pretty much everybody else combined as he won't be allowed to say the team has very little budget.
9. Motorbase won't be very good.
10. The new Honda will end the season as the most competitive car ala Subaru in 2016.

Alfisti · 30 Sep 2018, 22:45 (Ref:3853670)

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Originally Posted by Alfisti

1. Subarus will run badly, though Sutton will punch above weight and score more points than his teammates combined.
2. One of the HARD drivers will drop out and be replaced.
3. JP will not return in 2019 unless in a coaching capacity.
4. Ash Sutton will run one of the Aussie Supercar enduro events as a co-driver.
5. Ollie Jackson will get a podium.
6. Rob Collard will be eliminated from the Championship with a grim weekend at Knockhill or Rockinghan.
7. Colin Turkington will be the most boring interviewee of the year.
8. JP will use more excuses than pretty much everybody else combined as he won't be allowed to say the team has very little budget.
9. Motorbase won't be very good.
10. The new Honda will end the season as the most competitive car ala Subaru in 2016.

1. Half right!

2. Rightish, I should have said more than one. Too conservative!

3. Wrong if the rumours are true. The old dog is trying to land a ride.

4. Wrong. But he really should.

5. True, I think he did, or was it 4th?

6. Sadly eliminated, and before I predicted. Get well bonny lad.

7. Wrong. Colin was not that boring, definitely more character and emotion seeping out.

8. No bugger bothered to interview him, well not very often. He stole the boring award from 7 above when he did.

9. Chilton was very good. Cole was decent and Tordoff should have upgraded his AA Membership.

10. It were good today, but only really today. It's not the best car yet but has great potential to become so now Dynamics have some miles on the clock.

My predictions were pretty rubbish. More #HARD than WSR 🙁

S griffin · 1 Oct 2018, 10:13 (Ref:3853775)

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Originally Posted by Alfisti

1. Half right!

2. Rightish, I should have said more than one. Too conservative!

3. Wrong if the rumours are true. The old dog is trying to land a ride.

4. Wrong. But he really should.

5. True, I think he did, or was it 4th?

6. Sadly eliminated, and before I predicted. Get well bonny lad.

7. Wrong. Colin was not that boring, definitely more character and emotion seeping out.

8. No bugger bothered to interview him, well not very often. He stole the boring award from 7 above when he did.

9. Chilton was very good. Cole was decent and Tordoff should have upgraded his AA Membership.

10. It were good today, but only really today. It's not the best car yet but has great potential to become so now Dynamics have some miles on the clock.

My predictions were pretty rubbish. More #HARD than WSR 🙁

5) Yes, Jackson was one of the drivers who gambled on slicks in Brands Hatch R2 and got third as a result

Wheels of Fire · 1 Apr 2018, 13:26 (Ref:3812296)

1) Turkington will be the champion
2) the runner-up will be Ingram
3) Cammish will score a podium in his round debut
4) All Mercedes drivers will win at least 1 race
5) 5 rookies will score at least 1 podium finish

CM388 · 1 Apr 2018, 17:28 (Ref:3812344)

Okidoke, let's have a go at this...

1) A BMW will win the first race of the season
2) Subarus will be off the pace until Oulton
3) Cammish to win JST
4) Jake Hill will get his first race win
5) PMR to score their first race win
6) And finally, I'm going to say that there will be... 3 driver changes over the season.

jakew7498 · 3 Apr 2018, 02:27 (Ref:3812582)

1) BTC Norlin will win a race. Probably James Nash but who knows.
2) PMR will win a race.
3) Alfa will struggle early on either with pace or reliability but win a race in the second half of the season.
4) Dan Cammish will be the first JST driver to score an overall podium and will win that championship.
5) Multiple JST drivers will get an overall podium.

jakew7498 · 8 Apr 2018, 14:00 (Ref:3814003)

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Originally Posted by jakew7498

2) PMR will win a race.
4) Dan Cammish will be the first JST driver to score an overall podium and will win that championship.
5) Multiple JST drivers will get an overall podium.

Well. 2 done. 5 done. 4 part 1 has been incorrect.

rdjones · 4 Apr 2018, 07:11 (Ref:3812746)

OK here we go again:-

1) Dan Cammish will win the JST
2) Going into the final meeting at least 3 drivers will be in with a shot of the title
3) Mr Plato will not win a race
4) WSR will win the drivers/teams and manufacturers championship
5) The Alfa will get on the podium in the first half of the season.

BobJones · 4 Apr 2018, 07:38 (Ref:3812749)

1. Despite Chilton talking about a title challenge, Sam Tordoff will actually be the leading Motorbase driver across the season, being within a mathematical title chance come Brands GP.

2. Tim Harvey will say "The cream will always rise to the top" ad nauseam, especially at the final round.

3. James Nash will win two races, people on TenTenths will still refer to his grid interview from 2010.

4. Fans, spectators, rival teams and commentators will talk about a RWD start advantage when really it's a WSR BMW start advantage.

5. Tom Boardman will deploy maximum defence mode for 15th place, causing all sorts of mayhem

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