BTCC 2019 season discussion, News and Rumours!

[Robin Marriott]

Originally Posted by mprmke

Anyway, I strongly believe BMR's 3 pieces of news at 6PM are:

- 1 Driver
- 1 Car
- 1 Sponsor

They’ll do well with the Infinitis I reckon.

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by porsche962fan

Mat didn't do the season opener at Brands and at Croft retired first race and DNS the other 2 due to food poisoning

Which still leaves a 14-7 count in Plato's favour.

[btccboy789]

Jason got the hatrick at Brands GP tho

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Robin Marriott

They’ll do well with the Infinitis I reckon.

The Moffats have them, and are running them away from BTCC.

[CroftPilgrim]

Originally Posted by porsche962fan

see Snetterton,, Knockhill, Silverstone and Rockinham

Mat outcoscred JP big in those 4 events in a row

It's not a 4 event season.....

[CroftPilgrim]

Originally Posted by btccboy789

Jason got the hatrick at Brands GP tho

Certainly did! That's no mean feat. Not many drivers have won all three races. Dan Eaves at Thruxton is one that springs to mind. Have there been any others?

[psq43]

Originally Posted by CroftPilgrim

Certainly did! That's no mean feat. Not many drivers have won all three races. Dan Eaves at Thruxton is one that springs to mind. Have there been any others?

Nope and I suggest that unless someone comes up with a hugely dominant car, it'll not happen again.

Dan Eaves triple was largely helped by the reduced grid size that year, the quality of the grid, and a hugely excellent car

Jasons triple was mainly down to stealth in the early laps of race 30, coupled with Matt Neal running round the middle of the road 2 seconds a lap slower than normal, whilst trying to engineer a title for his team mate

Still, both great achievements though.

[Evantra]

Originally Posted by psq43

Nope and I suggest that unless someone comes up with a hugely dominant car, it'll not happen again.

Dan Eaves triple was largely helped by the reduced grid size that year, the quality of the grid, and a hugely excellent car

Jasons triple was mainly down to stealth in the early laps of race 30, coupled with Matt Neal running round the middle of the road 2 seconds a lap slower than normal, whilst trying to engineer a title for his team mate

Still, both great achievements though.

Honsetly, I think had it not been for the ride height issue Ash Sutton would've won all 3 races in the wet round Knockhill last season.

[Craner Curves]

An hour to go. Any leaks? 😂

[cameronpoe]

Originally Posted by Evantra

Honsetly, I think had it not been for the ride height issue Ash Sutton would've won all 3 races in the wet round Knockhill last season.

I was there and he would have done comfortably.

[thetool]

Senna Proctor and Adrian Flux at Subaru. No mention of other drivers/further announcements.

[Evantra]

Well that was underwhelming...

[Ry44]

http://www.btcc.net/2019/02/19/bmr-s...-flux-backing/

[Racing Harz]

Proctor at BMR with Adrian Flux and Subaru.
http://www.teambmr.co.uk/2019-02-sen...n-flux--subaru

[medius]

I can see JP and AS in the Astras.

[touring fan01]

Originally Posted by medius

I can see JP and AS in the Astras.

nah. ash will be in the subaru.

autosport.com says;
Proctor is the only driver announced by BMR for the 2019 BTCC so far, although '17 champion Ash Sutton is expected to remain with the squad.

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Redshift

Plato has just posted this on Twitter: -

"Oops, might have got me date and time wrong"

Is he just playing with us all?

Given his previous tweets about BMR, it wouldn't surprise me to see that he's referring to an announcement of his own that will be timed to upstage the BMR announcement.

[Alfisti]

Originally Posted by touring fan01

nah. ash will be in the subaru.

autosport.com says;
Proctor is the only driver announced by BMR for the 2019 BTCC so far, although '17 champion Ash Sutton is expected to remain with the squad.

He can't be. Senna Proctor is in one and Adrian Flux in the other.

[Craner Curves]

Originally Posted by Alfisti

He can't be. Senna Proctor is in one and Adrian Flux in the other.

I was always a fan of his dad, Ian.

[porsche962fan]

4 seats left to be confirmed


MG - Excelr8 Motorsport - ???????
MG - Excelr8 Motorsport - Rob Smith

Volkswagen CC - Team HARD - Mike Bushell
Volkswagen CC - Team HARD - Bobby Thompson
Volkswagen CC - Team HARD - Carl Boardley
Volkswagen CC - Team HARD - Michael Crees

Toyota Corolla - Speedworks - Tom Ingram

Mercedes A - Ciceley - Adam Morgan
Mercedes A - Ciceley - Dan Rowbottom

Mercedes A - Laser Tools - Aidan Moffat

Ford Focus - Motorbase - Tom Chilton
Ford Focus - Motorbase - Ollie Jackson
Ford Focus - Motorbase - Nicolas Hamilton

BMW 125 - WSR - Tom Oliphant
BMW 125 - WSR - Colin Turkington
BMW 125 - WSR - Andrew Jordan

BMW 125 - Team Parker - Stephen Jelley

Honda Civic - Team Dynamics - Matt Neal
Honda Civic - Team Dynamics - Dan Cammish

Honda Civic - BTC Racing - Chris Smiley
Honda Civic - BTC Racing - Josh Cook

Honda Civic - Simpson Racing - Matt Simpson

Honda Civic - AMD - Sam Tordoff
Honda Civic - AMD - Rory Butcher

Audi S3 - Trade Price Cars Racing - Jake Hill
Audi S3 - Trade Price Cars Racing - Mark Blundell

Vauxhall Astra - PMR - ?????
Vauxhall Astra - PMR - Jason Plato ?????

Subaru Levorg - BMR - Ash Sutton ???
Subaru Levorg - BMR - Senna Proctor

[Matt K]

Good to see Senna in BMR and hopefully he'll gel with the RWD car well, I'm also a bit surprised (although in a positive way) that BMR retains Subaru backing and manufacturer status. I think that it's a bit worrying that Ash hasn't been confirmed alongside with Proctor but hopefully he'll be in a due course. If so, Sutton&Proctor seems a very good squad!

[crmalcolm]

touring fan01 - right now, I'm not placing much faith in your assertions:

Originally Posted by touring fan01

second BMR seat is not warren scott.
it’s a driver new to btcc

Originally Posted by touring fan01

nah. ash will be in the subaru.

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

So is it Plato or Sutton who isn't a 2019 driver?

Originally Posted by touring fan01

neither. they will be both be on the grid.

Originally Posted by porsche962fan

so where do we put the Plato in a FWD car thing next ?

Originally Posted by touring fan01

im predicting all the doors have closed on him and he wont be on the grid.

It's beginning to seem like another case of posting enough predictions and claims that eventually some of them will come true......

[mprmke]

I called Proctor to BMR on Monday. Didn’t know anything, didn’t hear anything, it just seems to make the most sense and I think it’s a good fit. Would expect Sutton to be alongside him.

I’m still intrigued by this “biggest surprise of the winter” to come though.

Most people expect Plato to end up at Power Maxed and have for the last couple of months at least, so if it happens it wouldn’t be a big surprise. If, as some rumours have surfaced, Collard ends up alongside him, that would be a bigger surprise, but nothing like the supposed surprised that it’s hyped up to be.

I can’t see any way in which a new team could end up on the grid, but the only thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the possibility that Power Maxed won’t be running Vauxhalls, but something else. Is that a possibility at all?

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by mprmke

I called Proctor to BMR on Monday. Didn’t know anything, didn’t hear anything, it just seems to make the most sense and I think it’s a good fit. Would expect Sutton to be alongside him.

I’m still intrigued by this “biggest surprise of the winter” to come though.

Most people expect Plato to end up at Power Maxed and have for the last couple of months at least, so if it happens it wouldn’t be a big surprise. If, as some rumours have surfaced, Collard ends up alongside him, that would be a bigger surprise, but nothing like the supposed surprised that it’s hyped up to be.

I can’t see any way in which a new team could end up on the grid, but the only thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the possibility that Power Maxed won’t be running Vauxhalls, but something else. Is that a possibility at all?

I thought that the Power Maxed / Vauxhall was multi-year, also based on the fact that they have bought a number of Vauxhall vehicles for their company too?

[Robin Marriott]

Originally Posted by mprmke

Most people expect Plato to end up at Power Maxed

Not most people, just people speculating on the internet. Ask most armchair or local ‘it’s a good day out’ fans and it’s big news.

Didn’t see the Proctor to BMR move coming, that means there’s definitely two new drivers at PMR!