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If he went well in the test, I'm sure he'd consider it as an option. Does Bentwood have any plans? Presumably Vauxhall would have no direct involvement if Owy gets the drive. Silly question, but Andrew isn't related to James is he?
The VLR thing is interesting, but it would be great to see them back. Are Eaves and Buxton still under contract to them? |
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As Boots says, it would be great to have VLR back in the championship.
It would also be great to see Owy return, makes sense as he's driven the Astra before. What is the likelyhood of it having any further development though? |
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16 Dec 2004, 13:19 (Ref:1181058) | #53 | |
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Andrew Thompson is not related to James, no.
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I think Eaves could well still be tied up with VLR.
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I see from today Motorsport News, that Martin Hines has said that he has lined up a works deal for young Luke, details to be confirmed at the Autosport Show. Work car that means either Vauxhall, Honda or Seat then.
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22 Dec 2004, 20:31 (Ref:1186208) | #56 | |
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Have Honda confirmed a works entry next year ? I only thought SEAT and Vauxhall were the confirmed works entries for next year.
A bit of a provisional list looks like this at the moment VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Yvan Muller Colin Turkington Luke Hines? SEAT Sport UK - SEAT Toledo Jason Plato James Pickford Luke Hines? Speed Equipe - Lexus IS200 Driver 1? Driver 2 Team Dynamics - Honda Integra Matt Neal Dan Eaves? Techspeed - Vauxhall Astra Coupe Paul O'Neill? Andrew Thompson? I've left out WSR, as there seems to be little indication of what they could be up to next year, and several other teams, that we haven't really heard from over the winter. |
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It's a bit scary isn't it.
The WTCC & DTM already have a 'hot' looking manufacturer and driver line-up, whilst the BTCC is so far confined to a completely new team running Seat's, and Vauxhall on the backfoot running new-shape Astra's - a new unknown team running a Super-2000 spec Lexus...and that's it! After one of the greatest years from BTCC, especially compared to it's other 'world' rivals in 2004 - it's got a lot of catching up to do for 2005 already...and it's still 2004! |
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I have seen over on one of the MG forum's that Jason Hughes and Kartworld will be out with there MG again.
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23 Dec 2004, 10:28 (Ref:1186624) | #59 | ||
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purely speculative but I think at the moment you could be looking at adding some of the following to the list to bulk up the field - Collard, Synchro, Kartworld, Mardi Gras, GA, Arena, Edenbridge and VLR
It may be none of the above appear and highly likely not all of them - but I' sure there will be new entries announced before the start of the season to add to the list |
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23 Dec 2004, 14:37 (Ref:1186762) | #60 | |
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WSR will only return with the MGs if the deal is right - or they could return with aq different make altogether.
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23 Dec 2004, 19:54 (Ref:1187006) | #62 | ||
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I doubt WSR would sell the cars unless a) tehy are certain of having something better to run for 2005, or b)they feel they have little hope of getting the funding together, or c)they want to keep one car and concentrate on running that with any available funding (I can't see Reid staying - he's an MG-contracted driver so is likely to do the DTM for them).
Kartworld, Collard and Synchro all seem likely to continue, and I'm sure Honda will at least continue to back Arena for one car from Chilton. Most of the other 2004 BTCC teams probably have irons in the fire as well. It probably will be a weaker and small field than 2004, but that doesn't mean it'll be dull. |
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We're in a better postition than we were this time last season, and look what happened. Next years grid is likely to top the 2004 grid, in terms of quality and quantity.
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Hines looks set for SEAT - which probably means that VX will go all out sign up a 3rd driver to try and defend the manufacturers title.
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Vauxhall will have to put up the budget for the third car, unless there is a driver out there with his own sponsorship at least capable of rivalling Hines (Quite likely).
I notice Vauxhall still haven't sold the 2004 cars yet. Well, two of them. |
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I am not sure about this one, I can see why Seat have for Hines a young gun with a bit of experience to back up Plato and support Pickford. IMO they have gone for the wrong man why not go for SWS, Richard Westbrook, Paul Rivett or even Gordon Shedden. But at the end of the day money talks..........
I have also just seen on another forum that Rob Collard has got hold of an ex-works MG now if that is ture then it is good news. |
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Good news about Hines and Collard there - they're both good inclusions on the grid. The overall problem with how the grid looks isn't that so few cars are confirmed, it's that so many 2004 names are either confirmed elsewhere or struggling to find a budget. Thompson's gone, Huff's gone, Reid's probably gone with MG, and no-one really looks likely to come in, especially as there's no longer any sense in developing a BTCC-spec car. I can still see the racign being great next year, but the influx of stars to teh DTM coupled with the change in ETCC status does leave BTCC cars and stars thinner on the ground.
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I know that there are not many cars confirmed, but I reckon there might somewhere in the region of 20 to 25 cars on the grid come Donington in April. I got board at work today and came up with this list of teams and drivers:-
VX Racing Vauxhall - Muller, Turkington, TBA Seat - Plato, Pickford, Hines Computeach Racing with Halfords Honda - Neal, Eaves WSR MG - Reid, Leggate (please) Arena Honda - Chilton, TBA Speedequie Lexus - TBA x2 Synchro Motorsport Honda - Kaye Kartworld MG - Hughes Collard MG - Collard GA Motorsport - TBA Techspeed Vauxhall - O'Neil, Bentwood TCR Vauxhall - Adam VLR Peugeot 407 - TBA Mardi Gras Peugeot 406 - George "Varta" Honda - Batchelor Now I make that 24 cars which I don't think is bad at all. |
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Peugeot 407 - that's a shock to me!? Was that in MN or something ?
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Not sure, I am sure I read something somewhere that VLR where looking to make a comeback this year with the 407 and I am sure that it said the car might powered by LPG, but I maybe wrong.
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You're all optimists with the 25! But I like it.
Still, down here in Pessimania - I'm still expecting to see 2 Vauxhall's take on 3 Seat's at race one - with Farique Hairuman's Team Varta in 6th and last! |
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