Grand Prix Rejects

Samster

And silly season has officially been ruined for me. Motorbase go screw yourselves for dumping Jackson so late in the off-season for no apparent reason, thats basically left him stuck with the MGs if anything.

http://www.btcccrazy.co.uk/btcc/motorba ... t-jackson/

Samster

I remember Cammish being fairly dominant in FFord, and he seems to have done alright in Porsches since. Cammish for BTCC Champion 2018? I'd be shocked if he didn't win a race this year. He's the most successful Carrera Cup GB driver ever in just three seasons there. I was surprised he ended up in B...

Samster

So I believe that their is 5? Seats left available for this years BTCC, 2 AMD MG's, 1 BMR Subaru, 1 Team Parker Focus and the Dynamics seat. That Dynamics seat would be the best of those available wonder who could it be? I'm hearing that it could be Dan Cammish for the 2nd TDR seat. I believe they ...

Samster

James Nash returns to the BTCC! With BTC Norlin replacing the retired Dave Newsham.

https://www.touringcartimes.com/2018/02 ... in-racing/

Samster

Ciceley Motorsport have signed Tom Oliphant alongside Morgan. No idea if this is a replacement for their partnership with the Moffats or will they still have a third Mercedes? There are three Mercs already in existence so its entirely possible Ciceley have dug out the spare rather than taken back th...

Samster

In a fairly surprising development, Gordon Shedden has emerged as a leading contender for a top WTCR seat . If Shedden does go over to the WTCR, I wonder if Dynamics might bring in Rob Huff as a straight swap. Huffy seemed to be absolutely relishing his time back in the BTCC paddock last year, he h...

Samster

A tweet from Shaun Hollamby has shown Sam Tordoff visiting the AmD Tuning shop. Could we see him back in one of the crapbox MGs?

Samster

Motorbase have face-lifted their Focus' from the ST to the RS and have also confirmed Jackson's return. PMR have also signed Josh Cook.

http://www.btcccrazy.co.uk/

Samster

Someone was actually dumb enough to buy the MGs. AmD has gone full Tony Gilham and used them to expand to a four car team! Presumably this means the Triple Eight name is completely gone now. m In other news, WSR has confirmed an unchanged lineup. Goff is confirmed with Eurotech and Sutton remains wi...

Samster

In more BTCC news, AmDTuning has now confirmed their 2018 lineup- the Audis have been kept, as has Ollie Jackson, while joining him at the team is British F4 and VW Cup racer Sam Smelt, who doesn't seem to have done anything of note in previous championships, other than rivalling Stephen Jelley (an...

Samster

Just finished up re-watching the 2007 Champcar season on YouTube. My individual ROTR awards are in the ROTR outside F1 thread. Here are my picks for ROTY podium. Dishonorable Mentions Katherine Legge and Alex Figge - Comfortably the weakest drivers of the season, Figge only had a small handful of ra...

Samster

Just finished up re-watching the 2007 Champcar season on YouTube. My nominations for each race, plus dishonorable mentions where applicable. 1. Las Vegas ROTR - Sebastien Bourdais - This has to be Bourdais' worst race in his five Champcar seasons. First he qualifies right near the back after crashin...

Samster

Team: Team Bettenhausen
User: Samster
Chassis: Swift 009
Amount of chassis: 2
Engine: Mercedes
Amount of engines: 2
Tyres: Goodyear
Contract length (max 2 years): 1 year

Samster

Bettenhausen driver bids, all for one season.

Ricardo Zonta - $600,000
Oliver Gavin - $450,000
Jamie Davies - $450,000

Would it be possible to expand to two cars in the future?

Samster

I'll choose Bettenhausen. I'll make my driver choices tomorrow.

Samster

Rosenqvist inheriting the win from a admin caused DQ may well be the most undeserved victory I've seen in a long long time given what he did on the first lap.

Samster

The 2018 team entry list is out. We regain Carlin after just one season away and also gain Fortec and Charouz. Sadly we still don't have a full grid as we lose Rapax and Russian Time.

Samster

Just saw the Mexico video. Some little things made me smile. Such as the marshal getting electrocuted by Hulk's car, Maggie Simpson as Mercede's lollypop holder and the weird range of lego characters as trackside marshals and spectators. Nice job recreating all the cars too. Only improvement I can t...

Samster

Having been chewed up and spat out by Supercars, Alex Rullo is going to test for PMR. Well I'd rather have him than say having Alex Martin back at least.
http://www.btcccrazy.co.uk/btcc/power-m ... btcc-test/

Also Sam Tordoff has been lurking back in the paddock again having tested for both AmD and PMR recently.

Samster

BTCC to actually do something different from the norm next season! Snetterton Race 3 will be double distance with double points.
http://www.btcccrazy.co.uk/btcc/special ... niversary/

Samster

Of course from a reject standpoint I'm most looking forward to seeing 'Donald Thump' in action. Those of you that didn't like Apollo and Carbide being in the same heat last time, well you won't like Heat B as Carbide is in with both Eruption and Aftershock. Also Gabriel, Big Nipper and Crackers n Sm...

Samster

I don't think Sutton is a good driver particularly Shame that, personally I think he's pretty - to borrow the motorsporting superlative of choice - mega. I mean, he was 3rd in his first Formula Ford season, and then won his debut Clio Cup season. The way he's led BMR this year at such a "young...

Samster

BTCC 2017 (Dis)Honorable Mentions Josh Cook - Earning five strikes ought to be enough to make the ROTY podium but his performance with Maximum in the early season plus taking Triple 8's two best results save him. Still Cook has certainly lost himself several fans this season, first for leaving Maxi...

Samster

Took one look at the results. Yeah screw this season, F1 see you in 2018 this season is done for me.

Samster

This Race - One of those races. Where every event seems designed to troll me specifically. The one time Mercedes are at their weakest and three of the four cars ahead take themselves out and Lewis is handed an easy win. If that wasn't enough Alonso got dicked over by it when he could have had a shot...

Samster

Chilton is out for Silverstone on 'doctors orders'. PMR have only gone and secured Rob Huff as a sub!

Samster

This boost nonsense is the worst thing about the BTCC these days. If they want to keep teams equal why not just make them all run the Swindon engine?

Samster

If this is not Race of the Year so far then it's in the top 3, maybe top 2 m Well done Jeremy Clements and his family-owned team in a chassis that was built in 2008. If Clements' cars are that old it makes me wonder what geriatric junk Mike Harmon is running. Good to see two surprise new winners th...

Samster

And Cole actually wins it. And it seems the big announcement is Alfa returning with Handy.

Samster

It's not even like the Subarus were that dominant. Sutton was 4th, Plato 10th and Price 12th. How long does he last out front?

Samster

Well at least we will have TCR UK next season to enjoy. Judging from the interest from many of the current BTCC teams it looks set to be a roaring success. Hopefully enough for Aussie Bernie to not be so complacent about running his empire anymore. I'd agree BMR's sudden dominance looks suspicious b...

Samster

The BTCC suport series continue to be an absolute farce as the entirety of JHR Developments have been banned for the rest of the season from all Ginetta competition. m This comes after three of their Ginetta Junior drivers getting excluded from the Thruxton results then reinstated again. This means ...

Samster

[ Think the Cup guys have just outdone Allgaier's scrub gang. The end of this race is pure ARCA. What was Johnson thinking trying to go for the lead with a smoking engine did he really think that would end well? And just now Kahne causes a massive pileup by not acceratering at all during a restart....

Samster

Justin Allgaier easily takes ROTR of the Xfinity Indianapolis race for being the main cause of, frankly, the most god-awful, bathplugged up disaster of a pit stop I've ever seen . Oh, and the restrictor plate + front bumper aero mod package did its job of producing a much relatively better race tha...

Samster

One possibility would be for Cup drivers to be limited to five Xfinity races only regardless of their experience level, which could be a significant cut for some drivers.

Yes please.

http://www.espn.co.uk/jayski/nxs/2017/s ... ity-series

Samster

lance_rambert wrote:
East Londoner wrote:Alex Bowman in the #88 full time next year though? Yes pls.

The folks at Hendrick have the real answer.

Justice prevails.

The recent Kenseth rumours had me worried especially since Erik Jones was confirmed in the #20.

Samster

Jeff's son Brett will replace him for the rest of the season at Eurotech. Good to see him get the opportunity as based on their respective performances in the Mini Cup Brett seems to be moderately more talented than his father. Hopefully this leads to a permanent change of the guard and Jeff just do...

Samster

The only thing left that can make this race redeemable now is if the #1 Porsche drops out. Has anyone ever won by more than 12 laps before? Certainly not since I've been watching. Surely no one wants a single LMP1 running away with it with no one left to challenge. Come on Le Mans gods. I want the #...

Samster

1. Carlos Sainz - Way to look in the mirrors. 2. Sergio Perez - A suborn idiot who may have overhauled Verstappen (who surprisingly is yet to piss me off this season) as my 2nd least favourite driver on the grid (Lewis is 1st), they would at least have had a better opportunity to hold off Vettel if...

Samster

Update on driver's conditions from BTCC.net. Aron Taylor-Smith suffered a fracture to his left leg and concussion. He was closely monitored in hospital and was released late last night. Luke Davenport is currently in intensive care in an induced coma, and is in a serious but stable condition, with m...

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