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ryodi

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What do I know. Although I'll be surprised if Turkington doesn't get a panelty for punting Moffat out of the way.

 

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Well that's a bullshit penalty after what they bitched and moaned about Sutton at the last meeting.

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Dudley

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18 hours ago, ryodi said:

Deserved champion but the other Subaru drivers were absolutely nowhere.

 

Literally no points for Subaru at Brands not scored by Sutton.

 

Does this season suggest Plato is over?  He struggled against Turkington and he's been demolished by Sutton.

 

In other roundups, Josh Cook's decision to fuck over Maximum and go back to MG didn't pay off.  After scoring 7 out of 12 times in the Ford, in 18 races with the MG he scored....thrice.  Good.  Of course Maximum never scored another point without him.

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ryodi

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He still managed one race win which is more the other Subaru drivers apart from Sutton managed. I think this will probably be his last season but for a works team I think Subaru will be hoping for more success from the rest of the team in 2018. Didn't TOCA keep adjusting the boost on the Subaru this season as well which is why they were so inconsistent?

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Dudley

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On 12/10/2017 at 12:05, marsh said:

Contract with Subaru was for three years, which takes them to the end of 2018.

 

I'd probably bin Plato off tbh, he's been way off the pace all year and probably isn't worth the baggage anymore.

 

I believe the Subaru presence is very much tied into Plato so that may be tricky.

 

On 12/10/2017 at 23:30, ryodi said:

He still managed one race win which is more the other Subaru drivers apart from Sutton managed. I think this will probably be his last season but for a works team I think Subaru will be hoping for more success from the rest of the team in 2018. Didn't TOCA keep adjusting the boost on the Subaru this season as well which is why they were so inconsistent?

 

James Cole won one as well and to be fair to Josh Price he wasn't supposed to be anywhere near the BTCC this year, he was supposed to be in Clios and got parachuted into an afterthought acadmey car at the last moment.  A couple of points scores in a field of 32 when even Plato couldn't score in more than half the races isn't too bad.

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Dudley

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https://www.touringcartimes.com/2017/10/18/snetterton-host-diamond-double-btcc-race/

 

Snetterton to host a double length race.

 

Couldn't they have chosen literally anywhere other than that?  I can barely stand that tumour of a pointless infield appendage for a normal length race and seeing the cars roughly every hour and a half sucks for spectators.

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Not really, I get to stay at my mum and dads for free, access to the circuit is decent, and it's generally a good day out with a top schedule. Brands is at the other end of the country for me and while Snetterton is no different, my folks are only 30 minutes from the circuit.

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Dudley

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The grid is starting to take shape. The main changes.

 

Sheddon isn't returning, smart money has him off to the "new WTCC", which means we now have a genuine championship winning Honda seat available for the first time in a decade.

AmD have taken over the 2 MGs from 888 (which at this point was basically just a BMR run team anyway).

Handy have swapped their Toyota for a lovely new Alfa Romeo

BTC Norlin have picked up a pair of the old shape Honda Civics to replace the Chevys

HARD expand by 1 to 4 VWs, Motorbase drop to a pair of new Ford Focus RSs.

 

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Dudley

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While Sheddon might think that's the case, the rest of the BTCC fan base will see it as him skiving off for a couple of years to race around the globe where nobody goes to watch.

 

Oh absolutely.  I'm just hoping your son is an idiot ;)

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ryodi

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Dan Cammish has got Sheddon's seat

 

http://www.btcc.net/2018/02/15/halfords-yuasa-racing-signs-dan-cammish/

 



Halfords Yuasa Racing has recruited two-time Porsche Carrera Cup GB Champion Dan Cammish to pilot its second Honda Civic Type R alongside Matt Neal in the 2018 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
 
Cammish arrives at the team with a fine pedigree in the sport and several seasons on the BTCC support package under his belt. The Yorkshireman was the architect of an astonishing campaign in British Formula Ford in 2013 – winning all 24 races he entered to wrap the title up with two meetings to go – before clinching back-to-back crowns in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB in 2015 and 2016.
 
Cammish spent last year contesting both the PCCGB and the pan-European Porsche Supercup. He finished third in the domestic championship – despite missing two races mid-season – as he triumphed eight times from 13 starts, more than any of his rivals in a campaign highlighted by a stunning victory at Le Mans following a frenetic final lap four-way scrap for supremacy.

 

Sheddon is driving an Audi in the WTCR

 

 

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