New Hyundai i30N cars for BTCC next year to be built by current MG6 outfit Excelr8.

 

No news yet on BMR replacing the Subaru, or Handy bringing their Alfa back to the races.

 

 

 

Edited 13 November, 20196 yr by camelspyyder

Ash Sutton signs for Laser Tools racing to drive Infiniti alongside Aiden Moffat 

Was quite obvious when he tested the Infiniti earlier in the year. BMR gone for good then ?

Interesting that Moffat Racing don't have 2 licences to run cars though??

 

Here's the newly published 2020 entry list by team:

 

BTC racing have bought a 3rd licence (from BMR)

 

No sign of Handy Motorsports and their Rob Austin pedalled Alfa though  

 

2020 BTCC entries

Team name	Number of entries
Aiden Moffat Racing	1
AmD/Cobra Exhausts	2
AmD/Trade Price Cars	2
BTC Racing	3
Ciceley Motorsport	2
Excelr8 Motorsport	2
Motorbase Performance	3
Power Maxed Racing	2
Simpson Racing	1
Speedworks Motorsport	1
BMR Racing	1
Team Dynamics	2
Team Hard	4
Team Parker Racing	1
West Surrey Racing	3

BMR down to one. 

MotorSport (magazine) did a feature on "top 25 rivalries" this month: one of them was Jason Plato versus Matt Neal, and they illustrated it with 2 shots of JP using "push to pass" on Matt, It's not just me!

One of the Team Hard drivers Carl Boardley has bought an ex WSR 1 series - 2018 I think.

Great news for Andy Jordan who thought he was out of BTCC when his multiyear PIRTEK sponsorship ended.

 

BMW have decided to take him on as a works entry alongside Turk and Tom Oliphant.

 

 

Edited 18 December, 20196 yr by camelspyyder

Jake Hill moves from Trade Price Audi (with AmD) to AmD Tuning Honda. Definitely a move up the grid.

 

Currently announced car + driver pairings:

 

Confirmed 2020 BTCC entries
Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R FK8: Matt Neal, Dan Cammish
WSR BMW 330i M Sport: Colin Turkington, Andrew Jordan, Tom Oliphant
AmD Tuning Honda Civic Type R FK2: Jake Hill
Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50: Ash Sutton, Aiden Moffat
Team Hard VW CC: Mike Bushell, Jack Goff
Team Hard BMW 125i M Sport: Carl Boardley

Mat Jackson back in BTCC 👍

joining PMR alongside Plato.

 

Hopefully he'll beat Motorbase every time after the way they treated him 2 years ago.

9 hours ago, camelspyyder said:

Mat Jackson back in BTCC 👍

joining PMR alongside Plato.

 

Hopefully he'll beat Motorbase every time after the way they treated him 2 years ago.

My son has a small watch company in Shropshire and they are the watch sponsors for PMR this season, I might drop down to Oulton Park for that round, just to fly the flag.

https://wtauthor.com/handmade-watches/ 

On 05/02/2020 at 11:16, camelspyyder said:

Mat Jackson back in BTCC 👍

joining PMR alongside Plato.

 

Hopefully he'll beat Motorbase every time after the way they treated him 2 years ago.

The way they treated him? He signed a contract to drive for them then tried to jump ship when the contract drive came up. 
 

Dave is a big guy on loyalty and that was a slap in the face to him. 

42 minutes ago, AMD87 said:

The way they treated him? He signed a contract to drive for them then tried to jump ship when the contract drive came up. 
 

Dave is a big guy on loyalty and that was a slap in the face to him. 

 

Loyalty goes both ways though. The guy was a faithful stalwart for Motorbase and by far the driver who brought them the most success.

2 minutes ago, camelspyyder said:

 

Loyalty goes both ways though. The guy was a faithful stalwart for Motorbase and by far the driver who brought them the most success.

Dave was loyal to him and gave him hugely subsidised drives because Matt didn’t have the money. One of my friends was a huge motorbase sponsor. 

Nic Hamilton gets Team Hard VW for 2020

 

2020 BTCC grid so far

Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R FK8	Matt Neal, Dan Cammish
WSR BMW 330i M Sport	Colin Turkington, Andrew Jordan, Tom Oliphant
AmD Tuning Honda Civic Type R FK2	Jake Hill, Sam Osborne
BTC Racing Honda Civic Type R FK8	Tom Chilton, Josh Cook, Michael Crees
Power Maxed Vauxhall Astra	Mat Jackson, Jason Plato
Motorbase Performance Ford Focus RS	Rory Butcher, Ollie Jackson
Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50	Ash Sutton, Aiden Moffat
Trade Price Cars Racing	Bobby Thompson, James Gornall
Team Hard VW CC	Mike Bushell, Jack Goff, Nicolas Hamilton
Team Hard BMW 125i M Sport	Carl Boardley
Ciceley Motorsport	Adam Morgan, Daniel Rowbottom
Excelr8	Senna Proctor, Chris Smiley

The Subaru didn't last long then.

3 hours ago, Paul007 said:

The Subaru didn't last long then.

 

Once you've won the title what else is there to prove?

 

BMR chose to develop it because the road car had inherent layout advantages but every time it went quick Mr Gow changed the rules to cripple it anyway.

 

Edited 22 February, 20206 yr by camelspyyder

Flash Back??

 

Shedden has been asked to do the testing in the Dynamics Honda, since Neal is still pretty smashed up from his MTB crash.

 

As it happens Audi pulled the plug on WTCR in November leaving him out of a drive.

 

With only 26 BTCC drives confirmed so far (see above) could Gordon get one of the remaining cars?

13 hours ago, camelspyyder said:

With only 26 BTCC drives confirmed so far (see above) could Gordon get one of the remaining cars?

Well, I'd rehire him in a Flash!

Matt Simpson's race is run it seems.....

That still leaves 2 cars that aren't on the list above? Should be a 29 car field this year.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motorsport/btcc-2020-new-look-title-winning-bmw-squad

 

Jordan out of BTCC as of last week

 

Plato/Jackson out of 2020 season.

 

 

Champion Ash Sutton stops the rumours of a move to WSR, announcing title defence in expanded 3 car Infiniti team

Ingram out of Toyota after 7 years with Speedworks, due to Sponsorship clash.

 

Rumour has him taking his sponsors to Hyundai, with Rory Butcher taking over as team leader at the now 2 car Toyota Gazoo Racing.