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[JHS]

Some great racing once again yesterday. Perhaps the action wasn't as great as seen in previous rounds, but I'm not sure the Snetterton 300 layout really generates good racing. Great event in terms of the championship though. Neal lost the championship lead, Shedden gained in and then lost it in the third race. Jackson now leads the title and there's only 31 points between the top 5 in the standings. Seeing as there's four weeks til Knockhill, thought I'd do a run down of an early prediction in terms of a 2011 entry list.

Dynamics/Honda (Honda Civic)
Matt Neal
Gordon Shedden
? (third car possible for James Thompson?)

RML/Chevrolet (Chevrolet Cruze)
Jason Plato? (made comments before about wanting to do GT/Le Mans racing in future)
Alex MacDowall

Arena/Ford (Ford Focus)
?
? (Recent confirmation that Arena is building Fords for WTCC could mean Chilton and Onslow-Cole race there)
? (Glew/Neate?)

Motorbase/Airwaves (Ford Focus)
Mat Jackson
Liam Griffin
Johnny Adam? (recently tested for team)

West Surrey Racing/Team eBay (MG 7 - to become "unofficial" MG team? Ran MGs before)
Rob Collard
Nick Foster

Triple 8 (Vauxhall Vectra)
James Nash
Tony Gilham? (funding has been a struggle this year)

Tech Speed (Chevrolet Cruze)
Paul O'Neill? (made comments prior to the season about leaving the series if he doesn't win this year)
John George

AmD Milltek (VW Golf)
Martin Byford
? (Possibility to run a second car?)

Rob Austin Racing (Audi A4)
Rob Austin? (Said before the year he'd rather focus on team management)
Chris Swanwick/Dave Pinkney? (Swanwick recently tested for the team, expected to race later this year, Pinkney admitted he was in contact with 3 teams about a drive for '12, return here a possibility?

Speedworks (Toyota Avensis)
Tony Hughes (budget allowing)

Dynojet (Toyota Avensis - possibility of more Toyota backing?)
Frank Wrathall
? (Second car for G55 champion? Ginetta sponsors Dynojet)

Geoff Steel Racing (BMW 320si with turbo?)
?
? (Wanted to run two cars this year)

Special Tuning Racing UK (Seat Leon - unless they go the NGTC route - Seat Exeo?)
Tom Boardman
Dave Newsham
? (third car possibility?)

Eurotech/Pirtek Racing (Vauxhall Vectra)
Andy Jordan? (Recent entry into a competition to drive a V8 Supercar suggests he could be eyeing a move to Australia?)
Jeff Smith

Welch Automotive (Proton Gen 2)
Dan Welch
? (aim to have second car racing in 2012)

Thorney Motorsport (Vauxhall Insignia - entering Silverstone in preparation for full season in 2012)
?
?

TH Motorsport (Skoda Octavia - Skoda backing?)
Matt Hamilton
? (confirmed intentions to run a second car)

ES Racing (Chevrolet Lacetti)
Chris James (if he has the budget for a second season?)

Central Group Racing (? - BTC cars outlawed from 2012)
Lea Wood

bamboo Engineering (plans for 2011 fell through)
Harry Vaulkhard?

Edited by JHS, 08 August 2011 - 06:39 PM.