Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship 2013 Season Thread

[Ardius]

I know that. Its just that Ben and Tim seemed almost faultless. Tobys had great enthusiasm was great. The sudden change just got to me

Ben has been commentating on BTCC, GT and F1 for a long, long time though, not really a fair comparison. Given time Toby would have got better.

There are a lot lot worse out there. Toby is up there as one of the best, if only just for being able to convey genuine enthusiasm without coming off as forced or awkward.

We've been spoilt in BTCC really (or even the ToCA package as Simon Hill and Richard John Neil are pretty good too) as we've had some of the best commentators in motorsports.
Compare to F1 over the years with people like James Allen and Jonathan Legard...

 

[Tom]

Motorbase for this season will compete under the Airwaves Racing banner.

 

[Diehardracer]

Motorbase for this season will compete under the Airwaves Racing banner.

http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=3334

Looks much better than The Red Devils red colour scheme which they ran last year.

 

[Furinkazen]

Looks nearly as good as the Rob Austin Audi's.

 

[paulmac2k9]

Back to the BMW colours they had in 2009 then, just matching and more blue.

 

[TyrrellRacing]

Motorbase livery is decent. 👍

Wrathall -

Really nice liveries so far. Until Team HARD turn up that is ...

 

[raceorama123432]

[QUOTE="TyrrellRacing]Wrathall -[/QUOTE]

 

[Ardius]

I'm going to miss the racing stripes.

 

[Furinkazen]

Still awesome.

 

[Diehardracer]

Ebay Motors makes it first run of the 125i.

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=8645

Be interesting to see the changes to the livery, is any, once they know where they are at with the cars performance and can focus on dressing the car in the livery.

 

[Holdenhsvgtsr]

Motorbase livery is decent. 👍

Wrathall -

Really nice liveries so far. Until Team HARD turn up that is ...

What about the unpainted bodykit look?

 

[Strawman Andy]

What about the unpainted bodykit look?

Is that Adam Morgans car?

 

[Furinkazen]

Is that Adam Morgans car?

I guess newshams speedworks car.

 

[Holdenhsvgtsr]

I guess newshams speedworks car.

Or not

 

[Rossell2]

http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=3338

 

[Strawman Andy]

What about the unpainted bodykit look?

So this one is Morgan's car then?

Or not

And this one is Speedworks 2nd car?

http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=3338

Beautiful looking machine.

 

[Tom]

Griffin's S2000 Focus.

 

[Clark]

Awesome.

 

[DK]

I think that would have some horrible understeer.

 

[MatskiMonk]

1-er looks good, nice and aggressive... Grrr...

 

[Diehardracer]

Awesome.

I have a feeling we will be saying that about it's performances. Something we never did when Team AFM ran the 1-Series for Nick Leeson and Rick Kerry in 2009.

 

[Ardius]

So this one is Morgan's car then?

The clue is in the livery

 

[Strawman Andy]

The clue is in the livery

Wasn't sure, blue looked right but the bumpers where white.

Also don't the cars have to be 5 doors? The BMW is a 3 door....

 

[Tom]

Wasn't sure, blue looked right but the bumpers where white.

Also don't the cars have to be 5 doors? The BMW is a 3 door....

Not at all, just looks at AMD's Golf.

 

[Ardius]

They're white because they're brand new bodykit bits that haven't been painted yet. The car is an ex-Wrathall 2011 Toyota so it needs updating with the face-lifted bodywork.
Although curiously it looks more like a brand new shell..especially as its lacking a rear wing.

 

[paulmac2k9]

Wrathall -

Even better than last year..

The BMW much like it's road car version is just ugly to me, sorry. (I shall still support Turks though)

 

[Strawman Andy]

Not at all, just looks at AMD's Golf.

Oh yeah forgot about the Golf. But thats an S2000 car, but the new Astra will be 3 door. (I'm guessing)

They're white because they're brand new bodykit bits that haven't been painted yet. The car is an ex-Wrathall 2011 Toyota so it needs updating with the face-lifted bodywork.
Although curiously it looks more like a brand new shell..especially as its lacking a rear wing.

I knew that it was the 2011 Toyota of Wrathall's and they were getting upgrades for the 2013 spec, but it's odd how they have painted the shell first and not the bumpers yet - unless they have only just got the new paints basically this week?

 

[Ardius]

Its not really surprising they haven't painted it yet. There's a WSR Beamer up there in all black and WSR are still finishing their other 2 cars!

Its not a case of just re-painting an existing car and going racing the next year, most if not all of the teams strip the cars down during the winter. In this case though it isn't even their car originally, they may have only received delivery of it recently or had to wait about for the face-lifted parts to arrive. Who knows. But its pretty normal for most of the cars to appear un-finished at this stage.

 

[paulmac2k9]

The Hondas were also pictured with no liveries just plain white and blue.

 

[Furinkazen]

So Motorbase registered a 4th NGTC Focus for later in the season...