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[jules_s]

It starts this weekend.... Good luck to AmD and JT Do TMS have a second car yet? Live on TV anywhere? (yes I'm being lazy - I'm knackered)

[hairy]

on itv4 on sunday

[Sticky]

http://www.btcc.net/...tvtimetable.php

[ianrm]

Thanks Jules_s. I am getting quite excited, I got my Pit lane passes and car park passes today The second TMS car is supposedly in build at the moment. I believe they are struggling with sponsorship though.

[christhegasman]

Can't do brands but will be at donnington I will try to drop in and introduce myself Ian Good luck

Edited by christhegasman, 29 March 2012 - 08:53 PM.

[ianrm]

Everyone is always welcome at the AmD Garage.

[G-Bob]

Everyone is always welcome at the AmD Garage.

Awesome, Ill come and say hello with my dad at Knockhill.

[nicollow]

Everyone is always welcome at the AmD Garage.

Awesome, Ill come and say hello with my dad at Knockhill.

[VX-GT]

http://www.northampt...nship-1-3672267

words about JT

[techieboy]

Has JT's other driver quit? I thought they were going to share the drive until the second car was ready but reading that, not so sure any more. Was the car out on track at the media day, t'other day?

[VX-GT]

“And I am not only the driver but the race engineer and team manager. I built the car." he is not batman he is so much more

[Mike (Cliffie)]

The loss of the second driver and the lack of a second car it is all down to funding I believe.

[siztenboots]

maybe he should ask his staff to take another pay cut

[ChrisS1]

Thanks for the heads up Jules will put it on sky+ now

[techieboy]

The loss of the second driver

He has gone then? Thought I only read an article last week where JT mentioned a car share until the second car was ready. T'is a shame but there are bigger teams with a track record that are struggling for sponsorship, so not a surprise.

[LY_Scott]

Good luck to AmD and JT

[Mike (Cliffie)]

The loss of the second driver

He has gone then? Thought I only read an article last week where JT mentioned a car share until the second car was ready. T'is a shame but there are bigger teams with a track record that are struggling for sponsorship, so not a surprise.

Last I heard it had fallen out of bed and not in a good way.

Sponsorship is really tough out there and JT said he was going to resort to eBay to sell small £500 packages.

[Tuuurtle]

Good luck , i'm hoping to get to the Oulton Park round so i'll be supporting you

[G-Bob]

“And I am not only the driver but the race engineer and team manager. I built the car."

he is not batman

he is so much more

Is that the same way as I'm an Engineer of my car? "Excuse me mechanicy type bloke, can you give me some more VROOOM, and a little less SCREEECH"

[Rabiatarik]

First Practice - Not good news!

RWD 1-2-3 in FP1

Robert Collard’s eBay Motors BMW headed a rear-wheel-drive 1-2-3 in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship’s first practice session of 2012 on the Brands Hatch Indy circuit.

Collard set the pace with a best lap of 48.932s – the only driver to dip beneath the 49-seconds barrier. Having headed the times for much of the session, Rob Austin wound up second fastest on 49.129s in his Rob Austin Racing Audi A4 ahead of Collard’s team-mate Tom Onslow-Cole (49.259s).

Completing the top six were Pirtek Racing’s Andrew Jordan in his new NGTC-spec Honda Civic, Mat Jackson in local team Wrotham-based Redstone Racing’s Ford Focus ST and Silverstone Media Day pace-setter Dave Newsham’s ES Racing.com Vauxhall Vectra.
Reigning Champion Matt Neal was 11th in his new Honda Yuasa Racing Team Civic – the last man to get within a second of the pace and the fastest of the drivers eligible to score in the Manufacturers/Constructors standings.

Giving their all-new MG6s a first proper run, MG KX Momentum Racing duo Andy Neate and Jason Plato were a leisurely 19th and 20th (see btcc.net Fans section for a first pic of all the car in full race-trim). But Neal’s team-mate Gordon Shedden was outside the top 20 after his car kept conking out for reasons the team would not discuss. Each time it was able to stutter back to the pit lane under its own steam but its first break down, on the entry to Paddock Hill Bend, caused the first of three red flag stoppages.

The session ended with a bang – literally – for Thorney Motorsport’s John Thorne who crashed his Vauxhall Insignia heavily at Paddock Hill Bend, a bitter blow for both team and driver on their BTCC debut.

This also caused a red flag and there was another shortly after when AmD Tuning’s Ollie Jackson (who ended up 14th overall) span his VW Golf into the gravel trap at the same corner – this forcing a premature end to the session.