BTCC 2018 Annual Predictions Thread

[Overboost]

1. Two of the 'returning' drivers will have disappointing seasons and its the last we'll see of them in the BTCC.

2. Mat Jackson will line up on the grid for at least one round.

3. There'll be 2 new winners this year.

4. We won't beat last year for number of winners in a season.

5. Jason Plato will part company with BMR (sacked by Warren, but not made public and usual PR spin covers the real reason he leaves) before the end of the season, after disappointing form.

[pimmy]

1. Cammish will win exactly twice as many races as Neal.
2. The independent drivers' champion will be someone who hasn't won it before.
3. No drivers will be replaced during the year.
4. All three races at Silverstone will be wet.
5. Chilton will be ranked second among the Motorbase drivers in the final overall standings and will be beaten by Tordoff by as many points as he beats Cole.

[Robin Marriott]

Originally Posted by medius

1. David Addison says "elbows out" first weekend

Tim Harvey has been ther already and the racing hasn’t started!

[jakew7498]

Originally Posted by jakew7498

2) PMR will win a race.
4) Dan Cammish will be the first JST driver to score an overall podium and will win that championship.
5) Multiple JST drivers will get an overall podium.

Well. 2 done. 5 done. 4 part 1 has been incorrect.

[luckn002]

Originally Posted by luckn002

5) There will be no permanent driver changes this season

Well, that lasted a round less than last year!

[Matt K]

Okay, I'll seem to be the first to comment on that post season, hope you all guys join

Originally Posted by Matt K

Ok, time to join this finally!

1. Subaru will be off the pace for quite a number of weekends
2. Cammish will get the Jack Sears Trophy
3. Alfa will win at least one race
4. MGs will get more Top 10s than last year (minimum 4)
5. Ash Sutton will be top Subaru driver again

1. True, wasn't until Croft when a Subaru finished a race in the Top 3.
2. True, a landslide victory
3. False, only twice on podium
4. True, Butcher alone scored 10 of them
5. True, six wins to one Plato's podium and 256 points to 26 Plato's

Quite good predictions, maybe I'll go for more extreme next year

[Evantra]

Originally Posted by luckn002

1) Ingram will be champion
2) We will match or exceed the number of race winners from last year
3) Every team will score an overall podium at least once
4) Jack Goff will the highest finishing Honda in the championship standings
5) There will be no permanent driver changes this season

(My old account so this is the same person!)

1 - No. 12 points off (though arguably deserved it more)

2 - Yes. 17 this year! 4 more than 2017.

3 - No. All but TPR, I believe. A valiant effort nonetheless!

4 - Yes. Just barely: 5 points ahead of Matt Neal and 10 ahead of Cammish.

5 - No. Not even close!

2 / 5. Must try harder!

[skells22]

Originally Posted by skells22

1. someone will roll
2. 3 wet race weekend
3. pile up
4. Ash Sutton will fail in defending his championship
5. 2 new winners

1st one nope nobody for the 2nd year running went upside down
on number 2 how close was I on that one
3. Oulton Park pile up at start that brought the red flag out
4. That is a yes, he did fail in defending his championship
5. Again how close was I to this one bearing in mind we had a lot of winners this year

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by skells22

1st one nope nobody for the 2nd year running went upside down

on number 2 how close was I on that one

3. Oulton Park pile up at start that brought the red flag out

4. That is a yes, he did fail in defending his championship

5. Again how close was I to this one bearing in mind we had a lot of winners this year

2. Brands, Snetterton and Knockhill were wet. Not sure if you can count Rockingham too?

5. We matched the record from 93 with 6. Proctor, Cook, Simpson, Lloyd, Smiley and Cammish

[Robin Marriott]

Originally Posted by Robin Marriott

4. All but one Honda gets a podium.

Every one of the Hondas had a podium finish but not every driver in them.

[Alfisti]

Originally Posted by Alfisti

1. Subarus will run badly, though Sutton will punch above weight and score more points than his teammates combined.
2. One of the HARD drivers will drop out and be replaced.
3. JP will not return in 2019 unless in a coaching capacity.
4. Ash Sutton will run one of the Aussie Supercar enduro events as a co-driver.
5. Ollie Jackson will get a podium.
6. Rob Collard will be eliminated from the Championship with a grim weekend at Knockhill or Rockinghan.
7. Colin Turkington will be the most boring interviewee of the year.
8. JP will use more excuses than pretty much everybody else combined as he won't be allowed to say the team has very little budget.
9. Motorbase won't be very good.
10. The new Honda will end the season as the most competitive car ala Subaru in 2016.

1. Half right!

2. Rightish, I should have said more than one. Too conservative!

3. Wrong if the rumours are true. The old dog is trying to land a ride.

4. Wrong. But he really should.

5. True, I think he did, or was it 4th?

6. Sadly eliminated, and before I predicted. Get well bonny lad.

7. Wrong. Colin was not that boring, definitely more character and emotion seeping out.

8. No bugger bothered to interview him, well not very often. He stole the boring award from 7 above when he did.

9. Chilton was very good. Cole was decent and Tordoff should have upgraded his AA Membership.

10. It were good today, but only really today. It's not the best car yet but has great potential to become so now Dynamics have some miles on the clock.

My predictions were pretty rubbish. More #HARD than WSR 🙁

[Racing Harz]

Originally Posted by Racing Harz

1. Cammish will get the Jack Sears Trophy
2. Sutton will be the best Subaru
3. A. Morgan und A. Moffat will both win min. 1 race
4. Austin will win min. 1 race in the alfa
5. Ingram will be champion

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. No
5. No

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

1) There will be a full Honda podium at some point in the season
2) Neal for champion, with RWD cars in 2nd and 3rd
3) Cammish will win the Jack Sears
4) Plato will not be driving a Subaru at the last round at Brands
5) There will be less than 25 cars finishing on the lead lap in the 60-mile race

1) - Yes
2) - No
3) - By a long way
4) - No
5) - Yes, 20 cars classified as on the lead lap

3/5, not bad.

[rdjones]

Originally Posted by rdjones

OK here we go again:-

1) Dan Cammish will win the JST
2) Going into the final meeting at least 3 drivers will be in with a shot of the title
3) Mr Plato will not win a race
4) WSR will win the drivers/teams and manufacturers championship
5) The Alfa will get on the podium in the first half of the season.

1 - Correct
2 - Correct (Well at least mathematically)
3 - Correct
4 - Correct
5 - Correct

I make that 5 out of 5

[850Estate]

Originally Posted by 850Estate

The natural successor to this and not to be confused with Pimmy's excellent Championship.
So here are this year's

2018

1) Norlin will surprise everyone with either a lot of pace, or a serious lack of it after such a good debut campaign.
2) There will be at least three permanent changes of driver this season, one of which will involve Team Hard.
3) The phrases 'best season ever' 'quality has never been higher' and 'pinnacle of UK motorsport' will all be said during the ITV coverage of the first and last rounds.
4) Dan Cammish will be in with a mathematical chance of the title at the final round, and will outscore Matt Neal come the end of the season.
5) The Subarus will win a total of one race win - and Sutton will be the man who will score it.

1 - I'm taking that. An impressive season and both drivers winning races.

2 - Heck yes.

3 - Probably happened.

4 - Nope - though he almost overtook Neal yesterday.

5 - Well I was half right in who took the win...

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by Alfisti

1. Half right!

2. Rightish, I should have said more than one. Too conservative!

3. Wrong if the rumours are true. The old dog is trying to land a ride.

4. Wrong. But he really should.

5. True, I think he did, or was it 4th?

6. Sadly eliminated, and before I predicted. Get well bonny lad.

7. Wrong. Colin was not that boring, definitely more character and emotion seeping out.

8. No bugger bothered to interview him, well not very often. He stole the boring award from 7 above when he did.

9. Chilton was very good. Cole was decent and Tordoff should have upgraded his AA Membership.

10. It were good today, but only really today. It's not the best car yet but has great potential to become so now Dynamics have some miles on the clock.

My predictions were pretty rubbish. More #HARD than WSR 🙁

5) Yes, Jackson was one of the drivers who gambled on slicks in Brands Hatch R2 and got third as a result

[MissClarrpz]

Originally Posted by MissClarrpz

1. Someone will win three races in a row
2. A red flag in every qualifying session
3. Someone who retires in Race 1 will win Race 30
4. 1 last lap pass for the lead that sticks
5. A roll at and only at every circuit which has an 'R' an 'O' and an 'L' in its name (Oulton Park, Knockhill Racing Circuit, Silverstone Circuit)

1. No. Sutton and Cammish got 2 in a row but each struggled in the races before and after
2. No. Only 4/11 had red flags
3. No. By 0.032s
4. Yes. By 0.032s
5. No. 0 rolls all year