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28 Feb 2002, 15:16 (Ref:224447)
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Team Atomic Kitten in the BTCC - No Joke!
The junior MG team launched today will be called Team Atomic Kitten, after the talented pop group
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28 Feb 2002, 15:38 (Ref:224462)
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It is all ture Team Atomic Kitten will be in BTCC this season the car looks stuning as you can se below.
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28 Feb 2002, 15:48 (Ref:224469)
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ohh where did that pic come from.
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28 Feb 2002, 16:03 (Ref:224477)
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Found it on Website which you can find at http://www.mg-rover.org/ There are also views of the car from several different angles.
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28 Feb 2002, 17:51 (Ref:224575)
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I haven’t laughed so much for a long time… I think this is great but what next team west life, pop idol racing, team smash hits ?
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28 Feb 2002, 18:07 (Ref:224589)
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Rumours that B&Q are to be sponsored by the Nolan Sisters are of course completely made up
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28 Feb 2002, 18:09 (Ref:224592)
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Or for those of you more interested in the car...
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28 Feb 2002, 18:20 (Ref:224600)
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I’ve been thinking about this and its not a silly as it seems, the publicity the btcc will get from this will be great, look out for show biz news at the rest of this week and see how many times this gets mentioned, also I remember I tv program a long time ago where a bloke who’s name escapes me, won some money on the lottery and decided to setup a girl pop group who turned out to be atomic kitten, thinking back I also remember that he was a very keen motor sport fan.. kill two birds with one stone promote his girl band and be part of a racing team all in one go ….
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28 Feb 2002, 18:21 (Ref:224603)
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WOW that looks great - and what a good idea for sponsers.
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28 Feb 2002, 19:00 (Ref:224638)
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As I've said before, I think for this new era of touring cars to be succesful it needs more non-motorsport sponsors, like NASCAR has.
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28 Feb 2002, 19:36 (Ref:224664)
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This team ran a Chevrolet Corvette in the ELMs and British GT championships, it didn't do brilliantly but it only had a few outings with little testing and unknown drivers.
So it's not a novice team, two young hot shots in a proven winner, this team is gonna be up there. |
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28 Feb 2002, 19:43 (Ref:224668)
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The car looks great.
As Eddie said, hopefully more "external" sponsors will jump on the boat and that in turn should punblicise the BTCC more. Ps did anyone see that MG's works cars(BTCC, JWRC & Le Mans) are to have sponsorship from Hot Wheels? |
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28 Feb 2002, 19:58 (Ref:224682)
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On the subject of Hot Wheels there will be models of certain MGs available later this year (they didn't say which ones). Also the works cars have a new colour scheme - black at the front fading to grey at the back, rather than all grey as last year. Same green highlights.
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28 Feb 2002, 20:21 (Ref:224699)
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I gotta admit, that's an awesome looking car!!!
 Tim Lad said it best, the show biz publicity is great! |
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28 Feb 2002, 21:51 (Ref:224742)
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Yeah great for BTCC, Colin and Gareth and MG.
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28 Feb 2002, 23:14 (Ref:224831)
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For those of you that have not realised the AK cars are the 2001 MGs, Reid and Hughes get new cars.
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1 Mar 2002, 00:04 (Ref:224857)
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Seeing as the teams have to provide their own grid girls this year, maybe AK will fill the role themselves.
This also explains why we haven't heard anything lately about the teams sportscar program. What do we think about driver choice, Gareth Howell & Gary Turkington. don't worry about trying their websites for any news, neither www.akmotorsport.com or www.atomickitten.com have been updated since January |
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1 Mar 2002, 00:44 (Ref:224870)
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1 Mar 2002, 01:56 (Ref:224894)
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2 Mar 2002, 08:45 (Ref:225694)
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Pop goes touring car racing
Whole again: there will be four MGs in this year's BTCC Girl band Atomic Kitten and MG Sport and Racing have joined forces to create a new team to compete in this year's British Touring Car Championship with a pair of MG ZSs. Gareth Howell and Gary Turkington will drive the year-old cars in the series, which kicks off at Oulton Park on April 21. The cars will run under the banner of Team Atomic Kitten and will sport a distinctive yellow and black livery. "We are really proud to be associated with MG," said Atomic Kitten's Jenny Frost, who had two UK number one singles in 2001. "They are a very dynamic company who are going places. When the opportunity arose to work alongside MG on the BTCC programme we jumped at it." The cars will runs independently of the works MG team, which is aiming for the title this year after winning two races in its debut season. "We wanted to find a way to run four cars this year," said Rob Oldaker, managing director of MG Sport and Racing. "The most obvious way was by finding an independent team to lease the cars from last year. The fact that we have managed to bring in Atomic Kitten as part of this deal is magnificent for both MG and for the TOCA Tour itself." |
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2 Mar 2002, 08:46 (Ref:225696)
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Looking at the back of the grid,
I can see two places where the MG's are hid, They don't stand a chance, With a girl band who can't dance, So they will finish last again..... |
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2 Mar 2002, 20:07 (Ref:226086)
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Very good Rache, although i think somehow Gareth and Colin won't be at the back of the grid!
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3 Mar 2002, 13:13 (Ref:226765)
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glad they left sportscars
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3 Mar 2002, 17:48 (Ref:226994)
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who cares about the car? theres only one good thing to take from it and it is not a crappy old mg
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9 Mar 2002, 11:40 (Ref:231584)
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My girlfriend just shouted me into the front room and what was on TV Team Atomic kitten
they didn’t seem to know what they where talking about but hey, this has to be good for the series ... 
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