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13 Oct 2003, 15:41
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Vauxhall Commit To 2004 BTCC
Just seen story on www.tocatour.co.uk
Great news!
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13 Oct 2003, 16:05
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Driver and car announcement to follow...
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13 Oct 2003, 16:58
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Numero 1 and 2 back for next year maybe ?
What about #4 - Paul O'Neill??
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13 Oct 2003, 16:59
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Quote:
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Numero 1 and 2 back for next year maybe ?
What about #4 - Paul O'Neill??
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Hopefully, why change a winning line up 
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13 Oct 2003, 18:04
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I wonder if tocatour asked Vauxhall to say something after reading through all the talk and guessing on this forum! 
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15 Oct 2003, 08:41
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Apparently the Vectra they are evaluating is BTC spec, not ETCC regs. Thommo and Muller expected to stay for 2004.
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15 Oct 2003, 08:44
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Yes. It says this in Motorsport News this morning.
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15 Oct 2003, 12:53
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Originally posted by Super Tourer
Apparently the Vectra they are evaluating is BTC spec, not ETCC regs. Thommo and Muller expected to stay for 2004.
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Interesting- they obviously think that going the BTCC rather than ETCC regs route will give them a performance advantage then....
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15 Oct 2003, 13:16
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Or that it is just cheaper for them to take all the running gear/control parts out of the Astra and install it straightaway into the Vectra.....
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15 Oct 2003, 13:18
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Hmmm.. interesting won't a developed etcc spec car such as the bmw be better than a ballasted and new btcc spec car? i thought they would have been going the etcc route with the vectra to avoid this.
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16 Oct 2003, 11:15
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YES, YES, lets all build ETCC spec cars, so that it will become the single category in europe and then the rest of the world then dissapear up its own a**e like in a haze of burnt money smoke like super touring did!!!
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16 Oct 2003, 16:52
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Originally posted by psq43
YES, YES, lets all build ETCC spec cars, so that it will become the single category in europe and then the rest of the world then dissapear up its own a**e like in a haze of burnt money smoke like super touring did!!!
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If we want manufacturers like BMW or Alfa on board, then ETCC-spec cars is the only way it'll happen- it's unlikely they'd spend the time and money on developing cars to run under a one-off set of regulations for the BTCC- if they can run basically the same car they run in Europe in the UK as well, then they might come on board
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