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Seeing as other website have rumours threads for the following year, lets have one here, it can be about rumours you may have heard or alternatively you may make wild assumption and inaccurate guesses here, all are welcome lol

My predictions so far are.

1. Jordan to leave MG 888 after this season, as he just hasn't really made enough progress during the season, yes he has hauled good points a lot of the time and keeping in with a chance of the title, but I have not seen the pace or the aggressiveness most of the time we saw him with in the Honda.

2. Goff to stay with MG 888, he has really surprised me this year quite often finishing ahead of Jordan, who is a more experienced driver at the end of the day. If he has enough funding with all his sponsors.

Make up anything you like it's just for fun.

 

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RAR to buy a couple of new MG's would be an interesting development, however I think he favors RWD so unlikely unless he made them rear wheel drive.

He has however lost the Exocet sponsorship after this season so will need some more sponsorship.

How would the MG6 fair if it was RWD I do wonder, with the amount of structural changes over a road going car I would imagine it would not be that hard to make any of the cars RWD.

I doubt it would ever happen though and I am not sure I want Rob racing MG's anyway.

 

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AJ in Touring car times.

Andrew Jordan set to leave Triple Eight after a winless 2015
Andrew Jordan says he needs to be in a car to challenge for poles and wins in 2016, after a trying and ultimately winless year with Triple Eight Racing.

Jordan was still mathematically in the championship hunt going into Brands Hatch, with many consistent weekends in his MG6 GT keeping him just about in touch with the leaders.

But the faint hope was extinguished after the first race, and now the 2013 champion says he will be considering his options once his contract with Ian Harrison’s squad expires.

“I need to assess everything. I have a contract with Triple Eight until 14 days after the weekend and after that I will look around,” said Jordan to TouringCarTimes.

“I need to be somewhere where I can at least challenge. I’ve said this to all my sponsors – I’m not one who stands here and says ‘I’m the best driver on the grid in every session on every day of the year’ because in this championship, that doesn’t happen.

“But on my day, I should be up there and I’m better than I’ve been this year. Everyone has their good days and when I have a car under me that I can work with, I’m a pole challenger, a race winner challenger.

“I need to be somewhere I can do that. I’ve got to stick to my contract and when that’s up I’ll have a look.”

To be honest I expected more from AJ this year, Plato proved the car was good enough to be up the front most of the time and scoring good points. Goff has shown great pace with the car and was often qualifying ahead of AJ and scoring better finishes than AJ.

So yet again looks like we will be looking at another new driver for next year.

It is a shame the 3 is too short to enter the BTCC as that would be an interesting change for next year if it was possible.

 

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Just been looking at the rules on the BTCC site for entering a car in the BTCC.

Says vehicle length has to be 4.4m minimum, yet the figures I can find for the Civic and the A class are both less than 4.4m, admittedly the Civic only by 1cm and the A class only just under 4.3m, the Focus is 4.3m also.

Assuming the Parkers figures are from the manufacturers and up to date.

As the 3 is just a smidge over 4m I wonder if the 3 could be used as long as the car is designed so it is 4.4m long or near enough like the others?

Just a thought like and that is assuming the figures are right but it's hard finding exact figures on some marques websites.

 

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News tomorrow from Andrew Jordan so I'm led to believe.

Also read a post saying BMR have bought 888 and are going to run two Jag XE's. Hopefully that is just a rumour and there is no truth to it. Otherwise we may not see MG in the BTCC for 2016.

 

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What I would like to see is 888 to stay as it is and to get two MG3's on the grid in 2016. Doubt it would happen though but would be more good exposure for the 3. And would also tie in with the more powerful and Euro 6 engines that have to come next year sooner or later.

 

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I also would be surprised if they were to buy 888 out as I said its just a rumour that is going around. To be fair with two of the models that are both under the 4.4m rules I see no reason why 888 should not be able to use the 3 all it needs is the bumpers extending slightly to make it 4.4m. Lol

 

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You would think so I guess. Would be good to have the 3 racing through. The 6 has had the exposure and they didn't bother using the facelift as we were expecting this year.

 

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Yep as expected he has moved to Motorbase. To be honest AJ has not become the driver I expected him to become. He said mostly the same about moving to MG as he has about Motorbase, looks like its de ja vue all over again. Plato proved how capable the car was to start with and has done so with the Passat CC and will with whatever car he drives. AJ in my opinion lacked something big this year and he can't blame it all on her car as Goff was often driving better than Jordan was.

 

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Today's announcement is that MG will be at the London Motor Show sadly not BTCC related.

 

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Well the rumour mill is still going well.

Latest intel according to tentenths and piston heads are convinced Warren Scott has bought out 888 for £1 and paid of their debts. BMR are supposedly running new Subaru's for 2016 and running the MG6 still with 888.

Goff to drive one MG6 again and a second driver no decision has been made yet. I really hope if all this is true we don't end with that cocky little git Smith as the second driver, I can't stand the jumped up little jockey.

Quite an interesting rumour really will be interesting to see if it is true or not. I still think it's complete tosh myself.

I still can't see what warren would gain by buying 888 and running possibly two manufacturer backed teams.

 

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Confirmed that MG will still be in the BTCC for 2016 no news on drivers yet. Presumably Goff plus one TBC. Another 3 year deal signed. Guess the BMR buyout rumours are probably incorrect.

 

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It is good they have struck a 3 year deal as I also thought it might only be another yearly deal.

It does make you wonder what is in the pipeline though, the 6 needs new engines to be sold for much longer in the UK. So with the mention of working on a new chassis for the 6, I wonder if that means they will run a facelift this year and maybe 2017 we might finally see a new MG6 with new engines.

 

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I agree it's interesting but at some point in the next 3 years. That means if it is within the next 3 years they must already be working on it and it should be near production ready and to be released in China soon as it will take another 2 years to get released here. And we have not seen any mules for a new 6.

 

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Thought it read they will be using the facelift for 2016 and a new MG6 platform would be used within the next 3 years. I could of course be wrong.

 

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So we lose Jack Goff to WSR now, question is who will drive for MG/888 now.

I do hope we don't end up with Aron Smith as I hate the jumped up smarmy little git.

 

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Can't believe Honda Yuasa have signed Andy Neate. What are they thinking he was a liability on track and caused more problems than anyone. He doesn't have many fans on forums talking about it.