Time for Furi's silly season driver chart, version 3 with adjusted TBLs, news from WSR and a few TBL's change hands!
The following is a complete list of the 32 TBLs distributed to teams for the 2016 BTCC season.
Name No. of TBLs
AmD Tuning 1
Dextra Racing 1
Eurotech Racing 3
Rob Austin Racing 2
Handy Motorsport 1
Honda Yuasa Racing 3**
Laser Tools Racing 1
Maximum Motorsport 1
888 Race Engineering 2
Motorbase Performance 2
Power Maxed Racing 2
Team HARD 1
Speedworks Motorsport 2*
Support Our Paras Racing 1**
Team BMR 4
WSR 3
Welch Motorsport 1
WIX Racing 1
TOTAL 32
* denotes additional TBL issued
** denotes one 2016 TOCA TBL loan
WSR / BMW 1 Series (3 cars (maybe?), Collard said "open to offers" out other teams, Prialux appears set for Ford WEC, Richard Hawken sponsors appeared on a facebook post showing the BMW's being prepared.)
Tordoff? / Collard? / Hawken?
T888 / MG? NAH, PROBABLY TOO OLD? (2 cars)
Goff? / ???
HONDA YUASA RACING / HONDA CIVIC (3 cars, albeit 3rd TBL on loan. Clarke a Honda Development driver. Seems a no-brainer.)
Neal / Shedden / Clarke???
TEAM BMR RESTART / VW PASSAT LIMO (4 cars, none official but Plato did reportedly have a 3 year deal start of 2015?)
Plato / Turkington? / Smith? / Scott? / Menu?
EUROTECH / HONDA CIVIC (3 cars, same spec as the works Civics. Applied for a 3rd TBL but that appears in effect to be Honda Yuasa TBL #3 - UPDATE: 3rd TBL since purchased from Houseman Racing)
Depper / Smith / ???
CICELY RACING (WIX) / MERCEDES A CLASS (1 car)
Morgan
ROB AUSTIN RACING / SOMETHING FWD, NO MORE TROLL STARTS, SORRY ROB! (2 cars. Second TBL gained after being forced to re-apply following Knockhill issues)
Austin / Abbott?
SPEEDWORKS / TOYOTA AVENSIS - HONDA CIVIC (2 cars, new TBL for them, back to 2 car effort. Matt Simpson in the 2015 title-winning Shedden chassis under his own team banner)
Ingram? / Simpson
AMD TUNING / AUDI S3 (1 car - Originally 2 cars with a second Audi build, Ford maybe out? (UPDATE: Indeed - went to Maximum Motorsport) Hamilton skipped 2015 finale to raise some sponsor money for full 2016 season)
Bushell? / Hamilton? / Hill?
LASER TOOLS / MERCEDES A CLASS (1 car, will be seen with Moffat kicking up dirt or gravel at an impossible angle.)
Moffat
WELCH MOTORSPORT / HYUNDAI i20, HOPEFULLY NOT A WRC SPARE CAR (1 car - return to solo effort. Still got the Welch engines)
Welch
TEAM HARD / TOYOTA AVENSIS? (1 car, garish livery guaranteed whatever happens. )
Gilham?
HANDY MOTORSPORT / TOYOTA AVENSIS (1 car, applied for a second TBL but Speedworks got one. Technically Handy are a Speedworks satellite team though so...)
Belcher
PRO MOTORSPORT (S.O.P.R) / INFINITI Q50 "SOLDIERING ON" (2 cars, 2nd a loan license from TOCA after last seasons debacle)
Palmer? / ???
MOTORBASE / FORD FOCUS ECOBOOSTED LIKE MAD (2 cars, Jackson surely staying in, no place for Cole likely unless team get a third TBL off someone. Ash Sutton had test recently as well)
Jordan / Jackson? / Cole?
BTC RACING (POWER MAXED) / CHEVROLET CRUZE (2 cars, probably Newsham and Cook to resign)
Newsham? / Cook?
PARKER RACING (DEXTRA) / FORD FOCUS (1 car)
Martin? / Pye?
MAXIMUM MOTORSPORT / FORD FOCUS (1 car, ex AMD Bushell/Newsham chassis for Stewart Lines own team that has raced in supports)
Lines
OTHER ITEMS:
Honda to build 5 new Civics minimum. 2015 Shedden car to Speedworks, perhaps 2015 Neal car be upgraded?
Toyota Avensis chassis free from Maximum Motorsports purchasing of the Lea Wood entry.
Unless it was cancelled, the ex-Holland Audi S3 will have a spare chassis handy if AMD plans go ahead.