Chilton(s)

After his lacklustre 2007 season most thought Tom would turn his attention to ALMS or similar, especially now Neal has been confirmed alongside champ Gio for '08. However Tom's recent comments in Autosport indicate he's set to carry on driving on these shores next year, either with a "3rd manufacturer" or with another team given that he has a big sponsor behind him. Word is Arena are building some S2000 Ford Focuses, and if true they wouldn't be making that investment unless there was serious budget behind the project - either works backing or serious sponsor (/Rich Daddy) cash. The suggestion is Tom might team up with his younger brother Max, who hasn't exactly been stunning in single-seaters thus far in his career. Maybe he'll feel better with a roof over his head.

2007 DVD

The 2007 review DVD will be available next month - Duke say the 26th, other retailers reckon it's the 19th. Best price seen so far is £10.99 including delivery from HMV.
Judging by the preliminary cover art Duke obviously betted on Plato winning the championship, but expect to see Gio's green and red VX machine adorning the sleeve by the time it drops through your letterbox.

Free BTCC on Virgin Media this weekend

Those nice people at Virgin Media are offering Setanta Sports 1, 2 and Golf free to all ther customers this weekend. That means you can watch the Manchester Utd game for free, hooray! Plus there's some top British motorsport on in Scotland somewhere which is being televised all day on Setanta Sports 2 apparently..

ITV *hearts* BTCC once more

Fantastic just as at Brands, ITV will have extra coverage for Knockhill BTCC. With ITV4 now apparently starting broadcasting at lunchtimes at weekends (as opposed to 6pm weekdays) hopefully this arrangement can continue into 2008. It was great to enjoy bonus support race coverage on ITV4 from Brands and given the 2 hour slot again for Knockhill that should continue. It'll probably be those not-so-fun slicks'n'wings boys again, but fingers crossed for action from the SEATs and Legends!

Clios!

Those lovely people at RenaultSport have made (most of) the Clio feature races available to view on their website, complete with Ben Edwards and Simon Hill's lovely commentary. Enjoy the action here!.

Free BTCC on Setanta! Kinda...

Got a Freeview box? Missed the Croft coverage? Fear not, set your remote to channel 34 tomorrow (Tuesday 19 June) and you can see Setanta's recap at 2000-2130. They are being nice and de-crpyting themselves between 1900 and 2200 for a while so you can catch obscure New Zealand rugby series and the occasional bit of motorsport in slightly-less-than-crystal-clear picture quality. (If it still claims it's encrypted try a channel re-scan or similar).