2017 BTCC: Pre Season Predictions.

This winter a friend and I decided to attempt to predict who would be driving and in what in the 2017 BTCC series. I'm not proud to say we were very very wrong, some of obvious choices aside we were in some places so far away we were on a different grid. However. This very evening I laid down another challenge. How many race winners in the 2017 season and how many races do they win? In the interest of fairplay and transparency I'm posting mine here, tonight, a few days before "Media Day", before the last driver has even been announced. Hopefully, come October it'll give me some better results to look back on.

 My BTCC prdictions for 2016:

 Champion: Colin Turkington
Indy Champion: Mat Jackson
Team Champions: WSR
Manufacturers Champions: Honda
Jack Sears Rookie: Luke Davenport

 There will be 12 race winners as follows:

 Colin Turkington: 5
Matt Neal: 4
Gordon Shedden: 3
Andrew Jordan: 3
Mat Jackson: 3
Jason Plato: 2
Rob Collard: 2
Jack Goff: 2
Tom Ingram: 2
Ash Sutton: 2
Adam Morgan: 2
Dan Lloyd: 1

 Let's check back in October and see how things went.

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