Motorbase after Donington: “Another bad weekend”

Motorbase Performance had another tough weekend as the BTCC headed to the second race of 2013 last weekend at Donington Park.
“Unfortunately we’ve suffered another bad weekend. We thought we were making some progress after testing last week, only to go backwards on Saturday after a promising start in free practice one,” said Motorbase Team Manager Oly Collins.

Mat Jackson qualified 13th and finished 12th in the first race after struggling on the soft Dunlop tyre and was not happy after the weekend.
“What can I say? Up until race three we really struggled finding a balance in the car, everything we tried sent us the wrong way. However, we threw a totally different set up at the car for the last race and it really showed some promise. If you had told me that Jason (Plato) would have been holding me up in race three I would have laughed, we definitely had the legs on him but just couldn’t quite get past,” said Jackson.

The final race of the weekend saw team mate Aron Smith starting third thanks to the reversed grid order, but dropped to seventh in the end.
“It was pretty tough, but we had great pace in free practice one and then developed a fault in the car. We fixed that for today and race two went really well. We made a small change to the car for the final race of the day which unfortunately had a negative effect,” said Smith.

The team is hoping to turn things around for the coming race at Thruxton on the 5th of May, bringing the positive development regarding the setup work from the final part of the weekend at Donington.
“On the plus side we found a much better set up for Mat in race three and Aron’s race two set up also proved to be going in the right direction. We’ve got more information to work with in the next week or so to convert it all into results at Thruxton,” said Team Manager Collins.