Andrew Jordan: “I can’t wait for Thruxton”

Joint series leader Andrew Jordan says he can’t wait to get to Thruxton, after a solid weekend of points scoring at Donington Park.

The Eurotech Racing driver is tied on 87 points with Triple Eight’s Jason Plato, meaning both will carry the second-placed ballast of 36kg going into qualifying and race one in Hampshire.

After qualifying seventh with maximum weight at Donington, the reigning champion declared himself happy with his weekend’s work, despite a mistake in the final race.

“If you’d said we could have had a third, fourth and fifth with the weight at the start of the weekend, I’d have been very surprised,” said Jordan to TouringCarTimes.

“That last race is one you might look back on [at the end of the season] and say ‘that was important’, because under the safety car we were down in 12th. I drove really, really hard.”

Jordan slid wide on cold tyres at the start of race three, but he said he would not be letting that trouble him ahead of the next round.

He said: “I’m disappointed with the last race. That was my mistake at turn one. To fight back through was good, as I was very, very angry at myself. We had the pace to win that race.

“That’s the way it goes – I won’t worry about it too much. It puts us in a good position.

“Me and Jason [Plato] will be on the same weight, and it shouldn’t hurt so much around Thruxton due to the nature of the circuit.

“I’ve got pole the last two years and haven’t won. But we should be very strong there and I can’t wait.”