Colin Turkington happy with Team BMR progress in free practice

Colin Turkington was happy with the way his Team BMR Volkswagen CC performed in the opening two practice sessions, making steady improves across the 80 minutes.

Turkington, who comes to Brands Hatch 32 points behind championship leader Gordon Shedden, believes the team were heading in the right direction after free practice, but admits the Brands Hatch GP circuit is always a tough beast to tame.

“The car’s improving,” Turkington told TouringCarTimes. “I feel farly happy with what we’ve got, it’s a step forward from practice 1, we’re still ticking away trying to make it better. It’s always a compromise around a track like this with the high and low speeds, but we’re not too far away. The car’s feeling good, it’ll be interesting to see what everybody else does but the car’s looking strong.”

With only one meeting left of the season, the soft tyre allocations can be worked out for Sunday’s three races, with Turkington the only one of the five championship contenders to be running the soft tyre in race three.

“That’s the unknown,” said Turkington. “It’s just not consistent enough to know, we won’t know until tomorrow what the drop-off is like. It may be better in race one, it may be better in race three. It was less risk for us to go for race three so we chose that strategy.”