West Surrey Racing revealed their plans for the 2010 season at the Autosport International Show today. The team is going to continue in the BTCC and could expand to three cars, despite losing their title sponsor, and run in other series such as WTCC and ETCC.
"We’re also keeping our options open with regard to the WTCC and the new format ETCC," said team boss Dick Bennetts.
"We’ve got three BMW 320si’s and we proved in 2009 that we have the resources to run all three cars to the same competitive level."
The drivers of the team is still an open question. Neither reigning champion Colin Turkington nor team mate Stephen Jelley are signed for 2010.
"We’d very much like to retain Colin and Stephen (Jelley); however we are talking to a number of other drivers for the third seat. We’re not just looking at drivers from ‘tin tops’ either, as Stephen has proved that you don’t have to have this background to be a competitive touring car driver."
Bennetts also backed up comments by Turkington to TouringCarTimes, that "As it stands, a golden opportunity exists for a company to take up title sponsorship of the most successful non-works BMW team in Europe."
