Mike Jordan back behind the wheel

Mike Jordan has returned to the wheel of his Honda Integra for the first time since being hospitalised in a crash in last year’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship finale. Jordan drove his Team Eurotech with John Guest Racing car at Snetterton and again last week at Donington Park (above) in preparation for this year’s BTCC season that starts at Brands Hatch on 1 April.

Since the shunt at Silverstone, Jordan has spent the winter recovering and overseeing his Eurotech crew’s rebuild of its Integra with which he achieved a maiden victory in 2006 – in doing so, he became the oldest driver in history to win a BTCC race.

Happily, the 49-year-old from Sutton Coldfield says that at Snetterton and Donington he could feel no effects of last October’s accident that required him to be airlifted, unconscious by helicopter to hospital.

Jordan told BTCC.net: “I’m massively looking forward to the 2007 season. Donington might have been a bit damp and slippery, but it was a lovely sunny day at Snetterton and after half a dozen laps I had a big smile on my face.

“It was great to be back in the car. I came away from Snetterton thinking that if we’d been racing the following day, that would be fine. I know that at most circuits we can set the car up in the workshop and it will be good right from the start.”