RML scoop best team award in 2009

RML, as Racing Silverline in 2009, have won the TouringCarTimes readers poll for Best Team last season – after a brilliant year which saw them come close to taking the title.

In the initial round of voting within series, Racing Silverline won your vote, beating Team RAC & Airwaves BMW – and so were put to the vote against the winning classes in the DTM, Swedish & World Touring Car Championships.

In that round, you again voted Racing Silverline as the best team in international touring car racing in 2009, taking the win with over 36% of the vote from 2008’s winner, SEAT Sport Spain.

Receiving the trophy at the Rockingham circuit, RML’s Sponsorship & Marketing Director, Rupert Manwaring, said:
“This is a really nice surprise, last year’s British Touring Car effort was a last minute thing, and it grew organically as the season went on.”

“It was one of the most enjoyable seasons we’ve ever had, and the results were terrific – and it obviously encouraged us to enter again this year.”

“But to be recognised like this is such a really nice surprise.”

Now the Silverline Chevrolet team, the team went on to gather a strong haul of points and the first victory in the BTCC for the Chevrolet Cruze at the Rockingham Motorspeedway – and now lead both the drivers and constructors championships.