Menu: “I don’t need to win races”

Alain Menu says his clear goal is to fight for the championship this year, after a good start for the two-time British Touring Car Champion, who finds himself just one point behind Chevrolet team-mate Rob Huff heading to Monza.

Menu picked up two second place finishes last weekend at the Zolder circuit in Belgium, consciously not fighting Gabriele Tarquini as hard as Huff to ensure he took the points for second place.

“I won enough races in my life, I don’t need to win races, I just need the points,” said Menu to TouringCarTimes.

“My goal is to have a good season, and be there at the end of the season. I want to be high-up come the last two race meetings.”

Alain Menu and Rob Huff have been with the Chevrolet WTCC programme since it began in 2005, but Menu has never been in a better position in the championship than he is now after just two race weekends.

“In the previous years, especially in 2007, 2008 I didn’t think we had the car to win the championship, so then I was going for wins, it’s the next best thing.”

“Last year it was completely different as very early on I was helping my team-mates, and then with the strategy for race two it all turned into a bit of a nightmare last year. But this year it’s a clean sheet of paper, we start from scratch and we have a car we know which can win both championships, so my frame of mind and my goal is different to previous years.”