Tech-Speed set for return with turbo Cruze
Tech-Speed Motorsport plan to return at the tail-end of this season with a turbocharged Chevrolet Cruze with Production Touring Car Trophy driver Joe Girling.
Tech-Speed Motorsport plan to return at the tail-end of this season with a turbocharged Chevrolet Cruze with Production Touring Car Trophy driver Joe Girling.
Rob Collard’s two wins at Knockhill on Sunday close him up to Andrew Jordan in both the overall standings as well as the independents’ trophy to just 34 points behind.
Mat Jackson qualified in ninth place at Knockhill with the NGTC Ford Focus of Motorbase Performance, marking the team’s first top ten with the new car in only its second appearance in the BTCC.
BTCC Series Director Alan Gow believes the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) route was the only way to bring in new competitors and maintain the strength of the field in the BTCC, and praises Motorbase Performance’s new Ford Focus ST, debuted at the last meeting at Snetterton.
West Surrey Racing plan to switch to the BTCC’s NGTC regulations next year as their first option for continuing in the Championship, ruling out carrying on with the S2000-spec BMWs.
AmD Tuning’s Ollie Jackson will be hoping to take advantage to the latest improvements to the team’s Volkswagen Golf this weekend at Snetterton, which will also be the 28-year-old’s home race, as he lives just five miles from the Norfolk circuit.
Dynojet Racing driver Frank Wrathall is looking forward to returning to the scene of his first independents’ class victory, at the Snetterton 300 circuit in Norfolk this weekend, following on from a recent test with the Toyota Avensis.
A look back on the statistics at the half way point of the 2012 British Touring Car Championship, a week before the season kicks off again at Snetterton next weekend. Some are certainly quite surprising.
British Touring Car Championship heads to Croft for the fifth round of the 2012 season, a rear-wheel drive favouring circuit but also a track where Honda have been strong in recent years.
Three-time World Touring Car champion Yvan Muller will compete at the fourth round of the Euro-RACECAR NASCAR Series at the Tours Speedway, located in the Loire Valley region of France, behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Camaro based stock car.