A treble podium finish at the British Touring Car Championship season-opener thrust WSR and BMW into an early lead in the race for an unprecedented 10th Manufacturers’ title.
Two third-place finishes for Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport’s Jake Hill and a final-race charge to second spot by Team BMW’s Colin Turkington made for a strong start on a weather-affected day at Donington Park by the BMW 330e M Sport race cars.
Biblical levels of rain overnight and into the morning led to racing getting underway nearly two hours later than planned, but did mean that the season-opener was held in damp, rather than fully-wet weather.
Battling the track conditions, Jake ran in the podium positions for most of the race before coming home third.
The Kent racer sprinted into the lead of a dry Race Two, only for excessive rear tyre wear to lead to him being caught and passed by two rivals late on as he again finished third.
He was fifth in the finale, part of a five-way late-race battle for the win; minor set-up changes having prevented a recurrence of his tyre issue.
Three places further up the order was Team BMW’s four-time champion Colin Turkington, who had earlier finished fourth and fifth.
Keeping his composure during a frantic multi-car battle for the top spots, he made three spots in two corners at mid-distance and kept the pressure on as he fought to the flag in second place.
He’s fourth in the Drivers’ points, one spot behind Jake and 17 ahead of Team BMW team-mate Adam Morgan.
Adam had led the opening stages of Race Three, but locked a front wheel after clipping a kerb on entry to McLean’s at one-third distance and was demoted several spots.
The Lancashire racer finished seventh. He was eighth in Race One, driving superbly in the wet conditions to climb from 16th on the grid, but was later demoted to 14th owing to a time penalty for a false start. That led to a similar Race-Two charge to seventh.
Adam Morgan, Team BMW, said: It’s been a pretty turbulent day up and down the grid with a lot of close battles. Race One was good and I went from 16th to eighth, but then I got a 10-second penalty for a jump-start so had to do it all again in Race Two, but the pace has been pretty strong and I could make the kind of passing moves I wasn’t able to last year with the BMW, which is really encouraging. I’m frustrated with myself for Race Three. I saved five laps of hybrid and had it under control, but then I locked-up into McLeans, which hurt the front left and I was a sitting duck.”
Take a look at this stunning vehicle, handed over this morning in Carlisle.
Trevor Willans purchased an L2 Vito Pro Crew Van from Matthew Coombe, our Van Sales Executive in Carlisle, after recently selling his haulage company and semi-retiring.
This Vito will be well suited to Trevor`s needs as a keen mountain biker, with six seats and up to 3.6 cubic-meters of loading capacity, giving him unbeatable versatility.
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