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The trend for parity

May 23rd, 2011 - 00:14 by Matt Lamprell
Mountune NGTC Engine

Mountune NGTC Engine

If you’re a Twitter user, you’ll understand the concept of ‘trends’. If you were to look at what has trended so far in the 2011 BTCC season, ‘turbo engines’ would be near the top.

Engines are complicated, especially if you’re not from a technical background. That’s why our latest article (Tech focus: Turbo engines explained) attempts to get under the skin the issue, by returning to basics and asking the boss of Mountune, David Mountain, to explain just why a turbo engine has such an advantage.

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On the right track

April 14th, 2011 - 15:20 by David Bartrum
Airwaves Racing celebrate at Brands Hatch

Airwaves Racing celebrate at Brands Hatch

It’s always special to start the season at Brands Hatch and we always want to do well at our home circuit. For me it was a bit of a pressure release and it was great to get some strong results.

Mat did a superb a job at Brands and I’m sure he will keep doing a superb job, which vindicates my decision to nail him down as early as possible last year to stay with us and not let him go and drive one of those Chevrolets.

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The little red devils are looking good!

March 31st, 2011 - 22:27 by David Bartrum
Airwaves Racing - BTCC 2011

Airwaves Racing - BTCC 2011

Two press days done – Porsche and BTCC – and everything’s still in one piece!

After a long winter of wheeling and dealing – getting sponsors, getting rid of old cars, getting new cars and getting them prepared – and actually having a test programme for the first time ever in touring cars, I’m looking forward to actually going and doing a race meeting. I think it’s a lot more straightforward when you’re working to the calendar, with the occasional test day. Brands Hatch can’t come soon enough for me.

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Quick out of the box

February 23rd, 2011 - 22:30 by David Bartrum
First test for the new Airwaves Racing Fords

First test for the new Airwaves Racing Fords

So, we’ve completed our first two days of running with the Fords now and all in all, I’m really pleased with how it went.

The cars ran faultlessly for the whole two days. Obviously when you take delivery of cars from another team, you rip them apart and put them back together again, but even then, you can never be sure that there won’t be some little niggling problems. We’ve had none of that with the Fords.

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We’ve got a bit of work to do

May 1st, 2010 - 20:28 by David Bartrum
Steven Kane at Brands Hatch, May 2010

Steven Kane in qualifying at Brands Hatch

So, here we are after qualifying at Brands Hatch. In Carrera Cup we had a very good day. We qualified on pole in each class. Touring car wise, we’ve got a bit of work to do. I don’t quite know what happened today. We didn’t quite hit the window we were expecting to hit.

Rockingham was ok. It was nice to bank more points, it was nice to come out of the place with Airwaves BMW still leading the championship. It was nice to have two podiums.

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