Toyota-driving BTCC independent Frank Wrathall and his Dynojet Racing team head for North Yorkshire this weekend (18/19 June) with high hopes for some solid results in the three races at the Croft circuit which will mark the mid point of the 2011 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season.
Toyota’s independent Avensis racers scored their best-yet results in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship today at Oulton Park, with Speedworks Motorsport driver Tony Hughes finishing all three races at the Cheshire circuit and Frank Wrathall achieving a 13th-place finish at the wheel of his Dynojet Racing-prepared car.
There may have been a month’s pause in the hectic race schedule of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship but there has been little respite for Toyota’s independent teams as they prepare for Sunday’s (5 June) ‘home match’ at Oulton Park.
Toyota’s independent BTCC racer Frank Wrathall and his Dynojet Racing team endured a character-building weekend at Thruxton, venue for the latest rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
A leap into the unknown – that’s how Toyota’s independent BTCC racer Frank Wrathall Jnr describes the coming rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at the UK’s fastest circuit, Thruxton in Hampshire.
Both the Toyota Avensis privateer teams made good progress during the second meeting of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season at Donington Park this weekend (16/17 April), with both Frank Wrathall Jr and Tony Hughes improving throughout the event.
The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship swings into Donington Park this weekend (16/17 April), a circuit which has strong links with Toyota’s successful BTCC history and which is only 10 miles from the Burnaston plant where the Avensis racers began their lives.
Teething problems beset both of the Toyota Avensis touring car privateers on their debut in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch today, but both Frank Wrathall Jnr and Tony Hughes made great strides forward with their new cars as they battled the established opposition.
With a week to go before the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship blasts into action at Brands Hatch, the two new Toyota Avensis ‘Next Generation Touring Cars’ broke cover for the first time yesterday.
The BTCC’s Toyota Avensis-based ‘Next Generation Touring Car’ has moved a step closer to its competition debut following extensive wind tunnel testing at the UK’s leading aerodynamic analysis facility, MIRA.
