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AmD Milltek Racing Volkswagen Golf touring car - Click above for image gallery
Touring car racing is big business overseas. Think of it as European stock cars and you've got an idea of the fan base. And while there's a World Touring Car Championship, it's the individual national series that draw the most attention: series like DTM in Germany, Australia's V8 Supercars, Italy's Superstars series, and this, the British Touring Car Championship.
The UK series dates back for decades, and has attracted the participation of many of the world's biggest automakers. Now, for the first time in ten years, a
Volkswagen will be competing in the series. Prepared by AmD Milltek Racing, this
VW Golf will be dicing it with the likes of the
BMW 320si,
Vauxhall Vectra,
Seat Leon and
Honda Civic Type R for the glory as an independent entry. (In fact most - if not all - of the entries are now privateers since the major manufacturers packed up shop.)
The Golf touring car was brought over under the new S2000 rules from the Baltic Touring Car Championship - one of the more obscure series in the discipline - and modified by Milltek before recently undergoing a shakedown at Brands Hatch where the team is based. The car was driven, as it will be throughout the season, by the team's managing director Shaun Hollamby, whose past experience had him competing in the Volkswagen Cup and directing the television department for Formula One Management.
Gallery: AmD Milltek Racing Volkswagen Golf touring car
[Source:
AmD Milltek Racing via
JonSibal.com]
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