by Russell Atkins
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Fabrizio Giovanardi insists he is feeling calm and unconcerned about SEAT's turbodiesel threat in this year's HiQ British Touring Car Championship, reckoning the Spanish manufacturer has too much to learn about its new machine to mount a serious title assault.
The Italian pipped SEAT rival
Jason Plato to the 2007 laurels by a single point at the end of a see-saw, frantically-fought campaign, but he insists there will not be as few as just two drivers gunning for glory this time around. With the new season set to get into gear at
Brands Hatch this weekend, Gio' reckons anyone who wins more than a handful of races will be doing very well indeed.
I would like to leave Brands Hatch with three wins, he told
Crash.net, but I don't expect such an easy life. It will be important to be very consistent this year; I don't expect to see one or two drivers taking so many wins like happened last year.
We won't have ten drivers being equally consistent all the way through the year either though; it's just impossible. I'm expecting a big fight, and the best tactic will be to stay out of trouble.
What's more, the 41-year-old is adamant Vauxhall's twelve months' working with the Vectra combined with a driver line-up that perfectly blends experience with youth, in the shape of himself, fellow former champion
Matt Neal and young gun
Tom Onslow-Cole will hand VX Racing an advantage when the talking stops and the action gets underway in Kent.
![2007 BTCC Champion Fabrizio Giovanardi at Vauxhall's Triple Eight headquarters [pic credit: James Moy]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/397038.jpg)
