Tom Chilton has predicted that the Team Halfords Honda Civic will be one of the cars to beat at Thruxton as the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship heads to the quickest circuit on the calendar this weekend for the fourth round of the year.
Chilton, who joined the team at the start of the year after two seasons with Vauxhall has always run well at Thruxton in the past and secured pole position in both 2005 and 2007 at the Hampshire circuit.
With the Civic having already taken victory this season in the hands of team-mate Gordon Shedden and with the Team Dynamics-run squad continuing to work on improving the car in its second season of competition, Chilton said he was confident about the weekend ahead when he expects the car to shine.
"I've qualified on pole twice before at Thruxton and am fast there; I always have been," he told
Crash.net. "I used to instruct at Thruxton, in much the same way as
Tom Onslow-Cole instructed at
Donington, and the Honda Civic was good there last year.
"In the final race of last season,
Matt Neal was lapping in the same times as me in the Vectra, so I'm confident the car will be strong there. We have made quite a few aerodynamic changes from last year so it will be interesting to see how it goes.
"We will do a lot of changes in the first two sessions but I think, with the experience of myself, Gordon and the team, we'll get something good out of the car for
Thruxton. It should be interesting."
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