Martyn Bell will aim to reward the Arkas Racing with Sunshine.co.uk team for the hard work put in over the past fortnight as the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship heads to
Thruxton for the fourth round of the year.
The team was left with work to do following the last round at Donington Park after both Bell and team-mate Erkut Kizilirmak were involved in accidents on race day – with the Tech-Speed run squad forced to build up the spare car for Erkut after his incident in the second race of the weekend.
With his own car also repaired, Bell heads to Thruxton – the fastest circuit on the BTCC calendar – buoyed by his strongest run of the year so far in the opening race at
Donington, where he took a solid 14th place after spending much of the race just outside the points.
Now he goes into the weekend confident of another good run in the ex-works Astra and will be chasing his first top ten finish of the 2008 campaign as he looks to reward the team for its hard work preparing for the event.
"I'm so confident in the Astra now in the dry, so I'm hoping that there won't be any rain this weekend," he said. "The drivers deserve some fine weather and the crowds who come along to watch certainly do, so hopefully the rain will stay away. We showed at Donington that we can be competitive in the dry and I want to continue that this weekend.
