“I will be with a team I know and a car I sort of half know. I know roughly what the car does, where it spits you out on corners. I've been there and done that. It should be like riding a bike – I should be able to get back in the car and it will just click.”
Although Chilton's LMES schedule is likely to be limited this season due to the BTCC taking priority, he is hopeful this is merely the start of a chapter in his career that will take in many more sportscar races in years to come, including the most legendary and fabled one of all.
“At the moment it's looking like I'm only going to do a couple of races in the endurance series,” he said, “because a lot of them clash with BTCC rounds. I would obviously like to do all of them but I don't think that's going to happen. It's early days yet.
“The BTCC is great fun; I really enjoy it and it's a great career for me at the moment, but sportscars are my ultimate goal. I would love to do the Le Mans 24 Hours. It would be great if I could go there and get it under my belt; it's one of the few things I haven't done and I would really like to do it so I can pull out that card if I ever need to do it again.
“My little brother Max is just going into British F3, and I would love in the future for us to do Le Mans together. I think it would be quite cool if we could do that as brothers. It's a very prestigious event; it's not easy even to finish it let alone get on the podium, but that's where I would really like to be.
“Whether it's next year or ten years away I don't know, but I would love to be in sportscars. I think they're awesome. That's where I see my future.”
