Don't write us off – that’s the message from Jason Plato and his SEAT team as the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship takes a breather before the second half of the season starts at Snetterton in mid-July. The Spanish squad introduced a new diesel Leon TDI at the start of this year and it has proved competitive, notching up three wins. But disappointing results last time out at Croft have dropped Plato and team-mate Darren Turner to fourth and eighth in the drivers’ championship.
“It’s going to be tough,” admitted Plato. “But we had a disaster at Croft – and it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that someone else could have an equally poor weekend.
“We have to make every opportunity count in the second half of the season.”