Last Friday, Matt Neal set foot in the Team Dynamics Honda Civic for the first time since he left the team in 2007. The team, along with Neal, attended the Rockingham general test to perform a shakedown for their newly built Honda Civic for the 2010 season.

The Civic is said to be based on the 2009 car but with a whole new front aero system which has been developed with the help from MIRA. Neal spoke to BTCC.net where he said, ““Conditions today were a bit tricky as we had lots of drizzly rain, but even so there was a very good balance in the car. The car is very different to how it was when it was tucked away at the end of the 2009 season.”

Team Dynamics are yet to announce their driver line up for 2010 and when Matt Neal was asked about his intentions of signing for his fathers team he kept very tight lipped and failed to give a definitive answer.

Also at the test was Forster Motorsport, one of the new teams entering the BTCC for the first time this season. Despite Forster Motorsport expressing their interest in fielding a two car team this season they are yet to finalise a deal for the second car so ran the ex-Mat Jackson BMW through it’s paces on Friday.

James Mappin is the editor-in-chief covering the British Touring Car Championship. You can contact him at james@btcccrazy.co.uk, on twitter @BTCCCrazy or on his personal twitter account @jamesmappin.