Airwaves Racing head into the sixth round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship with an eight point lead in the Independents Team Championship and with Mat Jackson second in the Overall Drivers Championship just behind leader, Mat Jackson.

The long summer break has been put to good use by the Motorbase team with a lot of development work going onto the turbo powered Ford Focus ready for their assault on the new Snetterton 300 circuit.

“It’s been a long break, maybe a little too long but we’ve been busy in all areas,” said Team Manager Olly Collins. “We’ve done a fair amount of work on the handling of the Focus, we’re getting it ever closer to where we want it but also doing that on a tight budget makes the task a little harder. The engineers and mechanics have been doing a great job improving the car and from the drivers feedback at our recent tests we feel we’re moving the right direction.”

Airwaves Racing have also been at the centre of speculation that they, like Team Aon, will field a three car team at some stage during the season following the recent test with ex-BTCC driver, Jonny Adam, at the wheel.

Olly Collins went on to say, “We would like to run 3 cars at some stage this season and we’re hopeful to do it sooner rather than later, as usual it all comes down to having the right package to do the job. We have 3 cars so it makes sense, but to cover the spares package we would have to invest some more. We certainly don’t want to do it half-heartedly. Jonny has experience with our team and with front wheel drive turbo charged cars. We know he’s quick and there is some unfinished business there. So fingers crossed and watch this space.”

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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.