Honda will compete in next season’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship with the all new Honda Civic hatchback which will be built to the Next Generation Touring Car regulations.

Honda’s long standing BTCC partner, Team Dynamics will once again build the cars and run the championship campaign.

The Honda Racing Team will contest the championship as a full ‘works’ entry, hoping to repeat the success of 2010, when it won both the Teams’ and Manufacturers’ titles.

The Managing Director of Honda (UK), Dave Hodgetts said: “We are delighted to enter the new Civic in next year’s BTCC, and hope to build on the success we’ve already had with the current model.

“We’ve made significant improvements to the new road car, and we’re confident those changes will make for a competitive race car too.

“The Civic is the perfect model to compete in British Touring Cars, as it has been born and bred in the UK. The new car has been
tested on more UK roads than any other Honda, and it will continue to be built exclusively in Swindon.”

Honda Racing Team driver and double champion, Matt Neal said: “We are all looking forward to 2012, and from my point of view it is very exciting to have the prospect of driving the new Honda Civic.

“The team’s development of the car is already well underway, and the new Civic will fit the BTCC’s ‘Next Generation Touring Car’ regulations. I’m sure it will keep Honda at the front, and in the winner’s circle, both off and on track!”

The team’s drivers and sponsors for 2012 will be announced in due course.

Photo Credit: Honda UK Media

Tom Surgay is the Porsche Carrera Cup GB correspondant for 2011. Tom's currently studying English Language with Journalism at Huddersfield University. You can contact him at tom@btcccrazy.co.uk or on twitter @tsurgay.