Andrew Jordan, winner of the 2013 BTCC title, will race the Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Corolla on what shall be his first begin within the collection since he break up with the West Surrey Racing BMW squad on the eve of the delayed 2020 marketing campaign, after being pipped to the 2019 crown.
Jordan has pushed the automotive all through most of its testing, together with final month’s Goodyear tyre check at Oulton Park, the place the Toyota accomplished extra laps than some other on the second day of working.
The hybrid system has been developed by Cosworth along side World Rally Championship big M-Sport, which is taking on manufacturing of the shopper TOCA engine for 2022.
As such, the Silverstone outing on 25-26 September would be the race debut for the M-Sport powerplant, which is known to have its roots in a Ford EcoBoost block.
Whereas the plan is for Jordan to participate in all of the classes, he’ll take every begin from the pitlane in order to not intrude with the common individuals.
TOCA Hybrid
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BTCC supremo Alan Gow advised Autosport: “It’s not set in stone – it will depend on how we’re getting alongside within the growth cycle, however the plan is to run at Silverstone in free apply, qualifying and the three races.
“It will likely be invisible so far as factors go; it is going to qualify, however wherever it qualifies it gained’t begin there.
“It ought to qualify on pole as a result of it’s acquired extra energy – there could be one thing improper if it didn’t qualify on pole.
“It’s extra of an indication than a race – it gained’t get entangled in any dicing with anybody else.”
“The one factor that can cease it’s if one thing goes improper in testing, like a crash.”
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Speedworks boss Christian Dick advised Autosport that he would deploy his British GT Championship crew to run the automotive at Silverstone, to make sure that the conventional assets are dedicated to the group’s common Toyotas of Rory Butcher and Sam Smelt.
“It definitely must be on the tempo,” mentioned Dick.
“From a chassis perspective, it’s not drastically totally different to what we’ve with the common automobiles.
“We particularly constructed that check automotive initially to be the identical as our race automobiles – it wanted to be the identical base to begin with, so we may adapt it.
“There’s no must construct up a ground-up hybrid automotive – that’s not what was supposed.
“We imagine the 2022 TOCA engine is a aggressive entity, and we all know that the hybrid growth brings lap time, so it must be proper on the prime of the timesheets.”