Subaru boosted by Touring car top spot
Colin Turkington will start from pole position at Oulton Park on Sunday (5th June) in a major boost for Subaru’s maiden British Touring Car Championship programme.
The Irishman took his Levorg Sports Tourer around the 2.26 mile Cheshire circuit in 1m 26.264sec, a speed of 92.89mph, in qualifying for the 10th round of Britain’s biggest motor racing series.
The performance came only one meeting after the Team BMR Subaru squad were forced to withdraw all four of their Levorgs from the meeting at Thruxton, fearing a repeat of a fuel fire that had struck the car of James Cole in the second meeting of the season at Donington Park.
For much of the half-hour qualifying session at Oulton Park it looked as if Subaru would lock out the front row, Turkington leading his team-mate Jason Plato. But as rivals fought back Plato slipped down the order to take sixth on the grid. However the qualifying performance is a big boost for the team, which is developing the new Subaru this season and has previously struggled to break into the top ten of the grid.
Daniel Lloyd surprised in the Eurotech Honda.
At the end of a session that see-sawed between contenders second place on the 32-car grid was taken by a Honda Civic Type-R, but not the Halfords Yuasa Racing examples of reigning champion Gorden Shedden or Matt Neal. Instead Daniel Lloyd put his Eurotech Racing machine onto the front row, in only his second BTCC weekend, with a time 0.019sec behind Turkington.
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