COLIN TURKINGTON JUST WINNING RACES MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME
The enforced lockdown period torpedoed the plans of even the best-prepared British Touring Car Championship teams. For champion Colin Turkington, it means his quest to become a standard-bearer in the category has been put on ice.
The Northern Irishman, who has raced in the BTCC since 2002, was on course to aim for a hat-trick of crowns which would push him aboveAndy Rouse in terms of the outright most successful tin-top driver of all time.
But that has been put on hold until the BTCC’s planned return at the beginning ofAugust. Turkington himself is keeping himself in shape, doing his homework (and helping with that of his two sons) and making sure he will be ready to climb back behind the wheel of his WSR-run BMW 330i M Sport when the time comes.
In the meantime, he has also spared Motorsport News a few minutes to tackle the readers’questions.
Here are his answers.
Question: “Drivers’helmets have special meanings to them. What is the story of Colin’s lid?”
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“It has had the same foundation of its design since 2009. My helmet has my initial on it on both sides. It has a green ‘C’on it, but it was orange in 2009 in deference to the sponsor at the time. The only significance of the green is to represent where I am from. There is a bit of a story about how it came to be, actually. It was designed by Mike Fairholme, and for anyone who knows crash helmets, he is a bit of a legend in that field. How I got to know him was that when I was racing karts with my brother
