WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR IN BTCC 2020
It’s four months overdue, but the start of the British Touring Car Championship is here, and a slightly depleted field will take to the track at Donington Park this weekend for the first of what is scheduled to be nine triple-headers squeezed in between now and mid-November.
As reigning champions, Colin Turkington and the West Surrey Racing-run BMW squad have to start as favourites, but there is a high number of unknowns – different driver/car combinations, new machines making their debuts, post-coronavirus rule changes… and people wearing masks. We therefore sat down over a socially distanced telephone line with 1992 BTCC champion and ITV4 expert pundit Tim Harvey to predict what might happen.
CAN ANYONE BEAT COLIN TURKINGTON?
“The answer is: yes they can,” asserts Harvey. “Particularly in a truncated season where the races are coming thick and fast, and we’ve got three less races so the element of luck could play a bigger part than before. In terms of people who can stop him, there are huge unknowns. We don’t know how competitive Ash Sutton in the Infiniti could be – potentially that car could
