Our friends in the north
“Straight away these cars from West Surrey Racing are right, and the build quality is astounding. To the nth degree, every little detail is mega, and it’s so nice to be back in modern machinery, completely up to date with everybody else. It’s mega to drive.”
Those words belong to Adam Morgan, the low-profile, usually there-or-thereabouts guy of the British Touring Car Championship, battling it out with the Mercedes A-Class built and run by his family Ciceley Motorsport team. Three times he has finished seventh in the championship. In five of the Merc’s seven seasons he was a race winner. Now? The A-Classes have been pensioned off to the Touring Car Trophy, and Morgan has his hands on a BMW 330i M Sport, the model taken to 2019 title glory and the 2020 runner-up spot by WSR superstar Colin Turkington. And, for the first time, he has a seasoned and proven race winner in the sister car: Tom Chilton, the, erm, high-profile, usually there-or-thereabouts guy of the BTCC.
It’s time for Ciceley to step forward, but who are this band of brothers from up north? Norm Burgess, the team’s hugely enthusiastic commercial director, is proud that it’s populated almost entirely by Lancastrians, many of whom are graduates from National Centre for Motorsport Engineering courses at the
