TECHNICAL COLUMN PROVIDED BY WITHAM MOTORSPORT – DISTRIBUTORS OF MOTUL AUTOMOTIVE LUBRICANTS

After excelling during the 1980s and 1990s in a range of single-make categories and then going on to become a mainstay of the high-profile British Touring Car Championship, these days Patrick Watts scratches his competitive itch on the historics scene and, most recently at the Citroen C1 Challenge’s 24 Hour blue-riband event at Silverstone at the end of May.

Designed to provide a low-cost route into endurance racing, the category is centred around the first-generation C1 model, equalised centrally to provide a level playing field and put the drivers – in teams of up