Driver: Bobby Thompson
Usual 2022 mount: Seat Cupra R
BriSCA F1 race: Winner
Car owner: Simon Traves
“I expected a BriSCA F1 car to feel heavier than they do. They aren’t what you would call nimble, but they are way more responsive than I thought they might be before I got in one. They are pretty direct. But that once you have got used to when you have the steering wheel straight, because they all have an amount of stagger built into the set-up.
“That is something that not a lot of us have experienced before: a car that is meant to only turn one way. In a BTCC car, you are constantly using the brake pedal to manipulate the car to turn. With the BriSCA F1 car, when I found myself using less brake to roll into the corner, I found that the chassis actually wanted to help me. We are used to a car that is very flat and equal.
“It was mega, but I didn’t go flat on the throttle once all day because I don’t think you need it. It is all about wheelspin management. The only other crazy thing in the contact. Sure, in a touring car, we hit but we
