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MAKING A (TEAM) DYNAMIC IMPRESSION ON THE BTCC

Team Dynamics was a race winner in last season’s British Touring Car Championship as Gordon Shedden landed a brace with glory at Donington and again at Croft in the middle of the campaign.

That is a return that many teams would be proud of, but, for former series dominator Team Dynamics, those results meant it placed fourth in the teams’ contest with its pair of self-built Honda Civic Type Rs. Dynamics has finished in the top three of that particular contest since 2009.

While there is no confirmation yet, Shedden is likely to remain with the team but sources suggest his 2021 and 2022 team-mate Dan Rowbottom is on the move. Since long-time racer Matt Neal stepped down from driving duties at the end of 2020, he has taken to his new full-time job of heading up the team alongside technical director Barry Plowman and life from the pitwall has not been the plain sailing he hoped it might have been.

For Neal, who claimed the big BTCC trophy in 2005, 2006 and 2011, the role has come with increased frustrations

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