YRC Race Cars

Since 2009 when we first appeared in the British Touring Car Championship racing series, we’ve supported four different steeds and five different British drivers. 2012 brings new and exciting challenges for us and we’ll bring you all the news about the car well be championing this coming season, as it breaks!

2009

Our first, and wildly ambitious challenge was to run Fulvio Mussi in our Ginetta G50. It was an amazing year to debut the YRC concept and the YRC members didn’t go unrewarded with several podiums throughout the year, finishing fourth in the championship overall. We took a few other gongs along the way winning the ‘Best turned out race car’ at Oulton Park that year.

2010

The difficult second year! We opted to change tack and entered the Renault Clio Cup with Fulvio at the helm once again. Despite Fulvio’s best efforts, we approached the half way point in the season with a catalogue of bad luck stories. We’re a very competitive bunch and it was with the support of the YRCers that we hatched a new plan… to enter the headline event, the British Touring Car Championship itself.

We scraped together every penny we could beg and borrow and by our home round at Silverstone, we had enough to take on the big boys for one weekend only. With the experienced BTCC pilot Phil Glew behind the wheel we entered a SEAT Leon Turbo with the technical support of Special Tuning Racing. We did some serious learning that weekend nearly bringing the car home in the top ten save for a drive through penalty that the stewards were handing out like candy!

It was then that we peeked the interest of a small independent outfit who’d certainly got the fans vote that year, AmDMilltekRacing.com. We joined them for the remaining two rounds at Donington Park and Brands Hatch and our 2011 season began to take shape as a BTCC outfit.

2011

We hit the ground running in January with the support of one of the team sponsors, Milltek Sport and we were invited to launch the YRC membership at the world famous Autosport Show in Birmingham. Shaun Hollamby was set to take his place in the driving seat when a ‘too good to be true’ opportunity arose. Young starlet Tom Onslow-Cole hadn’t yet secured a drive for the season so Shaun generously stepped aside with the firm belief that in the hands of someone a little more experienced in the BTCC (and younger!), the team’s VW Golf could get regular top ten finishes. And despite constant rule changing to equalise the various cars on the grid, Tom did a great job. However, the too good to be true came to fruition at Oulton Park when Tom handed back the keys to the Golf and took up a perhaps more prestigious offer at his former outfit Team Aon. The whole crew were shell shocked and Shaun made the swift decision to get back in the car to give the team time to make some serious decisions. By the start of the second half of the season, Martin Byford had stepped in by which time the constant de-tuning of the Golf by the organisers left him with an insurmountable task. It’ was simply one of those years. However, the YRC and AmDMilltekRacing.com crews can hold their heads high as we’ve catogorically proved than nobody can keep a good horse down. Sanity, dignity and souls still firmly in tact!

2012…

All will be revealed in time…