Team HARD to score second career victory
Team HARD have been filling up the BTCC grid for almost a decade now, starting when team boss Tony Gilham entered an S2000 Honda Civic into the 2012 campaign. The team have accrued a huge list of drivers over the years, but has sadly never quite managed to make an impact on the upper half of the grid, save for Jack Goff’s 2019 success thanks to a gamble on wet tyres ahead of the third race at Silverstone.
The new Cupra Leon appears to have given a new lease of life to Goff, having set the second fastest time at the pre-season test, and topping the timesheets for the morning session. While his team-mates Glynn Geddie, Aron Taylor-Smith and Nicolas Hamilton were back towards the lower portions of the pack, the pace of Goff couldn’t be ignored, and could potentially stake a claim to be the dark horse heading into the 2021 season.
Team HARD has also joined forces for 2021 with the Laser Tools Racing squad, who took Ash Sutton to the overall championship last year in the Infiniti Q50, with a third Q50 now being provided for Carl Boardley. While not officially entered as Team HARD, the involvement is certainly there, and when you’ve got someone as quick as Sutton in your stable, it’d be a brave man to bet against the team being involved in at least one victory in 2021.
Overall, and as is so often the case, the BTCC has once again got all of the ingredients for another barnstorming year, with many stories still to be discovered across the season. It all kicks off this weekend at Thruxton, with full live coverage, including support races, on ITV4 from 10:50.
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