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Inside story: RML at Thruxton BTCC

AUTOSPORT went behind the scenes with RML's British Touring Car team at Thruxton to follow the fortunes of its return to the series it won back in 1999. Charles Bradley reports

Charles Bradley May 1, 2009, 4:38 PM

One month ago, RML's British Touring Car Championship comeback was nothing but a pipedream. But the desire to return to the series it last won in 1999 with Laurent Aiello and Nissan, and simultaneously keep one of its biggest stars, Jason Plato, in the series, was too much to resist. For round two at Thruxton, the campaign had doubled in size, with Mat Jackson joining its ranks in a second Chevrolet Lacetti.

At Thruxton, AUTOSPORT went behind the scenes to follow the team's fortunes as it took on the might of the Vauxhall works team and established independents like WSR, Team Dynamics and Motorbase.

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Author Charles Bradley

Charles Bradley is Motorsport.com’s Global Editor in Chief. After spending five years in the aerospace industry in his native North Wales, while working weekends as a freelance writer at racetracks around the UK, Charles joined the staff of Motoring News in the heart of London. He transferred to the nascent Autosport.com team in 2000 before transitioning to the magazine, becoming its Editor between 2011 and 2014. Charles then upped sticks to work in America, as Motorsport.com’s Editor in Chief, where he created the multi-national and multi-lingual editorial team that quickly became the world’s most-read motorsport website. He was instrumental in delivering three of the biggest Global F1 Fan Surveys in sports history and is also a multiple award-winning scriptwriter. Charles is an overseas member of the Guild of Motoring Writers. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife Helen – and a cat that’s named after Serbia’s top football club.