BTCC star Jordan to Pickups
BRITISH TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP RACER Andrew Jordan will take part in the final round of the Pickup Truck Championship in early November.
The WSR BMW 125i M Sport regular will swap his BTCC machine for a Matt Roach Racing-run truck at the Brands Hatch Indy Circuit meeting on November 4-5. His truck will carry the Pirtek livery that he uses in the BTCC.
Jordan, 28, who claimed the BTCC title in 2013, said he was looking forward to the challenge: “It will be something totally different for me. The action looks great in the series. I know Matt [Roach] from when I raced in Junior rallycross in the UK and this has been a long-standing offer.
“I’m probably not going to get much track time beforehand, and there will be people going for a title, so I’m not sure what to expect, but I’ll have to be careful,” added Jordan, who finished ninth in the BTCC this year with three race wins.
The Fireworks meeting at Brands Hatch also features Legends, and the final rounds of the British Truck Racing Championship. BTCC racer Rob Austin made his Legends debut at the same meeting last year.
BTCC racer Will Burns will make his competition return in the GT Cup this weekend at Snetterton after missing the Brands Hatch BTCC finale through injury.
Burns sustained three fractured ribs and bruising to a lung when his Team Hard Volkswagen CC was collected by Rob Collard’s spinning BMW at Silverstone, but the 27-year-old has recovered sufficiently to join LMP3 Cup regular Mike
Newbould in an HHC Motorsport Ginetta G55 GT4. It represents Burns’s first outing with HHC since 2015, when he finished fifth in the GT4 Supercup, and his first in Pro-am GT racing.