BRITCAR CHAMPION HARRISON TO RACE EX-EAVES INTEGRA

One-time Britcar champion Danny Harrison will race a Honda Integra Type R in the Classic Touring Car Racing Club’s Super Tourers category at Donington Park this weekend.

Harrison won the 2020 Britcar Endurance title alongside Jem Hepworth in a Praga R1T, before joining long-time backer Richard Wheeler in a Nissan GT-R the following year. Aside from a oneoff GB4 outing in 2022, he has had few opportunities since but will now drive Wheeler’s ex-dan Eaves 2005 race-winning British Touring Car machine (below).

The BTC-T spec Integra has not raced since a few outings with Bernie and Marcus Hoggarth in 2017-18. Wheeler recently acquired the car, which has been prepared for Donington and Brands Hatch’s Super Touring Power by John Danby Racing.

“I didn’t have any plans for this year at all, so to have a last-minute opportunity come through... I was like, ‘Definitely’,” said Harrison, who will not drive the car until Thursday afternoon testing. “You couldn’t say no. And to be part of the Super Touring Power, that’s a massive event.”

In addition to the Integra and Wheeler’s own Nissan Primera, also running from the JDR garage this weekend will be Paul Whight’s 1996 Honda Accord. AJ Owen is also set to return to the series in his father Craig’s Ford Mondeo after it blew its Duratec engine at Brands last summer.

Thirty-two Pre-’66 Touring Cars are entered for the CTCRC event, while the combined 38-car Classic and Historic Thunder entry features several new cars, including Jimmy Broadbent’s outrageous Mazda MX-5.