CHILTON TO JOIN MORGAN IN CICELEY’S MAIDEN BMW TOURING CAR ATTACK
Multiple British Touring Car Championship race-winner
Tom Chilton has signed to drive for the Ciceley Motorsport team in 2021 handling one of its new BMW 330i M Sport machines.
The 2010 BTCC
Independents Trophy winner will line up alongside Adam Morgan in the Lancashire team in its maiden campaign with the rear-wheel-drive, WSR-built two-litre turbocharged machines.
The 35-year-old Chilton, a 14-time winner in the BTCC, returned to the series in 2017 after a stretch in the World Touring Car Championship.
He finished 10th in the points last year in a BTC Racing
Honda Civic Type R.
Chilton said: “Adam [Morgan] and I get along really well, we will work as hard as required with team engineer Steve Farrell to ensure we are at the front of the pack straight away. I make no secret of my desire to change my lucky racing number 3 into the coveted number 1 and truly believe that the team will provide me with the platform required to achieve my aim.”
Team head Russell Morgan, father of Adam, said that he hoped Chilton’s experience would help push the squad to a new level in this year’s campaign. Morgan Sr said: “I have only ever been racing because I enjoy it, it’s something that I have always done, but we have made massive investment into the team this year and need results. It was of the utmost importance that we secured a driver who brings experience, technical ability and is able to move us forward as a team.”
The opening rounds of this year’s British Touring Car Championship are due to take place at Brands Hatch on April 3-4.