Official British Touring Car Championship Podcasts & Interviews

Dan Rowbotton - Donington Park - Race to Pole 22nd August 2026

BARC TOCA LTD / CRE8MEDIA LTD

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SPEAKER_00

Sam, this is a nice sight, isn't it? These two cars side by side and that's what you were through that race to pole haven't you?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah I mean it was a great race to follow. You know Adam I've just said to him it's like a bus. You wait forever and two come at once, you know. Um so I'm really really pleased for him. Yeah, I mean the team's performed you know epically. It's been a really hard certainly this week's been very very hard and everyone's just took it in their stride, carried on and been uber uber professional. You know, and we finally found a window where the car seems to work, so we didn't think it would take as long as it did, but it took half a season. I'm really proud of what we've achieved.

SPEAKER_00

What do you think has worked? Is that a there's a there's a uh the weather here is great, isn't it? But that's obviously not what's working. But put put it through me, give me give me an idea of how you've worked, how hard you've worked to get this car to where it is.

SPEAKER_01

Well, it's yeah, many, many sleepless nights, lots of blood, sweat, tears. But I mean at the end of the day, this is just uh, you know, all the ingredients were there from the start. You know, RML produced us a fantastic car. You know, you just got to look at it, everything looks like it belongs there, all the panel gaps are right, the car is just a really well-produced end product. Um and it just takes time, you know. We may be underestimated. We the cars were delivered to us late, we didn't do as much testing as we probably needed to for a new car program. So we've had to test during the season, you know, and it's just adding up all the little bits. You know, this championship's about all the 1%. You can't find loads and loads of time by finding 10% here, 20% there. You just get all the little bits together, add them up, and you end up with that result.

SPEAKER_00

Credit to you and the team. A lovely picture there that you had taken with you and Adam. I mean, that means the world to everybody, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, like I say, it's been a it's been a challenging, challenging time of late, and um, you know, it's just testament to everybody that's that's that's can continue this to go. Obviously, the businesses in administration, without Cataclean continuing to fund it this weekend, we wouldn't be here. So they've been fantastic, but the continued support of all of our partners, you know, Cataklean Sicily commercials, ASU Snap on, you know, the guys like Zerka Tech and Race Hearts that have been really, really, really good trade trade support for us. We wouldn't be able to do it without anybody, so yeah. And obviously the BCCC itself has accommodated us. So yeah, fantastic day in uh in the best championship in the UK.