Heynes returns to the BTCC with SEAT Sport UK

04 March 2007

Jonathan Heynes, who ran the 2001 Production title winning team in the British Touring Car Championship – the same year that Jason Plato won the overall drivers’ title – will return to the series this year as SEAT Sport UK Race Team Manager.

The 31-year old from Bristol was the British Open Kart Champion in 1995 before he set up his own race team, HTML, in 2000. It ran cars in the BTCC and National Saloon Car Championships and in 2001 it prepared and ran a pair of Peugeot 306s in which Simon Harrison and Roger Moen finished first and third in the Production Car category of the BTCC.

While this will be the first time Jonathan has worked with Jason, he knows the former champion’s SEAT Sport UK team-mate well, having run a Pontiac Grand Prix car for Darren Turner in 2002. In that season, Darren won six ASCAR races at Rockingham, including a sensational last to first victory. Jonathan continued to run in ASCAR for the next three years, before going into motorsport management and consultancy in 2005. He also runs his own performance sports car dealership, Bahn Stormers Ltd, in Cirencester.

Jonathan said: "It’s great to be back in the British Touring Car Championship with such an exciting new challenge. There is a great team spirit within SEAT Sport UK and I’m really looking forward to the season ahead."

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