Honda Announce NGTC Civic for 2012 BTCC Campaign.

The Honda Racing team have announced that the Civic used this year will be replaced for 2012.

Honda have today confirmed that they are to race the brand new Honda Civic in the 2012 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, built to the series NGTC regulations. The two drivers who will pilot the new cars as well as the official sponsors will be announced in due course.

The long term partner of the team, Team Dynamics, are building the two race cars ready for their debut next year, as full works backed cars. Honda Racing Team will hope to emulate the success of 2010, where they picked up both the Manufacturers’/Constructors’ Title as well as the HiQ Teams’ Trophy. Drivers Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden finished second and third last season.

“We are delighted to enter the new Civic in next year’s BTCC, and hope to build on the success we’ve already had with the current model,” said Dave Hodgetts, Managing Director of Honda (UK).

“We’ve made significant improvements to the new road car, and we’re confident those changes will make for a competitive race car too.

“The Civic is the perfect model to compete in British Touring Cars, as it has been born and bred in the UK. The new car has been tested on more UK roads than any other Honda, and it will continue to be built exclusively in Swindon.”

Matt Neal, one of the Honda Racing Team drivers for 2011 and who is gunning for glory in his current Civic said about the announcement: “”We are all looking forward to 2012, and from my point of view it is very exciting to have the prospect of driving the new Honda Civic.

“The team’s development of the car is already well underway, and the new Civic will fit the BTCC’s ‘Next Generation Touring Car’ regulations. I’m sure it will keep Honda at the front, and in the winner’s circle, both off and on track!”

Neal and team-mate Shedden are back on track this weekend, up at Shedden’s home track of Knockhill.

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