BMR boss Warren Scott has vowed to ‘leave no stone unturned’ in his quest to rectify the ‘straight line speed deficit’ which he feels his holding back the Subaru team in the British Touring Car Championship.
The factory-support Subaru squad have struggled in the first three meetings of the season so far with changes imposed by TOCA ahead of the start of the season.
Further changes were made ahead of the event at Thruxton, with a boost recalculation for the Levorg cars, although the extent of these remains unclear due to both BMR and TOCA keeping the details guarded.
Scott did not hold back in expressing his disappointment with the season so far, which has yielded just five top ten finishes, including two podiums, all in the hands of Ash Sutton.
“It has been an immensely difficult start to the season after what seemed to be a very encouraging, comprehensive pre- season test programme for everybody at Adrian Flux Subaru Racing,” said Scott.
“The Subaru Levorg is handling extremely well but the straight line speed deficit is certainly curtailing the efforts from our drivers to be challenging for the championship.
“We are working tirelessly with all parties involved in the control of this and hope that we will have this resolved by Oulton Park.
“We run an open house policy within the engineering team to share set up and data on both test days and race weekends.
“I am personally extremely disappointed in the results we have at the moment and I intend to leave no stone unturned in an effort to resolve this problem so that we can get the team back on track to winning ways.”
Two-time champion Plato finished outside the points in all three races at Thruxton and he has only taken points in one race so far this year, which came in the season-opener at Brands Hatch.