Excelr8, which carried Tom Ingram to the 2022 crown, has moved its squad of four Hyundai i30 N Fastbacks into Dynamics’ facility in Droitwich, from which the West Midlands operation won a total of six BTCC overall titles with Honda machinery in the hands of Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden.
The existing Dynamics personnel, including famed technical director Barry Plowman, will also be working on the Excelr8 BTCC project, which was based since its 2019 inception at Brome in rural Suffolk.
While Excelr8’s BTCC and new Porsche Carrera Cup GB programmes have moved to the Dynamics premises, its enormous Mini Challenge presence will continue to be fielded out of East Anglia.
Team principal Neal withdrew his team from the BTCC prior to the 2023 season after the collapse of its sponsorship deal with Halfords, but he and Plowman kept a presence in the series, working mainly with Team Hard.
“We’ve got a facility here which is tailor-made for running race cars, and we’ve still got quite a good engineering knowledge and skill set,” Neal told Autosport.
“Where they were based, it was hard for them to get and attract good people – where we are is in the rich vein of the motorsport community and it’s much easier to get to places.
“Some of our people were not going to be utilised and want to stay in touring cars, so everything made sense.”
Excelr8 chiefs Justina and Antony Williams moved their BTCC squad into the Dynamics workshop last month.
Source: Autosport