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Jan.12

AmD Tuning.com confirms 2012 BTCC plans
The West Thurrock-based team has agreed a deal with Ollie Jackson which will see him embark on a first full season of BTCC competition at the wheel of the team’s turbo-powered Volkswagen Golf, which proved to be one of the most improved cars on the ...

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Jan.12

AmD Plan to Announce 2012 Plans at Autosport Show
AmD announcement close The AmD Milltek Racing.com team expects to announce who will drive its VW Golf in 2012’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at next week’s Autosport International Show (12-15 Jan). The turbocharged Golf will be ...

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Dec.11

AmD teams up with VAG Apprentices in Rockingham Stages Rally
Last weekend saw a team of VAG service technicians from across the UK converge on Rockingham to run a Skoda Fabia in the Rockingham Stages Rally. AmDs' Shaun Hollamby was in the driving seat having performed similiar duties during the Goodwood ...

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Oct.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com fights to the finish at Silverstone
The AmD Milltek Racing.com team brought the curtain down on its second season in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship with a battling performance on Finals Day at Silverstone. The West Thurrock-based team went into the season finale ...

06

Oct.11

Radio Controlled Prize for Comp Winner!
Congratulations to Elizabeth Rushby from Goole, East Yorkshire, the winner of a radio-controlled replica of AmD Milltek Racing.com's VW Golf BTCC racer (pictured), courtesy of www.rcracer.com! Martin Byford picked her name at random at Brands ...

06

Oct.11

Pace unrewarded for AmD Milltek Racing.com on home soil
The AmD Milltek Racing.com team again showed strong pace during its second home meeting of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season at Brands Hatch, only to come away from the penultimate meeting of the year without a top ten finish. ...

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Sep.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com shows strong pace at Rockingham
The AmD Milltek Racing.com team showed strong pace throughout the latest rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Rockingham only to come away from the eighth meeting of the 2011 season without any points to its name. On his ...

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Sep.11

Tough times for AmD Milltek Racing.com in Scotland.
The AmD Milltek Racing.com team endured a frustrating trip to Scotland for the latest rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship after failing to secure a finish at Knockhill, despite showing encouraging pace throughout the weekend. ...

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Aug.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com targets points return at Knockhill.
The AmD Milltek Racing.com team is targeting a return to the points scoring positions as the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship gears up for its annual trip to Scotland for the seventh round of the season next weekend (3/4 September). The ...

09

Aug.11

Solid Snetterton showing for AmD Milltek Racing.com.
AmD Milltek Racing.com enjoyed a solid weekend of racing in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship as the 2011 season resumed following its summer break at Snetterton (6/7 August). The weekend marked the first appearance for ...

02

Aug.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com set to resume battle at Snetterton
With the summer break drawing to a close, AmD Milltek Racing.com will return to action in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship this weekend at Snetterton as the second half of the 2011 campaign gets underway in Norfolk (6/7 August). The ...

08

Jul.11

Byford for AmD Golf.
AmD Milltek Racing.com has named Martin Byford as its new driver for the remainder of the 2011 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season. Byford, from Colchester, will make his BTCC debut in the outfit’s VW Golf at his home circuit of ...

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Jun.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com chief set for rally debut at Goodwood.
Having enjoyed his one-off return to the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Croft, AmD Milltek Racing.com team principal Shaun Hollamby is to turn his hand to rallying after being invited to take part in this weekend’s Goodwood Festival ...

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Jun.11

Tesco Momentum 99 Support AmD Tuning Club Rolling Days.
Tesco Momentum 99 performance fuels are supporting the AmD Milltek Racing VW Golf that is competing in this years Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) As well as running this exciting motorsport programme AmD Tuning ...

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Jun.11

AmD and Milltek at GTi International at Bruntingthorpe.
Organized by Volkswagen Driver and Audi Driver magazines, GTi International 2011 will be its 24th year, this being the sixth annual event at the superb Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground site at Lutterworth near Leicester (Postcode for SatNav: LE17 5QS). ...

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Jun.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com buoyed by Croft display
The AmD Milltek Racing.com team enjoyed a solid weekend at Croft as the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship reached the half way-point with its annual trip to the North East. The West Thurrock-based team made the long trip north with team ...

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Jun.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com looks to bounce back at Croft
The AmD Milltek Racing.com team will aim to bounce back from a challenging weekend at Oulton Park when the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship heads to Croft, North Yorkshire this weekend for the fifth round of the season. The West ...

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Jun.11

Hollamby Back in the Driving Seat!
Team principal Shaun Hollamby looks set to race his AmD Milltek Racing.com outfit’s VW Golf in Croft’s round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (Sun 19 June). Hollamby says he’s been inundated with calls from drivers wanting to ...

06

Jun.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com parts company with Tom Onslow-Cole
For Immediate Release: 5 June 2011 AmD Milltek Racing.com can announce that it has come to an amicable agreement to part company with driver Tom Onslow-Cole in order to allow him to take up the offer of a drive elsewhere. Tom joined the team on ...

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Jun.11

Triple score the goal for AmD Milltek Racing.com at Oulton Park
AmD Milltek Racing.com will make the long trip north to Cheshire this weekend seeking to secure a triple points finish from the latest rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season. The West Thurrock-based team has made huge ...

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May.11

Podium now AmD Milltek Racing's 2011 goal
Shaun Hollamby says he’ll be disappointed if his AmD Milltek Racing.com team fails to achieve an outright podium result in 2011’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship. Undoubtedly, his squad’s VW Golf – this year driven by proven race-winner ...

03

May.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com takes double score at Thruxton
AmD Milltek Racing.com enjoyed its best ever weekend in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Thruxton, picking up two points finishes during the third meeting of the 2011 season. Buoyed by a maiden points finish at Donington Park, ...

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Apr.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com targets more points at Thruxton
After a maiden top ten finish last time out at Donington Park, AmD Milltek Racing.com has its sights firmly set on more points when the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship heads to Thruxton this weekend for the third round of the year. New ...

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Apr.11

Hill gets Touring Car Connection
AmD Milltek can today announce the signing of BRDC Rising Star Jake Hill as its new junior driver in a move the 17-year-old describes as ‘a dream opportunity’. Hill will work with the AmD Milltek Racing.com team at race meetings through the ...

18

Apr.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com scores maiden BTCC top ten
In the home event for Derby-based team backer Milltek Sport, the AmD Milltek Racing.com team was able to secure its first points finish in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season during the second round of the season at Donington Park ...

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Apr.11

AmD Milltek Racing.com targets breakthrough points.
The AmD Milltek Racing.com team will hope to secure its first points finish in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship when the series heads to Donington Park this weekend (16/17 April) for the second round of the season. The West ...

04

Apr.11

Solid Start to 2011 BTCC Season for AmD Milltek Racing.
AmD Milltek Racings BTCC season got underway yesterday at Brands Hatch with improved pace and points in both Teams and Independant BTCC Championships but the team left the circuit feeling that there is more performance in the VW Golf. Team boss ...

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Mar.11

'Productive' test for Onslow-Cole
Tom Onslow-Cole had the ‘most productive test’ of his Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship career, while driving his AmD Milltek Racing.com VW Golf at Brands Hatch on Tuesday. The Essex-based outfit suffered reliability issues with its new ...

26

Mar.11

Engine Dramas Blight BTCC Silverstone Media Day.
The first day of running the new NGTC VW 2.0T in the AmD Milltek Racing VW Golf was cut short by a failure early in the first session. "A huge amount of work has gone into getting the car up and running so it was particularly galling to have a ...

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Mar.11

AmD Milltek Golf for Onslow-Cole!
AmD Milltek Racing has made the shock announcement that Tom Onslow-Cole will race its VW Golf in 2011’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship. Onslow-Cole has emerged as one of the BTCC’s top names in recent seasons – last year he emerged as ...

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Feb.11

BTCC VW Golf NGTC Engine on Schedule.
The new turbo charged NGTC engine is starting to be fitted in our BTCC VW Golf this week. Team manager Chris Tweed has been working with Forge and Millteks engineers to manufacture the intercooler assembly and exhaust system. Testing begins in ...

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Jan.11

Autosport Show- Drivers Blog
The Autosport show is the point at which you can really say the "off season" is over and the run up to the start of the race season begins. We were fortunate to be invited to display and launch our BTCC VW Golf on our main sponsors stand, Milltek. ...

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Jan.11

2011 BTCC Golf unveiled at Autosport show
The first day of the Autosport International show at Birmingham's NEC arena, saw the wraps come off the 2011-version of the AmDMilltekRacing.com Volkswagen Golf BTCC race car. During the winter break, the car has undergone a major transformation ...

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Jan.11

AmD and Milltek Sport at Autosport Show 2011
This year’s Autosport International Show, at Birmingham’s NEC Arena, will host the unveiling of the new 2011 version of the unique Volkswagen Golf race car that made its debut in the British Touring Car Championship last year. During the winter ...

05

Jan.11

Rebuild Begins on BTCC VW Golf
Just a quick shot of the BTCC VW Golf shell now back from the sprayshop ready for re-build prior to Autosport at the NEC next week. We will post an update before the show with plenty of shots of the full assembly procedure. Check out ...

04

Jan.11

Countdown to 2011 BTCC Begins!
So Xmas is over and now the hard work begins here at the AmD Milltek Racing workshop to get our VW Golf rebuilt and ready for the 2011 Dunlop British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). In reality work never stopped for our Team Manager Chris Tweed ...

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Dec.10

BTCC coverage goes Stateside
The Speed TV channel’s highlights of 2010’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship commences next week for fans across the Atlantic. Using ITV Sport’s superb pictures – as broadcast across the UK in 2010 – a series of 25 hour-long highlights ...

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Nov.10

YourRacingCar.com Launch 2011 Membership
Just in time for Christmas, YRC have launched 2011 Membership and are really looking forward to welcoming back returning YRCers and recruiting a few more racing fans to join us in our British Touring Car shenanigans! Membership has evolved since ...

22

Nov.10

YRC's 2011 Bottomless Bevy with Rocket Fuel Powers AmD Milltek Racing.
This partnership has made the coffee guzzling YRC crew rather chuffed as Rocket Fuel is a bonkers super-coffee. It's stacked full of caffeine and guarana (South Americana natural energiser!) for the ultimate pick-me-up and the best bit is that it ...

11

Nov.10

Viva Las Vegas!
AmD Milltek Racings' Shaun Hollamby was working on Millteks stand at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas last week. "I was amazed how many trade visitors were knowledgeable about the BTCC and especially our VW Golf project. In the land of NASCAR most said ...

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Oct.10

The AmD/Milltek BTCC Team are heading to Las Vegas for SEMA 2010.
Milltek Sport is a first time exhibitor at SEMA and will be showing some great new performance exhausts for Audi, Porsche, Nissan and BMW. This year in partnership with their main dealer, AmD Essex, they have been campaigning the AmD/Milltek VW Golf ...

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Oct.10

Brands Hatch BTCC Finale.
A front wishbone failure caused the retirement of Thurrock Touring Car team AmD Milltek Racing's Volkswagen Golf from the final race of the 2010 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch on Sunday. But driver and team boss Shaun ...

07

Oct.10

SBS and Initi8 first to support AmD Milltek Racing with YRC
SBS and Initi8 are the first two companies to support YRC and AmD Milltek Racing.com in their new collaboration which has its first official outing at Brands Hatch this weekend (9th and 10th October). Both new sponsor recruits have staff members ...

06

Oct.10

AmD Milltek Racing Launch BTCC 2011 with YourRacingCar.com.
YourRacingCar.com is collaborating with the AmD Milltek Racing team, which will see the Volkswagen Golf of Shaun Hollamby run under the AmD Milltek Racing.com with YourRacingCar banner for the new season; giving YRC members the opportunity to lend ...

06

Oct.10

BTCC.net Fans Trophy for Hollamby!
Well what a great week I am having so far! So there I am driving along having picked up a takeaway at my local Indian on my way back from work. I was going round to my mate Chris Goodwins (ex RML BTCC in the 90's) house, with both our familys, when ...

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Oct.10

Brands qualifying live on-line
Qualifying for Brands Hatch’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship title-decider will be shown live on the itv.com website. For the first time, UK-based fans will be able to watch BTCC qualifying via the website during an on-line broadcast ...

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Sep.10

Drivers Blog- Donington.
The race weekend soon came around and we had alot planned both on and off the track as Donington is our main sponsor Millteks home circuit which means lots of garage tours, chats with Milltek employees and visits to Millteks hospitality suite. ...

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Sep.10

Mixed Fortunes for AmD Milltek Racing at Donington.
Essex motor racing team AmD Milltek Racing.com enjoyed mixed fortunes in last weekend's penultimate round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park. A blowing exhaust manifold gasket cut short Saturday's second practice ...

13

Sep.10

Donington BTCC Preview.
Thurrock based motor racing team AmD Milltek Racing.com heads for Donington Park, Leicestershire, for this weekend's penultimate round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship - and driver Shaun Hollamby might just have a small advantage ...

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Sep.10

BTCC Press Day at Donington Park.
On Wednesday 8th September, Donington played host to the latest British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) Press Day. The event was organised to publicise the reopening of the newly refurbished circuit in time for the penultimate round of the 2010 BTCC ...

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Sep.10

Bruno Senna Visits AmD Milltek Racing.com
Thought you might like to see a picture that we should have added to our BTCC Blog during the off season. During all the hectic pre season build up we forgot to put up a picture of one of our customers having a look at our BTCC VW Golf as it was ...

09

Sep.10

Drivers Blog- Knockhill.
The first morning session saw me gradually getting up to speed and believe me the track is much tighter than when you are walking round! The car was very tail happy and we changed the rear helper springs for a softer option so that we had less ...

07

Sep.10

Successful Scottish trip for AmD Milltek Racing
The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship's annual trip to Scotland last weekend and the long journey from Thurrock proved worthwhile for the AmD Milltek Racing.com team as they came away with three more race finishes, including a best ever ...

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Sep.10

AmD Milltek Racing back on track in Scotland.
The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship makes its annual journey to Knockhill in Scotland this weekend and Essex team AmD Milltek Racing.com are only too happy to be making the long trip north after the disappointment of two weeks ago, when ...

01

Sep.10

Drivers Blog- Silverstone.
Firstly I apologise for the late arrival of the drivers blog after Silverstone- this was purely due to me going straight on holiday, not because I was sulking! Read on. Unfortunately not a great weekend for the AmD Milltek Racing team at ...

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Sep.10

Silverstone BTCC Report.
Essex motor racing team AmD Milltek Racing arrived at Silverstone for the sixth round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship last weekend on a high following their best weekend of the season at Snetterton two weeks previously. But any ...

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Aug.10

Silverstone the Next Stop.
The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) moves on to the world-famous Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire this weekend and Shaun Hollamby, team boss and driver for Essex-based AmD Milltek Racing.com, is still buzzing from his ...

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Aug.10

Snetterton- Drivers Blog
Snetterton was going to be our least competitive circuit of the BTCC season. The long straights and hard acceleration up to top speed from slow corners wasn't playing to the Golfs strengths. But it turned out to be our best weekend so far this ...

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Aug.10

Best Weekend Yet for the BTCC VW Golf!
AmD Milltek Racing enjoyed their best weekend yet in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Snetterton, Norfolk. Driver and team owner Shaun Hollamby steered the Thurrock based team’s Volkswagen Golf to three race finishes for the first ...

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Aug.10

Hollamby buoyed by Golf tweaks
Shaun Hollamby hopes to be much closer to his mid-field target in Snetterton's Dunlop British Touring Car Championship round even though it’s not his VW Golf’s best track. Hollamby believes his AmD Milltek racing.com team has made significant ...

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Jul.10

Official BTCC Test at Snetterton.
AmD Milltek Racing attended yesterdays Official BTCC Test at Snetterton for our first test of the season. A number of new and modified parts were tried during the day which saw a variety of weather conditions at Norfolks super-fast Snetterton ...

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Jul.10

BTCC Prize Fest!
AmD Milltek Racing have launched their own computer BTCC race game. This is based around blasting your very own BTCC VW Golf around the legendary Brands Hatch GP circuit trying to set the best lap time and win big BTCC prizes! You can pick up power ...

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Jul.10

AmD Milltek Racing on the Goodwood Stage.
Shaun Hollamby was working on the Milltek stand at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed. "It was great to speak to so many BTCC fans and Milltek customers at Goodwood. Milltek had a Ford Focus RS, Nissan GTR and Audi TTRS on display which really ...

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Jul.10

Official AmD Milltek Racing T-Shirts and Bags.
AmD Milltek Racing have teamed up with Unlap.co.uk to provide an Official T-Shirt and Bag for our BTCC team. Unlap have quickly become a supplier of high quality garments with a slant towards quirky motorsport "comment" and design! The design, ...

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Jun.10

Drivers Blog Croft
Thanks for all your support especially at the circuits. I was so dissappointed with my own performance at Oulton Park that I couldn't raise the enthusiasm to blog that weekend. Too many driving errors and poor consistency made the weekend our worst ...

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Jun.10

AmD Milltek Racing.com bounce back to form at Croft
After a disappointing weekend at Oulton Park two weeks ago, Thurrock-based AmD Milltek Racing.com enjoyed a more successful day in the latest round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Croft, North Yorkshire, on Sunday. Driver and ...

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Jun.10

AmD Milltek Racing go Crofting!
Oulton Park wasn't our best weekend results-wise but showed a promising improvement in pace and performance. There were plenty of positives to take from Oulton - we are able to hold on to the pack more in the first few laps thanks to improvements ...

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Jun.10

A Tough but Quicker Oulton Park for AmD Milltek Racing.com
AmD Milltek Racing.com continued to make steady progress in last weekend’s round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Oulton Park in Cheshire. Saturday’s practice session was the first opportunity for AmD Milltek Racing.com to ...

04

Jun.10

BTCC VW Golf at Oulton Park.
The 2010 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship series roars back into action at Oulton Park, Cheshire this weekend and Thurrock based AmD Milltek Racing.com has taken full advantage of the five week break since the previous round at Brands ...

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May.10

Drivers Blog Brands Hatch
Our weekend started well then gradually deteriorated into a pretty disasterous mess! Saturday morning sessions went well (especially big air at Westfield! see pic below) except for a shattered rear screen from debris. One of our guests helped us ...

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May.10

Tough Weekend at Brands Hatch.
Sunday’s third round of races in the 2010 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch, Kent, provided Shaun Hollamby, from nearby Orpington, with his toughest test so far in his debut season. With new entries increasing the grid to ...

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Apr.10

AmD Remaps BTCC Racers Audi RS6.
Fellow BTCC racer Martin Johnson brought his Audi RS6 down to AmD Essex to have it remapped for more power this morning on his way down to Brands Hatch for this weekends BTCC meeting. "I did ask Shaun if he could map a few more horses into my ...

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Apr.10

Rockingham Drivers Blog.
As detailed in our BTCC Blog we have made a number of changes to the car to help reliability and cold rear tyre grip. The CV joints are now much cooler thanks to altering the driveshaft angles by raising the engine and pulling back the engine. New ...

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Apr.10

Rock Review!
AmD Milltek Racing.com enjoyed a successful weekend as the 2010 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship visited Rockingham in Northamptonshire, earning more points in the Independent Team class and the first point in the Independent Driver’s ...

25

Apr.10

Progress despite qualifying hitch
A break in the wiring loom of the AmD Milltek Racing VW Golf meant that Shaun Hollamby was unable to set a qualifying time yesterday and will start from the back of the grid in Race 1 today at Rockingham (Sunday 25th April 2010). However, despite ...

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Apr.10

Let's Rock!
AmD Milltek Racing looks to build on successful Touring Car debut Thurrock based Team AmD Milltek Racing goes into round two of the 2010 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at the impressive Rockingham circuit, in Northamptonshire, on ...

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Apr.10

Drivers Blog- Thruxton
What a weekend! I think we couldn't have really hoped for a better start for AmD Milltek Racing's BTCC debut. Firstly we were massively relieved that our Golf was, as we hoped, in touch with the field lap times wise. It would have been a ...

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Apr.10

AmD Milltek Racing's Golf's first race at Thruxton
The first race of the 2010 BTCC is over. It was held at Thruxton circuit in Hampshire on the weekend of the 3rd and 4th of April. Rain was the order of the day for Saturday's pre-race testing and qualifying but conditions significantly improved for ...

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Mar.10

VW Press Coverage for AmD Milltek Racing.
The AmD Milltek Racing BTCC Golf has been getting lots of interest since the launch of the project and the specialist VW press have also been very supportive. "Ever since we announced our BTCC programme we have been overwhelmed by the support shown ...

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Mar.10

AmDMilltekRacing's BTCC VW Golf: first test at Brands Hatch
Shaun Hollamby, of the AmDMilltekRacing.com team, has today given the VW Golf he plans to race in this year’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship its first run at Brands Hatch. Orpington-based Hollamby has spent the morning shaking down the ...

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Mar.10

AmD Milltek Racing enters 2010 BTCC with VW Golf
Our well kept secret is out, AmD Milltek Racing are entering the 2010 British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). The really interesting news is that our chosen car is a VW Golf, a manufacturer unseen in the BTCC arena for over 20 years. "We are ...

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