BTCC to embrace diesel with AFM entry

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship is set to get its first diesel powered car after Rick Kerry confirmed that the BMW 120 he plans to campaign for his debut season will be powered by a diesel engine.

Kerry, who won the BMW Kumho Series last season, was originally set to enter the car with West Suffolk Racing but has now formed his own team – AFM Racing – to run the 120d, which has previously competed in the German based VLN series before being converted into Super 2000 specification for its BTCC debut.

"We can now reveal that we will be running a diesel car," an excited Kerry told Crash.net. "We are hoping to be the first diesel to run and as far as I am aware – and unless something else comes in – then that should be the case. So for us, it's the BMW 120d that has been used in the VLN series and has raced in the 24 Hours of Dubai and at the Nurburgring.

"We've received the motorsport kit from BMW and at the moment we are about 70 per cent of the way through the build of the car. We've now formed our own team, AFM Racing, and we are going to run the car from here in Ipswich with the newly formed team. We've sent all the entry forms off for the BTCC, the budget is in place and we are moving forward." More at Crash.net