MG6 to join British Touring Car in 2012

Industry News | Ash | January 25, 2012 at 8:48 pm

MG will be seeing its MG6 off to the race tracks later in 2012 with the MG6 GT (the fastback in the UK) joining the British Touring Car race series in 2012 for a period of three years.

Jason Plato and Andy Neate have been signed up as drivers for the new cars and will race under the MG KX Momentum Racing banner, Triple Eight Race Engineering have been tasked with making the MG6 GT up to Touring Car specification and will use the standard 2.0 Touring Car Engine.

MG’s last Touring Car win came in 2006 before the former company, MG-Rover, went into bankruptcy.

Picture from Auto Sport News.

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