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Jonathan Adam tests Motorbase Performance Focus

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Former BTCC driver Jonathan Adam has tested the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST at Brands Hatch, sparking speculation the 26-year-old may be in the frame for a third car for the second half of the season.

Adam, who was voted by TouringCarTimes readers as the Best Rookie Driver in all touring car series in 2009, was testing the team’s Mountune-powered Ford Focus ST at Brands Hatch along with independents’ points leader Mat Jackson and Motorbase’s Porsche Carrera Cup driver, George Richardson.

Adam previously raced for Motorbase Performance in the BTCC back in 2009 for Motorbase. The team was then in their second year with the rear-wheel drive BMW 320si, and had signed Adam to join the team after he’d won the UK SEAT Cupra Championship in two consecutive years.

“I’ve kept in contact with Dave, it was like walking back to a few years ago,” said Adam to TouringCarTimes.

“The same people are there but they’ve moved on so much. Obviously they’ve moved on car wise, with the Focus this year, but the team is so much stronger.”

“There’s racing on this weekend at Brands so there was a lot of traffic out there, we were trying some bits and pieces that the guys have been working on since the break from Croft.”

Motorbase Performance purchased all three of Arena Motorsport’s Ford Focus STs during the off season (Arena never raced the third car), and the Kirkaldy driver whom currently competes in the British GT championship in an Aston Martin DBRS9 was coy on his chances of racing with the team for the last half of the year.

“We’ll have to wait and see really,” said Adam. “Today was just a test…we’re kind of speaking at the moment but it all boils down to 1. the finance to do it…but there’s a spares package on top of that, because obviously to run three cars is a lot more difficult than running two.”

“I’d love to rejoin Motorbase, because it’s a great team and a great bunch of boys, and also I really enjoyed the Focus, it’s very much back where I came from really from the front-wheel drive situation in the SEAT and Clio championships.”