Breaking news yesterday from Leo Nulty Promotions, BTCC Champion Colin Turkington will drive Keogh’s Farm Celebrity car at this weekend’s Tool Dynamics Supercar Championship in Kirkistown.
Colin’ a Northern Ireland auto racing driver, has a whole host of achievements under his belt from his time driving in the British Touring Car Championship for Team BMR.
Colin was the British Touring Car Champion while driving for Team RAC in 2009 and eBay Motors in 2014.
Colin began his racing career in the Ulster Karting series back in 1993. He moved on to the Northern Irish Metro Championship in 1998, where he won his first title and then on to the Ford Credit Fiesta Zetec Championship on mainland Britain in 1999, winning the title in 2001.
(Credit: Leo Nulty Promotions) Colin Turkington: “‘It’s been eleven years since I last raced at Kirkistown in a one off event, but I have to cast my mind back even further to 1998 and my first year of saloon car racing in the Northern Ireland Metro Championship. I’m really looking forward to driving the ASK Supercar for the first time and my aim is to just enjoy the experience. I must a huge thanks to Alan Kessie for the opportunity to race and I’m sure we’ll have fun!”
You can see Colin in action this coming Saturday in rounds 4 and 5 of the Tool Dynamics Supercar Championship at Kirkistown.
Published 25/05/16 by Mark McCluskey
Image Credit: Motorsports.ie
Story Credit: Leo Nulty Promotions