SEAT names new team manager.
SEAT Sport UK has announced that Jonathan Heynes is to make a return to the British Touring Car Championship paddock in the role of race team manager.
The 31-year-old previously had an involvement in the BTCC after setting up his own team - HTML - in 2000, with Simon Harrison and Roger Moen finishing first and third in the now defunct production class back in 2001, the same season that SEAT driver Jason Plato clinched his own drivers' championship crown while driving for Vauxhall.
SEAT Sport UK has announced that Jonathan Heynes is to make a return to the British Touring Car Championship paddock in the role of race team manager.
The 31-year-old previously had an involvement in the BTCC after setting up his own team - HTML - in 2000, with Simon Harrison and Roger Moen finishing first and third in the now defunct production class back in 2001, the same season that SEAT driver Jason Plato clinched his own drivers' championship crown while driving for Vauxhall.
While Heynes will be working with Plato for the first time, he knows the former champion's SEAT Sport UK team-mate well, having run a Pontiac Grand Prix car for Darren Turner in 2002. In that season, Turner won six ASCAR races at Rockingham, including a sensational last to first victory. Heynes continued to run in ASCAR for the next three years, before going into motorsport management and consultancy in 2005 and he also runs his own performance sports car dealership, Bahn Stormers Ltd, in Cirencester.
"It's great to be back in the British Touring Car Championship with such an exciting new challenge," he said. "There is a great team spirit within SEAT Sport UK and I'm really looking forward to the season ahead."
