Jordan to support air ambulance.

As a way of saying thank you for airlifting him to hospital on Finals Day at Silverstone back in October, Mike Jordan is to support the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance during the 2007 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.

Jordan will carry stickers for the air ambulance on his Honda Integra throughout the season in an arrangement unveiled at the annual media day at Rockingham - when the air ambulance flew in to give Jordan the chance to meet up with the crew who had carried him to hospital after his high-speed Silverstone shunt.

"They operate on all external money and they don't get any government funding," Jordan said. "We're just trying to give them a little bit of help. It's a good way for us to say thank you.

"After the trip in the helicopter, it didn't really matter where we ended up in the times during the afternoon testing. Flying the air ambulance is a proper job that really makes a difference to people's lives. That was the best and fastest helicopter I've ever flown in and the chance to fly in it again was quite touching."

During the test session itself, Jordan posted the second fastest time behind the Vauxhall Vectra of Fabrizio Giovanardi, with the Team Eurotech man being easily the quickest of the BTC-spec runners.

However, despite being understandably pleased with the pace shown, Jordan said there wasn't much more to come from the package and he expected others on the grid to be quickly up to speed.

"We're delighted with that," he said. "It shows that going into our second season in the BTCC we've hit the ground running and I'm not surprised that we've been fast straightaway.

"We're maxed out; that's pretty much it. That's not a picture of how things will be when we get to the first round at Brands Hatch as the other teams will certainly raise their games over the next couple of weeks. We've just got to wait for the others to edge up on us."

The Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance needs ?1.4 million each year to cover operating costs and averages between four and five trips each day. In three and a half years, there have only been two days without any call outs, and 65 per cent of its work is in response to road accident. A number of calls are motorsport related and the busiest day on record included 15 call outs.