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Young Honda Technicians Practice in BTCC

The British division of Honda decided to offer two young technicians the chance to further develop their mechanical skills by offering them a spot in the Honda Racing Team at selected BTCC rounds this season. The two lucky apprentices are Alex Knight (19) and John Couldridge (21).

Knight is in the final year of his three-year apprenticeship with Honda (UK) and has already helped prepare Honda’s race cars at the first three Touring Car rounds at Brands Hatch, Donington and Thruxton.

“I’ve always wanted to be involved in motorsport, so this is an incredible opportunity,” said Knight. “The season opener at Brands was a real baptism of fire as Gordon Shedden had an accident in free practice and the car needed repairing before the race!

“I’ve loved every single minute of it so far and have an enormous amount of respect for the race team technicians – they work so hard.  They have all made me feel incredibly welcome and the amount I’ve learned in such a short space of time is mind-blowing.”

Peter Crolla, Honda Racing Team Manager, has been really impressed by Knight, so much that he already sees him as one of the team.

On the other hand, Couldridge graduated from Honda’s acclaimed apprentice programme in 2009, will be joining the team for the first time at Oulton Park on June 4-5. “Cars are my passion and BTCC is such an exciting competition,” he explains. “I’ve spoken to Alex about his experiences so far and I can’t wait to join the team and learn new things in a totally different environment.”

One of them will be selected to compete in the 'Automobile Technology’ skills category within the UK Team, against 50 other nations.
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