Mountune Racing and Team Aon take first pole position with an LPG engine in the BTCC

Mountune Racing, a part of the Performance Engineering division of Revolve Technologies, made history this weekend when the first pole position was recorded for an LPG powered vehicle in the British Touring Car Championship by Tom Chilton in the Mountune Racing powered Team Aon Ford Focus ST.

A superb laptime set by Tom Chilton on Saturday secured the historic first pole position in the BTCC in a vehicle powered by LPG, bringing ultra low emissions to the front of the grid in this branch of motorsport for the first time. Tom Onslow-Cole also recorded an excellent laptime, starting on the second row of the grid.

Mountune Racing has been working steadily since the end of 2009, developing and refining the new race engine, working closely with both Team Aon and the team’s new fuel supplier Calor and their LPG injection hardware colleagues at Prins in order to develop a competitive race engine fuelled by LPG.

The Mountune Racing Ford Focus LPG 2 litre Duratec engine is an evolution of the engine that the team used successfully in the latter half of the 2009 season.

The LPG injection system and turbocharger complete the major changes from the 2009 spec engine.

Roger Allen, General Manager at Mountune Racing commented, “We are pleased that we have been able to contribute towards greener motorsport by the development of a competitive race engine fuelled by LPG, which was confirmed with Saturday’s impressive results.

Come Sunday, Mountune Racing celebrated an historic race weekend at Brands Hatch with the first British Touring Championship win for an ultra low emissions LPG powered engine in the Mountune Racing powered Team Aon Ford Focus ST.

The win also marked Ford’s return to the BTCC podium’s top step for the first time in nearly a decade.

The weekend started off superbly, with Tom Chilton once again securing pole position on Saturday afternoon for the second week in a row. Success continued on Sunday with wins for both Team Aon drivers, Tom Chilton and Tom Onslow-Cole, in the first and second races of the day.

Roger Allen, General Manager at Mountune Racing commented, "We are looking forward to continuing working with both Team Aon and Calor as the season continues and are hoping to build upon this weekend’s success."