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The British Touring Car Championship's mid-season break is usually a time of driver movement - and there's often more to the swaps than is apparent on the surface.

Matt James Jul 18, 2018, 11:35 AM

Upd: Jul 18, 2018, 12:59 PM

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July can quite often be a busy time for the British Touring Car Championship - even though it is mostly taken up by the series' now-traditional summer break, which allows the category's broadcaster ITV4 time to cover the three-week long Tour de France cycle race.

The reason it is busy is exactly because of the break (although it does incorporate the traditional in-season official two-day Dunlop tyre test at Snetterton). Teams get a chance to thoroughly overhaul their cars, but it is not just the machinery that can come under the spotlight.