James Pickford, Macclesfield, paid the toll to cross the Forth Road Bridge and then ended up on his head, in the gravel and at the side of the track as he fought to win rounds 22/23/24 of the British Touring Car Championship at a very wet Knockhill this weekend.

Running 4th quickest at the time, James rolled his car during free practice on Saturday morning, when his steering failed. He only made the last few minutes of qualifying after his SEAT Sport UK team did a fantastic job to repair the badly damaged Toledo Cupra, qualifying 12th.

In torrential rain, race one ended at the side of the track as transmission problems forced James to park up at the entrance to the pit lane. Starting from the back of the grid in Round 23, James charged through the field ending up in multi-car battle for 10th place (pole in the final race due to the regulations). It was short lived as he was hit from behind by Fiona Leggate and spun off into retirement. His final race brought more bad luck when he spun out of the race on lap 21 due to problem with the steering caused by an earlier coming together with Dan Eaves.

"I thought we'd come here and get a good result, but it just hasn't happened. All three of us are on the limit but no matter what we do we just can't seem to find the pace here because our car doesn't really suit this circuit. My car's been through a lot this weekend. It's been on its roof during free practice, suffered transmission failure during the first race, then in the second I was driving for tenth position and got fired off and finally in the last race I was attacked by Dan Eaves twice in one corner which caused terrible oversteer and I ended up losing the rear as I turned into the first corner and spun off. So that's that really. It's hard to take any positives away from the weekend as the weather's been really bad and we've had so much bad luck, but I have to say that my team of mechanics and engineers has worked tremendously hard all weekend. It's just a shame they couldn't have been rewarded with some better results.” James reflected on his horrible weekend

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