DOUBLE British Touring Car champion Jason Plato believes he and his Team BMR outfit have found the “gremlin” that had previously hampered his 2017 campaign.

The Oxford driver converted his 50th pole position in the championship into his first win for a year in the first race at Knockhill, and finished runner-up to factory Subaru Levorg teammate Ash Sutton in the second contest.

The series veteran swapped cars with Sutton for a back-to-back test at Donington Park during the summer break to try to resolve his early season problems.

“We found something in qualifying which we thought about, and it looked like we had a bit of a differential issue,” said Plato, who sits a season-high tenth in the drivers’ standings.

“We had a complete change of that unit – and the car’s a different machine now.”

l SUPER GT Championship race winner Sean Walkinshaw will make an unexpected debut in the high-profile Blancpain GT Series Asia this weekend.

The Chipping Norton driver will join the FIST Team AAI squad at Fuji – the venue of his maiden success in Super GT earlier this month.

Confirmed as teammate to fellow Silver graded driver Jesse Krohn, Walkinshaw forms part of the biggest grid of the season with 34 cars set to line-up at the legendary Japanese venue.