Adam Weaver Power Maxed Racing - BTCC Launch Day - Brands Hatch - 08 April 2026

Adam Weaver Power Maxed Racing - BTCC Launch Day - Brands Hatch - 08 April 2026

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Adam, good to see you. We just stepped out of the sunshine because it's too warm. Yeah, it's lovely here at Brandsatz today. Great day to start the season. Looking forward to this season, uh new challenges all round, but uh particularly after what happened last year, an immense effort by you and the team to get these cars on the grid.

SPEAKER_01 0:17

Yeah, the boys and girls at Paramount Racing have worked incredibly hard all last year to be honest, you know, from the fire in August, getting us back out on the grid and then having to design and build new cars, find new premises to build those cars in, and it's we haven't slept a lot, we haven't had many days off to be honest. So you know, I'm I'm very, very hopeful that we we um get the results out on track to reward everybody for their efforts. A good, uh very competent, talented driver lineup as well. Yeah, I think across the board, across three drivers, it's probably our strongest driver lineup to date. You know, we've got two race winners in the team, we've got somebody else in Dexter Patterson that should be able to challenge and win the Jack Sears trophy, and I strongly believe that he'll get his first win with PMR.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

What have you made of the new qualifying format?

SPEAKER_01 1:05

I was one of the guys behind kind of suggesting it. You know, I'm very much about racing. You know, I find find Saturdays quite boring to be honest. It's um, you know, I'm a I'm a fan at heart, grew up at the side of a racetrack, and you know, we're from a spectator point of view, it's kind of standing around on a Saturday, you know. So um for us to actually have something that resembles a qualification and then go straight into a race, I think it's great, it's great for the fans. And you know, the the circuit comes alive on a Sunday, so if we can if we could get even a quarter of the people here on a Saturday versus a Sunday, I think it'll be fantastic for everybody.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

With the extra points that are available now, I think it's a hundred over the season, isn't it? In the uh the qualifying uh race, it's going to start to close things up a bit. I mean it sort of makes it feel like more than half the grid could be in the top five or top ten quite quickly.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Yeah, I think it's great though because the the people that maybe haven't scored the points that that they they wanted to, or maybe don't normally kind of score, they can take a load more risk in maybe that qualifying race or that that sprint race, I suppose. Um, and you know, those people in the championship maybe need to take a little bit more thought, you know, do I let this person pass the little easier so that I can get double points in tomorrow's race? I'd it'd be better to start third and get double points tomorrow than to potentially not finish this race at all and start at the back. So I think um for some of the you know, let's say the younger guys, the people that haven't been on the podium, like like Dexter, I think they'll be able to take a few more risks and kind of uh you know fight for not only some points but a better starting position for tomorrow's full points race.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

It makes for some interesting sort of uh weekend strategy planning decisions, doesn't it? Now we've got an extra variable.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

I think you can strategize all you like, but I don't think it ever goes to plan, you know, you've got to make the decisions when you're out on the circuit and do and I I'm a I'm a big believer in you know you need to take the points that are available to you right there and then because you you could do something and almost concede on a position for the benefit of the next race, and then you have a mechanical failure and you don't finish the next race there. Um I think you always take the points that are on offer right now.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

Let's just briefly look ahead to uh the sort of summer break. We've got four weekends, haven't we? And then the summer break, where would you like to be by that time? Leading the championship. I would expect no less. I mean that's a serious aspiration for you, isn't it, this year? I mean, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

Yeah, I mean we've always always come here to to win races and to challenge for championships, you know. We we may well have not had the right drivers, the right budget, or a combination of the two over the years. So, you know, there's a lot of factors that come into you know doing well in this championship. But I know the quality of the team that we've got, I know the quality of the cars that we've built in the past and we've built now. You know, we are capable of being at the front. You know, uh that's what we're here. I I for me, I think the goal always is to go into the last round and be mathematically capable of winning the championship. That doesn't matter if we're we're we're seventh and still have a mathematical chance of winning the championship. That might mean that two or three people need to not finish races, that's fine. But um and it's unlikely to happen. But as long as that's the dream really, to on that last day to have a chance of winning the championship, you know, and uh uh if we can do that enough times, one day we will win the championship. Absolutely. Good to catch up with you. Have a great season, Alan. Really appreciate it, Steve, thank you.