Tom Onslow-Cole has enjoyed a fine season with VX Racing after moviಞng to the factory Vauxhall team for his sec𒀰ond year in the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship.

Onslow-Cole took a dramatic double wi🍸n at Thruxton and lies sixth in the championship standings at the half-way point of the season, just five points behind third placed Mat Jack💦son.

Here, Onslow-Cole answe💝rs questions posted by you on a range of 🐽subjects...

Q - James Nelson:
Has this se🅘ason gone better than you expected after jꦚoining Vauxhall?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
If I'm honest, I expected to be up front, seeing as VX Racing is such a successful team. It's got to be hard to fail when you are surrounded by sꦐuch a class outfit, with drivers as successful as Fabrizio and Matt.

Q - Trebor901:
Do you ever think you're dreaming when you see you're in a team with Giovanardi and Matt N𒐪eal?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
Yes for sure, it really is an unbelievable package that I'm involved in. To be racinꦡg 🧸for the champions, in the championship winning car, alongside multiple championship winning team-mates really is a dream come true!

Q - Trebor901:
Who was your touring ca𝔍r hero when yoꩵu weren't racing?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
Uncle Matt... he was 🌜and still is awesom❀e, and it's a real pleasure to be working along side him now!

Q - David C:
How coꦍme you didn't test with Matt and Fabrizio this w🐷eek?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
Tꦆhe testing progr♍amme was easily covered by the other two drivers.

Q - Gemma Chapman:
If you had to c🥃hoose a BTCC team to drive for (alongsi🦹de VXR, you can't choose them), who would it be and why?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
I guess it would have to be SEAT, as at the moment I believe they are the c💜losest match to us in the championship. Seat would provide me with the next best chance of winning races... behind VX Racing of course!

Q - Gemma Chapman:
Iౠf you weren't being a racing driver what would you do?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
That's a really tough one as I've never even though ab🍸out doing anything else. Motorsport has been my life for as long as I can remember, so I think I would still be involved in some way.

Q - Ricky Page:
Hello Tom, you must remember me from the TKM days....Rick Page. Reckon you can beat me now?! Nice to see you're living the dream. Haven't done any karting for years but things are looking good for a drive in Clio Cup soon, went to Buckmore recently just to 𒈔make sure I hadn't lost it...

How did you find the jump 🧸from karting to🤡 cars? Best of luck to ya mate.

Tom Onslow-Cole:
Long time✃ no see buddy, glad to see you're close to making the move into the Clio's. For me the transition wasn't too hard. I went from karts to RWD T-cars, and managed to carry over a lot of what I already knew. The jump into FWD was tough though, it took me quite a while to nail the technique.

Q - Claire Jenkins:
Both your team-mates are going to Australia to race at Bathurst later iℱn the year. Is that a race you would like to do in 🍃the future?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
I wo♋uld absolutely love to race at Bathurst, the Aussie V8 looks like an amazing bit⭕ of kit and Bathurst has to be one of the most exciting tracks around! I'm hoping to go out there to spectate this year.

Q - Alex:
Hi Tom. How do you feel about the TDi Leon and its ultra high top speed? ൩Do you think they should get a rev limiter like in the WTCC?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
I'm not so sure of the technical ins-and-outs, but I do enjoy racing with them. They seem to have made really good progress with the handling of the car so I e🥀xpect them to be really tough competition for this second half of this season!

Q - Kickin Griffin VXR:
Who are your favourite drivers i🐭n WTCC? You've done a great job for VXR so far, keep it up!

Tom Onslow-Cole:
Firstly I would have to say Huffy, as he was my first ma🐎jor driver coach and influence in salon cars. Also Yvan, for his amazing car control and speed, and of course Andy Priaulx just for being the legend that he is!

Q - Emma Tennant:
What to do you do to chill out when you're ﷽not workingꦿ or racing?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
I spend a lot of my time training and also socialising with my friends, I find both really good for unwindin💜g.

Q - Ali Linley:
How do you find the transition from driving your race car to then driving your🎐 road car!

Tom Onslow-Cole:
Very tame, I find I'm pretty chilled out on the road... especially after a tough race day. In my first year in T-cars and Clio's I would be away racing all weekend, and then have 🅠to come home and ride my BMX! That used to be very frustrating!

Q - Les:
I went to testing 𒆙at Snetterton and was surprised only two Vauxhall were out there. Why didn't you go out 𝓡for a while - or did you?

Great year - lovely to see y🍨ou do so well. Carry on the good work for many years to come.

Tom Onslow-Cole:
The testing programme was easily covꦜered by the o🥃ther two drivers. I was around, but not in a car!

Q - Steven:
Do you feel more at ꦿhome in the Vectra with it beꦏing front-wheel drive than you did in the BMW?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
Yes for sure, I immediately got on well with the Vectra VXR and very quickly felt at home. I think🅠 that's simply because I've spent a lot more time in FWD than I have in RWD.

Q - Craig Lambert:
Is there any race in partic⭕ular that you'd love theꦅ chance to do if you could like Le Mans or the Indy 500?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
For me that would have to be Daytona. I have a big interest in NASCAR and as you probably know, 𓃲Daytona is quite simply the daddy of all NASCAR races!

Q - Alfie:
Would you consider🗹 a switch to the World Touring Car Championship with, say, GM counterparts Chevrolet, or stick it out with Vauxhall and challenge 𒁏for the title in 2009 (provided you don't win it this year that is!)??

Tom Onslow-Cole:
WTCC is definitely on the list of things I'd like to do in my career, but my main focus will be win♔ning the BTCC before I✅ move on to anything else!

Q - crazy fooool!:
If you started again, would you have chosen a similar route with your motorsport career, or would you ওhave maybe tried out single-seaters/sportscars instead??

Tom Onslow-Cole:
I would definitely have us▨ed the same route; touring cars have always been my dream since I first started my racing career. I always find the racing in the BTCC very action packed, and that's what I really enjoy. The equipment used in high end single seaters and sports car races is unbelievable, but I just don't feel that the racing is as exciting.

Q - Boo:
It's raining, you're going at high-💦speed coming down the Revett Straight at Snetterton and about to attack tricky the left, rightꦕ Esses. But someone is exactly alongside you and is equally determined to take the place.

If you could pick any driver you wouldn't w🦩ant to be alongside you at that moment, who would it be??

Tom Onslow-Cole:
Either of my team mates! That s🤡ounds like a very risky situation and there is a very ♐strict red on red contact policy!

Q - Gordon Shumway:
Hi Tom, what's your ultimate racing ambiti🍒on? Do you see yourself staying in♔ the BTCC for a while, or do you fancy taking on the WTCC boys too at some point in the future? Is there any other category of racing you'd be interested in competing in too?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
BTCC is definitely my main focus for now, but I hop💎e to move on to WTCC at some point in the future, and ♓then hopefully end up in America in NASCAR. That's my dream!

Q - Lisa:
Is there 🅰any racing car you would love to try out if you had the♑ chance?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
Definitely has to be a NASCAR!

Q - Michael Evans:
What's the best piece of advice you've ever been gi𒐪ven?

Tom Onslow-Cole:
When I was first learning to dr🐈ive in the Clio's, Rob Huff taught me to drive with a very lose finger tip grip and that's definitely something that has seen me through in everything I've driven since.