Having finally secured a seꦍquential gearbox for his BMW 320i, Martyn Bell will be aiming to make further progress when the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship arrives at Thruxton for the fourth round of the year.

After a tough start to the season at Brands Hat♊ch and Mondello Park, Bell enjoyed his best weekeꦫnd so far in the series at Oulton Park last time out, qualifying on the second row of the grid in difficult conditions and racing with the rest of the pack for the first time.

However, the H-pattern endu💖rance gearbox in his car continued to cause problems throughout the weekend in Cheshire but it has now been replaced - leaving Bell in confident mood heading to the quickest circuit on the calendar.

"Yeah I'm looking forward to it, especially with the weather forecast being dry," he told ltxcn.top Radio. "It's a good circuit and one that should suit the BMW a lot as I'll be able to really pin 🌠its lugs back on theꦬ back straight, plus I'll finally be running a sequential gearbox.

"The gಞearbox should hopefully bolt on some time without too 🧸much effort. With the H-Pattern box, when you have so many gear changes in a lap, it can be very easy to select the wrong gear and the hotter the gearbox was getting, the more often you were getting a fifth instead of a third - especially out of a hairpin.

"I'm looking forward to being able tꦉo take my mind off the gearbox and concentrate on my lines and things like that. I'm very confident and I think we'll be ok."

Having made stepꦚs forward last time out, Bell was also clear on his aims f♊or the coming weekend.

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