10.05.06 TURVEY RETURNS TO FORMULA BMW Oliver Turvey will rejoin the Formula BMW UK Championship from round seven at Brands Hatch on 21st May, having been signed to spearhead the new Team Loctite operation. World leading high performance adhesives company Loctite has joined forces with Trevor Powell, who recently sold his Team SWR squad to Nigel Mansell, to create a new outfit that will contest the remainder of the Formula BMW season before stepping up to British Formula Three. Alongside his Formula BMW races, 19-year-old Turvey will carry out a testing programme in Team Loctite's Dallara-Mugen Honda F3 machine. The expectation is that he will contest late season rounds of the British F3 series in the National Class in preparation for a full Championship Class campaign in 2007. Turvey drove for Powell's previous Formula BMW team in 2004, winning at Rockingham, before returning for a partial season the following year, when he scored a string of podium finishes and took eighth in the championship despite missing several races for financial reasons. "Oliver has always been a superb driver and a real pleasure to work with," Powell said. "But in previous years he never had the budget to make the most of his talent. "Now with Loctitle behind him, Oliver finally has the support that he deserves and will be able to compete on a much more equal footing than before." Although Turvey is extremely unlikely to feature in the Formula BMW championship battle having missed the opening six rounds, he will surely be contending for race victories from the outset, given his undoubted ability and his experience of the category. << back to news