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Never say never again: 97-time winner rips up the rulebook as he returns to the sport as a team owner

"We want to create the finest racing team ever for a national championship. We want to take the British Touring Car Championship by storm and be incredibly successful. We want to dominate and blow everyone's doors off – and that's what we will do."

Yes, in case you haven't noticed, Jason Plato is back in the BTCC. And he's being, well, very 'Jason Plato' about it. The two-time champion, who won a record 97 races as the overblown character fans both loved and hated (often at the same time), retired from driving at the end of 2022 and consistently made it very clear, in his preferred brand of colourful language, that he had zero interest in making the transition to team ownership.