<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nWhich brings us onto the subject in question. Touring cars. Race on a Sunday, sell on a Monday. Fire breathing, smash-and-grab action that’s been a fan favourite for a number of generations. So when we saw the opportunity to purchase Dan Eaves 2005 Honda Integra DC5<\/strong>, it was a no brainer for us being into our Honda’s and all.<\/p>\n The special thing about the British Touring Car Championship<\/strong> is that the cars are instantly recognisable to their road going counter parts – which is probably a major contributing factor to the popularity of the sport. However, when you look a little closer, there’s not much Integra left besides the iconic JDM silhouette.<\/p>\n Let’s talk a little bit about it’s racing career. Team Dynamics Motorsport<\/strong> faced a series of challenges ahead of the 2005<\/strong> British Touring Car Championship<\/strong>, forcing them to continue its development of the car well into pre-season testing. Eventually they’d built four cars with three of them to race. This meant that Team Halfords<\/strong> went into the 2005 season with no clear idea of how competitive the car was going to be.<\/p>\n It needn’t have worried though because the results were staggering; Matt Neal, Dan Eaves and Gareth Howell shared a record breaking season. The team wrapped up the drivers, teams, independent teams and drivers championships, in a record-breaking sweep that was one of the most successful seasons of any team in modern BTCC history.<\/p>\n In fact, the only trophy that it didn’t win that year was the manufacturers, which was the only one the team weren’t eligible for as a privateer.<\/p>\n This is chassis TD-02, which makes it the second car out of the four produced for the team and is the only one remaining in the UK, a fact confirmed by no one other than BTCC legend, Matt Neal.<\/p>\n Dan Eaves became the first ever BTCC driver to win all three races in it at Thruxton<\/strong> in an epic year that saw the 29-year old win from the rear of the reverse grid in race three of the weekend. He also took the fastest lap that day too.<\/p>\n Dan drove the car to another five victories that season, achieving five of the fastest laps too. He eventually finished third in the championship, behind Matt Neal and Yvan Muller.<\/p>\n The car was then used by Motorbase Performance<\/strong> in the 2006 season, where it sported a black and pink livery before being sold privately. As you can see from the images, it’s now been re-liveried back to it’s glory days at Team Halfords<\/strong> and has had a full tip-to-toe refurbishment, including an engine and gearbox rebuild carried out in the hands of In2Racing.\u00a0<\/strong>You’ll be glad to hear that the car still retains the period-correct K20 Neil Brown Engineering<\/strong> engine and it’s Xtrac sequential box<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Although we’re not 100% sure what our journey with this incredible car will be, we’re exploring the avenue of participating in some historic racing, potentially the HSCC Dunlop Saloon Car Cup<\/strong><\/a>, which we’re sure will be a sight to behold. In the meantime we’ll be giving the car a shakedown this Friday at Oulton Park, so if you’re free then don’t miss the chance to see it back in it’s home environment!<\/p>\n Finally, don’t forget to head to our YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a>, hit subscribe and turn notifications on as we’re planning on producing a whole range of content with this BTCC icon! You can check out our unloading video of it here:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nRacing Career<\/h4>\n
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