Jason Plato has vowed that provided the ✱'substantial' finances can be found, RML will follow the lead of Vauxhall rivals Triple Eight in moving to turbo-powered, 'next-generation' (NGTC) power for its Chevrolet Cruzes in the 2012 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship - and will 'blow everyone away'.

Defending champion ꧅Plato has regularly bemoaned the discrepancy between the turbo cars and non-turbo cars in the BTCC this year, and heading into the remaining two meetings🐭 of the season at Brands Hatch GP and Silverstone, he sits third in the title standings behind Honda Racing pairing Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden - and only in truth with an outside possibility of clinching a third series crown. Next year, he asserts, he intends to be competing on a far more level playing field.

"Theoretically, after a good win and a solid points score at Rockingham last weekend, I am still in with a shout of retaining my British Touring Car Championship title," the 43-year-old wrote in his column for The Sun, "but I know that - at best - it's unlikely unless series organisers TOCA continue tꦅo aim for engine performance parity between the turbo cars and my normally-aspirated Silverline Chevrolet Cruze.

"We might be in with a chance in the next round at Brands Hatch, but I'm sure in the series finale at Silverstone - a power🦹 circuit - I will be crushed, mushed, smashed and pulped by the turbos.

"That leaves me looking to next year already, and I can't sa🐠y I'm too sad about that because, if I'm really honest, I haven't enjoyed this year's racing as much as I have in previous seasons. It has been an uphill struggle from the ⛦word 'go' - and fraught with these annoying difficulties over parity between the various types of engine.

"However, if all goes to-plan, I will be back next year ready to kick butt. If RML can get all the inves💮tment we need꧑, which I have to say is substantial, we will be producing a turbo-powered, 'next-generation' Chevrolet Cruze - and, put simply, we will blow everyone away.

"I'm happy to go on-record as saying I hope to be driving for the team next year. There's no other team I want to drive for, as they are the greatest. If you look at RML and see what they've done with my chassis this year - and how they are dominating the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) with a similar car ꦫ- you'd have to say they are the best on planet earth. I love them to bits, and I know they love me. RML and yours truly will either be on the grid next year with a car that can win - or we won't be th🐻ere at all."

Contending that he 'belongs' in the BTCC - where the racing is 'the best-of-the-best' - Plato added that due to that as well as family and business ties, he has no interest in spreading his wings and branc♉hing out to compete in the WTCC, and he went on to reflect, finally, upon his 'slight disagreement' with his old 'pal' Neal at Rockingham.

"Matt and I had a good chinwag after the racing," he revealed, "and although we may have agreed to disagree - and there was plenty to disagree about - we both want to draw a line under the whole episode, move on a🌠nd go racing."