Tony Gilham has announced his Team HARD outfit will revert back to Volkswagen machinery f🌄or next year's British Touring Car Championship campaign.

Team𝐆 HARD previously introduced the VW CC to the BTCC during 2013, before taking a sabbaticalღ from the series in 2014 and returning to run the Toyota Avensis for the past two years.

Tom Onslow-Cole took the Team HARD prepared VW to three podium finishes during its debut campaign before Team BMR and, more recentlyᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ, Team BKR took the mantle of running the CC.

Having stated the trio of CCs will be upgraded with the RML specification kit, Gilham says his Team HARD outfit has unfinished business with the Volkswagen progღramme.

BKR continued to the run the Volk🅠swagen this season, but 𒀰did so using the older GPRM control kit rather than the newer RML components.

"Bringing the VWs ﷽to the BTCC was our brainchild back in 2011, so it feels like we have some unfinished business with them," said Gilham.

"It was a good car out of the box then and was still winning races last season with the older kit 𓆉onboard. Now we plan to update all three VWs to the RML-spec over the winte🤡r and believe we'll have a really strong package.

"We're coming off the back ꦐof a solid year with three older cars, but now we feel we're ready to step up and become extre🎉mely competitive.

"A number of our staff were also part of the original build project so of course there is a strong bond too. We looked at many options, however, and ma🐓de this call because we believe they'll be race-winning machines in our hands.

"To potentially bui🌠ld and develop new cars at the same time as carrying out the RML upgrades would have been a massive ta💃sk."

With reference to the 2017 driver 🌺market, Gilham said that the team has already signed one driver for next season while holding talks with further interested parties for the two remaining seats.

"We've already signed one drivꦏer, which will be annou꧂nced in due course, and we're speaking to further interested parties over the coming weeks in relation to the two vacant seats," Gilham continued.

"It's great for Team HARD to have secured this deal so early in the winter as it gives ౠus the time required to prepare properl🃏y for what I'm sure will be another exciting and successful season ahead for us."