SWINDON’S Simon Belcher is looking to continue his fine start to the 2015 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season this weekend at Donington Park.

Posting a career-best top 15 result in the third of last weekend’s races at Brands Hatch, Belcher heads into rounds four, five and six full of confidence.

Having made excellent strides with the performance and handling of his Handy Motorsport Toyota Avensis during the pre-season, including a positive run at Donington during the ‘Media Day’ test last month, the second year BTCC racer says bigger steps are possible when racing resumes next Sunday.

“Donington is a great track, I love racing there and I’m really looking forward to being back in the car so soon after Brands,” said Belcher.

“Aside from any unforeseen problems I’m sure we’re going to be competitive and able to continue the good start we made to the season last weekend.

“We didn’t hit our aim in qualifying at Brands, I wanted to be in the top 20 but we know we made a bit of a mistake with a judgment on the weather which didn’t work out. I’m confident the pace was there to achieve it though.

“The races were great, especially race three, and now we’ve taken that top 15 the target has to be to try and repeat that at Donington and keep moving forward.”

Going into the second event of the season, Belcher is in the great position of having already scored his first outright championship point of the season and in terms of the Independents Trophy battle he is currently in 13th place.

Handy Motorsport, meanwhile, is eighth in the Independents Team Trophy and 13th in the overall HiQ Teams Championship.

Following the usual pair of free practice sessions for the BTCC at Donington Park today, qualifying is provisionally scheduled to get underway at 15.35.

Live coverage of all three races will be screened on ITV4 with online streaming at www.itv.com