1990 as race team base west thurrock united kingdom team principal s shaun hollamby current series btcc former series dunlop sportmaxx cup current drivers mike bushell nicolas hamilton jake hill drivers championships dunlop sportmaxx cup 2009 simon shaw website amd tuning essex amd technik essex also known as automotive developments is a british car tuning company and auto racing team . contents 1 history 2 btcc 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was formed in 1987 specialising in the volkswagen audi marque forming their own vw backed race team in 1990 . 1 they went on to win many championships with amd built and tuned volkswagen golfs . the company now offers tuning parts for most european cars . for the 2008 & 2009 season amd ran seat le ns in the dunlop sportmaxx cup and won the championship in 2009 with simon shaw driving . btcc edit in 2010 amd essex under the name amd milltek racing raced in the british touring car championship running a volkswagen golf mk5 driven by their managing director shaun hollamby . the car was previously run in the baltic touring car championship . the team remained in the series in 2011 with tom onslow cole campaigning the golf for the first four rounds of the season running with a lehmann built ngtc engine . on sunday 5 june following race 2 of round four at oulton park onslow cole announced he would be leaving the team following the final race of the day . given the sudden circumstances amd milltek took the decision not to field the car for the final round of the day . a day later it emerged that onslow cole was to return to his previous team aon ford to run a third car . in the following week it was announced that managing director shaun hollamby would pilot the car at round five at croft to give the team longer to find an appropriate replacement for onslow cole . after croft hollamby announced his retirement from high level motorsport . 2 for the remainder of the 2011 season the team signed former renault clio cup champion martin byford to drive the car . 3 at the autosport international show amd announced that ollie jackson would be driving for the team during the 2012 season . 4 references edit about amd technik . amd technik essex ltd. archived from the original on 15 january 2010 . retrieved 20 january 2010 . hollamby retires from driving . gpupdate.net . jhed media bv . 20 june 2011 . retrieved 2 january 2015 . amd milltek signs byford to drive golf . gpupdate.net . jhed media bv . 8 july 2011 . retrieved 2 january 2015 . o leary jamie 12 january 2012 . ollie jackson joins amd for 2012 btcc campaign . autosport . haymarket publications . retrieved 2 january 2015 . external links edit official website http www.amdessex.com btcc.blog.cfm http www.btccpages.com news 1 1678 new team brings vw golf to 2010 btcc http www.racecar engineering.com news cars 438063 volkswagen joins btcc grid.html http www.crash.net btcc news 155825 1 amd reveals volkswagen btcc plans.html http www.autosport.com news report.php id 80796 v t e teams and drivers competing in the 2016 british touring car championship silverline subaru team bmr racing motorbase performance handy motorsport rcib insurance racing dextra racing laser tools racing 4 . turkington 20 . cole 39 . scott 99 . plato 7 . m. jackson 77 . jordan 11 . austin 12 . epps 24 . hill 14 . martin 16 . moffat goodestone racing tlc racing eurotech racing halfords yuasa racing team ihg rewards club wix racing 17 . welch 22 . smiley 23 . lloyd 30 . depper 55 . j. smith 25 . neal 52 . shedden 57 . neate 31 . goff 33 . morgan team bkr amd tuning power maxed racing mg 888 racing speedworks motorsport maximum motorsport 38 . howard 40 . . smith 48 . o. jackson 54 . abbott 84 . fletcher 66 . cook 116 . sutton 80 . ingram 303 . simpson 95 . lines team jct600 with gardx 100 . collard 600 . tordoff this motorsport related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title amd essex & oldid 739137791 categories british auto racing teamsbritish touring car championship teamsbritish gt championship teamsauto racing stubshidden categories use dmy dates from july 2015use british english from july 2015all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 00 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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