BTCC rookie joins 'Team Crash' at Wembley.

Crash.net will hope to benefit from the talents of HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship racer Tom Onslow-Cole in a special karting event to be held at Wembley Stadium on Monday [10 December].

The former Team RAC driver will join motoring editor Pete Wadsworth, motorsport editor Craig Llewellyn and BTCC editor Matt Salisbury in a four driver line-up for a race around the Race of Champions circuit - constructed inside the London stadium ahead of the annual end of season event on the weekend of 15/16 December.

Amongst other competing teams are two from BP and media teams from BBC Sport and Auto Express, with the twelve squads set to do battle in a two-hour endurance race around the ROC circuit.

In BTCC terms, Onslow-Cole continues to evaluate his options for the 2008 campaign after his departure from the WSR-run RAC team, which came at the end of a fine debut season where he won at Snetterton and finished tenth in the drivers' championship.

With a number of vacant seats still available, the 20-year-old admitted he wasn't totally sure of where he will race in 2008, but said he will definitely be on the grid.

"We haven't fallen out," he told the Wimbledon Guardian of his departure from Team RAC. "We have come to a mutual agreement for me to move on. I will be back in touring cars next season. I have had a taste for it and want more, but I am not 100 per cent sure who with.

"I have got to thank Team RAC for giving me the chance of a lifetime. I have had a fantastic year, but it is a big budget to find year-on-year. It is difficult to say when I will know what I'll be doing next year, but I would like think I will have something sorted early in 2008."

A full report into how we get on at Wembley - complete with any number of excuses we've gleaned from interviews conducted over the course of the year - will be published next week...