The GoMobileUK.com with Tech-Speed team is focused on challenging for honours in the second half of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season after the 2011 campaign reached the half way point at Croft.As was the case at Oulton Park a fortnight earlier, Widnes-racer Paul O’Neill and Guernsey-based team-mate John George showed encouraging speed at the wheel of their normally aspirated Chevrolet Cruzes during the Croft race weekend, where O’Neill secured his seventh top ten finish of the campaign.Paul qualified eleventh on the grid for the opening race of the weekend, which was held on a wet circuit after rain during the morning. With the rain having stopped before the race got underway, Paul elected to gamble on a mix of slick and wet tyres on his Chevrolet on what was a drying circuit, although he lost places early on to those cars running on wets all round. However, as conditions improved, Paul was able to make the most of his tyre choice to come back through the field to finish ninth.Although he lost places at the start of a dry second race, Paul quickly fought his way back up to eighth with a series of quick laps, with his Chevrolet one of the quickest cars on track as he battled for position with the Ford of Tom Chilton. However, a clash of wheels at the hairpin on lap ten damaged the rear suspension on the Cruze and forced Paul to return to the pits to retire.Starting towards the back of the field for race three as a result, Paul lost places after being forced off by Lea Wood on the second lap but the fans favourite was again able to make the most of the speed of the Cruze to start climbing back through the pack. However, in an almost carbon copy of race two, Paul was forced to retire late on after clashing wheels with a rival car at the hairpin.At the half way point of the season, Paul sits tenth in the championship standings and is sixth amongst the independents.“In the first race we took the gamble on tyres but we couldn't quite get the heat into the slicks until later in the race,” he said. “However, I'm not sure the end result would have changed if we'd been on full wets, as all it meant was we were struggling for grip at the start while the others struggled at the end.“In race two, the car felt really good and we had strong pace, but when I went down the inside of Chilton at the hairpin, we just touched wheels. I've probably done that move 15 times in the past few years and not had a problem. In race three, it was a carbon copy.“We don’t deserve some of the luck we have had so far this season but we can’t change what has happened and have to look forwards. We are still learning the car and continue to make progress every weekend, as we could see in race two before the retirement. It all looks good for the second half of the season and we saw last year that it was after the summer break that the Cruze really came on song.”Team-mate John qualified 23rd on the grid in the sister car but was an early retirement from the opening race of the weekend after going off in the wet conditions and hitting the tyre barriers. The impact with the tyres left John with an injured thumb that was attended to prior to the second race, where he was able to line up towards the rear of the field after the Tech-Speed team worked hard to repair the damaged Cruze.Despite his injured thumb causing plenty of pain every time he went to change gear, John steadily worked his way up the order and – despite losing places after an incident mid-way through the race – secured a solid 14th place finish from race two.Another solid drive despite the injury in race three saw John take the flag in 17th and he will now look to work his way towards the top ten when racing resumes at Snetterton in August.“The incident in race one really handicapped me for the rest of race day as my thumb was extremely painful when I was changing gears, especially on the downshift,” he said. “There had been quite a bit of damage to the car after the incident and the boys did a great job to get me out on track for the second race of the weekend.“I’m a bit disappointed that we didn’t achieve more this weekend, but I didn’t quite have the pace. We’ve got a seven week break now before Snetterton so I need to work with the team to see what I can do to improve myself and the car as a package and then come out stronger and faster in the second half of the season.”