The GoMobileUK.com with Tech-Speed Motorsport team made a welcome return to the podium as the second half of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship kicked off at the new look Snetterton circuit.The Leamington Spa-based team went into the weekend eager to get its campaign back on track after a difficult start to the 2011 season, with Widnes-racer Paul O’Neill and Guernsey-based team-mate John George eager to impress in the latest three rounds of the year.Despite losing time in free practice with an oil leak, Paul qualified ninth on the grid at the wheel of his normally-aspirated Chevrolet Cruze but made up places when the lights went out for race one to sit seventh. A small mistake at Riches allowed Mat Jackson to get ahead with Paul then spending the remainder of the race battling with the turbo-powered Airwaves Ford ahead. Although the pair got ahead of Tom Chilton as the race wore on, Paul was unable to find a way ahead of Jackson and had to settle for seventh place at the finish.From the same position on the grid for race two, Paul slipped back to ninth during a chaotic opening lap around the newly extended circuit before starting to make up places when he got ahead of Tom Onslow-Cole into eighth. Problems for Matt Neal and Frank Wrathall allowed Paul to make up two additional places and he then battled past the SEAT of Dave Newsham to take fifth place and a slot on the second row of the grid for the final race thanks to the reverse grid draw.Holding position at the start of the final race, Paul then found himself stuck behind Newsham’s SEAT as he attempted to secure his best result of the season, with the Clio Cup champion forced to take a defensive approach to keep Paul’s Chevrolet at bay. Having finally got ahead at the Montreal hairpin on lap six, Paul was able to pull away from the SEAT man but was unable to challenge race leader Jackson, who had been able to build an advantage while Paul fought for second.However, the second place finish marked Paul’s best result of the season so far and has allowed him to consolidate his top ten championship position.“It’s been a good weekend,” he said. “I spoke to the team before we came here and we agreed that we had a chance to run towards the front if we got things right here because the chassis of the Chevrolet is so strong, and we got a good result in the first race which we were then able to build on in the two that followed.“The car was exceptional this weekend and I have to give credit to Vic my engineer and to Marvin for that. This is the first weekend where I can say that we’ve really been able to race against the turbo cars and I was actually able to overtake a car with a turbo engine in it. It’s not easy by any means as I think I was having to drive to new limits in the same way Jason [Plato] has had to. He came up to me after the final race and said he’d been able to learn a few things when he was behind me, which shows what a good job we’ve done.“On the grid before the first race, Marvin came on the radio and said ‘Go out there and enjoy it’. That’s exactly what I did and I made sure I never lost my focus behind the wheel and we’ve reaped the benefits. As I said before the weekend, our season starts now.”Team-mate John qualified 21st on the grid at the wheel of the sister car and a solid and consistent drive in the opening race of the weekend saw him come home to the finish in 19th place. With further progress up the order the aim for race two, John was quickly up to speed as he lapped a second quicker than he had done in race one on only his second lap. However, having moved up to 17th place, John was forced to retire on the eighth lap after being shown a black and orange flag by officials after contact with Andy Neate’s Ford saw him lose his rear wing.Unfortunately, John’s weekend would end in disappointment when he was forced to retire from the final race after clashing with the Vauxhall of Jeff Smith while making a move for position at Agostini on the fifth lap.The results of the Snetterton weekend have enabled GoMobileUK.com with Tech-Speed to close the gap to the teams ahead in both the HiQ Teams’ Championship and the Independents’ Team Trophy ahead of the next round of the season at Knockhill, with team manager Marvin Humphries pleased with the outcome of the weekend.“That is what we came here to do,” he said. “We know that we’ve made some mistakes in recent races and that things haven’t always gone our way, but we’ve worked hard this weekend and we got the result in race one that we could build on. We made progress every time we went on track and Paul drove bloody brilliantly to get onto the podium in race three; even Jason Plato admitted he couldn’t match him.“I think they now have it about right when it comes to parity between the normally-aspirated cars and the turbo cars and we are in the position we should have been in earlier in the season. It’s not easy, although it isn’t meant to be, but we’ve been able to fight against them this weekend and have come away with the results.”