The eBay Motors Team was the talk of the paddock as the class of 2013 were unveiled at yesterdays British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) launch day at Donington Park. The newly designed eBay Motors BMW drew a large crowd of media and fans as the garage door opened and the car entered the pit lane to a buzz of excitement. The talk of BTCC has been the return of Colin Turkington after his 2009 Championship winning season and it was straight back to business alongside his teammates Rob Collard and Nick Foster.Following the teams own launch event in Richmond-upon-Thames last week, the BTCCs media day provided the public with its first opportunity to see the striking new NGTC-spec BMW 125i M-Sport that will carry the eBay Motors colours this season, with all three drivers taking to the track against their rivals in the only official pre-season test.Former champion Colin Turkington emerged as the quickest of the three eBay Motors men on what was his first day behind the wheel of the car he will race during the season ahead.With the car only completed at the circuit after the eBay Motors team worked into the early hours of the morning to get it ready for the event, Turkington treated the initial stages of the four-hour long afternoon test session as a shakedown before bringing his lap times down to end the day tenth on the time sheets, just 1.2 seconds down on pace-setter Andrew Jordan.I had a good feeling with the car towards the end of the day, he said. We are still finding our feet with the NGTC car and we didnt make any changes today, so we know there is more to come. There were a few niggles we had to deal with, but we ironed those out and it went well.Its all about time in the car as its different to what we have run before, but weve got a good basis on which to build and are starting in a good place.For the Donington Park test, the second car was shared between Nick Foster and Rob Collard, with Foster the first of the pair to get behind the wheel. Nick would complete the most laps of the three eBay Motors men with 53 laps under his belt and was also happy with the way in which the day had gone.Im pretty pleased with that, he said, having posted the 17th quickest time. The car was faultless and we just need to work on a few things to get the most from it. The conditions werent ideal on track with it being so cold and today wasnt the day to go out and do something stupid trying to set a quick time.

We know there is more to come from the car and there is more to come from me as I need to blow the cobwebs away a bit, but overall, Id say its a case of so far, so good.With Fosters programme complete, Collard then took over for the second half of the session and ended the day just ahead of his team-mate in 16th spot.Its gone okay, he said. We ran reliably and set a decent lap time even though conditions didnt favour the rear wheel drive car when it comes to getting heat into the tyres. Weve got more running planned before the season opener and it all looks positive.We know that we need to find some time, but its a new car and there is still a lot to come. Weve just got to wait and see where we stand when we get to Brands Hatch.The Donington Park test marked the first time that the team had run two of the new NGTC-spec BMWs, with work on-going to complete the third car ahead of the first race weekend of the new season.With the latest target having been achieved, team boss Dick Bennetts said he was pleased with the progress made as the team works towards the start of its championship campaign.Were very pleased with the way the test went, he said. Colins car was on track for the first time and after a few little teething problems, it ran well on track. Were starting to learn more about the NGTC BMW but we ran different set-ups on the two cars and now have a lot of data to look at to see where we need to improve and what we can change moving forwards.We werent concerned about lap times and didnt run the new softer tyre like some of the others, so were happy with where weve ended up.The eBay Motors team will now head to Silverstone for its next pre-season test before the new season gets underway at Brands Hatch on Easter Weekend.