Adam Morgan says his British Touring Car Championship campaign has been transformed by finding the right setup direction for his car, with the qualifying race winner admitting his team is only now getting on top of a package that proved difficult to understand in the early part of the season.
Morgan scored his second successive qualifying pole on Saturday, followed by converting it into a qualifying race win for the second time in as many weeks.
He heads into Sunday’s races at Donington Park with the best possible on-track start, having secured pole position for the opening race where he is chasing a second win of the season.
“At Knockhill we managed to find the right geometry for the car – we got the damping right,” explained Morgan to Touring Cars.Net. “Although the tracks are very different between here and Knockhill – we managed to keep the fundamentals the same and just make the necessary changes to the springs really and cambers.
“Being able to come here with the car in a base setup now gives me so much confidence.
“The car has performed brilliantly. We do have a lot of boost, because we had a pretty average start to the season, but we have to maximise that as much as we possibly can.
“In the last two rounds we’ve come into qualifying with full [ TOCA Turbo Boost ] TTB and we’ll have full TTB for race one, so we need to get the most of it as much as we can at the minute until we go to qualifying at Croft and we’ll have less.”
Morgan believes that some of the team’s early-season struggles came from the new-for-2026 race weekend format, which sees reduced practice running on Saturday in favour of the new qualifying race.
“The format this year has gone against us. With only one free practice session, then into qualifying and after qualifying you can’t touch the car.
“There’s been a lot of guesswork and ‘let’s try this for qualifying’ and if it’s not worked then you’re stuck with it for the qualifying race, which then means you start race one at the back. It’s really, really tough.
“It’s been against us from the get-go. We’ve had limited testing in pre-season. Now we’re starting to get on top of it and learn what this car needs and how it responds to certain changes.”
The Lancashire racer also admitted he had been shielded from the changes behind-the-scenes at the CPRL team in the week leading up to the event.
“To be honest, no,” replied Morgan, when asked if the changes had affected his preparation for Donington Park. “I had a week away in the Lake District – it was in the diary for weeks.
“There was a lot of stuff going on in the background, but all I can do is focus on my job and just make sure I do my bit the best I can and move forward from there.”
Morgan wouldn’t be drawn on whether there would be any team orders between himself and team-mate Daniel Rowbottom on Sunday, but emphasised the importance of having a trouble-free race day.
“All we want to do is get as many points from the two cars as possible. The last thing we want to do is for both cars to have any sort of issues.”