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9th October 2007

The SEAT Sport UK’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship driver Jason Plato has been hurt in an incident during filming for the Channel 5 Fifth Gear programme. He was testing a Caparo T1 road car at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground near Lutterworth in Leicestershire when it burst into flames at an estimated 150mph.

After treatment at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital specialist burns unit and seeing a burns specialist after release from the hospital, Plato still expected to race at this weekend’s final BTCC race meeting at Thruxton Circuit in Hampshire on 14th October, which is also his 40th birthday. There has been no comment from Caparo on the cause of the fire.

- On 7th September 7th the Caparo Atlas Fastenings (CAF) Training School was officially opened at the company’s facility in Darlaston, with five apprentices in place. CAF, which employs 285 people, is part of Caparo Vehicle Products, a grouping of Tier 1 component design, engineering and manufacturing companies supplying the automotive, aerospace, military and motorsport markets. It is the UK’s largest manufacturer of threaded cold forged fasteners and have manufactured forged components at the Darlaston site for over 100 years.

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