page_title: James Nash (racing driver)
section_title: Team Aon (2012)
hierarchical_section_title: James Nash (racing driver) / Racing career / World Touring Car Championship / Team Aon (2012)
caption_attribution_description: World Touring Car Championship 2012 Race of Japan: James Nash (Team Aon) driving the Ford Focus S2000 TC
context_page_description: James Nash is a British auto racing driver. On 16 October 2011 at the final round of the 2011 BTCC season he clinched the independents' championship. In 2014, he is competing in the Blancpain Endurance Series for the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT.
context_section_description: After claiming the BTCC Independents Drivers Championship in 2011, it was announced in February 2012 that Nash would move to the World Touring Car Championship to partner Tom Chilton at Team Aon.
  He started on pole position for the reversed grid second race at Marrakech and held off Franz Engstler in the early laps before eventually being overcome by Yvan Muller. He finished the race in sixth place, scoring his first WTCC points. He qualified fourth for the next round at the Slovakiaring but was given a ten-place grid drop for failing the ride height check.
  Near the end of the Race of Hungary race two, he pulled off the track two laps from the end with a car problem but was classified 19th and last. He scored a point once again in race one at the Race of Austria and then repeated the feat in race two, coming through the field when many other cars were suffering punctures as a result of aggressive cambers. Nash retired from both races in Portugal due to a collision in the first race and a set up error in race two. An engine change for both Fords at the Race of Japan sent Nash to the back of the grid for the first race. Engine problems in China meant he failed to finish either race, with his retirement in the second race being at the end of the warm up lap. Nash finished the championship in 20th place, two places above his team mate despite having not scored points since Austria.
caption: Nash driving for Team Aon at the 2012 FIA WTCC Race of Japan.
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