Jason Plato barbs at Dan Rowbottom’s driving in X submit

In certainly one of his first off-the-cuff feedback since his departure from CPRL, Jason Plato has blasted his former British Touring Automobile Championship driver Dan Rowbottom.

Plato Racing entered administration simply days after Adam Morgan piloted the Mercedes A35 Saloon to its maiden victory at Knockhill, beginning a remarkably swift flip in fortunes for the outfit.

Paperwork revealed the transfer was triggered by majority shareholder Cataclean, with the corporate struggling over £800,000 of debt since its inception.

Since then, Cataclean have offered interim funding for the workforce to proceed racing, with robust outcomes persevering with to move in courtesy of two extra Morgan wins at Donington Park.

Nonetheless, Rowbottom has been but to say a victory in 2026, although he does have a number of podiums to his identify.

The most recent got here at Croft, with a P2 in Race 2, in a weekend which additionally noticed ‘Rowbo’ obtain a penalty for monitor limits violations.

In equity he was not the one one to be penalised by a stricter ruleset, however the Worcestershireman has discovered himself on the fallacious aspect of monitor boundaries regularly throughout CPRL’s maiden marketing campaign.

Then, in Silverstone‘s Race to Pole, Rowbottom struggled to a P17 end as a five-second time penalty pushed him down the tightly-packed order.

Such has clearly irritated Plato, who took to X on Saturday evening to vent his frustrations at his former enterprise accomplice.

“What Rowbo? Observe limits once more certainly not,” Plato sarcastically posted, earlier than doubling-down in a remark to a fan.

“Simply drawing consideration to information which have been identified many many many many instances to the legend that’s 32 [Rowbottom’s car number].”

Fan reactions to the feedback has been blended, with them including to a controversial day that noticed Ricky Collard name out Osamu Kawashima’s driving requirements – after the latter changed him at Workforce VERTU.

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