Adam Jones has confirmed his participation in the 2008 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship after acquiring a SEAT Leon for the new season.

Jones, who finished fifth in the Independents' championship last season despite missing a number of rounds, will continue to run under the Team Aircool banner with further backing coming from Bodywork (Solihull).

GR Asia, who ran Jones' SEAT Toledo last season, will continue to run the car which will be entered into all ten events during the coming year.

Last year we didn't manage to do all of the BTCC season because GR Asia had commitments with the WTCC, which was something we fully understood when we agreed to do it," Jones told Crash.net during last weeks British GT launch at Silverstone. "This year, we will have a SEAT Leon and will do all ten rounds and hopefully with the same team, the resources we have and the personnel around the car, we can do an even better job than last year – which went well considering we had no budget to go testing and do what some of the other
teams did.

"We went to the first race and just got on with it, we did no testing all year and I think we surprised some people with how well we did. It is exciting to know we will have a more competitive car and will do all ten rounds, and we want to try and win something."

The team has yet to take delivery of the car from Spain, although it is due to arrive in time for the opening rounds of the season at Brands Hatch at the end of the month.

While that will leave little time to prepare for the start of the campaign, Jones admitted that he was confident of building on his impressive part-season in 2007, with the experience of Paul Ridgeway's team in running the Leon being key to his chances for the year ahead.

"We knew last season that Paul was a good guy who knew what he was doing and the team he has around him had experience of the Toledo before the Leon was manufactured," he said. "Hopefully there will be more benefits for us this year knowing the team has two years of knowledge of running the Leon in the WTCC. It will be a new car for me and I'll have to get my head round that slightly, but from Paul's point of view, he will want to hit the
ground running.

"We know the plan now is to do all ten rounds so we want to try and come away from this season with some trophies and recognition for what we hope to achieve this season. If we could into the top three in the Independents' championship this year then that is something that I would be happy with and the team would be happy with; and that is our objective.

"I'd love to win some races and if the chance is there to do that, then I intend to take it. Last year with the Toledo, it was close at Brands and then even closer at Donington, so we showed the potential is there. Hopefully this year, with a more competitive package behind, there is no reason why I can't be talking to you later in the year with a big smile on my face because we've got a win."

Jones will also drive a Lamborghini Gallardo in selected races of the British GT Championship this season.