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BTCC Brands Hatch: Turkington claims pole for season finale

Four-time British Touring Car champion Colin Turkington took pole position at Brands Hatch for the final round of a 2024 series he is unlikely to win.The Northern Irishman’s fourth pole position of the season will make a slight dent to his deficit to championship leader Jake Hill and Tom Ingram…

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Vauxhall duo claim 1-2 in free practice

Aron Taylor-Smith led Mikey Doble in a 1-2 for Power Maxed Racing in free practice for the British Touring Car Championship finale at Brands Hatch.The experienced Irishman, who clinched the Independents’ title last time out at Silverstone, eclipsed his Jack Sears Trophy champion team-mate right at the chequered flag on…

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BTCC Silverstone: Ingram holds off Hill in wet opening race

Tom Ingram held off British Touring Car Championship title rival Jake Hill to take victory in a wet opening race of the day at Silverstone.2022 champion Ingram led from pole to the finish in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback but had to fend off a concerted challenge from…

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BTCC Silverstone: Taylor-Smith excluded from qualifying, Ingram inherits pole

British Touring Car Championship title contender Tom Ingram has inherited pole position for the Silverstone round after qualifying topper Aron Taylor-Smith was excluded. Taylor-Smith, his third-fastest team-mate Mikey Doble plus sixth-placed Dan Zelos all fell foul of the ride-height test, and will start race one from the back of the grid. Aron…

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BTCC Knockhill: Turkington claims second successive pole

Colin Turkington claimed his second successive British Touring Car Championship qualifying pole position for the seventh round of the series at Knockhill.The four-time champion faced a stern challenge from an unlikely opponent in the form of Aron Taylor-Smith, but the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra pilot could not quite dislodge…

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Rowbottom leads the way in Knockhill practice

Dan Rowbottom continued his recent strong form by topping free practice for the British Touring Car Championship’s visit to Knockhill. The Midlander emerged quickest in both sessions at the wheel of his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus ST and eventually headed four-time champion team-mate Ash Sutton by 0.063 seconds. The Scottish hillside…

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BTCC Oulton Park: Ingram beats Sutton as investigations loom

Tom Ingram beat Ash Sutton to victory in the first race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Oulton Park.But the result was only made concrete post-race after the officials looked into a pair of second-lap incidents between Ingram and Sutton, before deciding to take no further action.Ingram got…

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BTCC Oulton Park: Ingram overcomes hybrid reduction and beats Sutton to pole

Tom Ingram beat Ash Sutton to pole position for the first race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Oulton Park.The 2022 title winner and the four-time reigning champion defied the restrictions placed upon them by the hybrid-reduction regulations on a circuit where they were expected to have a…

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BTCC Thruxton: Sutton breaks win drought to regain championship lead

Sutton had to battle from outside the top six, but picked off his rivals in his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus ST on the way to his 40th career BTCC victory.

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BTCC Thruxton: Ingram grabs pole with Cammish second

A significant increase in ambient and track temperatures plus changes in wind direction played havoc with the teams’ calculations and Ingram, in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback, mastered the curveballs the best.

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BTCC Snetterton: Hill beats Thompson to race one victory

Hill, who had a disastrous outing last time out at Brands Hatch, predictably converted his pole position into the race lead with his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, while new-for-this-weekend team-mate Bobby Thompson surged from fifth to third behind championship leader Ash Sutton’s Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford…

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BTCC Snetterton: Hill and Thompson top free practice

As the dismal British spring climate brought rain sweeping in from the North Sea across East Anglia, Thompson quite literally made a splash on his BTCC return – and his debut in a rear-wheel-drive tin-top – by topping the second session in his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport.But…

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Pearson leads Excelr8 1-2 with maiden victory

Second-year British Touring Car Championship racer Ronan Pearson took his maiden win in the series in consummate style in the finale at Brands Hatch.The Scot was armed with a set of soft tyres upon his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N from reversed-grid pole position, but so was the Power Maxed…

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BTCC Donington: Moffat fends off Turkington, Sutton and Huff in thriller

Moffat’s LKQ-liveried Toyota Corolla GR Sport started on the front row alongside the polesitting Toyota Gazoo Racing GB version of Rob Huff from the other side of the Speedworks Motorsport stable, but neither could prevent Adam Morgan from propelling his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport into the…

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Huff explains BTCC qualifying exclusion at Donington

Huff, whose WTCC crown came in 2012, has joined the Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Gazoo Racing GB operation for his first full-time BTCC season since his rookie tin-top campaign in 2004.

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Hill tops first official BTCC test

On his local circuit, Hill put in a late run at the end of the day to snatch the top position away by 0.065 seconds from BTCC returnee Rob Huff, the 2012 World Touring Car champion gearing up for his first domestic season in 20 years with the Speedworks Motorsport-run…

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Gamble latest BTCC race winner planning Porsche Carrera Cup GB return

Fellow BTCC victors Dan Lloyd and Stephen Jelley have already revealed plans to make Carrera Cup comebacks this season and they will now be joined by Gamble, who endured a frustrating tin-top campaign in a Speedworks Motorsport Toyota last year.

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BTCC race winner Moffat joins Speedworks Toyota line-up

Moffat will partner Josh Cook in Speedworks’ two-car LKQ Euro Car Parts with Synetiq line-up, a year after they teamed up in similar colours at the One Motorsport Honda squad.

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New team joins BTCC with Cupras as Hard folds

Restart Racing has acquired two of Team Hard’s Cupra Leons – the new-for-2023 chassis used this year by Bobby Thompson and Dan Lloyd – and will step up from the TCR UK championship with 2022 title winner Chris Smiley.

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Ranking the top 10 BTCC drivers of 2023

The British Touring Car Championship season threatened to become a one-horse race at times in 2023, such was the searing speed of Ash Sutton and his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST.

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BTCC Silverstone: Turkington wins as title fight goes down to Sutton and Ingram

Turkington’s West Surrey Racing team-mate Jake Hill charged his BMW 330e M Sport from the back of the grid to eighth, but has now fallen out of championship contention.

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Toyota BTCC squad recruits former McLaren GT boss

Danny Buxton has left his most recent role as team principal of rival BTCC squad One Motorsport with immediate effect and has started work this week at Speedworks Motorsport, which competes under the Toyota Gazoo Racing UK banner, as the company’s new head of motorsport.

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Speedworks switches to Toyota engine as Gamble joins Butcher and Collard

Neil Brown Engineering is producing a new Toyota powerplant for Speedworks Motorsport’s trio of Corolla GR Sports, as the Cheshire team makes the switch from the TOCA customer engine.

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Toyota team Speedworks gets extra BTCC entry

Three British Touring Car Championship teams have each acquired one extra TOCA BTCC license for the 2023 season, keeping the field theoretically at 29 cars.

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Ciceley Motorsport exits BTCC after 10 years

Race-winning British Touring Car Championship team Ciceley Motorsport has called time on its involvement in the series after 10 years.

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