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Patterson completes Un-Limited Cupra BTCC line-up

Up-and-coming tin-top racer Dexter Patterson has secured his return to the British Touring Car Championship at the wheel of an Un-Limited Motorsport Cupra Leon.The 21-year-old Scot will be the oldest half of the expanded two-car Un-Limited line-up, in which he partners teenaged 2024 Mini Challenge runner-up Max Hall.Patterson, an ex-karting…

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The top 10 BTCC drivers of 2024

The field was smaller compared to recent seasons, but the quality at the front of the British Touring Car Championship in 2024 was as high as fans have seen since the Super Touring days a quarter of a century ago.

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Alliance BTCC squad plans to replace Fords for 2026

Alliance Racing is planning to replace its Ford Focus STs and bring a fresh manufacturer to the British Touring Car Championship in 2026.

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BTCC Silverstone: Chilton leads the way in free practice

Tom Chilton set the pace in both free practice sessions at Silverstone for the penultimate round of the British Touring Car Championship.

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New Chevron car for TOCA Junior category is unveiled

The bespoke Chevron B1417 designed for the new TOCA Junior category that will support the British Touring Car Championship from 2025 has been unveiled at a launch.

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BTCC Knockhill: Hill surges through to win on soft tyres

Jake Hill continued a great day at Knockhill for BMW in the British Touring Car Championship with victory in the second race of the event.

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Friday favourite: The cousin of a BTCC dud that helped forge the Aiello legend

Laurent Aiello’s remarkable career encompassed touring car titles in France, Germany and Britain, as well as Le Mans 24 Hours victory with the Porsche 911 GT1-98. In Britain he is best-known for his efforts in the British Touring Car Championship with RML’s ultimate Nissan Primera and he raced the legendary…

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BTCC Croft: Cook fastest in practice from Ingram

Josh Cook topped free practice as the British Touring Car Championship resumed at Croft following its five-week summer break.

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Introducing the breakout BTCC star who put the golf clubs away

When the late tin-top specialist Richard Lloyd was racing Volkswagen’s new hot hatch in the British Touring Car Championship in the late 1970s, the German manufacturer used to place adverts in Autosport proclaiming: ‘If you want to succeed in motor racing, take up Golf’.

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Podcast: Super Touring Throwback

It's the Super Touring Power 2 event this weekend at Brands Hatch, celebrating the famous golden era of the British Touring Car Championship. With that in mind, we decided to share a throwback interview from the 2023 event, with our own Tom Howard and Marcus Simmons sitting down with two…

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BTCC Oulton Park: Rowbottom beats Ingram to top practice

Dan Rowbottom snatched the fastest time away from Tom Ingram as the British Touring Car Championship prepared for battle for its latest round at Oulton Park.

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What is BoP? The regulation that's part of sports car racing

BoP is a part of how sports car racing is governed, but making sense of it is not always easy given much of it is hidden from the public domain. Manufacturers in the World Endurance Championship are even forbidden from discussing BoP, however some facts are still known. What is…

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The rekindled BTCC partnership trying to scale new heights

I was never a small boy. I was Mr Round. I was huge, so big I couldn’t fit in a kart! Tillett, who made the seats, couldn’t make one big enough for me to fit in. So I started off drifting Ford Escort Mk2s at eight years old, and at…

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Why the BTCC isn't concerned by its smaller 2024 grid

Of course the British Touring Car Championship has weathered storms over its existence. That’s inevitable, given it’s been going for 66 years.

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Top 10: Ranking the greatest BTCC drivers not to be champion

The British Touring Car Championship has been one of the most competitive and popular series in the UK since it began in 1958.

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How BTCC king Sutton rates his rivals - past and present

There’s no question about it: Ash Sutton is one of the all-time greats of the British Touring Car Championship. It’s well-documented already that his 2023 title success aboard his Alliance Racing Ford Focus ST was a record-equalling fourth alongside Andy Rouse and Colin Turkington, and meant that he became the…

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Autosport Top 50 of 2023: #36 Ash Sutton

Sutton had what the stats books will tell you was a record-equalling season in the British Touring Car Championship. But what was more important to him was the manner of his fourth crown, and the fact that he became the first to win it in both front and rear-wheel-drive machinery.

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The national motorsport track limits mess that needs to be cleaned up

There’s something going very wrong in British motorsport. The trigger to writing this column is the fallout from Ricky Collard being denied his maiden victory in the British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch last Sunday following a thrilling race against three-time champion Ash Sutton. But Collard, whose crime was…

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The American muscle car that changed British touring car racing forever

In April 1963, a Jaguar was the only car to have if you wanted to win races outright in the British Saloon Car Championship. Since the series now known as the British Touring Car Championship began in 1958, Big Cats from Coventry had won 43 races, spread across the legendary Mk1…

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