It’s almost become the norm that the battle for the BTCC title will go down to the season finale at Brands Hatch, and so it proved once again in 2018 as Colin Turkington became champion for the third time. In a season that featured a record breaking number of race winners, the West Surrey Racing … More »
Ian Harrison, one of the founders of Triple Eight, has expressed his pride at the success the team enjoyed in the British Touring Car Championship following the revelation that the multiple-championship winning outfit has closed its doors. Triple Eight Race Engineering and Triple Eight Performance Vehicles Limited were both dissolved by Companies House on 13 … More »
Michael Crees will make the move into the BTCC for the 2019 season after being confirmed as the fourth and final driver with Team HARD. Less than three years after making a move into motorsport in the Ginetta Racing Drivers’ Club, Crees – who won the Am Class in the Ginetta GT4 Supercup in 2018 … More »
Organisers of the TCR UK championship have revealed a 14 race calendar for the 2019 season – which includes an overseas event at Spa. The Belgian circuit is one of two new additions to the calendar, with Snetterton also set to host the series for the first time when the season kicks off in Norfolk … More »
Revisions to the success ballast levels are amongst a series of changes that will be introduced for the 2019 BTCC season. Series organisers have revealed that the maximum ballast that can be carried during the season will be reduced from 75kg to 54kg due to the ‘incredibly closely matched performance of the current cars’. The … More »
Carl Boardley will move into the BTCC on a full-time basis in 2019 after becoming the third driver confirmed with Team HARD. The 42-year-old will join Mike Bushell and Bobby Thompson in one of the four Volkswagen CCs being run by Tony Gilham’s outfit, with discussions ongoing when it comes to the final seat in … More »
TCR UK championship runner-up Ollie Taylor says he’s keeping his options open in respect of where he’ll race in 2019, with TCR UK an option alongside the TCR Germany championship and TCR Europe series. Taylor raced a Pyro Motorsport-run Honda Civic TCR to second in the standings this year, starting with the older FK2-spec car … More »
Trade Price Cars Racing has announced it will make the move into the BTCC for the 2019 season after entering into a new partnership with the AmD team. Trade Price Cars has agreed a deal to purchase the two Audis that have been entered by AmD in recent years as well as the two TOCA … More »
Dan Lloyd has placed himself in the catbird seat for the 2018 TCR UK Touring Car Championship title after scoring pole position for the final round of the season, his first since Brands Hatch in June, and has a strong chance of wrapping up the drivers’ title in the first race of the day tomorrow. … More »
The two Renault Méganes that were due to compete in the final rounds of the TCR UK season this weekend at Donington have been withdrawn from the meeting, taking the entry down to eleven cars. The two Vuković Motorsport-run cars had been entered for Alex Morgan and an un-named second driver but were pulled from … More »