It’s almost time for the talking to stop at the British Touring Car Championship heads for Brands Hatch this weekend to kick-start its 60th anniversary season. Once again a capacity grid of 32 cars is set to do battle across ten meetings between now and the autumn, with Ashley Sutton seeking to defend the title … More »
Honda pair Matt Neal and Dan Cammish led the way as the majority of the BTCC field headed to Brands Hatch for a day of testing ahead of the season opener next weekend. With only Eurotech’s Brett Smith and the Alfa Romeo of Rob Austin missing from the capacity grid, 30 cars took to the … More »
A number of teams from the British Touring Car Championship have hit the track at Brands Hatch as testing continues ahead of the 2018 season. West Surrey Racing, Team Dynamics, Motorbase, HMS Racing and Team Parker have spent the day turning laps at the circuit that will play host to the opening rounds of the … More »
The UK will play host to a round of the DTM for the first time since 2013 after Brands Hatch was named on the calendar for the 2018 campaign. The sixth round of the season will be held at the Kent circuit as one of five non-German meetings on the calendar, with a round at … More »
Teams and drivers considering a move into the new TCR UK Series when it launches in 2018 have been given the chance to learn more about the series during a taster day at Brands Hatch. The special day provided the chance to not only get up close to a number of models currently used in … More »
Organisers of the new TCR UK series have announced that a special sampler day will take place at Brands Hatch later this month to give potential entrants the chance to try out cars ahead of the 2018 campaign. Cars representing seven different marques – Alfa Romeo, Audi, Hyundai, Honda, Opel, SEAT and Volkswagen – will … More »
Eurotech Racing driver Jack Goff has taken his third pole position of the 2017 British Touring Car Championship season at Brands Hatch, while championship contender Colin Turkington missed much of the session with a misfire and qualified down in 17th. Just before the session started, it began to rain, which made the track slippery for … More »
Ciceley Motorsport’s Adam Morgan set the pace in the opening free practice session of the weekend at Brands Hatch, leaving it late to pip Mercedes stable-mate Aiden Moffat to the top spot. Morgan set his best time of 1.31.698 with just over two minutes to run in an incident-free 40-minute session, beating the fellow A-Class … More »
Series director Alan Gow says he expects Brands Hatch to provide a “gladiatorial battle” between Ash Sutton and Colin Turkington as the pair go head-to-head for the BTCC title. Team BMR driver Sutton takes a ten point lead over his WSR rival Turkington into the weekend, with Gordon Shedden and Tom Ingram retaining the slimmest … More »
Rob Collard has been passed fit to race in the final rounds of the BTCC season at Brands Hatch following his accident at Silverstone, although Will Burns has seen his campaign brought to an end by the same incident. The pair were caught up in a clash in the opening race at Silverstone that was … More »