Motorbase Performance has unveiled a new livery for the Ford Focus of title hopeful Mat Jackson ahead of this weekend’s penultimate meeting of the BTCC season at Silverstone. Jackson goes into the weekend sitting fourth in the championship standings, 28 points behind leader Sam Tordoff despite the fact he has won more races than anyone … More »
Tony Gilham will continue to race for Team HARD in this weekend’s Silverstone rounds of the BTCC season after Michael Caine was again ruled out with injury. Caine, who joined the team for the second half of the campaign, suffered a reoccurrence of an old injury at Knockhill and was then forced to sit out … More »
Sam Tordoff admitted he was amazed to retain his BTCC points lead after a stunning recovery on race day at Rockingham. The points leader was left towards the back of the grid after a misfire in qualifying that affect all three WSR-run BMWs, but a series of overnight changes allowed him to charge through the … More »
Mat Jackson revealed his delight at securing a front-row start for the eighth round of the BTCC season after the Motorbase Performance man was able to master tricky conditions on track at Rockingham. Jackson, who has more wins than anyone else this season, was the closest challenger to Gordon Shedden on the time sheets in … More »
Next weekend, Dunlop’s Sport Maxx hard tyre will be the “option” available for the British Touring Car Championship weekend at Rockingham, with the hard being used as the alternative choice for the second time this season after being used earlier this year Croft. Drivers are required to nominate which race of the day they plan … More »
Willie Poole has revealed the work that had to go in to ensure that a full complement of cars made the trip to Knockhill for the latest rounds of the BTCC season. Poole, who has been responsible for the build of a number of cars on the grid, was forced to burn the midnight oil … More »
Team Dynamics Honda driver Gordon Shedden left his home circuit of Knockhill fourth in the standings after a positive weekend, and still in the hunt for this third British Touring Car Championship title, but fears the Honda Civic Type-R could even be outside of the top 20 in the coming races unless they can resolve … More »
Motorbase Performance founder and boss David Bartrum is not really one to do things by halves. No sooner had he established himself in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB he was branching out into touring cars, and he has continued to juggle participation in different series to this day. So it was perhaps rather apt that … More »
Jack Sears, the first man to win the British Touring Car Championship title, has died at the age of 86. ‘Gentleman Jack’, as he would become known during his successful career and in the years that followed, clinched the inaugural title in the most dramatic of fashions in 1958, when a year long fight for … More »
Tom Ingram qualified in fourth position for the sixth round of the 2016 British Touring Car Championship at Snetterton, and the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota driver is happy to be ahead of his key rivals in the drivers’ championship, with the two-time pole-sitter saying that the improvements seen by Subaru mean taking a third pole would … More »