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 »
Honda factory squad Team Dynamics have declared they could be forced to make the switch to rear-wheel drive in 2017 to keep up with the fast-developing Subaru Levorg of Team BMR, which three-time champion Matt Neal describes as the “Frankenstein” of the current technical regulations. Honda had a nightmare weekend at Croft, with just one … More »
The British Touring Car Championship has revealed details of the calendar for the 2017 season, with the order unchanged from previous years, with the season starting and ending in Brands Hatch and visiting Donington Park, Thruxton, Oulton Park, Croft, Snetterton, Knockhill, Rockingham and Silverstone in that order. The championship organisers say consistency is key for … More »
Team BKR Nico Ferrari admitted he was unsure what to expect from qualifying for the latest rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship despite Aron Smith emerging as one of the pacesetters during free practice at Oulton Park. Smith was second quickest in the opening 40 minute session behind the Toyota of Tom … More »
Jason Plato was pleased with the progress the Team BMR crew had made with the new Subaru Levorg at Oulton Park, but also made it clear that there is a lot of work still to be done. The two-time BTCC champion showed front-running pace for the first time in 2016 with the development programme of … More »