Oulton Park is a place close to my heart and this isn’t just because I used to live 15 minutes down the road. Nor is it that it was my very first win in a race back in 2002. (You never knew that did you as ITV never ever show me crying there in the … More »
BKR team boss Nico Ferrari insists his first year outfit will fight back from the ‘reality check’ of Thruxton when the British Touring Car Championship heads for Oulton Park for the fourth round of the season next month. Having secured podium finishes at both Brands Hatch and Donington Park, the VW team came down to … More »
It was a weekend to forget at Thruxton for Aron Smith, who failed to take a single point away from the three races around the fastest circuit on the calendar. Smith had enjoyed a successful start to the season, visiting the podium at both Brands Hatch and Donington Park, but suffered a terrible run of … More »
Dunlop has announced a change to the tyre options available to teams in the BTCC for the events at Croft and Rockingham later this season. In a change to the norm, teams will be forced to use the ‘Hard’ compound tyre only previously used at Thruxton in one of the three races, with the ‘Medium’ … More »
Six different winners from six different BTCC races – that sums up the BTCC really doesn’t it? I even think we could see eight different winners from nine races by the time Sunday evening is upon us. Why? Well read on and see… For a start, the revitalised Aron Smith – in the stunning new … More »
A week has now passed since the BTCC headed to Donington Park for the second meeting of the season, so it seemed like a good time to reflect on the main statistics that came out of the weekend. The spreadsheets revealed some interesting information from both qualifying and race day, as can be seen below… … More »
The Neil Tozer Photographic Trophy will run for a third year, with support from PSP Images, TouringCarTimes’ BTCC photography partners for the 2016 season, in a new, simpler to enter format, targeted towards both established and aspiring motorsport photographers. The trophy, named for PSP Images’ photographer Neil Tozer, who sadly passed away late in 2013, … More »
For a team that didn’t even expect to be on the BTCC grid a month before the season kicked off at Brands Hatch, it’s not been a bad start to the 2016 campaign for Team BKR. Podium finishes at both Brands and Donington Park mean Aron Smith sits seventh in the championship standings – two … More »
Six races. Six winners. That was one of the main stories to come out of the second meeting of the BTCC season at Donington Park, with Mat Jackson, Rob Collard and Matt Neal all taking their first wins of the campaign. But was there anything to be learned from what happened in rounds four, five … More »
Mat Jackson says he is pleased to have shown what Motorbase can do in the 2016 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship after opening his win account for the season at Donington Park. Jackson, the form man over the second half of last year, headed into the event eager to bounce back from a tough … More »