Motorbase Performance has completed a first test with the new Ford EcoBoost engine ahead of the 2015 British Touring Car Championship season. The new engine is based on the standard Ford 2-litre EcoBoost unit that has been developed to NGTC specifications with the Kent team’s long-term engine partners Mountune, replacing the previous Duratec based engine. … More »
Tony Gilham looks set to return to the British Touring Car Championship in 2015 after striking a deal to buy a Toyota Avensis from United Autosports, along with one of their TOCA BTCC Licenses (TBLs). Gilham, who was most recently involved in the championship as a team owner in 2013, last raced in 2012, taking … More »
Motorbase Performance will run Ford EcoBoost engines for the 2015 BTCC season, team principal David Bartrum has announced. The engines are based on the standard Ford 2-litre EcoBoost unit, and have been developed to NGTC specifications with the Kent team’s long-term engine partners Mountune. The team says it has completed the first engine build and preliminary … More »
18-year-old Aiden Moffat heads into his second full season of the British Touring Car Championship this year with his family-run team, with support from Ciceley Racing, which have now built a Mercedes A-Class for Moffat, who ditches the IP Tech Race Engineering developed Chevrolet Cruze after one season. Moffat will run with backing from Laser … More »
Triple world champion Andy Priaulx will make a sensational return to the BTCC in 2015 after signing for last year’s champion team West Surrey Racing. Priaulx, who launched his touring car career in the BTCC with Triple Eight in 2001 and took one victory for Honda Racing in 2002, maintains a long relationship with BMW which saw him … More »
A triple BTCC champion and still a series front-runner as he hits 50, Matt Neal doesn’t need much introduction to touring car fans. But for many years, he was the fly in the ointment that embodied the independent spirit which still flows through the veins of the UK’s biggest racing series today. It was with … More »
Here is the first part of TouringCarTimes’ staff rundown of the top 30 drivers of the 2014 season. Looking at the performances of the drivers this year, we’ll go through over three days who we think were the top touring car drivers this season across the major national and international V8 Supercars, BTCC, WTCC, DTM … More »
Triple world champion Andy Priaulx could be in line to join Sam Tordoff at West Surrey Racing for the 2015 BTCC. Priaulx, who won the WTCC in 2005, 2006 and 2007, has already confirmed an ELMS programme with Marc VDS, but is believed to be looking at dovetailing this with another series. TouringCarTimes understands Priaulx has also … More »
The HSCC Super Touring Car Championship will once again play a supporting role to the British Touring Car Championship, forming part of the support package at Rockingham’s September round of Britain’s premier racing series. The Rockingham event will be the final of four rounds for the series in 2015, the same number run in its … More »
The winners of the Neil Tozer Trophy competition, organised between TouringCarTimes and PSP Images have been chosen, and the two winners received their trophies at Brooklands Museum last weekend. The Trophy was set-up by PSP Images and TouringCarTimes, in memory of our colleague Neil Tozer, a photographer who had worked with us for the past … More »