Several British Touring Car Championship teams gained more valuable track time at Brands Hatch yesterday, as preparations for the 2017 season continue to gather pace. Team Dynamics, Eurotech Racing and Team Parker Racing were joined by the local Motorbase Performance squad in Kent, with a pair of the Team HARD Volkswagen CCs also breaking cover for the … More »
Aiden Moffat said he was toasting his “best ever weekend” in the BTCC at Brands Hatch, after rounding off a strong performance with a second place in the final race of the season. It marks the first time the young Scot has stepped on a BTCC podium, as his previous visit came following a post-race … More »
Team Dynamics’ Matt Neal will miss the final race of the BTCC season with mild concussion after his accident in the second race of the day. Neal’s Honda Civic Type-R was pitched into the wall exiting Druids after contact with Triple Eight Racing’s Ash Sutton, after his engine had earlier cut out exiting Paddock Hill … More »
Team BMR Subaru driver Colin Turkington claimed his second win of the day at Brands Hatch, running on the Dunlop soft tyres and with maximum weight to close up to just ten points from points leader Sam Tordoff, with the number of potential champions now reduced to four. Turkington led from pole position ahead of … More »
Team BMR’s Colin Turkington took a dominant lights-to-flag win in the first race of the weekend at Brands Hatch to close to within 20 points of the series lead with two races to go. Rob Austin drove a superb defensive race to finish second, with Josh Cook passing Jason Plato at the final corner to … More »
Tom Ingram failed the ride height test following qualifying, which promotes Handy Motorsport’s Rob Austin to the front row for Race 1 at Brands Hatch. The Speedworks Toyota had qualified in second position, just six-thousandths of a second behind Team BMR Subaru driver Colin Turkington and arrowly missed out on his third pole position of … More »
Team BMR Subaru driver Colin Turkington claimed his third pole position of the 2016 BTCC season in an unusual qualifying session, which was hit by rain after ten minutes with expectations that no improvements were likely to follow in the last half. The session began in sunny conditions but with a rain cloud on the … More »
Triple Eight Racing’s Josh Cook topped the times with a last-gasp lap in second practice at a wet Brands Hatch, with the session interrupted three times by red flags. Cook set a best time of 1.43.790 in his MG 6 GT as the chequered flag flew, completing a clean sweep of practice success after also heading the … More »
Triple Eight Racing’s Josh Cook headed a string of late improvers to top the first free practice session of the BTCC finale at Brands Hatch, with title contender Mat Jackson in second. A flurry of quicker times were set towards the end of the session, with Cook taking his MG 6GT to a best time of … More »
“I don’t feel any pressure as no-one expected me to be in the mix for the title and people probably don’t expect me to win it with an eleven point lead. The pressure is on the others to overhaul me, and I’m just looking forwards to going to Brands Hatch.” Those were the words of … More »