BTCC champion team West Surrey Racing started their preparations for the new season in earnest at Thruxton today. Triple world champion Andy Priaulx and his new-team mates Sam Tordoff and Rob Collard were all running at the Hampshire circuit on the first of two days’ testing. They were joined by Triple Eight Racing’s Andrew Jordan … More »
Reigning champion Colin Turkington and vice-champion Jason Plato will spearhead a formidable line-up for Team BMR in the 2015 BTCC, in a huge double-coup for Warren Scott’s fledgling outfit. The duo with four BTCC titles between them will drive two of the team’s Volkswagen CCs, with Aron Smith and Scott himself completing the line-up in what … More »
Self-confessed British Touring Car Championship fan Alex Martin says he never misses a race – and now the GT convert is only seven weeks away from taking to that same grid himself. Martin arrives in the BTCC via a varied background, which started in Motocross before injury forced him to stop, and later stints in the Porsche Carrera … More »
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 »