Triple Eight Race Engineering’s Jason Plato has written off any chance of competing against West Surrey Racing and Colin Turkington for this year’s drivers’ title, following a weekend where Turkington increased his wins tally to eight victories against Plato’s three, and has called for confirmation from the series organisers what measures will be put in … More »
BTC Racing’s Chris Stockton came together with the United Autosports Toyota of James Cole in the first race of the day at Rockingham. The Chevrolet Cruze driver took responsibility for the incident which eliminated Cole from the race and saw Stockton drop to the back of the 31 car field. Stockton locked up heading into … More »
The 2013 Knockhill pole sitter believes that this year’s qualifying session around the Fife circuit will be the “craziest of all time”. Rob Austin set a new touring car qualifying record of 52.471 in his Audi A4 during last year’s session, but this year he feels that the size of the grid will mean searching … More »
All eyes will be on James Dodd at the Oulton Park Gold Cup as he aims to become the first winner of the HSCC Super Touring Championship. The Honda Accord driver takes a 12 point lead in to the closing rounds of the season, meaning he only needs to finish ahead of Stewart Whyte in the weekend’s … More »
The British Touring Car Championship calendar for 2015 has been confirmed with a total of 30 races over ten race weekends. The season starts on the weekend of April 4-5 at Brands Hatch on the Indy circuit layout and ends on the weekend of October 10-11 at the same track but using the Grand Prix … More »
Few people would contest that introducing a driving standards advisor to the BTCC was a positive move, leaving drivers in little doubt that punts and taps will be punished. But with the way the decisions have panned out in 2014, that’s about where the clarity ends. The seeds for this column were sown in the press … More »
Championship leader Colin Turkington topped the times at the end of a full day’s running in the official Dunlop tyre test at Snetterton, just ahead of the impressive Aiden Moffat. Turkington completed 98 laps across the day in his BMW 125i, setting a best time of 1.57.048 in the afternoon, which would have been good enough … More »
Triple Eight’s Jason Plato said he was “dead chuffed” with his weekend’s work at Snetterton, but is predicting a rear-wheel drive whitewash at the next round at Knockhill in three weeks’ time. The 2001 and 2010 champion followed up pole position with two wins and a fourth, to close the gap slightly to series leader … More »
Lea Wood has reflected on a challenging first half of the 2014 season, and says the experience his JWT Performance squad is gaining with their new Toyota Avensis will stand them in good stead next season. Wood’s deal to be on the grid came together at the very last minute, meaning no time for any … More »
With the Vauxhall Insignias of Team BMR being left in the garage this weekend, the iconic Vauxhall brand will not be present on the grid of a British Touring Car Championship race for the first time in 25 years. The manufacturer officially left the Championship at the end of 2009, but its cars have still … More »