The British Touring Car Championship has released the details of the 2014 calendar, which follows the same order as the calendar of this season, starting at Brands Hatch Indy in March and ending at the Grand Prix layout in October. The Championship has also confirmed that the media day will again take place at Donington … More »
The AmD Tuning team are skipping the Rockingham race meeting this weekend. Shaun Hollamby’s squad, which is now running a Honda Civic for James Kaye in the Jack Sears Trophy, also missed the last round at Knockhill due to the veteran driver aggravating a knee injury. The team’s absence means the battle for S2000 honours … More »
Honda Racing’s Matt Neal believes 2009 champion Colin Turkington is a serious threat to Honda’s aspiration to retain the drivers’ title this season, following the form of the BMW 125i M Sport in the last few rounds of this year’s British Touring Car Championship. Turkington won the first two races yesterday at Knockhill, and was … More »
It’s now been confirmed that AmD Tuning and their eighth-generation Honda Civic will also miss this weekend’s race at Knockhill as driver James Kaye is suffering with a knee injury. The 49-year-old aggravated a knee injury last time out at Snetterton, and so will miss his second event of the season after also missing the … More »
If you’re a regular reader on TouringCarTimes, you’ll have noticed that there was no preview for the DTM’s Moscow debut, and the answer as to why is pretty simple; there hadn’t been a Russian DTM race before, and it didn’t seem appropriate to fill 500 or so words with cliches about Iron Curtains and vodka … More »
Kieran Gallagher is going to make his British Touring Car Championship debut at Knockhill for Tony Gilham Racing. “I was just excited to be in a motor race, and then to be leading a Legends race was a great milestone too, but moving up so quickly to drive a BTCC car is unbelievable,” said Gallagher. … More »
Robb Holland is going to return to the British Touring Car Championship with Tony Gilham Racing for the race weekend at Snetterton. “I’m really looking forward to returning to the BTCC at Snetterton and particularly so with my friend Tony Gilham’s Team HARD organisation,” said Holland. The American is going to drive the NGTC specification … More »
James Kaye has tested the 2011 British Touring Car Championship winning Honda Civic at Snetterton ahead of a possible mid-season switch to the ex-Team Dynamics car with the AmD Tuning team. The Super 2000 specification car, which was sold to Tony Gilham Racing for the 2012 season before being sold back to Team Dynamics this … More »
Take a cursory glance at the BTCC standings, with triple champion Matt Neal leading the way, and you could be forgiven for thinking the 2013 championship to this point has been predictable. In fact, it has been anything but. At the halfway point of the season, the run-in is shaping up to be the most exciting … More »
In part two of its DTM mid-term review, TouringCarTimes looks at the following five men who make up the top-10 drivers of 2013. 6. Mattias Ekström: Abt Sportsline (Car #11) It’s not really a secret that the Swede hasn’t had the easiest time of things since Audi switched from the A4 to the A/RS5. However, on … More »