Honda Racing Team’s new Civic Type-R has had its first outing on track at Brands Hatch today, with three-time champion Matt Neal at the wheel. The team took the wraps off their 2015 challenger at the Kent circuit, finally confirming the expected news that the new Type-R would replace the outgoing Tourer model raced last … More »
Andrew Jordan has made his first track appearance in his new Triple Eight Racing MG6, testing at Brands Hatch today alongside Motorbase Performance newcomer Alex Martin. The 2013 champion is returning to the team he last raced for on 2009, but the identity of his team-mate is yet to be revealed. Joining Jordan on the … More »
Four drivers and one team were given penalties by the race stewards following the day’s action at Brands Hatch. Motorbase Performance’s Fabrizio Giovanardi was given an official reprimand and two penalty points for the incident with Gordon Shedden at the start of race one, which triggered a significant accident at Paddock Hill Bend (pictured). Speedworks … More »
Honda Racing Team’s Gordon Shedden took the final win of the 2014 season in monsoon conditions at Brands Hatch, ahead of Motorbase Performance’s Jack Clarke in a career-best second. The race capped a remarkable turnaround for Shedden, who suffered huge rear-end damage in the first race and had to fight his way through in the second. … More »
Ciceley Racing’s Adam Morgan has been declared the winner of the second Brands Hatch race, after the race stewards handed on-track winner Jason Plato a 20 second penalty. Triple Eight’s Plato had originally been sent to the back of the grid for the contact with West Surrey Racing’s Colin Turkington, which put the new champion out … More »
Triple Eight’s Jason Plato took his second win of the day in a breathless second race at Brands Hatch, where a clash with Colin Turkington eliminated the new champion from the lead. Mat Jackson, Rob Collard and Adam Morgan also had spells at the front, but it was Plato who kept his nerve to take the flag … More »
Colin Turkington is the 2014 BTCC champion, with a third place in a chaotic first race at Brands Hatch enough to secure an unassailable lead over race-winner Jason Plato. Plato headed home Triple Eight team-mate Sam Tordoff after taking the lead on lap eight, but West Surrey Racing’s Turkington was within striking distance throughout, and … More »
The soft tyre choices have been announced for today’s BTCC finale at Brands Hatch. A mixture of tyre strategies have been chosen, but with the majority of cars again choosing to run the cars in the third race. Rain is forecast for around 5pm today, so there is a chance the choices will turn out … More »
Colin Turkington was “delighted” to be fourth after a frantic wet-dry qualifying session at Brands Hatch saw multiple drivers swapping provisional pole position almost every lap. “Delighted to be right at the sharp end, that’s one of the sessions where you could be first or you could be tenth,” Turkington told TouringCarTimes. “It was definitely … More »
Championship contender Jason Plato took pole position in a frantic dry-to-wet qualifying session at Brands Hatch, with times tumbling throughout a fascinating 30 minutes. Pole position changed hands eight times during the session, and would have surely done so on more occasions were it not for a red flag with less than three minutes to go, … More »