West Surrey Racing’s Colin Turkington beat title rival Jason Plato to the fastest time in the first free practice session at Brands Hatch, with the pair duking it out at the top of the standings throughout. Turkington’s best lap of 1.44.007 was 0.213 faster than Triple Eight’s Plato, with Sam Tordoff in third ahead of the Honda pair … More »
They have a combined 119 wins and three titles between them in their distinguished BTCC careers, and on Sunday either Colin Turkington or Jason Plato will be crowned 2014 champion at the epochal Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit. After another engrossing season, the battle for the championship will once again be decided at the famous old … More »
James Cole has hailed the “phenomenal job” done by his United Autosports team to repair his badly damaged Toyota Avensis in time for the BTCC finale at Brands Hatch. Cole’s car sustained substantial damage in a clash with Robb Holland on the first lap of the final race at Silverstone, and was unsure whether it would be … More »
Mat Jackson had a very good weekend in Silverstone, leaving the track with two podium finishes, including a Race 3 win, and a fifth place in Race 2. “The car has always gone very well here, so going into the weekend we knew we had half a chance to win”, said Jackson to TouringCarTimes. “In … More »
Tony Gilham will return to the BTCC when he replaces Robb Holland in the Rotek Racing Audi S3 for the season’s final event at Brands Hatch. Holland has a clashing engagement on the Saturday of the meeting, and has decided to give up his seat to his former team boss Gilham, who ran four cars in … More »
James Dodd jumped to top of the HSCC Super Touring Championship standings as he kept Stewart Whyte behind in a close Honda battle at Brands Hatch. It was a less than perfect start for Dodd, however, as he faltered at the rolling start, allowing his father Graeme to take second in his Nissan Primera. The … More »
Stewart Whyte cruised to victory for the first time in 2014 as the Super Touring Championship made the most of a small grid at Brands Hatch. Dropping down to seven cars thanks to the non-starting Mark Hazell, whose BMW 320 had a fuel pump issue before the race, the field paired off at the start … More »
Stewart Whyte held on to pole position for round 5 of the HSCC Super Touring Championship at the Brands Hatch Historic Superprix despite a late charge from Richard Meins’ Ford Mondeo. A depleted field, dropped down to eight following the withdrawals of John Cleland and Dave Jarman, took to the Brands Hatch GP circuit for … More »
Only nine cars will contest rounds 5 and 6 of the HSCC Super Touring Car Championship at the Brands Hatch Historic Superprix. With the series’ biggest race weekend, the Silverstone Classic, only two weeks away, entries for the third meeting of the year have taken a hit, with only nine cars set to make an … More »
Rob Austin ranked his final race charge at Brands Hatch as one of the best he’d ever driven, but left Kent with a sense of what might have been after mechanical woes. Austin steered his Audi A4 to fifth from 11th in the first race of the season, and was confident of challenging for the … More »