Aiden Moffat drove an expert race in tricky conditions to win the first race of finals day at Brands Hatch ahead of Tom Ingram, as Ash Sutton tightened his grip on the BTCC title with third place to extend his lead to 24 points over Colin Turkington. Mercedes driver Moffat took the lead exiting Paddock … More »
Eurotech Racing’s Jack Goff says further wins are at the forefront of his mind after securing his third pole position of the season at Brands Hatch, continuing his exceptionally strong form of the second half of the BTCC season. After running at the sharp end throughout practice, Goff put his Honda Civic Type-R on pole … More »
West Surrey Racing’s Rob Collard has withdrawn from the rest of the Brands Hatch weekend on medical grounds. Collard took part in both the free practice sessions earlier today but is still feeling the effects of his huge crash with Team Hard’s Will Burns at Silverstone. He has since taken medical advice not to contest … More »
Eurotech Racing’s Brett Smith continued his swift progress in just his fifth BTCC weekend by topping the final practice session of the year at Brands Hatch, and says he is confident of being in the battle for pole position later in the afternoon. The 25-year-old, who replaced injured dad Jeff in the Honda Civic Type-R … More »
Team BMR boss Warren Scott says he is confident that Subaru will be able to bounce back from a tough start to the new BTCC season at Brands Hatch. The team went into the new season in optimistic mood, but struggled for pace throughout practice as it worked to dial out a series of handling … More »
Dunlop has revealed the tyre selections for the opening rounds of the new BTCC season at Brands Hatch. Although most of the field have elected to run the option tyre in the third race of the weekend, polesitter Jeff Smith is amongst those to have gone with a different selection – with the Eurotech Racing … More »
Nearly six months after Gordon Shedden secured the BTCC title for the third time at Brands Hatch, the Kent circuit is gearing up for the start of the 2017 campaign as the new season gets underway this weekend. It’s a phrase often muttered as this time of year, but there is little doubt that the … More »
The drivers’ soft tyre choices for the Brands Hatch season finale are already known, with six of the eight championship contenders required to run the Dunlop Sport Maxx soft tyre in Race 2 on Sunday. With the drivers only able to choose each of the day’s three races at maximum of three times over the … More »
Rob Collard heads to Brands Hatch this weekend with the best chance of winning his first British Touring Car Championship drivers’ title, as he heads in 17 points behind West Surrey Racing team-mate and championship leader Sam Tordoff with 67 to play for. The 47-year-old also hopes to resolve his qualifying woes this weekend, which … More »
Mat Jackson says it is a great moment for Motorbase Performance to be heading into BTCC finals weekend with both the team’s drivers in contention for the overall championship crown. David Bartrum’s squad has already wrapped up the Independents teams trophy, with Jackson and Andrew Jordan set to duke it out for Independent driver honours. But after … More »