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 »
Motorbase Performance’s Mat Jackson made it two wins from two in the second race at Brands Hatch – and the title will go to the wire, after Team BMR’s Jason Plato finished sixth and Honda Yuasa Racing’s Gordon Shedden non-scored in 19th. Jackson led every lap from pole position, first holding off the attentions of … More »
Colin Turkington led a Team BMR one-two in second practice at Brands Hatch just ahead of team-mate Jason Plato, with Honda Yuasa Racing’s championship leader Gordon Shedden just 0.001 behind the second Volkswagen CC in third. Reigning champion Turkington held top spot for the majority of the 40-minute session, setting an early benchmark of 1.31.461 and … More »
Alain Menu could race for Team BMR at the BTCC finals weekend at Brands Hatch, with Warren Scott ruled out due to the injury he sustained at Silverstone. Scott sustained two cracked vertebrae in a 20G shunt in first practice on Saturday, but was well enough to return to the circuit to watch the races on Sunday. Team … More »