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 »
Onyx Race Engineering completed a test at Brands Hatch on Friday last week with the new TCR specification Ford Focus. “The car ran well and performed as we hoped it would. The engine that our partner Mountune has produced is particularly impressive, very strong. We had a couple of things to sort out during the … More »
Both of the Welch Motorsport Proton Gen-2 cars will hit the track at Donington Park this weekend, after neither made it to the start line at Brands Hatch for the season opener. An ankle injury kept Dan Welch out of action for the first three races of the year, while Andy Wilmot struggled with an … More »
Andy Priaulx says he is enjoying being back in the close racing of the BTCC, despite a lack of top end speed hurting his drag race to the line with Brands Hatch race two winner Gordon Shedden. The BMW driver lined up on second for race two and found himself in a strong battle with … More »
Honda Racing Team’s Gordon Shedden pipped West Surrey Racing’s Andy Priaulx in a thrilling drag race to the line in the second Brands Hatch race, after dominant leader Jason Plato retired in the gravel at Paddock Hill. The 2012 champion took a first win for the new Type-R after a forceful battle with Priaulx, who … More »