Restart Racing’s Chris Smiley lowered the bar even further during British Touring Car Championship second practice as he topped the times ahead of qualifying. Following Charles Rainford’s blistering time in opening practice – which was under the qualifying lap record – Smiley hustled his Hyundai around the Indy circuit in less than 47 seconds, a … More »
Nick Halstead will return to the British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch this weekend after inking a deal to join Power Maxed Racing, driving a second Vauxhall Astra for the team. Following approval by series organisers TOCA – given that it is an additional and late entry and thus fell outside the normal TBL/entry … More »
The British Touring Car Championship has announced its calendar for the 2026 season. Like this year, the opening three events – Donington Park National, Brands Hatch Indy and Snetterton 300 – remain unchanged however Oulton Park will instead become the fourth meeting of the campaign. Due to ITV’s commitments at the football World Cup in … More »
Gordon Shedden is taking the positives from what was an otherwise bruising return to the British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park last weekend. Making his debut with Speedworks Motorsport in the Toyota Corolla GR Sport, the three-time champion qualified in 13th on Saturday before then finding himself in the thick of the action. After … More »
Tom Chilton was left over the moon after reaping the benefits of a strong winter testing programme at the opening rounds of the British Touring Car Championship season at Donington Park. The EXCELR8 Motorsport racer – who is now the most experienced driver on the grid this year – produced a superlative drive in the … More »
Ash Sutton left Donington Park sitting atop of the British Touring Car Championship standings after kicking off his 2025 campaign in near-perfect style. The Alliance Racing driver qualified second on the grid for the series’ opening contest of the year and wasted no time in taking the lead from team-mate Dan Cammish in race one, … More »
Tom Chilton capped off the opening British Touring Car Championship weekend of the season with a commanding lights-to-flag victory ahead of team-mate Tom Ingram and four-time champion Ash Sutton. Starting from pole position on the soft tyre, Chilton controlled proceedings out front from the get-go and was ultimately never challenged. Behind, Ingram and Sutton renewed … More »
More than a month has now passed since the announcement from Colin Turkington that he wouldn’t be part of the British Touring Car Championship grid for the 2025 season. Even now, it’s somewhat bizarre to think that the Northern Irishman isn’t going to be on track in a WSR-run BMW this year and won’t be … More »
NAPA Racing UK has completed its line-up for the 2025 British Touring Car Championship, announcing Sam Osborne as its fourth and final driver. As expected, the reigning Teams’ champions have named an unchanged squad for the forthcoming campaign which includes four-time champion Ash Sutton, Dan Cammish, Dan Rowbottom and Osborne. In what will be his … More »
TCR UK has announced a revision to the calendar for the 2025 season that will see it revert back to the calendar originally revealed in September. Series organisers had revealed a seven-date schedule in the autumn before announcing shortly before Christmas that a planned race weekend at Silverstone had been replaced by a trip to … More »