Rory Butcher is best known for winning 11 races during an accomplished British Touring Car Championship career that he elected to pause at the end of 2023. But the amiable Scot, also a handy historic racer who pedalled a Lotus Elan 26R to third in September’s Spa 6 Hours, had also proven himself a force in GT racing before entering the BTCC in 2017.
Butcher still regards his 2016 season with Andrea Bertolini and Rob Smith in the European Le Mans Series with JMW Motorsport as “my favourite ever season of car racing”. The Ferrari 458 GTE he raced that year “just ticks a few more boxes” for Butcher when considering his favourite car nomination than the Honda Civic FK2 he raced to three BTCC wins in 2019. “I just loved every minute of driving the car,” he says.
