The reigning Jack Sears Trophy champion has relinquished his seat at the Team Hard Cupra squad to Michael Crees, who returns to the squad with which he contested his rookie BTCC season in 2019 at the wheel of a Volkswagen CC.
Thompson has occasionally mixed it with the big guns this season with the minnow Hard operation, scoring a second place at Brands Hatch in May and qualifying fourth at Oulton Park last month, before a collision in race two of that event ruined his weekend.
