BTCC announces deal for every 2024 race to be streamed live on TikTok In what is thought to be the first of its kind, all races for the 2024 BTCC season will be streamed live and free on TikTok. Autosport · Mar 27, 2024
Why a national racer gets more joy from giving back to motorsport Dan Cammish’s loss of his Team Dynamics drive on the eve of the 2021 British Touring Car Championship campaign, amid Honda and other team sponsors withdrawing, was one of the shocks of that off-season. Yet it set in motion a sequence of events that has led one seasoned Formula Ford… Autosport · Mar 26, 2024
Turkington gets new BMW engine for 2024 BTCC title attack BMW UK has belatedly confirmed that Turkington and Adam Morgan will continue alongside the Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport entry of Jake Hill in the WSR stable of 330e M Sport machinery, and has unveiled the livery of its cars. Autosport · Mar 26, 2024
Top 10: Ranking the greatest BTCC champions Who is the greatest? That’s a question often asked in all areas of sport, including Formula 1. Autosport · Mar 20, 2024
BTCC star Turkington eyes further club outings after Silverstone Mazda races The 67-time BTCC race winner was competing in a Paul Sheard-prepared car and managed to come away with a best result of 12th in the third and final race. Autosport · Mar 20, 2024
What we're looking forward to in national racing in 2024 The club racing season began last weekend with the British Racing Sports Car Club kicking proceedings off at Silverstone. Autosport · Mar 19, 2024
Gamble latest BTCC race winner planning Porsche Carrera Cup GB return Fellow BTCC victors Dan Lloyd and Stephen Jelley have already revealed plans to make Carrera Cup comebacks this season and they will now be joined by Gamble, who endured a frustrating tin-top campaign in a Speedworks Motorsport Toyota last year. Autosport · Mar 13, 2024
Hard stays in BTCC after all in surprise U-turn The Kent squad ran a series-record six-car line-up of its Cupra Leon model in 2023, but after a season that was troubled behind the scenes the team collapsed. Autosport · Mar 4, 2024
One Motorsport takes ‘pause’ from BTCC The Brackley squad, formerly known as BTC Racing, went without an overall race win in 2023 for the first time in six seasons, although Josh Cook claimed the Independents’ title. Autosport · Feb 21, 2024
Alliance further develops Focus for Sutton record-breaking BTCC bid Four-time title winner Ash Sutton will once more be joined at the Ford Focus ST-equipped squad, which has moved into new premises in Northampton, by race winners Dan Cammish and Dan Rowbottom, plus Sam Osborne. Autosport · Feb 19, 2024
Top 10: Ranking the greatest BTCC drivers not to be champion The British Touring Car Championship has been one of the most competitive and popular series in the UK since it began in 1958. Autosport · Feb 12, 2024
BTCC race winner Moffat joins Speedworks Toyota line-up Moffat will partner Josh Cook in Speedworks’ two-car LKQ Euro Car Parts with Synetiq line-up, a year after they teamed up in similar colours at the One Motorsport Honda squad. Autosport · Feb 12, 2024
Excelr8 begins tie-up with Dynamics for 2024 BTCC season Excelr8, which carried Tom Ingram to the 2022 crown, has moved its squad of four Hyundai i30 N Fastbacks into Dynamics’ facility in Droitwich, from which the West Midlands operation won a total of six BTCC overall titles with Honda machinery in the hands of Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden. Autosport · Feb 9, 2024
Collards join forces at Barwell in British GT title tilt Collard Sr, a multiple British Touring Car race winner, returns to British GT for the first time since taking the outright GT3 title alongside Sandy Mitchell in 2020. The 55-year-old most recently claimed second in the GT World Challenge Europe Pro-Am standings alongside Dennis Lind last year. “Our biggest job… Autosport · Feb 7, 2024
Autosport · Feb 7, 2024 Watson joins Speedworks Toyota in BTCC As a BTCC rookie, the Northern Irishman won the 2023 edition of the Jack Sears Trophy, the sub-division for drivers who have never scored an overall BTCC podium before the season. He scored two podium finishes with the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra squad, in rain-affected races at Knockhill and…
Autosport · Feb 1, 2024 Did the new national series of 2023 fly or flop? The tricky economic conditions of 2023 meant it was not necessarily the ideal time to launch a new club racing series in the UK. Nevertheless, a raft of different organisers introduced fresh categories last season - some of which were more familiar than others.
Autosport · Jan 31, 2024 Cook switches teams to race Speedworks Toyota in BTCC The 32-year-old reigning Independents champion is the first driver confirmed for the Cheshire squad’s expanded four-driver line-up, and heads there after five years with Honda Civics fielded by the team now known as One Motorsport.
Autosport · Jan 30, 2024 Butcher takes BTCC ‘sabbatical’ for 2024 The 36-year-old Scot has made the decision after finishing 10th in the standings last year, his worst campaign since his maiden full BTCC season in 2018.
Motorsport · Jan 29, 2024 Hamilton reunites with Hynes as Copper management deal ends A former BTCC racer and British F3 champion, Hynes struck up a friendship with Hamilton when the youngster drove for John Booth’s Manor team in Formula Renault and F3 as he worked his way through the ranks. Hynes served as a driver coach for Manor and remained close to Hamilton after…
Autosport · Jan 25, 2024 Another BTCC race winner set for Porsche Carrera Cup GB return in 2024 The 41-year-old, winner of four BTCC races over two spells in the series, has bowed out of the West Surrey Racing BMW line-up after three seasons at the Sunbury squad.
Autosport · Jan 18, 2024 BTCC race winner Lloyd in Porsche Carrera Cup GB switch The 31-year-old Yorkshireman, winner of four BTCC races, has joined the Toro Verde squad as it bids to establish itself as a contender in the series.
Autosport · Jan 13, 2024 How BTCC king Sutton rates his rivals - past and present There’s no question about it: Ash Sutton is one of the all-time greats of the British Touring Car Championship. It’s well-documented already that his 2023 title success aboard his Alliance Racing Ford Focus ST was a record-equalling fourth alongside Andy Rouse and Colin Turkington, and meant that he became the…
Autosport · Jan 11, 2024 The star cars you can see at Autosport International Porsche rules the roost when it comes to Le Mans success. Ferrari’s famous 2023 victory took the Italian marque’s tally in the French classic to 10, but Porsche has a record 19 wins. The 963, which took the German firm back to the top rung of the endurance racing ladder…
Autosport · Dec 21, 2023 Autosport Top 50 of 2023: #36 Ash Sutton Sutton had what the stats books will tell you was a record-equalling season in the British Touring Car Championship. But what was more important to him was the manner of his fourth crown, and the fact that he became the first to win it in both front and rear-wheel-drive machinery.
Autosport · Dec 19, 2023 Hill stays put in WSR BMW for 2024 BTCC season The 29-year-old, who has just become a father for the first time, switched to the Sunbury squad for 2022 and has finished as its top-placed driver in the championship in both his seasons there, accumulating a total of nine race wins plus a pair of third-place finishes in the points.…