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The drivers who could shine on the BTCC support bill this year

The long winter wait is now almost over for the British Touring Car support series. The Porsche Carrera Cup GB, Sprint Challenge GB, British Formula 4 and Mini Challenge are all due to roar into action at Donington Park this weekend.

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Why the FIA driver grading debate dominated the British GT 2025 opener

The 2025 British GT season wasn’t even a race old when complaints began roaming around the paddock during the Donington Park opener last weekend.

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Obituary: Vauxhall motorsport boss and successful co-driver Mike Nicholson dies aged 81

It’s a rare feat for anyone to have played a key part in two of the UK’s greatest eras of motorsport in two such disparate disciplines.

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The former Mercedes junior seeking to revive his career in GB4

There is a fascinating mix of drivers on GB4’s record-breaking grid this year. The introduction of a new car (a modified version of the old GB3 machine) has helped generate a buzz about MotorSport Vision’s second-tier junior single-seater championship and an impressive line-up of 24 drivers is due to assemble…

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How arrive-and-drive is on the rise in club racing

Glance around the paddock now at any club race meeting and the sight is very different to those of yesteryear. Even at the most grassroots of events, there will still be scores of large transporters and big awnings from teams and preparers that are running multiple cars.

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BTCC legend Turkington drops from 2025 grid due to "commercial realities"

The four-time British Touring Car Championship champion Colin Turkington will be absent from the 2025 grid due to the current commercial climate.

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The new club categories aiming to make an impact in 2025

It is always important for club racing organisers to have one eye on the future. Innovation is essential, along with thinking a couple of steps ahead, and each year a range of new categories are unveiled to try to tempt in a new audience or keep existing drivers engaged.

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"Blessing and a curse": The reality of taking on Sutton from within his own team

To define ‘enigmatic’ in the context of the British Touring Car Championship, look no further than Dan Cammish. Not, you understand, because of the man himself; he’s a refreshingly open, honest, self-analytical chap. It’s more his results.

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The underrated GT star who has quietly become a firm favourite at Lamborghini

Sandy Mitchell is under no illusion that the recognition gained for success in British GT pales in comparison to that of the British Touring Car Championship. Take the fan-voted Autosport National Driver Award for instance. A BTCC competitor has won all but five editions of it since 2008 and none…

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Autosport's top 10 club racing drivers of 2024

Every year, dozens of drivers enjoy championship success across a wealth of different national racing categories.

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The top 10 BTCC support drivers of the past 10 seasons

There have been 258 drivers who have triumphed in a race in one of the support categories at a British Touring Car Championship event in the past 10 seasons. That’s a truly staggering number and certainly makes picking the best 10 of these a very tricky task.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #47 Tom Ingram

It all looked so good back in April. Tom Ingram radiated confidence, Excelr8 Motorsport’s winter work to its Hyundai i30 N Fastback all nicely validated during a three-day test in the dry – at Anglesey!

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #44 Jake Hill

Jake Hill is probably the first grandson of a chart-topping 1950s crooner to make Autosport’s own hit parade, and that’s appropriate because the diminutive Kentishman has ‘no other love’ (check out grandad Ronnie Hilton’s 1956 tune of that name) than motorsport.

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BTCC underdog DeLeon lands "surreal" move to series giant WSR BMW

British Touring Car Championship underdog hero Daryl DeLeon has hit the big time with a move to top team West Surrey Racing for 2025.

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BTCC reveals 24-car field for next season

British Touring Car Championship promoter TOCA has revealed the allocation of 24 TBL entrants’ licences for the 2025 season.While the total is down on the 27 distributed for this year, only 21 of those were used during the 2024 campaign, and BTCC insiders are confident of bigger grids next term.The…

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The teen talent exceling on his Civic duty

The Civic Cup has developed a reputation over the years for being a hugely competitive championship. The cars are closely matched and there’s always a cluster of star names at the front.

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How top engine builder NBE is navigating through changing times

I joined Neil Brown Engineering in 1989 when electronics came into motor racing and engine management systems became increasingly popular. My brother-in-law already worked here and I’d been helping him out a little bit as a newly qualified electronics engineer, so Neil offered me a job. I said, ‘I’ll do…

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How Sharp proved a cut above the GB3 pack to claim back-to-back titles

He faced stiff competition from his more experienced rivals throughout, but Louis Sharp sealed the 2024 GB3 Championship in convincing style with more poles, victories and laps led than anybody else. Remaining with Rodin Motorsport for his graduation from a title-winning British Formula 4 campaign, Sharp made the perfect start…

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BTCC tweaks tyre and engine rules for 2025

The British Touring Car Championship has made further tweaks to its regulations for the 2025 season following last week’s revelation that it is dropping hybrid.

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Buemi had lost hope before comeback drive gave Toyota WEC title

Sebastien Buemi believed Toyota was out of contention for the World Endurance Championship manufacturers’ crown when he began the comeback that yielded the Japanese car maker the title in Bahrain.

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The top 10 BTCC drivers of 2024

The field was smaller compared to recent seasons, but the quality at the front of the British Touring Car Championship in 2024 was as high as fans have seen since the Super Touring days a quarter of a century ago.

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Barwell’s Huracan force proves unstoppable in British GT

It was widely recognised across the British GT paddock that Sandy Mitchell and his Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan was the fastest entry throughout the 2024 season. But, ultimately, it did not win the title after a year-long battle with team-mates Rob and Ricky Collard, where the margins were incredibly fine.

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Phil Hanson set to join AF Corse for FIA WEC season 2025

Phil Hanson will race the ‘customer’ Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar run by AF Corse in next year’s World Endurance Championship.

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The sensible position UK motorsport is taking on sustainability

For a sport that generally provides such a tremendous assault on all the senses, the notion of sustainability can seem a little alien. The idea of being environmentally friendly and responsible in a racing world portrayed in some quarters as a gas-guzzling hobby for the rich can seem like two…

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How the BTCC's support classes were won in 2024

The contrast could not have been greater. While Deagen Fairclough romped to British Formula 4 glory by a staggering 222.5 points after unprecedented levels of domination, Seb Hopkins sealed the Porsche Sprint Challenge GB title by just a solitary point.

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