Reigning Jack Sears Trophy champion Mikey Doble made it an underdog double on the second of two days of British Touring Car Championship official testing at Croft. Doble, who is entering his third season with the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra team, set no fewer than three laps quicker than the best anyone else could
Exciting rookie Max Hall shaded the big guns by topping the first of two days of official British Touring Car Championship testing at Croft on Tuesday. The effervescent West Country youngster, who only turned 18 at the end of February, stamped in a 1m20.532s best midway through the afternoon session at the wheel of his
Four-time British Touring Car Championship title winner Colin Turkington has made an unexpected return to the West Surrey Racing BMW team for a Brands Hatch test. The Northern Irishman is celebrating his 43rd birthday on Friday by filling in for reigning champion Jake Hill, who has a clashing commitment racing a Ferrari 296 GT3 in
The reigning Jack Sears Trophy champion Mikey Doble will be the driver for Power Maxed Racing’s single-car British Touring Car Championship effort in 2025. The 26-year-old Surrey racer won the sub-division for drivers who, pre-season, were yet to claim an overall BTCC podium. But he arguably created more of an impression by coming within half
Four-time British Touring Car Championship race winner Stephen Jelley is to make a surprise return to the series in 2025. The 42-year-old, who spent last season in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB, has taken the second seat at One Motorsport to pilot a Honda Civic Type R. It reunites Jelley with One team leader Josh
Gordon Shedden is back in the British Touring Car Championship for 2025 after two years away, at the wheel of a Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Gazoo Racing Corolla. The Scottish three-time champion is one of the standout greats of the NGTC era, and he’s far from the only driver hailing from north of Hadrian’s Wall to
This is, it seems, a Marcus Rashford moment. The most celebrated home-grown member of the most historic of teams finds himself out of the squad. From one pinnacle of UK sport, it’s the same in another. And, as with Rashford, Colin Turkington’s departure from West Surrey Racing and the British Touring Car Championship is strongly
The four-time British Touring Car Championship champion Colin Turkington will be absent from the 2025 grid due to the current commercial climate. The 42-year-old Northern Irishman has been a mainstay of the West Surrey Racing BMW squad for the past eight seasons, and 17 of his 20 BTCC campaigns dating back to 2002 have been
The four-time British Touring Car Championship champion Colin Turkington will be absent from the 2025 grid due to the current commercial climate. The 42-year-old Northern Irishman has been a mainstay of the West Surrey Racing BMW squad for the past eight seasons, and 17 of his 20 BTCC campaigns dating back to 2002 have been
Reigning British Touring Car Independents champion Aron Taylor-Smith has lined himself up a Toyota Gazoo Racing UK seat for 2025. The 35-year-old Dubliner, a four-time race winner in the championship, will campaign a Speedworks Motorsport-run Corolla GR Sport after two seasons with the under-threat Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall squad. Taylor-Smith is the second driver named
A one-time British Touring Car Championship pole sitting Mazda Xedos 6 will make its first UK racing appearance for more than 30 years at Brands Hatch this summer. The ex-Patrick Watts car from 1993 is among several machines being shipped from New Zealand for the third edition of Super Touring Power on 28-29 June. Affectionately
The future of the reigning British Touring Car Championship Independents’ title holder Power Maxed Racing has been jeopardised by the withdrawal of its main backer. Pendragon Management Services, whose CarStore and Evans Halshaw divisions featured as title sponsor of the Midlands squad’s Vauxhall Astras in 2022-23 and 2024 respectively, has ended its agreement three years
