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BTCC Thruxton: Sutton breaks win drought to regain championship lead

Sutton had to battle from outside the top six, but picked off his rivals in his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus ST on the way to his 40th career BTCC victory.

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BTCC Thruxton: Hill beats the Fords to close in on series lead

Hill launched his Laser Tools-liveried West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport to the front of the pack from third on the grid while poleman Tom Ingram got swallowed up.

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BTCC Thruxton: Ingram grabs pole with Cammish second

A significant increase in ambient and track temperatures plus changes in wind direction played havoc with the teams’ calculations and Ingram, in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback, mastered the curveballs the best.

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BTCC Snetterton: Hill takes pole from Sutton

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BTCC Snetterton: Hill and Thompson top free practice

As the dismal British spring climate brought rain sweeping in from the North Sea across East Anglia, Thompson quite literally made a splash on his BTCC return – and his debut in a rear-wheel-drive tin-top – by topping the second session in his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport.But…

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Thompson in BMW for the rest of 2024 BTCC season

The 27-year-old, who won the Jack Sears Trophy in 2022 and was an overall podium finisher last year – both seasons in a Team Hard Cupra – drove WSR’s fourth BMW in the official pre-season test at Brands Hatch in April.

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Pearson leads Excelr8 1-2 with maiden victory

Second-year British Touring Car Championship racer Ronan Pearson took his maiden win in the series in consummate style in the finale at Brands Hatch.The Scot was armed with a set of soft tyres upon his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N from reversed-grid pole position, but so was the Power Maxed…

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Magnificent Turkington doubles up

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Turkington dominates opener

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Turkington wins BMW fight for pole

Turkington, whose previous pole position in the series came back in August 2022 at Snetterton, ended up in a fight with the sister West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Adam Morgan, whose only BTCC pole was at Rockingham in 2018 in his Ciceley Mercedes days.

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BTCC Donington: Moffat fends off Turkington, Sutton and Huff in thriller

Moffat’s LKQ-liveried Toyota Corolla GR Sport started on the front row alongside the polesitting Toyota Gazoo Racing GB version of Rob Huff from the other side of the Speedworks Motorsport stable, but neither could prevent Adam Morgan from propelling his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport into the…

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BTCC Donington: Ingram dominates practice

The 2022 champion was happy to go about his own programme for the majority of both 35-minute periods at a bitterly cold Leicestershire circuit and on each occasion he set the standard as the chequered flag flew.

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Thompson stakes claim for full-time BTCC seat with first BMW test

The 28-year-old Thompson, who is regarded by many series insiders as a champion of the future in the right circumstances, is now working flat-out with the Sunbury squad on trying to put a deal together to start the 2024 season at Donington Park at the end of this month.Thompson, who…

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Hill tops first official BTCC test

On his local circuit, Hill put in a late run at the end of the day to snatch the top position away by 0.065 seconds from BTCC returnee Rob Huff, the 2012 World Touring Car champion gearing up for his first domestic season in 20 years with the Speedworks Motorsport-run…

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Thompson gets BTCC WSR BMW test at Brands

The deal is for the Wednesday test only, as WSR seeks to fill the vacant berth alongside Jake Hill, four-time champion Colin Turkington and Adam Morgan for the 2024 season.Thompson, the 2022 champion in the Jack Sears Trophy sub-division, has spent the majority of his 130-race BTCC career with Team…

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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.

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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.…

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BTCC Silverstone: Turkington wins as title fight goes down to Sutton and Ingram

Turkington’s West Surrey Racing team-mate Jake Hill charged his BMW 330e M Sport from the back of the grid to eighth, but has now fallen out of championship contention.

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BTCC Silverstone: Sutton sensational to win from back of grid

The win, remarkably Sutton’s first of his BTCC career at the Northamptonshire circuit, came after long-time leader Jake Hill suffered a misfire just as the race restarted following a half-distance safety-car interlude.

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BTCC Donington Park: Butcher wins as last-lap drama hits Lloyd

Lloyd had started his Team Hard Cupra Leon from pole position and led the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of Tom Chilton, who was soon given a five-second penalty for an out-of-position start.

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BTCC Donington Park: Ingram turns the tables on Sutton in race two

Ingram worked his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N ahead of the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST of Sutton on the fourth lap of 14, and stayed in front until the end of the race.

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BTCC Donington Park: Sutton wins opener as Ingram pips Hill

The three-time champion worked his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST around the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of reigning title holder Tom Ingram on the second lap, and disappeared into the distance.

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BTCC Donington: Sutton beats Ingram in pole battle

But this time Sutton had to fend off a stern challenge from reigning champion Tom Ingram, who ran him extremely close but could not prevent the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST squad from extending its 2023 pole wipeout to eight from eight.

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BTCC Knockhill: Sutton pips Cook to pole

The three-time champion wrung everything out of himself and his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST in the Q2 top-10 shootout to pip the One Motorsport Honda Civic Type R of Josh Cook by 0.006 seconds.

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