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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Motorbase - Caught on Camera

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.

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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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Ranking the top 10 BTCC drivers of 2023

The British Touring Car Championship season threatened to become a one-horse race at times in 2023, such was the searing speed of Ash Sutton and his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST.

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Supreme Sutton bags pole for finale

Sutton was supreme throughout the half-hour in his Alliance Racing (nee Motorbase) Ford Focus ST as he bids for a fourth title.

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BTCC leader Motorbase changes its name for finale

Championship leader Ash Sutton will therefore go into his Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit showdown against Tom Ingram with the rebranded Alliance Racing team running his NAPA Racing Ford Focus ST.

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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: Rookie Doble takes shock pole

The reigning Ginetta GT5 and BMW Compact Cup champion, driving a Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra, ended the pole monopoly for 2023 of the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST squad, which had stretched to eight out of eight.

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Why TOCA is right to avoid parity tweak in Sutton BTCC domination

It’s around 10am on Saturday 22 April at Donington Park. The first British Touring Car Championship free practice session of the season is nearing its end. The rhythm of rasping BTCC cars bombing downhill through the Craner Curves to the Old Hairpin is becoming almost hypnotic. Suddenly, a blue-and-yellow projectile…

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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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Huge shunt rules Cammish out of BTCC Donington

The 2019 series runner-up, who lies fifth in the 2023 standings, crashed his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST at McLeans in the closing stages of the first free practice session, moments after setting the quickest time to date.

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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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BTCC Croft: Cammish wins opener as Sutton is gifted second

The local man got the jump at the lights, and headed team-mates Dan Rowbottom and Ash Sutton throughout for a Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST 1-2-3.

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BTCC Croft: Ingram fastest in free practice

Ingram moved his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N to the top of the pile deep into the final 10 minutes of FP2, and finally headed the way by 0.135 seconds from the Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST of Dan Cammish.

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Motorbase plans to support BTCC customer team in 2024

The Kent squad’s machinery have been the cars to beat this season, with Ash Sutton leading the drivers’ standings, and contributing to a clean sweep of five pole positions out of five together with team-mates Dan Rowbottom and Dan Cammish.

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BTCC Oulton Park: Turkington completes comeback with victory

Turkington started the day 27th and last on the grid but shot his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport back into contention with storming drives over the first two races.

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BTCC Oulton Park: Hill breaks Sutton’s winning run in race one

Once he had got the jump on the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST of poleman Sutton at the start, it was imperative for Hill to keep the 2023 points leader at bay while the tyres on his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport got up to temperature.

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BTCC Oulton Park: Supreme Sutton beats Hill to pole

The three-time champion sailed easily through to the top 10 shootout by topping the first qualifying session, and then stamped in two laps quicker than the best anyone else could manage in his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST.

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BTCC Oulton Park: Ingram leads the way in free practice

Ingram set the fastest lap of the early-morning FP1 period in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N, 0.022 seconds clear of the Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST of championship leader Ash Sutton.

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BTCC Thruxton: Sutton claims yet another win in race two

Once again, the three-time champion led from start to finish in his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST in another processional race at the front.

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BTCC Thruxton: Sutton continues his winning streak

The three-time champion led from start to finish in his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST, and never came under serious threat.

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BTCC Thruxton: Sutton continues his winning streak in race one

The three-time champion led from start to finish in his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST, and never came under serious threat.

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BTCC Thruxton: Sutton beats Ingram to continue pole hot streak

As championship leader, Sutton was running the minimum hybrid boost allowance of one second per lap at a minimum speed of 135mph on his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST, yet he was still able to put himself at the front.

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BTCC Snetterton: Ingram hangs on for first win of 2023

Ingram had the medium tyre fitted on his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N, and started from seventh on the grid.

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BTCC Snetterton: Sutton dominates to notch up four wins in a row

The three-time champion had the soft Goodyear tyres fitted to his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST, and absolutely rocketed away from the field for an unchallenged victory.

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BTCC Snetterton: Sutton pips Hill in tight finish in opener

Despite running the medium ‘prime’ tyre, Sutton’s Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST cruised away from the soft-shod West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sports of Colin Turkington and Hill in the opening stages.

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