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Jack Sears Trophy champion to drive for Power Maxed Vauxhall in BTCC 2025

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.

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Jelley to make another BTCC return in Honda

Four-time British Touring Car Championship race winner Stephen Jelley is to make a surprise return to the series in 2025.

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The BTCC will be eager for Turkington to return after news of 2025 departure

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.

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Vauxhall team’s BTCC future in jeopardy after sponsor termination

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.

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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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BTCC Brands Hatch: Turkington claims pole for season finale

Four-time British Touring Car champion Colin Turkington took pole position at Brands Hatch for the final round of a 2024 series he is unlikely to win.The Northern Irishman’s fourth pole position of the season will make a slight dent to his deficit to championship leader Jake Hill and Tom Ingram…

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Vauxhall duo claim 1-2 in free practice

Aron Taylor-Smith led Mikey Doble in a 1-2 for Power Maxed Racing in free practice for the British Touring Car Championship finale at Brands Hatch.The experienced Irishman, who clinched the Independents’ title last time out at Silverstone, eclipsed his Jack Sears Trophy champion team-mate right at the chequered flag on…

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Vauxhall team explains why it was stripped of Silverstone BTCC pole

British Touring Car Championship team Power Maxed Racing has explained the ride-height failures that cost it pole position and third on the grid at Silverstone.

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BTCC Silverstone: Taylor-Smith excluded from qualifying, Ingram inherits pole

British Touring Car Championship title contender Tom Ingram has inherited pole position for the Silverstone round after qualifying topper Aron Taylor-Smith was excluded. Taylor-Smith, his third-fastest team-mate Mikey Doble plus sixth-placed Dan Zelos all fell foul of the ride-height test, and will start race one from the back of the grid. Aron…

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BTCC Knockhill: Turkington claims second successive pole

Colin Turkington claimed his second successive British Touring Car Championship qualifying pole position for the seventh round of the series at Knockhill.The four-time champion faced a stern challenge from an unlikely opponent in the form of Aron Taylor-Smith, but the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra pilot could not quite dislodge…

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Rowbottom leads the way in Knockhill practice

Dan Rowbottom continued his recent strong form by topping free practice for the British Touring Car Championship’s visit to Knockhill. The Midlander emerged quickest in both sessions at the wheel of his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus ST and eventually headed four-time champion team-mate Ash Sutton by 0.063 seconds. The Scottish hillside…

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BTCC Oulton Park: Hill denies Doble with stunning last-lap pass

Jake Hill took a last-gasp victory in the final race of the Oulton Park British Touring Car Championship round to move into the series lead.Hill had chiselled his way through the reversed-grid order until he found himself on the rear bumper of the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra of polesitter…

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BTCC Oulton Park: Ingram beats Sutton as investigations loom

Tom Ingram beat Ash Sutton to victory in the first race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Oulton Park.But the result was only made concrete post-race after the officials looked into a pair of second-lap incidents between Ingram and Sutton, before deciding to take no further action.Ingram got…

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BTCC Oulton Park: Ingram overcomes hybrid reduction and beats Sutton to pole

Tom Ingram beat Ash Sutton to pole position for the first race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Oulton Park.The 2022 title winner and the four-time reigning champion defied the restrictions placed upon them by the hybrid-reduction regulations on a circuit where they were expected to have a…

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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 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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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: Taylor-Smith and Chilton top practice

Dubliner Taylor-Smith stamped in a late effort in the cooler conditions of the first session to top the times at the wheel of his Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra on a 47.905s.

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Six things to watch in BTCC 2024

A record-breaking fifth British Touring Car Championship title for Ash Sutton? Or indeed, for Colin Turkington? Or a second for Tom Ingram? Or how about a first for Jake Hill, Dan Cammish, or Josh Cook?

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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…

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Huff in shock BTCC return with Cupra

And although the 43-year-old’s agreement with Team Hard to replace Nicolas Hamilton at the wheel of one of the Kent squad’s Cupra Leons is for this weekend only, Huff has indicated that he is open to contesting further rounds.

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Taylor-Smith switches to Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall for 2023 BTCC

Multiple British Touring Car Championship race winner Aron Taylor-Smith has switched to Power Maxed Racing for the 2023 season.

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GT racer Watson switches to BTCC with PMR Vauxhall

GT racing convert Andrew Watson will make his British Touring Car Championship debut this season with the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra team.

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Toyota team Speedworks gets extra BTCC entry

Three British Touring Car Championship teams have each acquired one extra TOCA BTCC license for the 2023 season, keeping the field theoretically at 29 cars.

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Jelley heads Crees in unfamiliar practice top 10

Stephen Jelley led a shake-up of the British Touring Car Championship order by topping free practice for the second round on the Brands Hatch Indy Circuit.

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