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. Autosport · Jun 4, 2023
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. Motorsport · Jun 4, 2023
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. Autosport · Jun 4, 2023
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. Autosport · Jun 3, 2023
BTCC Thruxton: Cook dominates free practice The West Countryman, the BTCC wins record holder at Thruxton, comfortably headed both of the 35-minute sessions in his One Motorsport Honda Civic Type R, raising anticipation that the Brackley squad could be on the verge of turning the tide from its disappointing start to the season. Autosport · Jun 3, 2023
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. Autosport · May 21, 2023
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. Autosport · May 21, 2023
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. Autosport · May 21, 2023
BTCC Snetterton: Sutton sets new qualifying lap record for stunning pole After the second of two red-flag stoppages, Sutton slashed a huge chunk off his early ‘banker lap’ to beat the 2019 qualifying lap record held by Tom Ingram. Autosport · May 20, 2023
BTCC Snetterton: Sutton blitzes free practice The three-time champion demolished his opposition at the wheel of his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST to lead a team 1-2 from Dan Cammish by 0.666 seconds. Autosport · May 20, 2023
BTCC Brands Hatch: Sutton beats Ingram in tense strategic Race 2 battle Sutton’s win was built upon a blistering first lap, in which he deprived first-race winner and poleman Colin Turkington of the lead at the Druids hairpin. Autosport · May 7, 2023
BTCC Brands Hatch: Turkington wins opener red-flagged after pile-up Turkington, with the soft option tyres fitted to his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport, got the launch from second on the grid, but the problem was he had to do it twice. Autosport · May 7, 2023
BTCC Brands Hatch: Cammish secures stunning pole from Turkington As the seconds ticked down in a soggy top-10 Q2 shootout, it appeared that Colin Turkington would secure pole position in his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport. Autosport · May 6, 2023
BTCC Brands Hatch: Hill and Butcher top free practice Hill was one of a raft of late improvements in the opening session, which took place amid light drizzle, and steered his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport around the Indy Circuit 0.097 seconds quicker than the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST of three-time champion Ash Sutton. Autosport · May 6, 2023
Autosport · Apr 23, 2023 BTCC Donington Park: Cammish wins again to take early points lead The Yorkshireman made the most of being gifted the reversed-grid pole position, and led from lights to flag in wet conditions at the wheel of his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST.
Autosport · Apr 23, 2023 BTCC Donington Park: Chilton wins bizarre wet second race The Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N benefited from being one of those to pit at the end of the green-flag lap for wet-weather Goodyear tyres when rain made the going slippery.
Autosport · Apr 23, 2023 BTCC Donington Park: Cammish beats Hill in thriller Cammish emerged on top after a race-long battle with Jake Hill in wet conditions, and managed to work his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST past the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Hill on the 19th of what became 21 laps of racing.
Autosport · Apr 22, 2023 BTCC Donington: Turkington edges Sutton in free practice The Northern Irishman eclipsed the quickest time of the opening session set by Ash Sutton, which had been a gargantuan 0.476 seconds clear of closest pursuer Turkington and had seemed to send out an ominous warning that the three-time title winner and the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus squad will be…
Autosport · Apr 21, 2023 The BTCC plotlines to watch out for in 2023 The series hasn't had the most dramatic of silly seasons - indeed, the top six drivers from 2022 all line up with the same teams and machinery in 2023 - but there are plenty of factors that could shake things up.
Autosport · Apr 20, 2023 Ingram explains reasons for using #1 for 2023 BTCC season Ingram claimed the BTCC title for the first time in the final race last year at the wheel of his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N and, after the cars arrived in parc ferme, outgoing champion Ash Sutton peeled the #1 sticker off the window of his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus…
Autosport · Mar 29, 2023 Speedworks switches to Toyota engine as Gamble joins Butcher and Collard Neil Brown Engineering is producing a new Toyota powerplant for Speedworks Motorsport’s trio of Corolla GR Sports, as the Cheshire team makes the switch from the TOCA customer engine.
Autosport · Feb 15, 2023 Mini ace Pearson gets final Excelr8 Hyundai BTCC seat Mini Challenge ace Ronan Pearson is to step up to the British Touring Car Championship this season with a plum seat in the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai squad.
Daily Record · Jan 1, 2023 10 intriguing Loch Ness Monster 'sightings' in 2022 of Nessie captured on camera As if 2022 was not already dramatic enough, it also provided us with many new supposed sightings of the Loch Ness Monster—with varying degrees of believability.
Autosport · Dec 22, 2022 Autosport 2022 Top 50: #47 Tom Ingram 1st in British Touring Car Championship
Autosport · Dec 6, 2022 The legacy of a cost-effective launchpad for future racing stars After 13 years on the BTCC support bill, the Ginetta GT4 Supercup was axed as a standalone series at the end of this season. Here, some of its major players reflect on the championship’s key moments