Colin Turkington is the 2014 BTCC champion, with a third place in a chaotic first race at Brands Hatch enough to secure an unassailable lead over race-winner Jason Plato. Plato headed home Triple Eight team-mate Sam Tordoff after taking the lead on lap eight, but West Surrey Racing’s Turkington was within striking distance throughout, and … More »
The soft tyre choices have been announced for today’s BTCC finale at Brands Hatch. A mixture of tyre strategies have been chosen, but with the majority of cars again choosing to run the cars in the third race. Rain is forecast for around 5pm today, so there is a chance the choices will turn out … More »
Colin Turkington was “delighted” to be fourth after a frantic wet-dry qualifying session at Brands Hatch saw multiple drivers swapping provisional pole position almost every lap. “Delighted to be right at the sharp end, that’s one of the sessions where you could be first or you could be tenth,” Turkington told TouringCarTimes. “It was definitely … More »
Championship contender Jason Plato took pole position in a frantic dry-to-wet qualifying session at Brands Hatch, with times tumbling throughout a fascinating 30 minutes. Pole position changed hands eight times during the session, and would have surely done so on more occasions were it not for a red flag with less than three minutes to go, … More »
West Surrey Racing’s Colin Turkington beat title rival Jason Plato to the fastest time in the first free practice session at Brands Hatch, with the pair duking it out at the top of the standings throughout. Turkington’s best lap of 1.44.007 was 0.213 faster than Triple Eight’s Plato, with Sam Tordoff in third ahead of the Honda pair … More »
They have a combined 119 wins and three titles between them in their distinguished BTCC careers, and on Sunday either Colin Turkington or Jason Plato will be crowned 2014 champion at the epochal Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit. After another engrossing season, the battle for the championship will once again be decided at the famous old … More »
James Cole has hailed the “phenomenal job” done by his United Autosports team to repair his badly damaged Toyota Avensis in time for the BTCC finale at Brands Hatch. Cole’s car sustained substantial damage in a clash with Robb Holland on the first lap of the final race at Silverstone, and was unsure whether it would be … More »
Mat Jackson had a very good weekend in Silverstone, leaving the track with two podium finishes, including a Race 3 win, and a fifth place in Race 2. “The car has always gone very well here, so going into the weekend we knew we had half a chance to win”, said Jackson to TouringCarTimes. “In … More »
Tony Gilham will return to the BTCC when he replaces Robb Holland in the Rotek Racing Audi S3 for the season’s final event at Brands Hatch. Holland has a clashing engagement on the Saturday of the meeting, and has decided to give up his seat to his former team boss Gilham, who ran four cars in … More »
James Dodd jumped to top of the HSCC Super Touring Championship standings as he kept Stewart Whyte behind in a close Honda battle at Brands Hatch. It was a less than perfect start for Dodd, however, as he faltered at the rolling start, allowing his father Graeme to take second in his Nissan Primera. The … More »