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The British Touring Car Championships newest team on the block Plato Racing have acquired five time race winner Dan Rowbottom to pilot their Mercedes-AMG A35 this season. Rowbottom moves from one of the premier seats in the championship to lead the all new Plato Racing squad managed by the two time BTCC champion Jason Plato. …
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Tom Ingram has been crowned the 2025 BTCC champion after claiming a dominant race two victory. His win in race two is his seventh win of the year as he led title rival Ash Sutton over the line. A champions drive to crown Ingram After using the medium tyres in race one, it always felt…
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Reigning BTCC champion Jake Hill announced that he will be leaving Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport at the end of the 2025 season. Hill has said that he is leaving the championship to focus on his international racing career. The announcement ends a long term relationship between Hill and ex formula 1 driver Mark…
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With round nine of the 2025 BTCC season at Silverstone circuit just around the corner, now is a better time than ever to reminisce over Ash Sutton’s miracle drive back in 2023. Setting the Scene Sutton’s sensational drive came in race two where he started in 23rd position. Sutton tumbled down the order in race…
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Tom Ingram claimed his fifth win of the 2025 BTCC season in race three at Donington Park on the grand prix loop. He fought his way up from fifth place at the start and had a brilliant battle on track with his title rival Ash Sutton. He now sits 32 points clear at the top…
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Dan Cammish took career win number 15 on his 200th start in a chaotic race two at Donington Park. Cammish led from lap six and survived a late rain shower at Mcleans which caught the whole field out. First lap chaos at Mcleans As the lights went out, the Hyundai’s both got away well on…
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Tom Chilton took his 18th career victory in the British Touring Car championship in the first race of the day at Donington Park GP. It is his second victory of the season at the track. He took a race three victory on Donington Park National loop earlier in the season. Tom Ingram followed his teammate…
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The BTCC is well and truly back in full swing after its summer break as the championship heads to Scotland for its annual visit to Knockhill. An incredibly unique circuit with all of its elevation and fast corners. With a lap of Knockhill being just 50 seconds, expect close margins and even closer racing throught…
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Race three at Croft was absolutely filled with incidents and door banging, but it was Ash Sutton that got through the chaos and took the flag first. Crashes, a reverse grid, a mix of tyres and hard racing is the complete definition of a touring car race and we got it all in race three.…
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Dan Rowbottom clamied his third race win of the 2025 season in race two of the day at Croft. He keeps up his streak of wins after standing on the top step at the last two meetings. Rowbottom did most of the hard work early on, overtaking Senna Proctor for third on lap one and…
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The BTCC summer break is officially over as racing got back underway at Croft circuit for the second half of the British Touring Car Championship season. Tom Ingram took pole position yesterday but a damp track would pose a tricky challenge for the drivers in race one. Slicks were absolutely the tyre of choice. However,…
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Its been three years since Gordon Shedden has stood on the top step of a BTCC podium. But the three time champion showed his class in a brilliant drive in race three at a wet Oulton Park. Shedden started on pole position for race three of the day at Oulton and controlled the race from…
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Ash Sutton has made a habit of starting well in race two of the weekend. The four time champ claimed his fourth win of the season from fourth on the grid. He made a great start and gained two positions straight away and then took the lead on lap three from Tom Ingram. Sutton then…
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Tom Ingram started Sunday at Oulton Park perfectly with a dominant drive. The Hyundai driver led every lap of the race and also set the BTCC lap record on the way to his 35th career win. As if things couldnt get any better for Ingram, he now leads the drivers championship by just a point…
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The British Touring Car Championship reaches the halfway point in its 2025 campaign with a trip to Oulton Park in Cheshire. The circuit renowned for its changes in elevation, tricky corners and lack of runoff will be the next for BTCC drivers to conquer. Pearson replaced by Leslie at Toyota Toyota announced yesterday that Ronan…
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Well one of motorsports’ cliché sayings is that, ‘You don’t win the race on lap one,’ but Ash Sutton proved it completely wrong in in Race 2 of the BTCC at Thruxton over the weekend. The four time champion had a perfect launch in his NAPA Racing Ford and claimed the lead of the race…