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Patterson completes Un-Limited Cupra BTCC line-up

Up-and-coming tin-top racer Dexter Patterson has secured his return to the British Touring Car Championship at the wheel of an Un-Limited Motorsport Cupra Leon.The 21-year-old Scot will be the oldest half of the expanded two-car Un-Limited line-up, in which he partners teenaged 2024 Mini Challenge runner-up Max Hall.Patterson, an ex-karting…

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Hill stays as WSR eyes expansion to four or five

Newly crowned British Touring Car champion Jake Hill will remain at the West Surrey Racing BMW team for 2025, when the squad could expand to as many as five cars.Hill, whose clinching of the BTCC crown at the Brands Hatch finale last month represented his first championship title of any…

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Thompson forced out of BTCC Thruxton

Thompson, who has faced a financial struggle for much of his career, starred on his debut in a rear-wheel-drive BTCC car last time out at Snetterton, when he joined BMW team West Surrey Racing under the Zeus Cloud Racing banner.But now the Sunbury squad has been forced to bench the…

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BTCC Snetterton: Huff charges from 14th to win

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BTCC Snetterton: Hill overcomes penalty for second win

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BTCC Snetterton: Hill beats Thompson to race one victory

Hill, who had a disastrous outing last time out at Brands Hatch, predictably converted his pole position into the race lead with his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, while new-for-this-weekend team-mate Bobby Thompson surged from fifth to third behind championship leader Ash Sutton’s Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford…

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BTCC Snetterton: Hill takes pole from Sutton

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Thompson in BMW for the rest of 2024 BTCC season

The 27-year-old, who won the Jack Sears Trophy in 2022 and was an overall podium finisher last year – both seasons in a Team Hard Cupra – drove WSR’s fourth BMW in the official pre-season test at Brands Hatch in April.

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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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Thompson stakes claim for full-time BTCC seat with first BMW test

The 28-year-old Thompson, who is regarded by many series insiders as a champion of the future in the right circumstances, is now working flat-out with the Sunbury squad on trying to put a deal together to start the 2024 season at Donington Park at the end of this month.Thompson, who…

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Thompson gets BTCC WSR BMW test at Brands

The deal is for the Wednesday test only, as WSR seeks to fill the vacant berth alongside Jake Hill, four-time champion Colin Turkington and Adam Morgan for the 2024 season.Thompson, the 2022 champion in the Jack Sears Trophy sub-division, has spent the majority of his 130-race BTCC career with Team…

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Why Autosport International's monsters aren't all brawn and noise

A highlight of the Live Action Arena at this weekend’s Autosport International will be the ever-popular BriSCA Formula 1 stock cars. These V8 monsters are designed to race on short ovals and thrill with their fast-paced display and an aural assault that makes the grandstands shake.

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New team joins BTCC with Cupras as Hard folds

Restart Racing has acquired two of Team Hard’s Cupra Leons – the new-for-2023 chassis used this year by Bobby Thompson and Dan Lloyd – and will step up from the TCR UK championship with 2022 title winner Chris Smiley.

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Sutton beats Ingram to claim fourth title

Sutton equalled the record of four titles held by Andy Rouse and Colin Turkington, and became the first driver in history to scoop the BTCC crown in rear and front-wheel-drive machinery.

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Ingram pips Hill to top free practice

Ingram faces a mountain to climb if he’s to make it back-to-back titles – the only rival to three-time champion Ash Sutton is 45 points adrift heading into the competitive action – but he was on form in the opening session early on Saturday morning.

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The potential BTCC race winner trying to make it to the front

"I think there’s probably six really elite standout drivers in the championship at the moment, and I’d put Bobby in that six, definitely. He’s very fast, he’s deceptively quick, and he’s got a very calm head on his shoulders. He doesn’t get flustered, he looks inwardly at himself before blaming…

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Thompson back as Huff seeks BTCC 2024 ride

Thompson takes over the entry occupied at Knockhill last month by Rob Huff and will see out the season this weekend at Silverstone and next month at Brands Hatch.

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Edwards back to One Motorsport in BTCC

The 32-year-old switched from the BTC Racing Honda squad to the Team Hard Cupra battalion for this year, but after a troubled start to the campaign, she has gone back to her old home, now known as One Motorsport.

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BTCC Oulton Park: Hill makes it a double from Sutton in race two

With rear-wheel-drive traction from his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, it was no surprise that Hill got the jump on Sutton’s Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST at the start.

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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 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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