Jason Plato to call time on his BTCC career
It looks like the British Touring Car Championship will lose the last of its old guard at the end of this season as Jason Plato has announced the 2022 campaign…
Frank and as fiercely competitive as ever, Jason Plato tells Damien Smith why he believes he can bow out of the BTCC as champion — with 100 career wins, and his plans to race at Le Mans — free from the off-track distractions of touring cars
A scheming team boss, a bitter team ripped apart by rivalry and one conflagrated Vauxhall – Jason Plato recalls how he somehow came through it to win the 2001 BTCC title
At just 27, newly crowned triple British Touring Car champion Ash Sutton has the potential to rewrite history in domestic tin-top racing, starting with his charge to equal series greats…
What comes to mind when you think of the greatest competition car ever – the McLaren MP4/4? The Ferrari 500? Porsche 956/962? Or is it an everyday family car that…
Wins, spins and more incidents than you can shake a stick at – the British Touring Car Championship came back to life with more than a few bangs at Thruxton
Mass changes, new cars, old faces and new, champions leaving and returning, this season’s British Touring Car Championship promises to keep us guessing right until the finale
Despite TOCA’s hopes and efforts, the beginning of the 2021 British Touring Car Championship season will take place behind closed doors. Thruxton showed its potential last year to shake things…
Top-flight British motor racing won’t truly begin until early summer this year after both the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) and British GT Championship announced they would delay the start…
It’ll be one of those eerie things. The sort where you know what’s happening, yet your brain struggles to compute familiar vision with alien sound. When the British Touring Car…
There was a moment, just briefly, where you finally saw the acceptance etched on his face. As the onboard camera replayed the moment Ash Sutton overtook Colin Turkington, you could…
“I guess when it’s going for you, it’s just going for you… you just have to enjoy it while it lasts and take what you can when you can.” Colin…
If he hadn’t been so tightly strapped in, Ash Sutton would have been kicking himself. In a series as tight as the British Touring Car Championship, you have to capitalise…
When a puncture cost him his 2020 BTCC championship lead at Silverstone, Ash Sutton showed why he’s one of the most exciting touring car drivers around by pulling off a stunning fightback
So far this year Colin Turkington has looked on another level to his competitors, stringing together strong result after strong result, with rarely an incident to speak of… And then…
There are two ways to win a championship: the first is the more reserved, tactical approach, being unwilling to take too much risk at the cost of a solid if…
The nervous smile is little more than a half-hearted attempt to break the tension. Perched on the plastic seats at the front of Donington’s pitlane garages, ashen-faced Robb Gravett can…