BTCC News

Triple Eight's Vauxhall Astra Coupe dominated the BTCC in the early 2000s – Jason Plato remembers a triumphant tin-top challenger

Nigel Mansell's 1998 British Touring Car Championship return justified all the hype as he raced from last to first in a Donington downpour. His victorious rival on the day, John Cleland recalls one of the series' greatest ever races

I’m going back to 1993, and it’s one that got away – my great rival Joachim Winkelhock beating me to the British Touring Car Championship. It still hurts. I was…

An extremely rare pre-cursor to the Sierra Cosworth RS500, the Ford Merkur XR4Ti Group A touring car, has been restored and is ready to race

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…