Updated Wednesday 27th January. Former BTCC race winner and TCR UK Daniel Lloyd champion will return to the British Touring Car Championship, having signed a deal with Power Maxed Racing for the 2021 season. Cammish was left high and dry for 2021 after commercial considerations forced him out of the Team Dynamics Honda line-up, after just one season of a two-year deal. Out are the very long-in-the-tooth Volkswagen CCs, and in come four brand new, and incredibly slick-looking Cupra Leons for Jack Goff, Glynn Geddie and the returning Aron Taylor-Smith, with a fourth driver still to be announced. 2021 NBE’s BTCC Preview; 2017 DTM and BTCC Season; ... Colin Turkington: 4-time British Touring Car Championship Champion, Colin Turkington will lead the lineup for Team BMW and WSR in the 2021 title challenge ahead. Toyota’s British Touring Car Championship team will expand to two for the 2021 season. Jason Plato to return to the top step. One of the dark horses of 2020, BTC Racing’s place in the final standings didn’t truly reflect the season the team had, and Josh Cook returns to the squad hoping for some better luck than that which cost him a shot at the title last year. The two-time BTCC champion found himself watching the championship from the sidelines after his Power Maxed Racing squad elected to withdraw its two full-time entries and roll over the budgets to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thruxton BTCC 2021: Round 1 - Race Classification (3) BTCC. Andrew Jordan: "We're still lacking the ultimate pace", Gallery: The best images from Sunday of Festival of Speed. The Infiniti Q50 was completely redesigned, redeveloped and revamped by BMR and Laser Tools Racing for 2020. Switching from its trusty Mercedes A-Class, Ciceley Motorsport will run a pair of WSR-prepared BMW 3 Series in 2021, potentially just what the doctor ordered to shift the team up a couple of spaces on the grid. Jason Plato is scheduled to return to the grid after a COVID-enforced sabbatical in 2020 and will be itching to get back to the sharp end after some promising results at the end of 2019. Matt Neal had, up until 2021, competed in at least one round of the BTCC since 1991, and with Rowbottom taking the second seat at the Neal family-run team, so ends a BTCC story spanning three decades. Adam Morgan returns with his family team, while Jack Butel’s move to Excelr8 left one seat remaining in the Ciceley squad, which has now been scooped up by Tom Chilton. With an expanded programme for 2020, and the departure of long-term driver Tom Ingram, the Speedworks-run Toyota Gazoo Racing UK squad had two seats to fill for the 2021 season, and today the team have confirmed that Rory Butcher and Sam Smelt will line up in the pair of corporate-liveried Toyota Corollas. Despite a day of on-track scuffles with Andy Neate, Edwards impressed many with how she handled herself in her BTCC debut, and her signing with the Honda squad will leave many happy fans around the country. Enjoying a seven year relationship stretching back to Ingram’s freshman year, the 27-year-old has been on the cusp of success over the last couple of years, hustling the aging Avensis to the runner’s up spot in 2018 before two years developing the Corolla into a bona-fide race winner. Power Maxed Racing have today confirmed that Jason Plato will return to the grid in 2021, after last year's entry was deferred 12 months in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lack of commercial value for sponsors. In doing so it's following the higher echelons of motorsport, while also revealing risks for its grassroots. Titles should be won by the driver who claims more victories than anyone else, so convention goes. Reigning champion Ash Sutton returns to try and defend his crown after a fantastic debut year with the Moffat family team, who unsurprisingly keeps Aiden Moffat for his eighth full season in the BTCC. Join now. Earlier this month, BTCC Series Director Alan Gow joined the V8 Sleuth Podcast to talk all things racing. Gow added that, once again, a revised schedule has had to be put together while negotiating available slots with ITV, which continues its traditional full-day coverage of BTCC Sundays in 2021. The British Touring Car Championship has today (July 20) announced the official calendar for 2021, with Thruxton most notably set to stage two events in the same season for the second time in three years. Team Dynamics will announce its first driver on Friday with the teammate to come in the coming weeks. The Ingram/Speedworks split came just days after the merger of Laser Tools Racing and Team HARD, meaning the Tony Gilham-led squad now has no fewer than seven cars under its banner, having run five in 2020. The BTCC will have a five-week gap between its opening two rounds in 2021 following the latest round of revisions to the schedule. Four-time British Touring Car Champion Colin Turkington has been confirmed at West Surrey Racing for his 17th campaign in the premier British racing series after narrowly losing out to Ash Sutton in 2020. Start of 2021 BTCC Season Delayed by COVID Pandemic Thursday January 14 3:10 PM Organisers of the British Touring Car Championship have delayed the … Following the Excelr8 and Trade Price Cars merger, that leaves two Hyundais still looking for drivers in 2021 alongside Smiley and the previously announced Jack Butel. During his tenure outside of the BTCC, Shedden competed for the Leopard Racing Audi Sport squad in WTCR, with his only win during that time coming at Wuhan in 2018. Andy Neate has been penalised for causing the huge accident in the second British Touring Car Championship race at Thruxton, which took out the Motorbase driver, Team HARD’s Glynn Geddie and BTC Racing’s Jade Edwards. News provided by. It is set to be the first full season for the Yorkshireman, who enjoyed stints with Eurotech, Triple Eight Racing and BTC Racing between 2016 and 2018. Share this article. GT champion Parfitt to make BTCC switch Tue Feb 23 2:39 PM Updated 12:30 Wednesday 13th January. It’s been a busy silly season in the BTCC since the chequered flag fell to end the 2020 campaign last November. Simon Evans. Going into his fifth full season in the BTCC, Smiley will be looking to continue his current run of form of at least one podium a year, stretching back to 2018 with the BTC team. 2021 BTCC event tickets on sale now at early bird prices Tuesday, November 17 2020 Tickets for the 2021 British Touring Car Championship events at Brands Hatch, Donington Park, Oulton Park and Snetterton are on sale now at an early bird pre-Christmas price. Updated 12:00 Friday 15th January. BTCC Jan 07, 2021, 08:00 ET. His last race in a touring car, the 2019 finale, ended with the two-time champion scoring his 97 th career victory and ending a 791-day drought. A new British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) game is currently in negotiations with the goal of releasing in 2021/2022. The traditional Brands Indy Circuit opener has been put back to mid-June, with the second April date at Donington Park now changed to 10 October – the originally scheduled date for the Brands GP finale. Share this article. Gallery: Estate Car Sunday – Breakfast Club is back! News; Entry List / Drivers; Seasons. The British Touring Car Championship has delayed the start of its 2021 season by five weeks in the midst of the UK’s current struggle with the coronavirus pandemic. The official Facebook page of the UK's premier motorsport series – The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship. In line with the MB Motorsport announcement, Motorbase Performance confirmed that Andy Neate would return for a second season with the Ford squad. The biggest came with the shock split of Tom Ingram and Speedworks (or Toyota Gazoo Racing UK as we’re supposed to call them). After a year of enforced absence from the British Touring Car Championship grid, Jason Plato is back and hungrier than ever. It was thought to be a surefire seat for Dan Cammish, but the 31-year-old driver has announced that he will not be back on the grid for his fourth season with the Team Dynamics squad after two years of being a whisker away from taking the crown. With all of that in mind, here’s a round-up of the BTCC 2021 drivers and teams. Former BTCC race winner and TCR UK Daniel Lloyd champion will return to the British Touring Car Championship, having signed a deal with Power Maxed Racing for the 2021 season. Updated 11:30 Thursday 14th January. Team Dynamics has unveiled the livery it will use in this year’s British Touring Car Championship, with the outfit opting to continue with a black base colour. But who were the year's top performers? Mat Jackson was scheduled to be in the second seat in 2020, and reportedly has first refusal on said seat for 2021, but PMR effectively spent a season auditioning second drivers throughout 2020 with six different newcomers behind the wheel of the Astra, so there’s plenty of options for the Vauxhall squad. Josh Cook made it two out of two from the British Touring Car Championship’s opening round at Thruxton, and took his collection of BTCC wins at the Hampshire track to six. Colin Turkington, Tom Oliphant, Stephen Jelley, Jack Goff, Aron Taylor-Smith, Glynn Geddie, Nicolas Hamilton. While last year’s top two have stayed put, there’s been a lot of fat to chew elsewhere, which should result in another fascinating year of tin-top action. The announcement confirms a consistent team line-up for BMW, following the confirmation that Colin Turkington will return to the team for his 17th BTCC campaign, and leaves one works BMW 330i M Sport seat to be filled. The 32-year-old has instead lined up a return to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB, in which he is a two-time champion, but got a last-minute call-up to return to the BTCC grid at Thruxton. NEWS - NBE’s 2021 BTCC Preview. That Brands GP final round will now take place on 24 October, while the Snetterton and Oulton Park rounds have swapped dates, and Croft has been put back from mid-June to mid-September. The BTCC is yet to begin in 2021 and it’s been a long wait – not quite as long it ended up being in 2020 – since the end of the 2020 season. The 2021 season will be Jelley’s seventh BTCC campaign, having returned to the championship in 2017 with Team Parker Racing, and has competed in BMW machinery in all but one of his years on the grid. Ollie Jackson will rekindle his working relationship with former boss Shaun Hollamby as he joins forces with Jake Hill in the MB Motorsport stable. During the fan questions segment of the Podcast, the chat turned to the much-loved TOCA game series from the late 90’s. The duo will be driving Ford Focuses. Organisers of the British Touring Car Championship have announced a revised calendar for the 2021 season as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 situation. While last year’s top two have stayed put, there’s been a lot of fat to chew elsewhere, which should result in another fascinating year of tin-top action. Full race results of round three of the 2021 British Touring Car Championship from Thruxton. MB Motorsport retains the services of Jake Hill, who was one of the breakout stars of 2020 with one of the more impressive Saturday records on the grid, and both he and the team will be hoping to back up a strong year with some trips to the top step of the podium in 2021. Join the GRRC Fellowship to access year-round exclusive videos, live streaming from events and more. As would be expected after a year in which so many commercial deals were forced to take long hard looks at themselves, there’s been some big moves already ahead of the 2021 season. BTCC announces revised 2021 calendar The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship has announced a revised calendar for the forthcoming 2021 campaign. Updated 12:05 Thursday 18th March. Plato will make his 600th start in the BTCC at the season-opening Brands Hatch round. As a result the team has now embarked on a multi-year partnership with previous sponsor Halfords and incoming sponsor Cataclean. After a year where the BTCC driver silly season was literally the entire season thanks to the revolving doors at a number of teams, there’s hope for a return to some sort of normality in 2021. TOCA supremo Alan Gow told Motorsport.com: “It’s just a proactive and, if you like, a pre-emptive move to make sure we can get away from having events behind closed doors.”. Smelt, meanwhile, returns to the BTCC after two seasons in British GT, including a 2020 campaign for Speedworks in a Toyota GR Supra GT4. Does the unpredictable nature of the British Touring Car Championship render that notion obsolete? Jackson enjoyed something of a breakout year in 2020 with two wins in the Motorbase Focus, and will be looking to continue that form with his new colours in 2021. Sam Osborne, son of Pete, has taken one of the seats, while Andy Neate has been confirmed for the second spot. Stephen Jelley claims the third seat, making a return to the squad after a 12-year hiatus. And the flamboyant brilliance of the driver behind the wheel was enough to snatch the title at the last gasp…, A number of drivers on this year's British Touring Car Championship grid have been called out on social media for taking other people's seats, whether they are older or drivers who are deemed to have less talent. Joining the stable in 2021 is four-time World Hot Rod champion Carl Boardley, who continues his climb up the grid and will be hoping the evidently quick Infiniti Q50 will provide the best opportunity of Jack Sears Trophy honours. Updated 12:05 Friday 5th March. Series organisers TOCA had previously elected to amend the calendar in the hope of being able to admit fans to events this year, with both the Brands Hatch … More » Shedden’s appointment leaves one seat remaining in the Team Dynamics stable, and only three left across the grid. It was confirmed late in the 2020 season that we would be watching the Mercedes A-Class for the last time, as Ciceley Motorsport announced it would be switching models for 2021. That made picking a final top 10 an unenviable task, so we enlisted the help of those who were in the heat of the action to decide the order. Matt James busts the myth. Colin Turkington and Tom Olphant have been confirmed so far, with team boss Dick Bennets hinting that there were seven drivers in the frame for the trio of available seats before the news of those signings broke. Thankfully it looks as though there's some serious talent on the way in, with Rory Butcher and Sam Smelt confirmed to be behind the wheel of the Corollas this year. After a commercially-enforced year out in 2020, Jason Plato returns to the British championship in 2021 with a score to settle. Unlike in most years, the season opener won’t be at Brands Hatch but will instead kick off at Thruxton, the UK’s fastest circuit, on 8 May with the three races on Sunday 9 May. The 2017 season; The 2018 season; The 2019 season; The 2020 season; The 2021 season; The Decade: 2010-19; NGTC Era. The announcement of Jelley confirms the Team BMW lineup for 2021, as he joins the already confirmed Colin Turkington and Tom Oliphant. COOK CLAIMS DOUBLE DURING BTCC CURTAIN-RAISER. Switching his Honda Civic Type R for the BMW 3 Series, 2021 will mark the first time that the Surrey-based driver will compete in a rear-wheel-drive touring car in his near-20-year career. Updated 10:00 Wednesday 10th February. COOK CLAIMS DOUBLE DURING BTCC CURTAIN-RAISER. BTCC Thruxton: Race Results (1)POSDRIVERTEAMCAR1Josh … ... Home » BTCC » News. The Laser Tools Racing section of the stable retains its 2020 squad of drivers’ Champion Ash Sutton and Aiden Moffat, but also welcomes Carl Boardley, who switches his BMW 1 Series for an Infiniti Q50. “It also affects the teams and the sponsors – it’s in everyone’s best interests to make sure they maximise the amount of people at the circuit. 2021 British Touring Car Championship Calendar After a COVID-shortened 2020 season, the BTCC is back to a planned 10 race weekends for 2021. Cammish provided Honda’s best chance of a Drivers’ championship victory in the last two years, coming agonisingly close in 2019 when a mechanical failure saw his Honda Civic hit the barriers around the Brands Hatch GP loop and handed the title to eventual champion Colin Turkington. The 2020 British Touring Car Championship will go down as a classic in which new winners graced the top step of the podium and an unloved chassis was resurrected into a champion. Team Dynamics has announced that Dan Cammish will not be part of its driver line-up for the 2021 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship. Following a solid 2020, and after Chris Smiley took the Hyundai i30 Fastback N to the podium in only its third race in the BTCC, Excelr8 have retained the services of the Ulsterman for 2021. The team is embarking on its first year without any Honda support in 17 years, although Halfords remains on board and Rowbottom has brought Cataclean backing to the West Midlands team. During his tenure outside of the BTCC, Shedden competed for the Leopard Racing Audi Sport squad in WTCR, with his only win during that time coming at Wuhan in 2018. British Touring Car Championship official site. Updated 08:05 Friday 19th March. A statement from BTCC organiser TOCA explained that the move has been made “in order to maximise the opportunity for spectators and guests to attend our events”. Fan favourite Jack Goff returns for the third season in this stint with Team HARD, hoping the switch from Volkswagen to Cupra is promising after a somewhat disappointing 2020 campaign saw only 11 points bagged in 27 races. The British Touring Car Championship recently announced it is investigating how to incorporate hybrid technology into its future machines. Updated 15:10 Friday 22nd January. Full race results of the opening round of the 2021 British Touring Car Championship from Thruxton. 2021 BTCC confirmed entries West Surrey Racing BMW: Colin Turkington, Tom Oliphant, Stephen Jelley Team Dynamics Honda: Gordon Shedden, … The announcement also confirms that the Team Dynamics squad are no longer a works outfit, with both Honda and Yuasa “deciding to focus on different challenges” for 2021. “That said I’m very happy to have a full entry for this year, and a third of the grid are brand-new cars – we haven’t seen that for decades!”. Latest News; BTCC announces 2021 calendar; BTCC announces 2021 calendar. “It’s actually quite a good calendar – it’s given the championship a different feel.”, 12-13 June                  Brands Hatch Indy, 10 October                  Donington Park, 24 October                  Brands Hatch GP, Jade Edwards joins BTCC grid full time for 2021, Ingram to lead Hyundai BTCC squad after Toyota split. Message from The Duke of Richmond and Gordon. The two other seats will be filled by Aron Taylor-Smith and Nicolas Hamilton. 553452, Our 2021 motorsport events are now on sale, By clicking submit you are accepting the terms of Goodwood’s, Update: Gordon Shedden returns to the BTCC with Team Dynamics. Ollie Jackson, meanwhile, has made the jump from Motorbase Performance to MB Motorsport. Updated 9:15 Wednesday 3rd February 2021. Swapping one German car for another, the team will now put out two West Surrey Racing-prepared BMW 330is in a bid to make some more regular trips to the podium. The move also leaves little options on the table for Cammish in 2021, with only two seats on the grid remaining outside of Honda – the final Team HARD Cupra and the second Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra. With the rumour mill incredibly active following the announcement, it all came to rest today as Excelr8 Motorsport announced that Ingram has signed a “multi-year deal” to sit behind the wheel of one of their two remaining Hyundai i30s, slotting in alongside the previously confirmed Chris Smiley and Jack Butel. Despite having been expected to return to the seat he has kept warm for the past three years, Dan Cammish has today announced that he will no longer be part of Team Dynamics ahead of the 2021 season. Share this article. Shedden’s return to Dynamics is effectively a return home for the Scot, with 333 of his 347 BTCC starts coming with the Neal family team. Registered in England No. ©2021 The Goodwood Estate Company Limited. Thruxton hosts high-speed thriller as Hill tops the standings BTC Racing’s Josh Cook claimed a memorable double triumph as the 2021 Kwik Fit British Touring… His return to the championship also signals the end of an era. Glynn Geddie also steps up to a full-time drive with the squad after substituting for two meetings in 2020, for what should be his first full season in the championship. With a career that has been closely linked to the squad who once ran title-winning campaigns for the likes of Ayrton Senna, Mika Häkkinen and Rubens Barrichello in Formula 3, Turkington will line up for his 14th season with West Surrey Racing as he chases a record-breaking fifth BTCC title. Don’t forget to read our list of the top 10 BTCC drivers of 2020. Meanwhile, the second seat, what became one of the most talked about seats for 2021, has gone to Daniel Rowbottom, with the three-time BTCC champion Matt Neal taking a sabbatical year. Jack Butel, who made his BTCC debut with Ciceley Motorsport in 2020 jumps from Mercedes to Hyundai. The BTCC keeps getting more competitive - this season produced another new record number of winners. West Surrey Racing returns to three cars for 2021, after Andrew Jordan dropped out on the eve of the 2020 campaign. Lloyd, who last competed in Britain’s premier tin-top series in 2018, will line-up alongside two-time champion Jason Plato in the Vauxhall Astra. Entered under the banner of Toyota Gazu Racing UK, Speedworks Motorsport is to field two versions of the Corolla, which won seven races during the two-season competition with Tom Ingram. Despite stellar opposition and some familiar challenges, the two-time champion still has his eyes focused on the biggest prizes. Butcher, who took the Independents’ crown in 2019, will be eyeing up overall honours in 2021 in the car which took five podiums in the final six races of last year’s campaign. NGTC Driver Stats; NGTC Car Stats; BTCC Race Winners. 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Updated 09:30 Wednesday 20th January. The final seat at the BTC Racing camp will be filled by Jade Edwards, following a popular appearance at Silverstone in 2020 for Power Maxed Racing. The move leaves one seat still open at BTC, who previously announced both Cook and Crees would return to the squad this year. Lloyd, who last competed in Britain’s premier tin-top series in 2018, will line-up alongside two-time champion Jason Plato in the Vauxhall Astra. In another of the big off-season switcheroos, long-time owner of Motorbase David Bartrum is stepping aside, with AmD Tuning head Shaun Hollamby and Pete Osborne taking the lead going forward.

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