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BTCC: Sutton claims victory in Race 2 at Thruxton to extend championship lead
Ash Sutton claimed victory in race 2 of the day at Thruxton, extending his championship lead to his rivals. Josh Cook starts from pole ahead of Sutton and Daniel Rowbottom while Tom Ingram would start from fourth place on the grid. Cook would manage to defend from Sutton heading into the opening complex, but it wouldn’t be long before Sutton manages to find his way through on the exit of Church and the run through to the chicane at the end of the lap after a slide for the
Jamie Jackson
4 hours ago2 min read


BTCC: Cook wins opening race of the weekend at Thruxton in controlled victory
Josh Cook takes victory at Thruxton after a lights to flag victory while rivals caught battling behind. Cook started on pole ahead of Tom Ingram, Ash Sutton and Dan Cammish as the three championship leaders look to put pressure on the Toyota. Cook and Ingram would get good starts, but it would be Sutton behind them would get the best initial getaway piling pressure on the Toyota and Hyundai who desperately box him in so he cannot get passed. Cook would maintain the lead w
Jamie Jackson
8 hours ago2 min read


BTCC: Cook takes pole at Thruxton in return after break
Josh Cook claims pole position in qualifying for the Thruxton BTCC weekend in first weekend back after seven-week break. Group One saw Cook set the fastest time in the first runs ahead of Adam Morgan and Dan Cammish with him looking to get his season back on track after a difficult first four race weekends. He would be challenged by the Plato Racing car of Morgan who put pressure on Cook’s time later in the session before a couple of yellow flags would have to be thrown i
Jamie Jackson
10 hours ago2 min read


BTCC: Bensley joins Toyota for remainder of the season
Ryan Bensley returns to the BTCC to replace Max Buxton for the remainder of the season at Toyota. Bensley joins the team after racing briefly in an impressive debut outing with Hyundai last year at Snetterton, where he would show great speed in his first outing in the touring car field while also showing a professional attitude and having excellent technical feedback to his engineers, making him a promising prospect. He initially started don the traditional karting path
Jamie Jackson
Jul 173 min read


BTCC: Halstead returns to PMR for remainder of 2026 in four car lineup
Nick Halstead has been announced by Power Maxed Racing as their fourth driver and will race for the remainder of the season. This is the first time Power Maxed Racing will run a four-car lineup in the BTCC with Halstead returning to the BTCC and PMR after leaving at the end of last season. Halstead started his career in Ginetta GT5 Challenge in the AM Class for 2017 and 2018 where he would go on to win the AM class championship in the second year. In 2019 he would then mo
Jamie Jackson
Jul 152 min read


BTCC: Lewis Gilbert joins WSR for the remainder of the 2026 season
WSR have announced that Lewis Gilbert will drive the third BMW for the remainder of the BTCC season. The Scottish driver will make his debut in the BTCC at Thruxton joining Daryl De Leon and Charles Rainford in a now three car BMW lineup for the rest of the season. He won the Euro Series X30 Junior title in karting in 2018 before taking the Kartmasters British GP and Rotax Junior Class as well that same year. He would go on to secure more victories across karting as he we
Jamie Jackson
Jul 142 min read


BTCC: Cammish begins to claw back points gap with stellar Oulton Park weekend
Dan Cammish had an excellent weekend in Oulton Park, bring down the points gap to both Ash Sutton and Tom Ingram ahead of the summer break. Cammish started off the season with a very unlucky qualifying race at Donington Park. Starting the inaugural ‘Race To Pole’ on the second row of the grid, he would end up being caught up in the aftermath of the incident between Sutton and Ingram, which sent his teammate spinning off the road and into his path. Cammish tried everything
Jamie Jackson
Jun 95 min read


BTCC: Sutton maintains championship lead; Ingram closes the gap
Ash Sutton successfully maintained his championship lead at Oulton Park, but Tom Ingram closed the gap slightly in trying to mount a challenge against his rival. Sutton entered the weekend with a fifty-seven-point advantage over Ingram and was almost guaranteed to leave the weekend with the lead unless something catastrophic went wrong and Ingram maximised his points tally. While neither of those situations occurred, Ingram managed to close the margin slightly ahead of th
Jamie Jackson
Jun 84 min read


BTCC: Rainford wins final race of the day at Oulton Park
Charles Rainford wins the final race of the day at Oulton Park to take second win of the season. Chris Smiley would start on pole ahead of Sam Osborne and Charles Rainford while Dexter Patterson and Ricky Collard completed the top five on the grid. Further back would see Dan Cammish, Tom Ingram and Ash Sutton sitting in ninth, tenth and eleventh place looking to find their way through the pack in the final race of the day. Rainford would get the best start of the front
Jamie Jackson
Jun 73 min read


BTCC: Sutton storms to victory in race two at Oulton Park
Ash Sutton storms to race two victory at Oulton Park with dominant drive. Dan Cammish started on pole ahead of Josh Cook and Tom Ingram who all had to start on the hard compound of tyres after finishing on the podium in race one. Aron Taylor-Smith started behind them in fourth ahead of Aiden Moffat, Mikey Doble and Sutton who starts in seventh place. Cammish would get the best start having a clear run into the first turn while Ingram and Cook would fight it out over sec
Jamie Jackson
Jun 73 min read


BTCC: Cammish takes first win of the season at Oulton Park race one
Dan Cammish would take first win of the season with victory at Oulton Park in race on of the day. Cammish would start from pole ahead of Josh Cook and championship leader Ash Sutton. Tom Ingram would start fourth ahead of Aron Taylor-Smith and Mikey Doble ahead of the opening race of the day. Cammish would get a great start while a brief bit of contact between Sutton and Cook behind into the first corner. Sutton would gain the advantage by the exit before more contact w
Jamie Jackson
Jun 73 min read


British GT: Optimum Motorsport take victory for GT3 while Grange Racing fend of MK Racing in GT4 fight at Oulton Park
Optimum Motorsport’s Morgan Tillbrook and Ben Barnicoat took victory in the second race at Oulton Park while Daniel Lavery and Darren Turner took the win in GT4. Optimum optimises race to take victory in closely fought battle The Beechdean Aston Martin of Ross Gunn started on pole alongside Barnicoat’s McLaren and the pair would remain throughout the first stint together but will compensation time for the leader to be served for finishing second, it was not too much tro
Jamie Jackson
May 253 min read
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