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The struggles facing Hill and West Surrey Racing in BTCC 2025

A pair of fourth places for Jake Hill during the British Touring Car Championship opener at Donington Park went some way towards papering over the cracks. But it’s clear that the reigning champion and the West Surrey Racing BMW camp are struggling as the team enters the seventh season with…

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BTCC Donington Park: Sutton makes it two out of two

Ash Sutton made it two wins out of two in the British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park, after another close battle with Tom Ingram.

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Turkington in surprise BTCC test return

Four-time British Touring Car Championship title winner Colin Turkington has made an unexpected return to the West Surrey Racing BMW team for a Brands Hatch test.

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Porsche Carrera Cup star takes final WSR seat for BTCC debut

Porsche Carrera Cup GB runner-up Charles Rainford has secured a plum seat at the West Surrey Racing BMW team for the 2025 British Touring Car Championship campaign.

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The BTCC will be eager for Turkington to return after news of 2025 departure

This is, it seems, a Marcus Rashford moment. The most celebrated home-grown member of the most historic of teams finds himself out of the squad. From one pinnacle of UK sport, it’s the same in another.

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BTCC legend Turkington drops from 2025 grid due to "commercial realities"

The four-time British Touring Car Championship champion Colin Turkington will be absent from the 2025 grid due to the current commercial climate.

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Moffat joins WSR BMW line-up for 2025 season

Five-time British Touring Car Championship race winner Aiden Moffat will drive a West Surrey Racing-run BMW during the 2025 season.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #44 Jake Hill

Jake Hill is probably the first grandson of a chart-topping 1950s crooner to make Autosport’s own hit parade, and that’s appropriate because the diminutive Kentishman has ‘no other love’ (check out grandad Ronnie Hilton’s 1956 tune of that name) than motorsport.

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New backer to support two-car BMW team

British Touring Car Championship powerhouse West Surrey Racing has secured backing for a two-car team of BMWs from LKQ Euro Car Parts for 2025.

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BTCC underdog DeLeon lands "surreal" move to series giant WSR BMW

British Touring Car Championship underdog hero Daryl DeLeon has hit the big time with a move to top team West Surrey Racing for 2025.

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BTCC reveals 24-car field for next season

British Touring Car Championship promoter TOCA has revealed the allocation of 24 TBL entrants’ licences for the 2025 season.While the total is down on the 27 distributed for this year, only 21 of those were used during the 2024 campaign, and BTCC insiders are confident of bigger grids next term.The…

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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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BTCC Brands Hatch: Vauxhall duo claim 1-2 in free practice

Aron Taylor-Smith led Mikey Doble in a 1-2 for Power Maxed Racing in free practice for the British Touring Car Championship finale at Brands Hatch.The experienced Irishman, who clinched the Independents’ title last time out at Silverstone, eclipsed his Jack Sears Trophy champion team-mate right at the chequered flag on…

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BTCC Silverstone: Ingram holds off Hill in wet opening race

Tom Ingram held off British Touring Car Championship title rival Jake Hill to take victory in a wet opening race of the day at Silverstone.2022 champion Ingram led from pole to the finish in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback but had to fend off a concerted challenge from…

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How to be an ace engineer: BTCC race winner Craig Porley

One of the British Touring Car Championship’s best-known driver-engineer double acts might not have happened if it hadn’t been for a seemingly random Facebook friend request.

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BTCC Knockhill: Turkington cruises to race one victory

Colin Turkington cruised to victory in the first British Touring Car Championship race of the day at Knockhill in a dominant performance.

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BTCC Knockhill: Turkington claims second successive pole

Colin Turkington claimed his second successive British Touring Car Championship qualifying pole position for the seventh round of the series at Knockhill.The four-time champion faced a stern challenge from an unlikely opponent in the form of Aron Taylor-Smith, but the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra pilot could not quite dislodge…

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Rowbottom leads the way in Knockhill practice

Dan Rowbottom continued his recent strong form by topping free practice for the British Touring Car Championship’s visit to Knockhill. The Midlander emerged quickest in both sessions at the wheel of his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus ST and eventually headed four-time champion team-mate Ash Sutton by 0.063 seconds. The Scottish hillside…

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BTCC Croft: Turkington takes pole over Cammish

Colin Turkington came good at the right moment to claim pole position for the British Touring Car Championship round at Croft.

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BTCC Oulton Park: Ingram beats Sutton as investigations loom

Tom Ingram beat Ash Sutton to victory in the first race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Oulton Park.But the result was only made concrete post-race after the officials looked into a pair of second-lap incidents between Ingram and Sutton, before deciding to take no further action.Ingram got…

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BTCC Thruxton: Hill tops practice from Ingram

The diminutive Kentishman was quick out of the blocks in the early-morning FP1 session to whisk his West Surrey Racing-run Laser Tools BMW 330e M Sport around the Hampshire speedbowl with a lap that for a long time stood half a second clear of the opposition.

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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: 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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BTCC Snetterton: Hill and Thompson top free practice

As the dismal British spring climate brought rain sweeping in from the North Sea across East Anglia, Thompson quite literally made a splash on his BTCC return – and his debut in a rear-wheel-drive tin-top – by topping the second session in his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport.But…

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