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. Does the unpredictable nature of the British Touring Car Championship render that notion obsolete? But who were the year's top performers? 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. News; Entry List / Drivers; Seasons. Sam Osborne, son of Pete, has taken one of the seats, while Andy Neate has been confirmed for the second spot. Updated 9:30 Thursday 11th March. 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. NGTC Driver Stats; NGTC Car Stats; BTCC Race Winners. BTCC announces revised 2021 calendar The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship has announced a revised calendar for the forthcoming 2021 campaign. The season will now be delayed by a month until May, in the hope that a later start will provide greater opportunity for fans to attend events. BTCC Jan 07, 2021, 08:00 ET. The new BTCC season will kick off behind closed doors after Thruxton confirmed that fans will be unable to attend the planned season opener in early May. 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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. Instead of kicking off at Brands Hatch on 4 April, the series will now begin at Thruxton on 9 May. 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. Smelt, meanwhile, returns to the BTCC after two seasons in British GT, including a 2020 campaign for Speedworks in a Toyota GR Supra GT4. 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… Jelley last competed with WSR under the Team RAC banner in 2009, taking two wins at Rockingham of that year in a supporting effort to Colin Turkington’s first of an eventual four Drivers’ Championship wins, before stepping away from the series for eight years. Matt James busts the myth. 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.”. 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. Share this article. Updated 09:30 Wednesday 20th January. Updated 12:30 Wednesday 13th January. 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. 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. 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 11:30 Thursday 14th January. Titles should be won by the driver who claims more victories than anyone else, so convention goes. Season-by-season; Overall Wins; Class Wins; Independent Wins; Manufacturer Wins; Circuit Wins; Landmark Wins; Sign Up Latest News; BTCC announces 2021 calendar; BTCC announces 2021 calendar. 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. Four-time British Touring Car champion Colin Turkington will remain with the West Surrey Racing-run BMW team for 2021, marking his 14th season under the WSR umbrella. Share this article. Updated 15:10 Friday 22nd January. “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!”. 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. 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. 2020 summary: Fears that Covid would have a disastrous financial effect on the quality of this years grid thankfully proved to be unfounded. The remaining seats in Ford Focuses have been filled for 2021 following a brace of announcements from MB Motorsport and Motorbase Performance. 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. BTCC 2021 season preview: why Gordon Shedden is 'burning to win again' BTCC confirms full grid for 2021 season BTCC 2021: Honda UK ends support for Team Dynamics Earlier this month, BTCC Series Director Alan Gow joined the V8 Sleuth Podcast to talk all things racing. The Infiniti Q50 was completely redesigned, redeveloped and revamped by BMR and Laser Tools Racing for 2020. The official Facebook page of the UK's premier motorsport series – The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship. “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. COOK CLAIMS DOUBLE DURING BTCC CURTAIN-RAISER. 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. 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 … 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. 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. 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. 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. Chris Smiley has been retained by the team and Tom Ingram has joined on a "multi-year deal". 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. “Changing a calendar is much more difficult than putting the original one together, which I think we did in July,” he said. 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. Updated 18:15 Thursday 4th February 2021. Jade Edwards joins BTCC grid full time for 2021; Toyota expands to two cars for 2021 BTCC season; 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 … Full race results of the opening round of the 2021 British Touring Car Championship from Thruxton. Updated 12:05 Friday 5th March. Jason Plato to return to the top step. Don’t forget to read our list of the top 10 BTCC drivers of 2020. The 2020 campaign ran entirely behind closed doors in a condensed schedule from early August to mid-November, with the final round at Brands only taking place under the UK’s second lockdown because the BTCC is classified by the government as ‘elite sport’. The 2017 season; The 2018 season; The 2019 season; The 2020 season; The 2021 season; The Decade: 2010-19; NGTC Era. As a result the team has now embarked on a multi-year partnership with previous sponsor Halfords and incoming sponsor Cataclean. Thruxton BTCC 2021: Round 1 - Race Classification (3) BTCC. 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. Team Dynamics will announce its first driver on Friday with the teammate to come in the coming weeks. 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. News provided by. 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. 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. 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. Toyota’s British Touring Car Championship team will expand to two for the 2021 season. Registered at Goodwood House, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0PX. 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. 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. BTCC's hybrid future faces urgent hurdles, Russell wants next Formula 1 contract to be a multi-year deal, Why McLaren joined F1 2021's Z-shaped floor trend, 2021 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix session timings and preview. 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. Join the GRRC Fellowship to access year-round exclusive videos, live streaming from events and more. The 2015 Revival reflected on the life and career of one of motorsport's greats... Minis on parade, a mighty St. Mary's and a raucous RAC TT... Stay in the know with our newsletters that contain all the latest news, stories and event information. 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. 2021 British Touring Car Championship Calendar After a COVID-shortened 2020 season, the BTCC is back to a planned 10 race weekends for 2021. Team BMW have confirmed that Tom Oliphant will return to the West Surrey Racing-run squad for a second season after enjoying his strongest year to date in 2020. During the fan questions segment of the Podcast, the chat turned to the much-loved TOCA game series from the late 90’s. Message from The Duke of Richmond and Gordon. Nicolas Hamilton will return to Team HARD for a second season, and as such provides us with the final piece of the BTCC puzzle for 2021. Simon Evans. GT champion Parfitt to make BTCC switch Tue Feb 23 2:39 PM With no BTCC drive in 2020, Rowbottom made a one-off appearance in the 2020 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series at Vallelunga. 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. Updated Wednesday 27th January. Full race results of round three of the 2021 British Touring Car Championship from Thruxton. ©2021 The Goodwood Estate Company Limited. 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. 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. 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. Announced alongside Neate, Sam Osborne, who drove for MB Motorsport last year, moves across to Motorbase for 2021 following his father Pete and Hollamby’s purchase of the team over the winter and set his eyes firmly on a Jack Sears Trophy push. 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. Page 1 of 5 - BTCC 2021 Season - posted in Racing Comments: It only feels like it has been a few weeks since this years season was concluded, but thanks in part to what a strange year it has been, its time to start looking ahead to what 2021 might bring! 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. 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. Updates 17th February 2021, 09.00: The final driver in the three-car Team BMW stable has been confirmed as Stephen Jelley, who moves from Team Parker Racing and returns to West Surrey Racing after a 12-year hiatus. 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. 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. Where Ingram could end up is anyone’s guess, and whoever does secure his services will be very pleased with the talent behind the wheel. 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. The BTCC keeps getting more competitive - this season produced another new record number of winners. In doing so it's following the higher echelons of motorsport, while also revealing risks for its grassroots. It’s been a busy silly season in the BTCC since the chequered flag fell to end the 2020 campaign last November. Shedden’s appointment leaves one seat remaining in the Team Dynamics stable, and only three left across the grid. 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. When asked whether the circuits were nervous about the economic effect of fan-free races for the second successive season, Gow said: “We [at TOCA] take a hit, because if the circuits don’t get spectators they don’t pay us any sanctioning fees, so we take hits all round. 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. Perennial fan favourite Hamilton joined the Team HARD squad in 2020, piloting one of the team’s aging Volkswagen CCs, achieving his first BTCC point in the final race at the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit. 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… The 2021 BTCC season is not due to begin until May after organisers were forced to push back the start of the campaign by five weeks due the COVID … 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Stephen Jelley claims the third seat, making a return to the squad after a 12-year hiatus. 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. His reward for his efforts with Team HARD will be to get behind the wheel of one of the team’s all-new Cupra Leons alongside the team’s already announced trio Jack Goff, Aron Taylor-Smith and Glynn Geddie, as well as their Infiniti-driving stablemates Aiden Moffat, Carl Boardley and reigning champion Ash Sutton.
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