2025 Touring Car Thread - BTCC, TCR, and more.Touring Cars 

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Flashback! Shedden wins again in BTCC. Yes it was a lucky reverse grid pole, but he looked always in control holding off the challengers behind in tricky conditions.

Ingram and Sutton continue to be superior to the rest of the field and look set to battle for the title all the way to the end, although Tom's old nemesis appeared to almost get him in the third race. Not sure why he has so slow in the slippery conditions as his teammates were fine, and he did recover well once it started to dry up, but it could cost him as it did at Brands last year.

Also happy retirement to Steve Rider. He's been a mainstay of UK sports coverage my whole life.

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So good to watch full races on YouTube now. The cars sound so good and I gotta repeat all the liveries look vibrant and professional.
It'll be interesting they add small SUVs like the CX-3, Puma, etc. Wouldn't water down the BTCC excitement one bit. It is the best compact touring car racing it has always been.
 
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Fezzik
It’s a pretty good bet that we’ll get an SUV in the next few years, to replace the Focus/Civic/Astra hatchbacks. If I remember right a team wanted to run a Range Rover in the past, but got dissuaded by the manufacturer as it didn’t mesh with their marketing strategy.

Also, perhaps some explanation of how Ingram was half a second clear of the field in qualifying:

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I remember that, it was Thorney Motorsport, would have been interesting.
 
Max Hall has left Unlimited Motorsport, won't return after the summer break for the remainder of the BTCC season.
 
Some clarification by TOCA on some pretty significant changes for the next era of NGTC. Engine requirements will be opened up, so now any car can run a BTCC homologated engine, irrespective of which manufacturer it comes from.

Also TOCA have lifted the UK specific requirement for a cars homologation. So basically any car can be used from a manufacturers lineup, as long as it's ICE and confirms to the existing size and dimension limits.

btcc.net

BTCC Confirms Updated Technical Regulations From 2027 • BTCC

TOCA ‘unlocks’ further potential in next five-year cycle
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One Motorsport will miss (at least) the next 2 race meetings of the championship. Health problems for the team owner, sounds like that is causing financial issues for his companies and subsequently the team.

btcc.net

One Motorsport To Miss Next Two BTCC Race Weekends • BTCC

One Motorsport has announced that it will miss the next two race weekends of the 2025 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship at Croft (2-3 August) and
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Not good news at all, and given the financial state ONE have been in with them sitting out last year, and very few sponsors on the cars this year, I really hope it isn't a bad omen for them.
 
Stephen Jelley switching to Un-Limited for the rest of the season, sadly likely to mean One are done (again). Hopefully Cook can find a drive as well, speculation in Autosport that he has a seat from Knockhill onward.

btcc.net

Jelley Joins Un-Limited For Remainder Of BTCC Season • BTCC

Un-Limited Motorsport has today (28 July) announced the signing of Stephen Jelley for the remainder of the 2025 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship,
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No Jake Hill for the Croft rounds. Ear infection. Turkington drove the car in practice but is not racing.
 
Really starting to look like a two horse race for the title between Sutton and Tingram. Both are supremely consistent at the moment, with the momentum switching between the two.

Typically in BTCC terms one might say it's not as interesting with two drivers so far ahead of everyone else in the standings. But the racing has been fascinating. One part of me would love to see Sutton break the record all time drivers titles (even more so if he does it in FWD machinery too). But a second for Ingram would also be well earned.

A very eventful weekend of typically Touring Car style racing at Croft on Sunday, very unfortunate to see Hill have to sit out the weekend due to illness, but it seems him and the rest of WSR have really been up and down this season.
 
Absolutely awesome news, but PMR have managed to secure two Cupras so they can race at Knockhill 🔥. The amount of support in and outside the BTCC has been amazing, fair play to Unlimited and the Patterson family.

btcc.net

Power Maxed Racing To Run Two Cupras At Knockhill • BTCC

Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing will run two Cupras for Rounds 19, 20 and 21 of the 2025 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship at Knockhill
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gofund.me

Donate to Rebuilding Power maxed racing, organized by Oli Withington

So I'm Oli, a btcc fan, truck driver and friend of Adam who owns PMR Adam is the kin… Oli Withington needs your support for Rebuilding Power maxed racing
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It appears that a Oli Withington has set up a go fund me PMR and Adam Weaver.

A fantastic effort so far to support the aftermath of the fire at Power Maxed Racing.
Although the team didn't set this appeal up they are set up as total beneficiarys of your good will and donations.
As the person who set this up I won't have anything to do with the donation distribution that will all go directly to PMR and rightly so.
Thank you for the support I know Adam will appreciate it as I do as a Fan and a friend of the team.

(To clarify I am not Oli and I do not work within Power Maxed racing. I do not know Oli or anyone one who works within PMR personally, I just saw this go fund me on Speedcafe.com website.)

If this kind of thing is allowed on here
 
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It would be a proper comeback/fairytale of PMR get some good results this weekend, but just being on the grid is the victory in itself.
 
Great to see the BTCC community coming together to put the team back on the grid so quickly after such a devastating event.

Will be watching as much as possible on Sunday (which sadly won't be much), and I hope the team can get back on their feet eventually.
 
BMW locking out the front of the grid? That's a bit unexpected with this year's car.
 
Fezzik
BMW locking out the front of the grid? That's a bit unexpected with this year's car.
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Not really. Knockhill has always been a RWD circuit and they're the only RWD on the grid. They've been awful this year yes, but the one other time RWD was an advantage (on the resurfaced Brands Indy) they cleaned up there too.
 
Love Knockhill. Doesn’t seem as much curb hoping, but still tight and fast. Still funny how drivers leave that door open ever so slightly.

Edit: Just as I type that. Boink boink over the curbs. :lol:
 
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Some clarification by TOCA on some pretty significant changes for the next era of NGTC. Engine requirements will be opened up, so now any car can run a BTCC homologated engine, irrespective of which manufacturer it comes from.

Also TOCA have lifted the UK specific requirement for a cars homologation. So basically any car can be used from a manufacturers lineup, as long as it's ICE and confirms to the existing size and dimension limits.

btcc.net

BTCC Confirms Updated Technical Regulations From 2027 • BTCC

TOCA ‘unlocks’ further potential in next five-year cycle
btcc.net btcc.net
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This sounds like a very sensible solution to the phase out of pure ICE vehicles on the European market.
 

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