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. 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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. 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. 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. The British Touring Car Championship recently announced it is investigating how to incorporate hybrid technology into its future machines. 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 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 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 BTCC keeps getting more competitive - this season produced another new record number of winners. Three-time BTCC champion Gordon Shedden will return to the series after a three-year hiatus, effectively stepping back into the seat that was kept warm for him by the outgoing Dan Cammish. British Touring Car Championship official site. Rowbottom’s deal means he now joins for the grid for his second campaign, having competed with Ciceley Motorsport in 2019, finishing in the points on four occasions en route to 28th in the standings. 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. Full race results of the opening round of the 2021 British Touring Car Championship from Thruxton. 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 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. NGTC Driver Stats; NGTC Car Stats; BTCC Race Winners. 2020 summary: Fears that Covid would have a disastrous financial effect on the quality of this years grid thankfully proved to be unfounded. British Touring Car Championship official site. News; Entry List / Drivers; Seasons. Three-time BTCC champion Gordon Shedden will return to the series after a three-year hiatus, effectively stepping back into the seat that was kept warm for him by the outgoing Dan Cammish. 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. Matt James busts the myth. “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. It’s been a busy silly season in the BTCC since the chequered flag fell to end the 2020 campaign last November. 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. 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. Don’t forget to read our list of the top 10 BTCC drivers of 2020. It’s been a busy silly season in the BTCC since the chequered flag fell to end the 2020 campaign last November. 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. 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 Despite stellar opposition and some familiar challenges, the two-time champion still has his eyes focused on the biggest prizes. 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. 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 all of that in mind, here’s a round-up of the BTCC 2021 drivers and teams. 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! The campaign will now … More » 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. 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. Toyota’s British Touring Car Championship team will expand to two for the 2021 season. Registered at Goodwood House, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0PX. “Changing a calendar is much more difficult than putting the original one together, which I think we did in July,” he said. Sam Osborne, son of Pete, has taken one of the seats, while Andy Neate has been confirmed for the second spot. 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. Each race weekend consists of three BTCC … Updated 11:30 Thursday 14th 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. 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. 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. Jason Plato to return to the top step. 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. Titles should be won by the driver who claims more victories than anyone else, so convention goes. 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. The BTCC will have a five-week gap between its opening two rounds in 2021 following the latest round of revisions to the schedule. Scoring 50 points more in 2020 over his 2019 tally, despite fewer races, and helping BMW secure its fifth-consecutive Manufacturers’ title – a record-equalling feat. 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. Smelt, meanwhile, returns to the BTCC after two seasons in British GT, including a 2020 campaign for Speedworks in a Toyota GR Supra GT4. 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. The official Facebook page of the UK's premier motorsport series – The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship. Share this article. 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. 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. 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. One of the hottest prospects in the BTCC in recent years, Tom Ingram, made one of the biggest headlines in the 2020/21 off-season with his departure from the Speedworks squad after seven years. 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. Jack Butel, who made his BTCC debut with Ciceley Motorsport in 2020 jumps from Mercedes to Hyundai. 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. In doing so it's following the higher echelons of motorsport, while also revealing risks for its grassroots. 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. 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. The British Touring Car Championship has increased success ballast back to its 2015-18 levels for the 2021 season following a teams’ meeting. 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. 2021 BTCC confirmed entries West Surrey Racing BMW: Colin Turkington, Tom Oliphant, Stephen Jelley Team Dynamics Honda: Gordon Shedden, … 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. Updated 9:30 Thursday 11th March. Updated 10:00 Wednesday 10th February. West Surrey Racing returns to three cars for 2021, after Andrew Jordan dropped out on the eve of the 2020 campaign. 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 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. 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. 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. Can a champion be worthy if he only won one race? Thruxton BTCC 2021: Round 1 - Race Classification (3) BTCC. Registered in England No. 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. During the fan questions segment of the Podcast, the chat turned to the much-loved TOCA game series from the late 90’s. 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. 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. 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. 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 » 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. COOK CLAIMS DOUBLE DURING BTCC CURTAIN-RAISER. Updated 18:15 Thursday 4th February 2021. Simon Evans. Another case of two teams merging for 2021, Excelr8 Motorsport and Trade Price Cars have joined forces for the upcoming season, bringing an additional two Hyundai i30 Fastback Ns to the grid – which is no bad thing as they were two of the best-looking cars in 2020. 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. Colin Turkington, Tom Oliphant, Stephen Jelley, Jack Goff, Aron Taylor-Smith, Glynn Geddie, Nicolas Hamilton. Does the unpredictable nature of the British Touring Car Championship render that notion obsolete? When the announcement was made that Tom Ingram would leave the Speedworks-run Toyota squad, it took the shine away somewhat from the confirmation that the team were looking to double its efforts in 2021 to a two-car programme. ©2021 The Goodwood Estate Company Limited. 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. 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. With no BTCC drive in 2020, Rowbottom made a one-off appearance in the 2020 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series at Vallelunga. The move leaves one seat still open at BTC, who previously announced both Cook and Crees would return to the squad this year. Join now. 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. 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.