BTCC Season 2025 – CROFT – RACE 3 Please may I start this article with an apology. As I write this moments after the race I am still rather angry at what just happened out there on track. The lack of driving standards of others cost the team dear, and that is highly regrettable, to say the least. For Aiden…
BTCC Season 2025 – CROFT – RACE 2 Race 2 here at croft was interesting for the drivers as a stiff westerly wind had got up, upsetting a few of the cars in some of the quicker corners, together with a rise in humidity to 82%. People often think that a tailwind is great as the cars go that little…
BTCC Season 2025 – CROFT – RACE 1 Welcome to race day here at Croft in bright and hot sunshine for the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship after a miserable wet start to the morning. It is amazing how quickly the tarmac has dried as we start with 2 warm up laps. The air temperature had sneaked into the…
BTCC Season 2025 – CROFT – Qualifying We are back at Croft in bright and hot sunshine for the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship Qualifying session. The air temperature had rocketed into the 20’s and the track temperature was a very hot 38.7 degrees! Certainly this was going to be a test for both drivers and engineers after the…
BTCC Season 2025 – CROFT – Free Practice 2 Welcome back to the second Free Practise session here at Croft Circuit. The sun is out and the track temperature has risen sharply to 35.7 degrees and we were all systems go to lay down a marker. However, this is Touring Cars where anything can happen. In the case of this…
BTCC Season 2025 – croft – preview / fp1 Welcome to the second half of the season and Croft Circuit. Nestled in the heart of North Yorkshire, Croft Circuit boasts a rich and varied history that mirrors the evolution of British motorsport itself. The site began its life as RAF Croft, serving as an airfield during the Second World War.…
BTCC Season 2025 – oulton park – race 2 Good afternoon everybody and welcome back to Oulton Park for Race 2 of this weekends action for Aiden and Charles. The weather is set fair with temperature a very pleasant 20 degrees with the track temperature at 27 degrees, although there is a gusty wind that has peaked at 20 mph…
BTCC Season 2025 – OULTON PARK – RACE 1 Good afternoon everybody and welcome to race day here at Alton park in the Kwik fit British touring car championship 2025. The early morning rain has cleared and with a moderate breeze it is approximately 10° cooler than yesterday and everybody is looking relieved for that. The track however remains mildly…
BTCC Season 2025 – Oulton Park – qualifying Hello again everybody and firstly please may I apologise for the lateness of the report, but unfortunately we have had some internet outage at Oulton park this afternoon and this is the first chance we’ve had to get reports out. That was an incredibly close qualifying session for the team in hot…
BTCC Season 2025 – OULTON PARK – FREE PRACTICE 2 Good afternoon everybody and welcome back to Oulton Park here in a very damp and humid Cheshire. Amongst the rolling parklands and trees, we had a difficult start to the session as it had rained quite heavily for the 5 minutes preceding the start and on the 1st 3 laps…
BTCC Season 2025 – Oulton Park – free practice 1 Good morning everybody and welcome to our weekend here at Oulton Park in Cheshire where despite the temperature being 30° it is slightly cloudy, and we are all sat on the edges of our seats as there is the possibility of thunderstorms in time for qualifying later on this afternoon!…
BTCC Season 2025 – OULTON PARK – PREVIEW Always one of the most popular events on the BTCC calendar, Oulton Park in Cheshire is as picturesque as it is action-packed. The track was first developed from the original estate roads almost 70 years ago –and the BTCC has been visiting for the vast majority of that time as the sole…
BTCC Season 2025 – THRUXTON – RACE 3 Well, here we are at the end of a long weekend where we have been hot, cold, sunny, cloudy and incredibly wet. Normally, June in Hampshire is a hot and sunny experience, so you can only imagine just how tough a weekend this has been for the drivers, mechanics and engineers! It…
BTCC Season 2025 – THRUXTON – RACE 1 Good morning everyone and welcome back to Thruxton, where the rain has gone and the sun is out, albeit it is rather cold today in a strong and gusty wind. Charles started in P11 and Aiden in P20 and both drivers had eyes on some moves up the order when the lights…
BTCC Season 2025 – thruxton – qualifying Ok, so let’s get it out of the way. The monsoon had arrived as promised, but it started 15 minutes before Qualifying and continued to such an extent that the start of the Formula 4 race after the Touring Car qualifying had to be delayed and hadn’t started when we left the track!…
BTCC Season 2025 – THRUXTON – FREE PRACTICE 2 Welcome back to Thruxton for the second free practice session where the team weren’t so much trying to find single fast laps, but trying to find multiple set ups to guard against the possibility of storms which are forecast to arrive this afternoon. Hopefully they will miss qualifying, but if they…
BTCC Season 2025 – Thruxton – free practice one Good morning everybody and welcome to Thruxton circuit in Hampshire. Thruxton is thequickest circuit in the championship, and all eyes are on the weather! As the cars rolled out for Free Practice 1, the track was dry, but with low grey clouds, itseemed inevitable that we would get rain at some…
BTCC Season 2025 – Thruxton – preview Good morning everybody and welcome to our preview of this weekend’s round 4 in the Dunlop Kwik Fit British touring car championship at Thruxton circuit in Hampshire. Thruxton is the quickest circuit in the championship, and this comes from a largely oval circuit with a chicane and a couple of shorter turns. At…
BTCC Season 2025 – SNETTERTON 300 – RACE 3 Here we are with the last race of the weekend from Snetterton. It is still very windy and we start with Aiden in 16th after Race 2 and Charles just ahead in 9th place on the grid. Based on the 2 earlier races, we are up against it as this has…
BTCC Season 2025 – SNETTERTON 300 – RACE 2 You join us here for race 2 at a time of controversy. With only a few minutes to go before Race 2, Aiden has received news that he was found to be overboosted after Race 1 and as a result will start from the back of the field. Aiden was doubly…