Top 10 most read touring car stories of 2020
3 months ago
2020 has been a challenging year in many ways, but it still provided us with an eventful touring car season once racing action was able to take place across the globe.
This year also marked the 25th year of TouringCarTimes and proved to be another record-breaking year in terms of visitor statistics, with our traffic increasing by 5%.
Join us as we take a look at the most read touring car news of 2020 on TouringCarTimes in our annual countdown.
10 – Hyundai teams withdraw from Nürburgring
The first entry on this list is the controversial withdrawal of the Hyundai customer teams – BRC Racing and Engstler Motorsport – from the World Touring Car Cup round at the Nürburgring. Read more.
WSR confirm plans for three car return
4 months ago
West Surrey Racing team boss Dick Bennetts has confirmed that the BMW squad will revert back to a three-car team for the 2021 British Touring Car Championship season.
The team was forced to downsize to two cars for 2020 after Andrew Jordan was forced to stand down from his seat as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the former champion not replaced as WSR instead focused on the cars of Colin Turkington and Tom Oliphant.
Turkington would end the season second in the championship standings behind Ash Sutton, but there was double success in the manufacturers’ and teams’ standings with hopes high of pushing for all three titles in 2021 when the third 330i M Sport returns to action in what will be WSR’s 40th anniversary season.
Glynn Geddie secures second Team HARD Cupra
4 months ago
Glynn Geddie will return to Team HARD for a full season in the 2021 British Touring Car Championship after being named as the second driver for its new Cupra programme.
Geddie joined Tony Gilham’s outfit for the final two rounds of 2020 at Snetterton and Brands Hatch, securing a best finish of 15th at the wheel of one of the ageing Volkswagen CCs.
Having had the opportunity to get back behind the wheel of a BTCC car for the first time since a two-round stint in an AmD-run MG back in 2018, the former British GT champion will now hope to regularly challenge for regular points in what is set to be his first full season in the series, with his debut campaign in 2014 having ended two rounds early.
Jack Goff to spearhead new Cupra programme
4 months ago
Team HARD has confirmed that Jack Goff will lead its new Cupra programme in the 2021 British Touring Car Championship after signing an extended two-year deal with Tony Gilham’s outfit.
Goff, who made his series debut with Team HARD back in 2013, rejoined the Kent squad last year and secured its first win in a dramatic wet race at Silverstone, but endured a tough 2020 campaign – scoring points on only four occasions and ending the year down in 23rd in the standings.
Eager to try and return to form in 2021, Goff is the first driver to be confirmed by Team HARD in one of the new Cupras, which the team announced it would be running back in September – with work on the first cars already well underway.