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2022 British Touring Car Championship
The 2022 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship (commonly abbreviated as BTCC) was a motor racing championship for production-based Touring car racing, touring cars held across England and Scotland. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded amateur drivers competing in highly modified versions of family cars which are sold to the general public and conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2022 season was the 65th British Touring Car Championship season and the twelfth season for cars conforming to the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) technical specification. This was the first season of the championship's new Hybrid Energy Management (HEM) system, developed by Cosworth, Cosworth Electronics, which replaced the series' previous success ballast system. Tom Ingram won the championship, his first championship in the BTCC. Teams and drivers Driver changes Entering/re-entering BTCC * Dexter Patterson debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2022 Ginetta Junior Championship
The 2022 Michelin Ginetta Junior Championship is a multi-event, one make motor racing championship held across England and Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac .... The championship includes a mix of professional teams and privately funded drivers, aged between 14 and 17, competing in Ginetta G40s that are conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. Teams and drivers Race calendar Championship standings Drivers' championship References External links * Ginetta Junior Championship NewsGinetta Junior Update {{Ginetta seasons Ginetta Junior Championship season Ginetta Junior Championship seasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mountune Racing
Mountune Racing is a specialist automotive engineering company. It was formed in 1980 in Maldon, Essex by David Mountain to provide Mini race engines. In the late 1980s, Mountune started preparing Cosworth YB engines for numerous auto racing, motorsport championships. David Mountain quickly realised the potential of this twin cam, 4 valve Turbocharger, turbocharged engine and started development for race and rally applications. Mountune’s team of engineers worked closely with Ford’s own motorsport group based at the Boreham facility in the UK to supply various works teams and hundreds of privateers with Ford YB engines, forging a long-term association with Ford Motor Company. In 1990, the Mountune powered Ford Sierra RS500 of Robb Gravett won the British Touring Car Championship, resulting in Mountune supplying race winning engines to customers around the world. In the early ’90s, Group A rallying was the pinnacle of its sport and the works Escort Cosworths were all power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Toyota Corolla (E210)
The Toyota Corolla (E210) is the twelfth generation of the Toyota Corolla, Corolla, a compact car (C-segment) manufactured by Toyota. Introduced in 2018, this generation has also grown to include hatchback and Station wagon, estate (station wagon) configurations in addition to the Sedan (automobile), saloon (sedan). Since 2022, a high-performance model became available as the Toyota GR Corolla, GR Corolla. Based on the hatchback model, the GR Corolla is marketed under the Toyota Gazoo Racing, Gazoo Racing family of high-performance cars. Its platform-sharing vehicles include the Toyota Corolla Cross, a compact crossover SUV, and the Toyota C-HR, an SUV with a hatchback-like body. Overview The E210 series Corolla was first introduced in 2018 at the Geneva Motor Show. The E210 Corolla is paired with a transverse engine powered by Petrol engine, petrol, Flexible-fuel vehicle, flex-fuel, or a Hybrid Synergy Drive, hybrid of petrol and electric. Developed under the lead of chie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Speedworks Motorsport
Speedworks Motorsport is a British motor racing team based in Great Budworth, Cheshire. The team was formed in 2005 by Christian and Amy Dick. They are best known for competing in the British Touring Car Championship since 2011, and since 2021 have entered under the name of Toyota Gazoo Racing UK. They also compete in the 24H Series. History Speedworks Motorsport first started racing in the MaX5 Racing Series, before switching to Ginetta racing in 2007. They have also entered a Chevrolet Corvette GT3 in the British GT Championship. British Touring Car Championship Toyota Avensis (2011–2018) Alongside their British GT commitments, Speedworks also become one of the first teams to compete with a full Next Generation Touring Car specification car in the British Touring Car Championship with a Toyota Avensis driven by Tony Hughes in 2011. They missed the third round of the championship at Thruxton in order to fix the technical problems they had been experiencing with the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Daniel Lloyd (racing Driver)
Daniel Woodhouse Lloyd (born 4 March 1992) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Restart Racing. He was the 2009 Renault Clio UK Winter Cup champion. Lloyd was born in Huddersfield. After competing in the Skip Barber National Championship in the first half of 2010, he made his début in the British Touring Car Championship at Croft. In 2011 he raced in the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup, qualifying on pole in his debut race and eventually scored two victories and finished third in the championship. For 2012, he raced in the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain series with Team Parker Racing and scored his first victory in round 6 in the monsoon conditions at Thruxton, just beating rival Glynn Geddie. Lloyd was the inaugural TCR UK champion, taking the title in a Volkswagen Golf The Volkswagen Golf () is a compact car/ small family car ( C-segment) produced by the German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen since 1974, mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jack Butel
Jack Butel (born 19 March 1996 in St Saviour, Jersey) is a racing driver from Jersey currently competing in the 2024 British Porsche Carerra Cup Great Britain, driving for Toro Verde. He debuted in 2020 after previously competing in the British GT Championship and F4 British Championship. Career British Touring Car Championship Cicely Motorsport (2020) Butel made his debut in the British Touring Car Championship in 2020 with Cicely Motorsport, driving a Mercedes-Benz A-Class. His first and only points finish of the season came during the second round at Brands Hatch, with 14th place in the third race of the weekend. He came 26th in the overall standings, and 3rd in the Jack Sears Trophy. EXCELR8 Motorsport (2021-2022) Butel moved to Excelr8 Motorsport for the 2021 season, driving a Hyundai i30 Fastback N Performance. He scored 4 points across the season, but was forced to miss the final round on medical grounds. He came 25th in the overall standings, and 4th in the Jack Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
James Gornall (racing Driver)
James "Jiggy" Gornall (born 8 July 1984 in Nottingham) is a British racing driver, who has competed in the British Touring Car Championship, last for Bristol Street Motors with Excelr8 TradePriceCars.com in 2022. He won the 2019 Mini Challenge UK, and the 2008 British GT Championship. Personal life James Gornall spent much of his early life in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, and now resides near Bedford, Bedfordshire. He was educated at Arthur Mellows Village College and obtained a BA(Hons) from Oxford Brookes University in Business Management. Gornall is a driver coach and holds an 'A' Grade ARDS instructor licence. He was previously the Head of Sales & Marketing at Aero Tec Laboratories, Head of Motorsport at Ellis Clowes and Championship Coordinator at the MSV FIA Formula Two Championship. Racing career In 2019 Gornall became a full Member of the British Racing Drivers' Club. Karting Gornall began kart racing in 1995 in the Comer Cadet class. In 1996 he moved into Form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tom Chilton
Thomas James Chilton (born 15 March 1985) is a British racing driver who currently drives for Excelr8 Motorsport, Team VERTU in the 2025 British Touring Car Championship, British Touring Car Championship. He has spent most of his career competing in touring car racing, and his younger brother, Max Chilton, Max, is also a racing driver. Career Early life Chilton was born in Reigate. His father, Grahame Chilton, is a businessman who co-owned the insurance company Benfield Group up until 2008, when it was taken over by Aon plc for £738m. Chilton became vice-chairman of Aon after the deal and also collected around £77m for his stake. Chilton was educated at Reigate St Mary's School and Shiplake College. A keen racer from an early age, he competed in the British Racing and Sports Car Club, BRSCC T Cars Championship in 1999 and 2000, going on to take the BRSCC Saloon Car winter championship in 2001. His brother, Max Chilton, is also a racing driver. British Touring Car Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hyundai Theta Engine
The Hyundai Theta is a gasoline four-cylinder automobile engine family. The third all-aluminum engine of Hyundai Motor Company debuted in the fourth-generation Hyundai Sonata sedan (codenamed NF), which was unveiled in August 2004 in South Korea. Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA) built a Theta II engine shop on the grounds of their Montgomery, Alabama automobile factory. Global Engine Alliance The Global Engine Alliance was a joint venture between Chrysler, Mitsubishi Motors, and the Hyundai Motor Company for developing a line of shared four-cylinder engines. Each manufacturer configured their variants of the initial design differently based on their needs. In 2009, Chrysler bought out Mitsubishi and Hyundai's stake in the joint-venture; however, each company retained rights to build the engines. Technical details Theta The engine features hollow stainless-steel dual overhead camshafts (DOHC) with powder-metal cam lobes, pent-roof combustion chambers and shimless bucke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hyundai I30
The Hyundai i30 is a small family car manufactured by the South Korean manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company since 2006. The i30 shares its platform with the Kia Ceed, available as a three-door hatchback (2012–2017), five-door hatchback, five-door estate and five-door liftback (2017–present), with a choice of three petrol engines and two diesel engines, either with manual or automatic transmission. The i30 was marketed alongside the fifth-generation Hyundai Elantra in the United States and Canada until the end of 2020. While initially the i30 wagon was sold as the Elantra Touring, in 2012 it was replaced by the i30 hatchback, carrying Elantra GT badging. The second-generation i30 was introduced in September 2011 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. __TOC__ First generation (FD; 2006) The first generation Hyundai i30 was announced during 2006 Paris Motor Show by the Hyundai Arnejs concept. The production model manufacturing started late 2006, it was introduced at the Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Excelr8 Motorsport
EXCELR8 Motorsport is a British racing team that is headed by Justina Williams, and is currently competing in both the MINI CHALLENGE and British Touring Car Championship, the latter under the Team VERTU name. The team has successfully competed in the MINI CHALLENGE since 2010 racking up multiple championships in both the Cooper and JCW classes, with the likes of Nathan Harrison, triple JCW champion Dan Zelos, Matt Hammond and Tom Ovenden. Joining the BTCC in 2019, the team ran ex- Triple Eight & AmD Tuning MG6 GT cars with drivers Rob Smith and Sam Osborne. In what was very much a learning year, the team was able to secure two points scoring finishes as it learned the ropes with a focus on then taking a step forwards in year two of the programme. In 2020, the team replaced the ageing MG with brand new Hyundai i30 Fastback N Performance cars that it had developed in house during the winter. Senna Proctor and Chris Smiley would share driving duties and both secured podiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sam Osborne (racing Driver)
Samuel Osborne (born 1 January 1993) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship The British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), officially known as the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship for sponsorship reasons, is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by ... driving for NAPA Racing UK. He debuted in 2019 after spending the previous two seasons in the Renault UK Clio Cup. Racing record Complete British Touring Car Championship results ( key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded – 2002–2003 all races, 2004–present just in first race) Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded all races) * signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap (1 point awarded – 2002 just in feature races, 2003–present all races) * Season still in progress. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Osborne, Sam 1993 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
