Both the National and the World Touring Car series were in action in the UK this weekend, at two of Jonathan Palmer's circuits - with the WTCC boys at Brands Hatch and the British Touring car series fighting it out at Oulton Park. Both Brands Hatch and Oulton Park are great circuits for tin-top racing. They may not be wide enough or have sufficiently long straights to really suit modern single seaters, certainly anything more powerful than an F3 car, but they're absolutely ideal for less powerful cars which are capable of running door-to-door. The question which struck me, though, is distance aside, which race should the discerning motorsport fan have been at last weekend?  read more »

My first two choices for my series on iconic racing cars from my youth were, in many ways, polar opposites. The Porsche 962 was stunningly, conspicuously successful, where the Metro 6R4's competition history was a story of opportunities missed and what-might-have-been. The 962 had a kind of elegant simplicity about it's design where the 6R4 looked like it could have come straight off the set of Mad Max - all wildly flared wheel arches and giant spoilers. And, of course, while the 962 as a race car, the 6R4 was a rally car.

My final choice falls between all these stools. Both a rally car and a racing car - successful, but never to quite the extent that it could have been, and a car whose beauty, or otherwise, was always very much in the eye of the beholder. The early 1980s saw the replacement of the old Group 1-6 system for rally, sports and touring cars with three new categories - Group C, for sports prototypes, Group B, which was principally a category for ludicrously overpowered rally cars and Group A, for both rally cars (following the death of Group B, it became the premier rally category from 1987) and touring cars. For me, the archetypal Group A touring car was Ford's Sierra RS Cosworth.  read more »

TouringCarTimes is, together with Team RAC, offering one BTCC fan the chance of winning tickets for the sixth BTCC round at Snetterton.

Mat Jackson has started the BTCC season in the best possible way with topping the first official test of the year.

The BTCC teams are preparing hard for the coming season. They were testing their cars at Silverstone and Oulton Park.

The BTCC season returns after a long break at Snetterton this weekend. Snetterton was host to a recent test that saw the resurgence of SEAT.

Round 4 of the BTCC is at Thruxton this weekend. Thruxton was the scene for a dramatic season end in 2007, when Giovanardi beat Plato to the title.

The BTCC started off at Brands Hatch. Amongst the 25 drivers, 7 rookies took the start, 6 of which were starting their very first BTCC race.

ITV4 will show all three BTCC races from Brands Hatch live, after announcing that their coverage of the final round of the season will be an hour longer than originally planned.