NEWS
The ButtKicker Britcar 24 hours of Silverstone is Back
After massive success in 2022 & 2023 the ButtKicker Britcar 24 hours of Silverstone is back in 2024! The event will be broadcast LIVE courtesy of RaceSpot TV. The classes are: GT3 - Audi R8 LMS Evo II, Ferrari 296 GT3, BMW M4 GT3, Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO,...
Stand 21 extends partnership with the Britcar Endurance Championship into 2025
The Britcar Endurance Championship is delighted to announce that it has extended its partnership with global race gear manufacturers Stand 21. Established as a world leader in head to toe, made-to-measure racing gear, Stand 21 boasts a rich history that has seen them...
Team Tactics and Consistency Lead to Victory for Ellick and Jones
The 2024 Britcar Endurance Trophy Championship went down to the wire, with the overall title in doubt right up to the closing minutes of the season finale, culminating in a tie for the crown between the TSR Audi TT of Rob Ellick/Mark Jones and the Clio of Maurice...
Maurice Henry’s Endurance Racing Trajectory
Maurice Henry, sharing the High Row Motorsport Renault Clio with Hadley Simpson, had to fight hard against worthy opposition to take the class and overall Britcar Endurance Trophy titles – though the class championship was sewn-up before the season’s end, the overall...
Hadley Simpson’s Rollercoaster Ride to Championship Winner
The chase for the 2024 Britcar Endurance Trophy overall crown went down to the wire, culminating in joint champions from two very different teams Here we catch up with teenager Hadley Simpson, who shared the title-winning High Row Motorsport Renault Clio with Maurice...
Britcar Trophy Season Roundup
We have a tie for the 2024 Britcar Trophy Championship! Taking into account “dropped” scores, both the Class 2 TSR Audi TT of Rob Ellick / Mark Jones / Craig Fleming and the High Row Renault Clio of Maurice Henry / Hadley Simpson came out with 384 points; it hadn’t...
Britcar Unveils Plans for 2025 Britcar Endurance Championship
Britcar is poised to embark on an exciting new era in 2025 with a new format of the Britcar Endurance Championship. Following the conclusion of this year’s campaign, the organisers have announced that the British Endurance Championship (BEC) and Britcar Trophy...
Report: Snetterton Race 2 – Success Penalties Do Their Job
Positive proof that success penalties work – Bryan Bransom may have the fastest car, but Maurizio Sciglio, in the Datum Motorsport Ginetta G56GTA, got the jump on the BMW in the mid-race pit-stop sequence, and took the win with a 2.283 second margin. The Jabbasport...
Report: Snetterton Race 1 – Bransom Wins Handsomely
Buoyed by a win in the previous day’s Snetterton Saloons race, local driver Bryan Bransom, running as an Invitation entry in the Intersport-run BMW E46,annexed pole in qualifying, and took a convincing victory in the first of the weekend's two Britcar Trophy races....
Report from Snetterton Qualifying
Britcar Trophy Championship’s final qualifying of the season did not disappoint today at Snetterton. Bryan Bransom claimed overall pole in his BMW E46 M3 - he didn’t take the line easy, with a lot of pressure from Ben Green in the Ginetta G56 GTA. Green setting purple...
Hayes Brothers Take Seat into Trophy
Brothers Luke and Jamie Hayes are entering the last round of Britcar Trophy with the aim of competing for a full season in the championship next year. They have both raced in BRSCC Supersport endurance, MSV Track Day Trophy and 750MC events with some podiums over the...
Report: Donington Race 2 – 24-carat Victory for Goldsmith
This was a brilliant win for lone driver Lee Goldsmith in the Geoff Steel-run BMW E46, he had been in the top three right from the start, and made the most of a pit stop advantage over other Class 1 front-runners to claim a famous victory. Pole-sitter Bryan Bransom,...
Report: Donington Race 1 – Surprise Win for Sapra and Bransom
In a race of heat and attrition, Jas Sapra and Bryan Bransom took an unexpected victory in Race 1, that caught even the marshal wielding the chequered flag by surprise. To be fair, those surprises started in qualifying – gone, it seems, are the days when a quartet of...
Report from Donington Qualifying
An exciting qualifying took place at Donington Park for the penultimate races of the 2024 Britcar Trophy Championship. Simon Mason was the man of today’s qualifying as he found good pace on the track in the Cupra Gen 1 which secured him overall pole position putting...
Kelvin Burt joins Britcar as Driving Standards Monitor
Highly-experience Formula Ford, Formula Vauxhall Lotus, Porsche Supercup and BTCC racer and BRDC member Kelvin Burt joined the Britcar team to help keep an overwatch on driving standards. He draws on his years of race experience to work alongside our dedicated Clark...
Report: Oulton Park Race 2 – A Three-Way Photo Finish!
Local hero Sebastien Dubois took the win in an exciting finish in Race 2. The Cheshire-domiciled French businessman had been threatening all day, but had been prone to over-exuberance which had caused Matt Cherrington’s TMC team to clean bucketloads of gravel from the...
Report: Oulton Park Race 1 – A Rainy Win for Anastasi
Marco Anastasi, in a Datum Motorsport Ginetta G56A, took the win in a wet Race 1, as the race took a different aspect after the mandatory pit stops had been taken. Domination of the first half of the race had come from elsewhere, where pole-sitter Ben Green, in the...
Report: Silverstone GP Race 2 – Bialan and Mason Need a Bigger Trophy Cabinet
It definitely was their weekend – Chris Bialan and Simon Mason took the Jabbasport / Sim Dynamics Cupra to another overall and class victory, the car feeling, in Mason’s words, “comfortable, like a pair of slippers”. Bialan took the lead from the rolling start, and it...
Report: Silverstone GP Race 1 – Bialan and Mason Seize Their Best Chance
“If we can’t win here, we can’t win anywhere” said Simon Mason before the race, alluding to the chances of the Jabbasport / Sim Dynamics Cupra he shares with long-time race partner Chris Bialan. And they did win, in style, finishing over three-quarters of a minute...
Report: Brands GP Race 2 – Invitee Bradley RSVPs with a Win, Axel Banks Top Points
Niall Bradley, in the Invitation entry BMW E36, dominated Sunday’s 50-minute race, while second-placed Axel van Nederveen was the first points-scorer home in his Datum Motorsport Ginetta G56A. Some sterling work over the previous 24 hours saw three cars make the grid...
Report: Brands GP Race 1 – A Safe Win for Sciglio
Maurizio Sciglio posted another overall win in the Datum Motorsport Ginetta G56A under the cover of a late-race Safety Car deployment, thwarting any chance of progress from threatening invitee Niall Bradley’s BMW E36. Leading the field away at the rolling start were...
Report: Snetterton Race 2 – Datum 1 -2-3
Datum Motorsport made a clean sweep of Race 2, locking-out the overall podium with the Ginetta G56As of lone drivers Maurizio Sciglio, Axel van Nederveen and Marco Anastasi. Polesitter Chris Bialan floored the Cupra away from the rolling start, but Axel van Nederveen...
Report: Snetterton Race 1 – Back-to-Back for Bialan and Mason
They came away from the last race at Donington as overall winners, and claimed the win at the first race here- Chris Bialan and Simon Mason, in the Sim Dynamics Racing with Jabbasport Cupra didn’t have it easy at Snetterton, though, facing a considerable threat from...
Report: Donington Race 2 – Brilliant Bialan, Amazing Mason
Chris Bialan and Simon Mason broke the Ginetta stronghold in Race 2, taking the Jabbasport-run Cupra to a well-deserved victory, with amateur driver Bialan earning the Britcar Outstanding Achievement trophy. Bialan set his stall out on the opening lap – the Ginetta of...
Report: Donington Race 1 – Dubois Dominant After Pit Stops
Lone-driver Seb Dubois, in a Ginetta G56 GTA run by Matt Cherrington’s TMC team, took a convincing Race 1 win in the opening round of the 2024 Trophy Championship, finishing nearly 12 seconds ahead of the considerable opposition. It was a scrappy rolling start as the...
ROWE Launches Partnership with Britcar for 2024 Season
Premium oils and lubricants brand, ROWE, has extended its partnership with Britcar to include The British Endurance Championship (BEC). This collaboration aligns closely with ROWE’s extensive history and success in European endurance racing, with the brand eager to...
Andy Tucker Completes High Row Driver Line-up – with a Guest
Britcar Trophy class vice champion Andy Tucker returns alongside British GT race winner Nick Halstead at High Row Motorsport. Andy Tucker will make a welcome return to the Britcar Trophy Championship this weekend with the High Row Motorsport team that he raced with in...
Britcar Trophy Back on the Big Screen in 2024
The British Endurance Championship and Britcar Trophy will once again enjoy unprecedented live online coverage this year following confirmation that every race of the 2024 season will broadcast on YouTube. With the British Automobile Racing Club having renewed their...
High Row Announce their Full-Season Clio Driver Line-up
Ben Jenkins and James Harrison return alongside new drivers Hadley Simpson and Maurice Henry in High Row Motorsport. Following a highly successful 2023 season High Row Motorsport will field two cars in Britcar Trophy's busy and highly competitive Clio Cup class in...
Stephen Fresle Pairs with Ben Green for a Britcar Return
Stephen Fresle will be returning to Century Motorsport and the Ginetta G56 GTA, to compete in the Britcar Trophy Championship for the 2024 season. Fresle’s partnership with co-driver Ben Green adds another layer of excitement to the mix. With Green’s proven track...
Whitney Returns in Porsche 997
Tony Witney returns to the Trophy grid as the solo driver of a Porsche 997 S, this time to be run by Porsche specialists Sussex-based SW Engineering. Tony said "2024 will be my fifth season racing and third season in Britcar Trophy. Last season was challenging due to...
Sim Dynamics Make a Weekend of it!
Making the most of the Britcar race weekends will be British Endurance Championship entrants Chris Bialan and Simon Mason who are also entered into class A of Britcar Trophy with the same Cupra Gen 1 they will be racing in BEC. “It makes best value of race weekends,...
Spires Welcome Junior Saloons Graduate Travis Chapman
Spires Motorsport welcome Travis Chapman to their driver line-up for the 2024 Britcar Trophy Championship driving in the Renault Clio UK Cup class. Travis began his motor sport in karting followed by two seasons both Junior Saloons driving the Citroen Saxo and last...
Team BRIT Return to Trophy with a Brace of BMWs
Team BRIT will once again line up on the grid of the Britcar Trophy Championship this coming season with two ultra-competitive driver line-ups set to pilot a pair of BMWs. Firmly established as one of the UK’s leading race teams, Team BRIT provides drivers with both...
Essex & Kent Motorsport join Britcar Trophy grid for 2024
Essex & Kent Motorsport will embark on their maiden season in the Britcar Trophy Championship this year, after announce that siblings Lewis and Bradley Kent will team up to pilot a Hyundai Veloster. Having spent the past six years establishing themselves as one of...
Ryan Renews Partnership for 2024
Ryan Motorsport Insurance have renewed their partnership with Britcar for 2024 season. Founded by Ryan Mone - himself a racer - over 22 years ago, Ryan provide an exceptional level of service with competitive premiums for new and existing clients. Their team of...
Sunoco & Britcar Partnership Continuing for 2024
The British Endurance Championship and Britcar Trophy Championship are delighted to continue their long-term partnership with the Anglo American Oil Company for the supply of Sunoco fuels, providing race-meeting trackside delivery and support, and the prestigious...
Touring Cars Eligible In Both BEC and Trophy in 2024
Front and rear-wheel-drive touring cars will be eligible to race in brand-new classes for both the British Endurance Championship in association with Motorsport UK and the Britcar Trophy Championship this year. The two-litre machines have been a popular choice of car...
Sapra and Bransom Team Up for 2024
As regular BMW drivers over the last few years, Jas Sapra and Bryan Bransom will team up in their new build BMW M3 for Britcar Trophy for the 2024 season. While competing in only a single round in 2023, the pair have both raced in Britcar for three seasons, taking...
Andy Tucker Back in Clio Cup Class for 2024
Car 88 finished 2nd in the Clio Cup class, the most competitive class in the ROWE Britcar Trophy Championship. Throughout the 2023 season, the team scored multiple race wins, podiums and fastest laps and lead the championship overall and in class at various points....
Merry Christmas from BEC
Goldsmith is First to the Trophy Grid for 2024
Geoff Steel Racing will be bringing the 2008 BMW M3 that we saw at Snetterton this year back to the Trophy Championship grid for the 2024 season. Driver Lee Goldsmith says "both Geoff Steel racing and myself are super excited about the 2024 season with Britcar. We...
eSeries: Fury Simsport
Fury Simsport will be bringing a worldwide feel to the ButtKicker Britcar 24 Hour race. Drivers of the #142 AMG Mercedes GT3, are represented from Europe and North America. Fury have been impressing in this season's IVRA Endurance Championship and will be looking to...
TSR going for glory in the ButtKicker Britcar 24 hours or Silverstone
TSR stands for Team Sellars Racing and whilst they share the name and race number of TSR in the real life Britcar Trophy Championship they are an independant organisation of like minded real world racers chasing the outright win in an Audi R8 GT3. In the real world...
eSeries: Team BoosTED
Team BoosTED are taking part in the ButtKicker Britcar 24hours of Silverstone this weekend in their GT4 class Aston Martin Vantage. BoosTED Motorsports has been going for well over half a decade, and in 2021 the team partnered with Team Virage, a real-life motorsports...
eSports: Sim Dynamics
Sim Dynamics mantra in crossing over from real to virtual worlds is simply “bring the relevance”. This weekend’s Buttkicker Britcar 24hr is no different for their two car entry in this virtual, but no less real, race. Sim Dynamics have been building high quality...
Real World Sponsors Embrace the Virtual Britcar 24 Hours
With a full grid and hundreds of eager drivers about to take part in the ButtKicker Britcar 24 Hours of Silverstone on the iRacing platform over the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd December, a couple of Britcar and the British Endurance Championship's long term sponsors...
Goodyear Contract Renewed
Britcar, promoters of the British Endurance Championship and the Britcar Trophy, two of the UK’s leading racing series, has confirmed that it has extended its partnership with Goodyear Tyres in a multi-year agreement. The Britcar family of championships covers a wide...
Over 40 enter the ButtKicker Britcar 24 hour
With the 2023 edition of the ButtKicker Britcar 24 hours of Silverstone esports race just 2 weeks away the entries are coming in thick and fast with a grid of over 40 cars already entered. The leading GT3 class is the best represented with 25 entries so far. GT4 is...
Countdown to the ButtKicker Britcar 24 Hours
Four weeks away from the ButtKicker Britcar 24 hours at Silverstone being held on the iracing platform in association with Motorsport UK and its time to look at some of the partners in the race. ButtKicker have returned for the 3rd year in a row supporting Britcar's...