NEWS
Tickets Available for our First Races of 2023
Please visit this page on Silverstone's website to purchase tickets for our first races of the new season, on their GP circuit on 25th and 26th March.
Book Your Place in our Six-hour Race
A six-hour race for proper GT and endurance spec cars! Yes – and it's Britcar, getting back to what they have always done best, in what could be the first tentative steps to bring back the popular and much-lamented Britcar 24hrs. The date for your diaries is July...
Are You Ready?!
With a little over 4 weeks till our opening round, it’s safe to say that the excitement level within Britcar HQ is rather high!
Coyne takes a Clio into Trophy with Amigo
Travis Coyne's in on Dragon Sport ambassador role with a Britcar Trophy seat. 21-year-old Travis from Nottingham is set to take to the grid this year with the Dragon Sport by Amigo Motorsport in the Clio Cup class. On joining the team Travis said, "I'm really excited...
Motorsport Showroom Confirms their Place as an Official 2023 Sponsor
A modern platform for buying and selling race cars, transporters, parts and spares. Featuring a mobile friendly guided listing process and instant messaging, Motorsport Showroom offers a specialist online listing platform aimed at the global motorsport community. The...
MacG’s RX87 Returns
The RX87 returns to the grid for 2023! Piloted by Jonny MacGreggor and Josh Tomlinson, the MacG Racing RX87 Is back and better than ever. The team started off in Britcar back in 2011 and aside 1 year, have ran every season with us since. Various wins and some great...
Spires’ Second Driver Announced
And the 2nd line up for Spires Motorsport is announced! Craig Guest is to pilot the Clio Cup car for 2023. Craig said “I’ve spent years building IT Technology teams for some of the UK’s and the world’s biggest companies and now have the good fortune, to partner with...
Spires Return with Two Cars for 2023
Spires Motorsport takes to the grid for 2023 with a pair of cars competing in Trophy. Anton Spires stated - “We’re excited to have both Joachim (Car #14) and our second driver (TBA) join our team to form our first ever two car line-up. It’s been a long time coming,...
38 Entries for Trophy
After a busy weekend at Autosport International, we are extremely excited to announce that we now have a total of 38 entries for the 2023 season for the Britcar Trophy Championship. The strongest grid in Britcar history and something we are extremely proud of. This...
Britcar Heads to Autosport
We will be attending the Autosport International event at the NEC this coming Friday. This is a great opportunity to meet up with us face to face to discuss any questions you may have about the season ahead. If you would like to meet up for a chat, please get on in...
First Dragon Sport Scholarship held at Blyton Park
The inaugural Dragon Sport Scholarship was held at Blyton Park in November with Britcar Trophy rookie of the year Jack Meakin Racing winning the big prize of a fully funded seat in the Britcar Endurance Trophy Championship alongside Rhys Lloyd. The Dragon Sport team...
Another Entry for 2023 as Meakin and Lloyd Take the Wheel
Jack Meakin was selected for the drive through the Dragon Sport Scholarship which ran for the first time in 2022. 30 drivers aged between 16 and 30 entered for a shot at winning a free season drive in the Britcar Trophy alongside Rhys Lloyd. The Dragon Sport team will...
Whitney and Walter to Share New-build Porsche
Tony Whitney returns to the 2023 grid alongside pro driver James Walker. Having placed third in the Championship last year in the G40 class with SVG Motorsport, Tony is now back for another season - but this time, in his newly built Porsche 911 Carrera S. Built by SE...
BMW Pair Sapra and Bransom Return for 2023
Jas Sapra and Bryan Bransom have entered for the 2023 season in their BMW E46. Ran by Kevin Clarke Racing, the pair have their sights set on success for the year ahead. Proving themselves podium worthy in 2022, the two drivers are full of determination and confidence...
The Praga Cup UK Goes Virtual with new RaceRoom Drivers Pack
• RaceRoom adds the Praga R1 to global simulation gaming platform • Includes 12 of the 2022 Praga Cup UK liveries, including designs by Frank Stephenson • Accuracy and attention to detail deliver realistic Praga experience • Sim racers can now experience racing in a...
Sam May takes on Vinnasport’s G40
Sam May signs with Vinnasport for what is set to be an exciting season ahead. Taking the leap from C1 and EnduroKA racing, Sam has shown great promise during testing in the Ginetta G40. We are very happy to welcome Sam to the 2023 Britcar Trophy grid.
Andy Johnson Takes Trophy Team of the Year for SVG
Winner of the Team of the Year award, Andy Johnson, collected his prize of a pair of space heaters, kindly supplied by Britcar sponsors Arcotherm, for his Team’s achievements. Andy, owner of Surrey-based SVG Motor Sport, has been competing in a wide range of formula...
Puttergill Signs for Full Season
Will Puttergill is entered for the full Britcar Trophy Championship 2023. Having competed for one round of the championship in ‘22 in his Honda Civic Type-R with a podium in each race, Will shows great promise for the season ahead. Ran by the wonderful Motion...
Praga Cars and Britcar Confirm Provisional Plans for Expanded Praga R1 Grids
Following the completion of the inaugural 2022 Praga Cup UK one-make race series and in the week following the launch of the all new, road-legal Praga Bohema hypercar, Praga Cars and Britcar have strengthened the relationship between the two organisations and...
Britcar 24 Hours eRace Streaming Links
The RaceSpot TV broadcast links are now live as follows: Hours 1 - 6 - https://youtu.be/zlcaFsZmC5o Hours 7 - 12 https://youtu.be/-5vlkApAX-A Hours 13 - 18 - https://youtu.be/wdyTNZediVQ Hours 19 - 24 - https://youtu.be/4qwjllOvMCA We will use the hashtag...
Provisional 2023 Calendar Announced
Britcar are pleased to be announcing our provisional calendar for 2023.
6-Hour Race Venue and Date Confirmed
We can now confirm the date and venue of our special, non-championship endurance round. It will be a single day event on 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗚𝗣 circuit on Saturday 22nd July 2023. It will be a daytime rather than an into-the-night race and all Britcar and BEC competitors are...
Motorsport UK and Britcar launch eSports Buttkicker 24 Hours of Silverstone
Motorsport UK is pleased to launch the Buttkicker 24 Hours of Silverstone in association with Britcar, marking the first community event of the governing body’s eSports strategy. Having already embarked on the journey into the sport’s ever-growing digital arena with...
Broadbent and Mutch Dominate with Double Win on Praga Cup Final Weekend
The inaugural Praga Cup UK is now complete and it was once again the driver pairing of Gordie Mutch and Jimmy Broadbent who took top honours with a second win of the weekend, confirming them as Praga Cup Champions. They confirmed this in style as the only driver...
1-2-3-4 for Idola Motorsport at Penultimate Praga Cup UK 2022 race
A thrilling chase in the Donington Park dusk saw another victory for the Fanatec Praga Team87 car of Gordie Mutch and Jimmy Broadbent. This result leaves them with practically both hands on the Championship as closest rivals Scott Mittell and Charles Hall ran into...
Trophy Round 6 Race 2: Double Win For Will Stacey
He did it again – Will Stacey made short work of the foreshortened Race 2, making a clean sweep in the Rob Boston Racing Lotus Elise in drier conditions. This time Jas Sapra had got the measure of Stacey’s starting methodology, and from the second row the orange BMW...
Trophy Round 6 Race 1: Regulars Give In To Stacey
Will Stacey (left), driving the Invitation entry Rob Boston Racing Lotus Elise, took a convincing win in a damp Race 1. With qualifying being a wash-out, and cars doing the required laps behind the Safety Car, the grid was set in Championship points order, in class...
Britcar Trophy Championship Winners Go To The Wire
Chris Overend and James Whitley, driving the Team BRIT BMW 240i, are the 2022 Britcar Endurance Trophy champions, potentially the first all-disabled pairing to win a UK national championship. The title went down to the wire, with no definite resolution until the last...
Trophy Championship Finale Approaches
We come into the final two rounds of the Championship with the overall title up for grabs, and with 11 best scores out of 12 counting, a prediction would challenge the best Duckworth-Lewis cricket mathematician. Currently topping the table with 272 points are Chris...
British Endurance Championship E-Series Winner Tests Prize Praga
Tony Draper, the winner of the Pro Class in season 2 of the British Endurance Championship E-Series recently visited Silverstone to take part in a test in the Praga R1 as his prize from series sponsor Praga. Perfect weather greeted Tony at Silverstone as he visited...
Third Win of the Season for Scott Mittell & Charles Hall
Mittell Cars’ Scott Mittell and Charles Hall turned their weekend around with a great win on Sunday, their third of the season. Behind them, Shane Kelly followed suit in turning fortunes around with a hard-fought second on his first solo drive and the Bridle twins...
Triple Podium for Idola as Mutch & Broadbent extend Championship Lead
It was Praga Guest Driver Gordie Mutch and Jimmy Broadbent in the Fanatec Praga Team87 R1 that won the opening race at Donington, furthering their championship lead. Ed and Chris Bridle took a superb second place for Idola Motorsport, a result that reignites their...
Trophy Round 5 Race 2 Report: Lee and Hizzey Win a Race of One Half
Mark Lee and Owen Hizzey, in the SVG Ginetta G56A, took a second win of the day in strange circumstances. Red-flagged after 18 minutes, the race was resumed for a 20-minute sprint, with, where applicable, the “second” drivers taking part, and the timing sheets showing...
Trophy Round 5 Race 1 Report: Heat, Attrition, and a 1-2 for SVG
The SVG Motorsport Ginettas of Mark Lee/Owen Hizzey and Neil Wallace/Ian Astley finished barely a second apart in a race that saw a great deal of damage limitation to get to the end of the heat-affected 50 minute race. Only Kevin Clarke could break the stronghold of...
Trophy Round 4 Race 2 Report: Mark, Owen Take That Win in Race 2
Mark Lee and Owen Hizzey took a fairly comfortable win in Race 2, their Ginetta G56 benefitting in some way through having a slightly less pit-stop success penalty than second-place Bryan Bransom and Jas Sapra’s BMW E46. And those success penalties did alter the...
Trophy Round 4 Race 1 Report: Life of Bryan, and All That Jas
Bryan Bransom and Jasver Sapra, in the Simon Green Motorsport BMW E46, took a hard-fought win in Race 1,fending off the Ginetta G56A of Mark Lee and Owen Hizzey. There was a failure for Nigel Greensall’s BMW E36 on the way to the grid, and it was pushed into the...
Trophy Silverstone GP Preview and Mid-season Round-up
It’s tight at the top of the points table as the Championship reaches mid-season, and the Class 2 Team BRIT BMW240i of Paralympians Chris Overend and James Whitley heads the overall standings with 178 points, taking in four class wins out of six races, and a clean...
Praga Race 2: Broadbent and Mutch Take Championship Lead After a Commanding Win in Wet Conditions
Goldie 2.0 followed its Silverstone National fastest lap time on Saturday with a well-fought and ultimately fairly comfortable win. The privateer teams, RAW Motorsports (2nd) and the University of Wolverhampton Racing (3rd), completed a successful Round with their...
Praga Race 1: University of Wolverhampton Racing Take First
Round 4, Race 1 of the Praga Cup 2022 at Silverstone saw a debut win for the student-led University racing team after a dramatic one-hour endurance race. Skilled driving and tactical car management won the race, when a pit stop by the UWR team with a tyre pressure...
Trophy Round 3 Race 2: A Win Double for Lee and Lucky
It was a textbook win in Race 2 for Lee Frost and Lucky Khera in the Race Lab BMW E46, while two significant opponents made early retirements. Khera took the start this time, and led away from pole, though behind him there was frantic action as the Ginetta G56s,...
Trophy Round 3 Race 1: Invitees Frost and Khera RSVP With a Win
Lee Frost and Lucky Khera love to race, whatever and wherever, and they kicked-off the Jubilee Trophy event with a win in their Race Lab BMW E46. Early-summer had reverted to April-like conditions for the morning’s qualifying session, and on a tricky track, Frost’s...
Praga Race 2: Guests Take the Honours
This time it sticks! Praga Guest Drivers Jimmy Broadbent and Gordie Mutch won the second race at Snetterton in their Fanatec Praga Team R1, bouncing back from Saturday’s disappointment which saw their win chalked off during post-race scrutineering. Rob Wheldon with...
Praga Race 1: The Sun Shines on Praga Cup as Team Mittell Cars Take One-Two At Snetterton
Despite Jimmy Broadbent taking the chequered flag first at Snetterton, Mittell Cars’ Scott Mittell and Charles Hall took top points from the first Praga Cup race of the weekend. Post-race penalties raised them from third to first place with the sister Mittell R1...
Trophy Round 2 Race 2: Successful Weekend for Bransom and Sapra
They won Race 1 of the Trophy Championship, and throughout the weekend they had graced the podium in other championships, so a win in Race 2 sealed a successful weekend for Jas Sapra and Brian Bransom. Sapra’s BMW led away from the rolling start, pursued by the...
Trophy Round 2 Race 1: Victory for Bransom and Sapra in a Busy Weekend
The Invitation entry BMW E36 Niall Bradley won on the road, but attracted a penalty for pitting out of sequence, and was then disqualified due to a technical infringement, leaving friends and occasional rivals Jas Sapra and Brian Bransom to take the honours in Sapra’s...
Praga Race 3: Foster and Lacey Take Top Step at Oulton Park as Broadbent and Mutch Celebrate Second
Round Two of the Praga Cup came to Cheshire on Saturday 2nd April with Tommy Foster and Miles Lacey winning an eventful race at Oulton Park. After starting on pole, following a blistering qualifying lap from Foster (1:31.278), the duo - running under Idola Motorsport...
Praga Race 2: Mittell and RAW dominate race 2 on a successful first Round of the all-new Praga Cup
Mittell Cars’ Charles Hall and Scott Mittell had a storming race in changeable conditions on the Silverstone GP circuit. In winning from the back of the grid, Charles Hall also celebrated, receiving Praga’s ‘Driver of the Day’ as a result. After a slight off in...
Praga Race 1: Arden, RAW and Tim Gray Motorsport take the Silverstone spoils at first-ever Praga Cup race
Arden Motorsport’s Alexander Connor and Tom Canning won an exciting and action-packed opening race at the inaugural Praga Cup UK race on the Silverstone Grand Prix track. Praga Guest Drivers and sim-stars, Jimmy Broadbent and Gordie Mutch, finished fourth on the back...
Trophy Round 1 Race 2: Surprise Win For Newcomer Dubois
First-timer Sebastien Dubois, in the Motus One Ginetta G55, took a surprise win in the second Britcar Trophy Championship race at Silverstone. A Safety Car period in the late stages of the pit-stop window threw a curved ball into the proceedings, seemingly falling in...
Trophy Round 1 Race 1: Lee and Hizzey Win From Bumper Grid
The new partnership of Mark Lee and Owen Hizzey, driving the SVG-run Ginetta G56A, took the win in the opening race of the Britcar Trophy Championship on Silverstone’s GP configuration, from a bumper grid of 51 starters. Lee was a prolific top-three finisher in last...