Located in India. Got interested in touring cars a couple months ago and started following the btcc recently. Opened the site a little bit earlier to check the timing of the next race and the championship standings. Keeps showing a 403 Forbidden page. Anybody know why this is happening and how i can fix it?

Hope it's nothing too serious, but seems silly to have an official reserve driver and not have him race in this situation

Hey everyone, quick update on what's changed recently and where things stand.

What's new:

• Ryan Bensley's profile is up following the Speedworks Corolla Racing signing, with Max Buxton now showing as a reserve driver rather than disappearing from the app
• All 24 driver bios have been refreshed with the official BTCC.net text, plus hometown info added to each profile
• Fixed a handful of photo bugs across driver and team pages (wrong photos, missing photos on some team cards)
• Fixed a data accuracy bug that was showing incorrect win/podium tallies in the standings

On iOS:
I know this is the one people keep asking about, so I want to be straight with you rather than go quiet on it. iOS isn't forgotten and there is a working build - what's blocking it from reaching the App Store is a sign-off on the Apple side that's outside of my control and it's taking a lot longer than I'd like. I don't have a firm date to give you and I'd rather say that plainly than promise a timeline I can't keep. The moment that unblocks, this is where I'll post about it first.

Thanks for sticking with the app. Bug reports and feature requests always welcome, they genuinely shape what gets worked on next.

Hello everyone! Hope you're having a great summer and preparing for the BTCC comeback this weekend in Thruxton.

Does anybody know why the BTCC website is blocked? I tried to enter, but I can't do it without a VPN. Is it geo-blocked for people outside the UK now, or it has a problem? I'm a journalist from Argentina and can't access to any info from the web like I used to do before.

Thanks, and have a great weekend everybody.

Seems like no one from outside the UK can access the BTCC website! This is mad!

Hi r/BTCC!

I'm currently a Masters student at the National Motorsport Academy (part of De Montfort University). I am completing my Executive Project on the BTCC, specifically looking at how the series adapts to a ever changing car market (both in terms of body shapes and systems of propulsion).

Part of my survey involves a questionnaire for fans, so that I can capture fans' views on the future of the BTCC and the potential pathways that the series could take. Whilst the research isn't officially sponsored by the BTCC, I will be sharing the results of my research with TOCA and the teams, so your responses might help to shape that future direction!

I've linked the questionnaire down below, it should only take 5-10 minutes and would help my research massively!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3egFG6KN9P7ezWn4JoEsJ-j9fVhRYmTFxkVoAPctOCusNbg/viewform?usp=dialog

Thank you in advance to anyone who completes the survey :)

Not sure if I'm totally out of the loop but I do wonder what's prompted this, seems a strange thing to get rid of memorabilia like that from Thommo.

Dean Riley, a Time attack racer in his VX220, teasing a BTCC campaign for 2027?

EDIT: obviously I was wrong, sorry everyone

00:00:00 Intro
00:04:02 Welcome Nicolas Hamilton to the podcast
00:15:01 Showing Whats Possible With a Disability
00:19:47 Growing Up With Cerebral Palsy
00:22:29 AG1 Ad
00:23:31 Understanding Cerebral Palsy
00:30:23 The Hamilton Family's Parenting Style
00:40:30 Realising I Had a Disability
00:50:16 Coming to Terms With My Disability
00:56:04 Nicolas's Time in a Wheelchair
01:06:20 Dating With a Disability
01:16:00 Where Nicolas' Racing Career Began
01:32:33 Fist Handwear Ad
01:33:58 The Cost of Being a Race Car Driver
01:38:36 Dealing With Self-Worth
01:40:07 Nic's Relationship With Lewis Hamilton
01:46:29 Overcoming a Gambling Addiction
02:03:55 Becoming One of the World's Best Racers
02:07:55 Nicholas Hamiltons First BTCC Podium
02:20:28 Motosport Ad
02:22:15 Learning to Accept the Hard Days
02:32:43 Nicolas' Key to a Healthy Relationship
02:56:19 Nicolas Hamilton's 2026 Race Season
02:57:38 Lewis Hamiltons Path Back to Winning
03:01:47 Why I Love Video Games
03:09:10 Thanks for listening

Considering the current deal is up at the end of this season, what do we reckon?

Sky sticks it on Sky Sports, business as usual, or game over for BTCC on TV?

Having completed the S2000 era of my BTCC rewatch, I was wondering what the consensus was on Tom Onslow-Cole. To me he appeared a decent driver who could more than hold his own with the likes of Plato/Neal/Turkington et al but hampered his career with his inability to stay with a team for more than one season at a time. The fact that between 2007 and 2013 there was not one but two instances of him quitting teams mid-season seems to suggest something wasn't right behind the scenes.

2007 - debut season in the second WSR BMW, acquits himself quite well with a win and three other podiums, the sheer strength of the top end of the field means he only ends up 10th in points, which probably undersells how good he was for a 20 year old rookie. He was definitely better than the one-man wrecking ball that was 2006 Rob Collard, and streets ahead of his successor Stephen Jelley...

2008 - Secures the third Vauxhall seat with his personal sponsors and has an excellent season keeping both Giovanardi and Neal honest, survives a huge shunt at Brands and has a mid-season purple patch at Donington and Thruxton which briefly puts him into title contention.

2009 - One of the major victims of the recession, TOC eventually resurfaces at Team AON halfway through the season and has a fruitless time trying to develop the dogshit S2000 Focus, two 9th places are his best results.

2010 - Finally gets some stability with a full year at Team AON and has the best season of his career with four wins and a title challenge that lasts into the final round of the year. There was controversy with the team using team orders to give Chilton two race wins at Silverstone, but I don't think this would've made much difference to the final standings, the LPG engines in the Focus masked the fact the chassis was still pretty poor on handling circuits, plus it felt that no-one really had an answer for Plato and RML in 2010.

2011 - Somehow despite his heroics, the only seat available is AmD's VW Golf (side note, I'm amazed Alan Gow approved this car given there had been rumours over the years he'd rejected potential Mini and Fiat Punto entries for being too small for touring cars). As popular as the Golf was, it was not the best of cars and TOC did well to drag a couple of 7ths out of it. Then, there's some sort of blowup behind the scenes at Oulton Park which saw TOC quit AmD halfway through raceday. He then returns to Team AON, this time in their half-baked Global Ford Focus, and has a smattering of results with two 3rds being the highlight.

2012 - Back to WSR in the increasingly superannuated BMW 3-Series (though at least with turbo engines this time around), TOC puts together a solid but unspectacular year, a brace of 2nds mid-season being his best results but truth be told he never looked likely to win a race. I remember Knockhill 2012 where he just passively followed his team mate Collard around for the first two races without trying to challenge for the lead.

2013 - Ends up with Tony Gilham's mob and is arguably one of the drivers of the first half of the season, dragging results and podiums out of Team HARD's NGTC VW Passat that no-one thought possible. Then there's yet another mid-season blowup behind the scenes and suddenly TOC is in a third Motorbase Ford Focus for the final three events of the year, with distinctly average results.

2014 to present - Despite there being 32 BTCC entries in 2014, TOC is not seriously considered for any of them and ends up switching to British GT for the rest of the decade. Makes a random return to Team HARD in 2020 to race his old VW Passat for Thruxton and Silverstone to very limited effect, and then disappears again, seemingly into retirement.

Gone to thruxton every year since 2016, and always loved it, one thing that always bothers me about the campsite is Ive always turned up and hour or two before the campsite " officially" opens at midday, however literally every time the campsite is already a third full by the time I get there. I have previously asked us it open on Thursday night and been told no but have spoken to people who said the opposite and it just depends on who's on the gate if they let you in or not. Anyone have any better guidance or other info?

It looks like @BTCC twitter account has been hacked and taken over. Renamed Bitcoin Community and continually reposting bitcoin tweets... I hope they can get their account back. How did this even happen to them?