Donington Double For Team Bristol Street Motors
Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS made a fine start to the 2024 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship season with two wins from three during the opening weekend of the season.
Since then, the team has taken more than 100 race wins and over 40 titles which included the British Touring Car Championship crown with Tom Ingram in 2022.
That came in just its fourth season competing in the premier series in British Motorsport, further enhancing the team's ever-growing reputation.
Founded back in 1958, the British Touring Car Championship is universally known and loved around the globe, and it isn't hard to see why.
Fast, frenetic action on track draws in huge crowds year-on-year, with race fans able to enjoy unrivalled access to the stars and cars in what has long been the most popular domestic series in British Motorsport.
It's for that reason, as well as the fact that fans can relate to the recognisable models doing battle on track, that the BTCC is only beaten by heavyweights F1 and MotoGP when it comes to trackside numbers.
In broadcast terms however, the BTCC actually has a far more impressive television package, with every race being shown on free-to-air TV rather than requiring a subscription.
*Source: Nielsen Fan Insights (January 2023): T2B Interest: United Kingdom
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Tom Ingram made his BTCC debut in 2014 and finished the year as top rookie. Success continued into the following season, as he clinched an emotional first podium for himself and his team at the time, Speedworks Motorsport.
In 2019, Tom triumphed on four separate occasions- including a sensational double-top at Silverstone in a new Toyota Corolla. The following year, he once again drove the Corolla to several victories, finishing fourth overall.
During the 2021 season, Tom took on a new challenge moving to EXCELR8, taking to the tracks in the Hyundai i30 N Fastback.
After a magnificent season, Tom achieved his lifelong dream and earned his maiden Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship Title for 2022.
A BTCC season features ten events at eight of the leading circuits in the UK, running from Donington Park in late April through to Brands Hatch in early October. Each of those ten race meetings includes three action-packed BTCC races and a busy package of support race to provide fans with maximum entertainment and astonishing entertainment - with a day trackside being comparable price wise to an afternoon watching a rugby or football match.
After a season learning the ropes in the BTCC, the EXCELR8 Motorsport team embarked on a huge new challenge for 2020 as it introduced the Hyundai name to the series for the first time.
Building a car based around the Hyundai i30 Fastback N - a model chosen for its favourable combination of wheelbase, track width and drag co-efficient - enabled the team to grab a first podium finish and quickly establish itself as a regular contender for top ten results in the highly-competitive field.
Race wins followed in 2021 with a breakthrough title in just the fourth year of the programme in 2022 as Tom Ingram added his name to the list of BTCC champions.
For 2023, Tom was joined by namesake Tom Chilton as well as BTCC newcomers Ronan Pearson and Nick Halstead in a revamped driver line-up, and the quartet return for 2024 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bristol Street Motors.
The i30 N was the car that Hyundai used to launch the 'N' performance brand back in 2017, shaking up the market and marking the Korean carmaker out as one to watch in the hot hatch sector. Winner of Autocar's 'Game Changer Award' and named Best Hot Hatch by What Car?, the i30 N has proven to be hugely popular as an alternative to cars like the Volkswagen Golf GTI and Honda Civic Type R and has undergone a number of improvements to retain its position as a car that blends performance and value in equal measure.
Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS made a fine start to the 2024 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship season with two wins from three during the opening weekend of the season.
The 2024 British Touring Car Championship kicks off this weekend at Donington Park and for a fourth successive season, Bristol Street Motors will be chasing title success alongside partners EXCELR8 Motorsport.
Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS will kick off its challenge for top honours in the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship this weekend when the 2024 season gets underway at Donington Park.
The clock is ticking down to the start of another season of competition in the British Touring Car Championship, with Team Bristol Street Motors preparing to kickstart its bid for the title at Donington Park this weekend.