For the penultimate round of the 2018 Mini Challenge JCW championship, the season returned to Brands Hatch, a few weeks after supporting the DTM earlier in the month, however this time it was headlining the Mini Festival on the Indy circuit. The driver to beat after a string of victories was JamSport’s Ant Whorton-Eales, coming into the penultimate round with 525 points. After a year in the Dunlop (more…)
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Locals go to war in BSB
The 2018 Bennetts British Superbikes Championship (BSB) headed south from Donington Park to Brands Hatch for their first of three visits for round two of the season and it appeared that local knowledge could favour the leading two. After a rain affected opening round at Donington Park, young gun Bradley Ray (Buildbase Suzuki) headed to his local circuit as the rider to beat after taking a superb double (more…)
60th Season of the BTCC is Underway
Brands Hatch on the 07-08 April 2018 was the venue to kick start the 60th season of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Championship and to celebrate, TOCA unveiled a thirty-two-strong car field of various manufactures and teams at the Media Day on 27 March 2018. As certain drivers had moved away due to different reason, such as Gordon Shedden to WTCR and Audi, the BTCC had retained a line-up worth talking (more…)
Plenty of Maidens in Ginetta Junior Opener
Success in the 750 club of Motorsport is a great achievement, but Easter weekend of 2015 saw Essex team Elite Motorsport Engineering break out on the TOCA package, as series newcomer Geri Nicosia took to the wheel of their brightly colour Ginetta G40. With the team and driver making their debut in the highly competitive KICK Start Energy Drink Ginetta Junior Championship, a capacity grid at Brands (more…)
Grasser Racing Lamborghini Take Blancpain GT Brands Double
The weekend of the 17th and 18th May saw Brands Hatch become a lot noisier, as the sights and sounds of the Blancpain GT Series rolled into Kent for round two of the 2014 season. With this being the first time that International GT racing had been at Brands Hatch in eighteen years, a new door had opened and history would be made in the modern era of GT racing. Off the back of a strongly contested opening (more…)
Frear on top in Sportsman Elite 600
As a club which has a long history of boosting the careers of up-in-coming talent and pushing them towards bigger and better things, the continued health of the Thundersport GB club has made for entertaining racing. Their 2014 season kicked off on the 8th and 9th March, as Brands Hatch hosted the Invicta Challenge, which was the first meeting of nine for the whole club. With the Thundersport GB club (more…)