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Click the thumbs up >Vertu Motors has doubled-up its 2021 season support for British Touring Cars Championship (BTCC) racer Tom Ingram with sponsorship from its Bristol Street Motors Hyundai Nottingham dealership.
Now the AM100 PLC operation has revealed that its Nottingham Hyundai dealership will also benefit from branding in Ingram’s Hyundai i30 N racing car.
The Bristol Street Motors Hyundai logo will feature on the race car, demo car, race overalls and trucks.
Justin Iliffe, branch manager at Bristol Street Motors Nottingham Hyundai, said: “We are proud and delighted to be sponsoring Tom. He is a talented driver, in a very exciting car who is expected to have a really good season.”
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Hendy Group and Vertu Motors’ Vansdirect business will both sponsor British Touring Car Championships (BTCC) drivers in the 2021 season as Cazoo backs the St Leger Stakes in its latest deal.
Hampshire-based Hendy Group will see its branding applied to the Team HARD Cupra Leon racing car of driver Árón Taylor-Smith as the BTCC gets underway at Thruxton Race Circuit, in Hampshire, over the weekend of May 8 and 9.
The AM100 car retail group said that the move had been timed to coincide with the recent opening of its new Cupra dealership in Brighton.
“It is great to welcome Hendy Group into the BTCC as it’s clear that motorsport and performance are at the core of the company,” said Taylor-Smith. “I have been looking forward to representing the Hendy name since initially speaking to the company and we have some brilliant plans for this year including the open day.”