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3 months ago Speedworks team boss Christian Dick insists that the addition of a second car for the 2021 BTCC season is “fantastic news” as the Toyota squad gears up for a championship challenge during the upcoming campaign. Speedworks will field a second car after acquiring a TBL from AmD Tuning after it merged with the Motorbase Performance team, and will have a new look driver line-up after the departure of Tom Ingram. Although the team ran Matt Simpson’s Honda in 2016, this season will mark the first time that the team has fielded its own multi-car entry since 2013, with two Corollas...

Motorbase acquired by Shaun Hollamby, Pete Osborne 3 months ago Motorbase Performance will race under new ownership in the 2021 British Touring Car Championship after being acquired by AmD Tuning boss Shaun Hollamby and Pete Osborne, father of current racer Sam. The pair will take over the Ford outfit from long-time team principal David Bartrum, who has taken the decision to step aside from the team he founded back in 2004. Hollamby will take on the role of team principal, with Osborne as managing director. Under Bartrum’s stewardship, Motorbase enjoyed years of success in the Porsche Carre...

Motorbase Performance taken over by rival BTCC team AmD Autosport 7/01/2021 © LAT Images Motorbase taken over by rival BTCC team Leading British Touring Car Championship squad Motorbase Performance has been sold in what amounts to a merger with the rival AmD-run MB Motorsport squad. AmD boss Shaun Hollamby and businessman Pete Osborne, whose son Sam competed in the BTCC for MB last season, are the new owners, with Motorbase founder Dave Bartrum standing down after 15 seasons of almost uninterrupted participation in the series. It means that four of the fourth-generation Ford Focuses, bui...

Photo: WTCR / BTCC / TCR / ITR 2020 has been a year like no other in recent history. Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, it was an achievement to even have a racing season at all. For many, this will have been a year of loss and of hardship. It certainly won’t be a year that we look back on fondly away from the track, but being able to escape into the sport of touring car racing will have provided many of us with a much-needed distraction. With that in mind, here is our annual quiz of the year; a bumper 20-question edition to celebrate a remarkable year of racing in the context of su...