Touring Car Championship Croft | 10-11 October | Rounds 19, 20 & 21
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BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 1 FEATURING: SUTTON STILL ON TOP! 2020 BRITISH TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP CROFT | 10-11 OCTOBER | ROUNDS 19, 20 & 21 SUNDAYS WE GO RACING! CROFT IN THIS ISSUE: GKR TRADEPRICECARS.COM SECURES THIRD JACK SEARS TROPHY AT SILVERSTONE BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 2 Looking for a new car? LOOK NO FURTHER. Multi Award Winning Over 250 Cars on Site CALL US NOW RAC and Trading Standards Approved 01268 766 722 Over 2500 Customer Reviews Online Low Prices, Great Savings Car Finance For All WHY DEAL WITH Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Instagram Trade Price Cars @TradePriceCars_ tradepricecars ANYBODY ELSE? Official Southend United Club Sponsor - 7th Season Used Car Dealer Of The Year 2019 Tel: 01268 766 722 Email: [email protected] Woodham Road, Battlesbridge, Wickford, Essex SS11 7QY www.tradepricecars.com BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 3 INFORMATION TIMETABLE SATURDAY 10TH OCTOBER 2020 Time Event Laps 09.30 – 10.10 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship Free Practice 10.25 – 10.45 F4 British Championship Qualifying 10.55 – 11.15 Michelin Ginetta Junior Championship Qualifying 11.25 – 11.55 The Mini Challenge Trophy Qualifying 12.05 – 12.45 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship Free Practice 12.45 – 13.45 Lunch Break 13.45 – 14.05 Millers Oils Ginetta GT4 SuperCup Championship Qualifying 14.15 – 14.45 The Cayman Islands Porsche Sprint Challenge GB Qualifying 14.55 – 15.25 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship Qualifying 15.35 F4 British Championship Race 1 (20 mins) 16.05 Michelin Ginetta Junior Championship Race 2 (8 laps) 16.35 The Mini Challenge Trophy Race 3 (20 mins) 17.05 Millers Oils Ginetta GT4 SuperCup Championship Race 4 (10 laps) 17.40 – 18.15 Porsche Sprint Challenge GB Race 5 (15 laps) SUNDAY 11TH OCTOBER 2020 Time Event Laps 11.50 BTCC Pit Lane Opens 12.02 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship Race 6 (15 laps) 12.42 Millers Oils Ginetta GT4 SuperCup Championship Race 7 (15 laps) 13.17 F4 British Championship Race 8 (20 mins) 13.47 Michelin Ginetta Junior Championship Race 9 (8 laps) 14.17 BTCC Pit Lane Opens 14.29 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship Race 10 (15 laps) 15.09 The Mini Challenge Trophy Race 11 (20 mins) 15.44 The Cayman Islands Porsche Sprint Challenge GB Race 12 (15 laps) 16.19 Millers Oils Ginetta GT4 SuperCup Championship Race 13 (15 laps) 16.54 BTCC Pit Lane Opens 17.06 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship Race 14 (15 laps) *All timings are subject to change 3 BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 4 INFORMATION CONTENTS 03 TIMETABLE 07 WELCOME 08 MEET THE DRIVERS 10 GKR TRADEPRICECARS.COM SECuRES THIRD JACK SEARS TROPHy AT SILVERSTOnE 14 GKR TRADEPRICECARS.COM AnnOunCES REVISED BTCC LInE-uP 20 SuTTOn STILL On TOP AMID SEnSATIOnAL SILVERSTOnE RACE DAy 26 TRACK GuIDE 28 MEET THE TEAM 30 GALLERy 32 PARTnERS FOLLOW OUR SEASON ON SOCIAL MEDIA Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Instagram Trade Price Cars Racing @TPCracingBTCC tradepricecarsracing #SUNDAYSWEGORACING 4 BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 5 HELPING YOu buILD A #bETTErFuTurE www.gkrscaffolding.co.uk | 020 7928 9575 INVESTING IN PEOPLE INVESTING IN SAFETY INVESTING IN DESIGN INVESTING IN TECHNOLOGY BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 6 BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 7 INFORMATION WELCOME Welcome to Croft Circuit for rounds 19, 20 & 21 of the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship. nother first for us here at Trade Price Cars Sears leading driver, Bobby Thompson! Last time Racing as we have to unfortunately bid out at Silverstone, Bobby put in some gutsy Afarewell to one of drivers James Gornall. drives and was rewarded with the Jack Sears There are a few reasons as to why James has trophy for the second time this season. We are decided not to continue this season, but nearing the end of the season and the race for the ultimately the decision was not taken lightly and coveted prize is hotting up with Bobby leading had to be made for the good his career and the way by a slender margin. family. James has done us proud and a particular Croft is the furthest track away from our base in highlight was achieving one of our three Jack Essex other than Knockhill, but we are as Sears trophies and our highest placed finish of enthusiastic as ever coming in and hoping to 7th at Brands Hatch. We would like to thank upset the odds by achieving our first podium of James for all his efforts in the colours of TPCR the season! and wish him all the best in the future. We hope to be either working with him or battling against A huge thank you has to go to our fan and him again in years to come. sponsors who continue to support us through such an odd time for all. Without you this would The show must go on as they say and we come to not be possible! Croft with all of our attention firmly on our Jack 7 BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 8 INFORMATION MEET THE DRIVERS JAMES GORNALL The 35-year-old from Bedford will be making his series debut with the second-year team as part of a new look driver line-up alongside Bobby Thompson, but brings a wealth of experience from a hugely successful racing career to date. multiple champion in karting, James – standings in 2015 and then went one better known to his fans as Jiggy – carried his twelve months later to lift the championship title. success into car racing with a A After a strong guest appearance in the MINI championship victory in BARC Formula Renault but Challenge in 2018, James then worked to put it was a move into the British GT Championship in together a full-season programme in the series 2008 that saw his career hit new heights. in 2019, with five wins – and an impressive 13 Racing alongside Jon Barnes in a Brookspeed- podiums – allowing the BRDC member to secure run Dodge Viper, James secured the another championship title. championship title thanks to an unrivalled tally That championship success resulted in James of four wins – wrapping up the crown with two securing the chance to sample a BTCC machine for races of the season still to run. the first time, with an outing in a Ford Focus RS at The same season also saw James take a class win Snetterton only strengthening his desire to make in the Silverstone 24 Hours with the Beechdean the step up to the BTCC for the 2020 campaign. Motorsport team before a hiatus from racing that James has now agreed terms on a deal to move would run through to 2014 when he elected to into Britain’s premier racing series with Trade return to competition in the BMW Compact Cup. Price Cars Racing, which will be looking to add to Racing against Trade Price Cars Racing team the silverware it secured on track during an owner Dan Kirby, James secured second in the impressive debut campaign. 8 BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 9 BOBBY THOMPSON Bobby started his career in karting before taking the step into car racing, initially in the Ford Fiesta Championship before two meetings in British Formula Ford in 2014, where he picked up six top ten finishes in six starts. ith a long term ambition to try and That opened the door for a dream move into the make it into touring cars, Bobby BTCC and in two seasons in the series to date, Wreverted back to tin tops for 2015 with Bobby has shown his pace with a number of top an entry into the VW Racing Cup, securing his ten finishes at the wheel of a VW CC; his best maiden win at Snetterton en-route to tenth in the result being sixth during the 2019 season opener championship standings. at Brands Hatch. Improving to fifth place overall twelve months Now at the wheel of the Audi – arguably one of the later, Bobby then became the man to beat in the most improved cars on the grid in 2019 – Bobby highly-competitive series in 2017 as he stormed will hope to regularly challenge for top ten to the championship title in impressive fashion, finishes, with his ultimate goal being to fight for taking six wins and only failing to make the a first podium and to launch a bid for the Jack podium four times all season. Sears Trophy – which is open to drivers who have yet to secure a top three finish in the series. 9 BTCC Croft Programme.qxp_Layout 1 08/10/2020 12:06 Page 10 NEWS | PRESS RELEASE, 28TH SEPTEMBER 2020 GKR TRADEPRICECARS.COM SECURES THIRD JACK SEARS TROPHY AT SILVERSTONE The GKR TradePriceCars.com team was able to celebrate a third Jack Sears Trophy victory in six rounds as the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship headed for Silverstone for the latest meeting on the 2020 calendar. he award-winning, Essex-based motor him jump up immediately into 22nd place. dealership was optimistic about being in Having overtaken Bobby on lap two, Jiggy was the fight for points at the Home of British T dicing for position with Michael Crees before Motorsport, with drivers James Gornall and contact between the pair going into Becketts saw Bobby Thompson both seeking to fight for JST him slip back down the order to 25th.