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The Autosport F1 Podcast

2024 BTCC Season Preview - Sutton vs Turkington In The Race For Five?

The Autosport F1 Podcast

Motorsport Network

Sports News, News, Sports

4723 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The British Touring Car Championship returns for its 2024 Season this weekend with its opening round at Donington Park, and with it, big changes to the series as a whole. A new "IndyCar" style Qualifying system with two-group, elimination format, a forced harder compund tyre change in Race 2 for the Top 10 finishers in Race 1, and a doubling in hybrid boost to aid overtaking. On the Autosport Podcast, Tom Howard and Stephen Lickorish talk about what impact the changes may have on the series, as well as discuss all the key contenders. Is it a fight between Ash Sutton and Colin Turkington for their fifth titles? Is it Tom Ingram pushing for a second crown? And what about the chasing pack of Jake Hill, Dan Cammish or Josh Cook? The support classes get a full preview as well with Porsche Carrera Cup, British Formula Four Championship and the Mini Challenge all featuring! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Autosport magazine and autosport.com, I'm Tom Howard and this is the Autosport podcast.

0:40.8

This week. I'm Tom Howard and this is the Autosport podcast. This weekend sees the British Touring Card Championship kick off the 2024 season with the opening

0:46.5

round at Donington Park.

0:48.3

The BTCC is renowned for its action-packed tin-top racing and once again there's an

0:52.2

interesting list of cast members set to do battle, including three former champions, 13 race winners and a returning world champion.

0:59.3

After Ash Sutton's impressive run to a fourth title last year,

1:02.4

equally the record held by the great Andy Rouse and the Mercurial Colin Turginton,

1:06.9

we could be set for a battle to see who can be the first to claim five titles.

1:14.6

To preview the new season, we have AutSports National Editor Stephen Lickrish.

1:17.8

How are we, Stephen, and are we looking forward to the new campaign?

1:20.4

Yes, raring to go, Tom, thank you.

1:24.5

It's, as has been the case over the last couple of seasons now,

1:28.8

the BTCC has been wasting a little bit longer than some championships to get underway. So it's been a long off season, but now almost time for the action to begin.

1:35.6

Absolutely. And yeah, Donington Park will a place to kick everything off. And I guess we should

1:40.4

first start by saying that, okay, this year, the grid is a little slimmer.

1:44.6

We're down to sort of 20-21 cars. There's been a bit of a lot of changes over the off-season.

1:49.8

But what have you made of the changes, Stephen? Do you think we're still going to have an

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