2025 British Touring Car Championship

2025 Teams' Champion NAPA Racing UK

The 2025 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship (commonly abbreviated as BTCC) was a motor racing championship for production-based touring cars held across England and Scotland. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded amateur drivers competing in highly modified versions of family cars which are sold to the general public and conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2025 season was the 68th British Touring Car Championship season, the 15th season for cars conforming to the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) technical specification.

This was the first season using 100% renewable fuels, with the hybrid boost being removed and being replaced with turbo boost. While the amount of power boost stayed the same the weight will be reduced by 55 kg (121 lb). In another change to the 2024 season all uses of boost were removed from the timing screens, however was still be visible to viewers at home and at the track.

Entering/re-entering BTCC

• 2024 Mini Challenge Rookie Cup winner Max Hall made his BTCC debut with Un-Limited Motorsport in the Cupra Leon.
• Dexter Patterson returned to the series after having last raced in 2023 for Re.Beverages and Bartercard with Team HARD., driving a second car for Un-Limited Motorsport.
• Ronan Pearson returned to the series after he split with Team Bristol Street Motors after the Knockhill round of last season, driving the first car for Toyota Gazoo Racing UK.
• 2018 TCR UK champion Dan Lloyd returned to the series again after having last raced in 2023 for Autobrite Direct with Millers Oils, driving a second car for Restart Racing.
• Porsche Carrera Cup GB runner-up last year Charles Rainford made his BTCC debut with LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR in the BMW 330i M Sport.
• One Motorsport returned to the series after taking a sabbatical in 2024.
• Triple champion Gordon Shedden returned to the series again after having last raced in 2022 for Halfords Racing with Cataclean, driving a third car for Toyota Gazoo Racing UK.
• Stephen Jelley returned to the series after having last race in 2023 for Team BMW, driving a second car for One Motorsport.
• James Dorlin made his BTCC debut with Toyota Gazoo Racing UK in the Toyota Corolla GR Sport.
• Nicolas Hamilton returned to the series after having last raced in 2023 for Go-Fix with Autoaid Breakdown, driving a third car for Un-Limited Motorsport.
• 2020 Jack Sears Trophy winner Michael Crees returned to the series after having last raced in 2023 for Go-Fix with Autoaid Breakdown during the second half of the season, driving the final car for Team VERTU.

Changed teams

• Daryl De Leon moved from Duckhams Racing With Bartercard to West Surrey Racing.
• Adam Morgan moved from Team BMW to Team VERTU.
• Árón Taylor-Smith moved from Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing to Toyota Gazoo Racing UK.
• Josh Cook left LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ and returned to One Motorsport.

Leaving BTCC

• Both four-time champion Colin Turkington and Restart Racing driver Scott Sumpton took a sabbatical from the series with the aim to focus on the 2026 season.

Team changes

• Restart Racing switched from running Cupra León cars to Excelr8-prepared Hyundai i30 Fastback N Performance cars.
• LKQ Euro Car Parts moved from Toyota Gazoo Racing UK to West Surrey Racing.
• One Motorsport returned to the series after missing the 2024 season.

Mid-Season Changes

• Nick Halstead returned to the BTCC after missing the Donington round, joining Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing for the Brands Hatch Indy round onwards.
• At Snetterton, Michael Crees let his friend Ryan Bensley take his seat at Team VERTU for the round.
• Senna Proctor returned to the series at Thruxton, 2 races earlier than expected, to drive for Team VERTU after the team had misunderstood the regulations on the maximum driver changes after Bensley replaced Michael Crees for Snetterton.
• Ronan Pearson Missed the round at Oulton Park due to "Commercial Challenges", series debutant Finn Leslie was later named as his replacement.
• Max Buxton took over the vacant seat at Toyota Gazoo Racing UK with IAA from Croft onwards
• Stephen Jelley moved from One Motorsport to RoKiT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport replacing Max Hall at Croft
• One Motorsport would miss rounds at Croft and Knockhill, before pulling out of the remainder of the season, shifting focus to 2026.
• On 9 August, a fire destroyed Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing's facility and cars. The team was able to borrow two Cupra Leóns for the round at Knockhill and for the rest of the season; one privately owned example which was previously raced by Scott Sumpton, and one from fellow competitors Un-Limited Motorsport which had been raced at the previous meeting by Stephen Jelley. Due to the exceptional circumstances, TOCA allowed the loans without them affecting the team's licences to compete.
• Josh Cook replaces James Dorlin at Toyota Gazoo Racing UK with IAA at Donington GP round.
• Toyota Gazoo Racing UK with IAA replaced their engine units with M-Sport TOCA engines in the cars of Árón Taylor-Smith and Gordon Shedden at the Donington GP round. The sister cars of Josh Cook and Max Buxton continues to run the Neil Brown tuned Toyota engines.

The 2025 calendar was announced on 30 April 2024.

Notes

• The point for leading laps in race is one point, regardless of how many laps led.

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