Colin Turkington's, BMW 330i M Sport, in which he won the 2019 British Touring Car Championship for Team BMW, at the 2019 Regent Street Motor Show
Colin Henry Turkington (born 21 March 1982) is a Northern Irish auto racing driver, who is currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Team BMW WSR in a BMW 330i M Sport . He is the reigning BTCC champion, having won it for the fourth time in 2019. His most notable successes to date include becoming 2009 British Touring Car Champion driving for Team RAC and 2014 British Touring Car Champion driving for eBay Motors. He has also competed in the World Touring Car Championship and the inaugural Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. In 2013 he returned to the British Touring Car Championship with his current team, West Surrey Racing. The new 330i M Sport race car is based on the recently launched new model, but uses the underpinnings from the 125i M Sport cars WSR ran last year. It returns the 3 Series to the championship for the first time since 2012. The two Team BMW cars will be run in the Bavarian firm's classic BMW M Motorsport colours. Graeme Grieve, BMW's UK boss, said: "The 3 Series is our best-selling model worldwide, and to bring it back to the grid clothed in the classic M Motorsport colours is very special indeed. We are all very excited to see what it can do.” BMW has a long history in the BTCC, with many of its highlights coming when fielding 3 Series models. Five drivers have claimed the overall BTCC title driving a 3 Series: Frank Sytner in 1988, Will Hoy in 1991, Tim Harvey in 1993, Joachim Winkelhock in 1993 and Turkington in 2009. WSR switched from the 3 Series to the 125i M Sport in 2013, with Turkington adding titles in 2014 and last season. Under current BTCC regulations, all cars must use turbocharged engines, mated to a six-speed sequential shift gearbox. A series of common and control parts are used. WSR boss Dick Bennetts said preparing the trio of 330i M Sport cars in time for testing was a "Herculean effort", adding: "The attention-to-detail that has gone into the build is second-to-none."
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Location: Regent Street, London, UK
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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