The 2026 British Touring Car Championship season opened at Donington Park in April — and it wasted no time making its presence felt. A brand new team arrived carrying one of the sport's most recognisable names. The new Race to Pole format produced its first headline immediately.

Sunday brought the new Closed Loop Boost Scrutineering system into sharp focus with a cascade of penalties reshaping the entire classification. Through it all, Ash Sutton charged from twenty-first on the grid to demonstrate precisely why he is a championship favourite.

Chequered Past was on the pitwall throughout as a marshal on the Startline team — showing penalty boards, managing the Race 3 grid countdown, and coordinating penalty communications with race control.

This is the race weekend as it looks from inside the barriers.

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The eighteenth of June spans nearly ninety years of Le Mans history, and four races that couldn't be more different from each other.

In 1927, a Bentley crippled in a multi-car crash raced through the night on one headlamp, chasing a lead it had no right to close. In 1966, Ford arrived with the most dominant team in the race's history — and still managed to deny their best driver the win he had earned. In 2005, a privateer French team outpaced everyone and almost pulled off one of the great upsets. And in 2016, Le Mans broke Toyota's heart one more time.

Cover image: Ford GTs Win LeMans 1966 by Michael CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Link

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The 17th of June has seen some of the most improbable results in the history of Le Mans.

In 1933, Tazio Nuvolari and Raymond Sommer led the race in an Alfa Romeo — until the fuel tank started leaking. What followed involved makeshift repairs, borrowed chewing gum from a rival pit, and one of the most dramatic last laps the circuit had ever seen. In 1939, a single Bugatti Type 57C Tank — one car, entered alone — took on the field in what would prove to be the last Le Mans before the Second World War. Jean-Pierre Wimille and Pierre Veyron drove it to victory. Eight weeks later, Jean Bugatti was dead. The race would not return for a decade.

In 1995, McLaren arrived at Le Mans for the first time with a car designed for the road. Seven F1 GTRs entered, one of them a last-minute works entry assembled around a Japanese sponsor nobody else would take. In the rain, against purpose-built prototypes, they were extraordinary. The winning crew of Dalmas, Lehto and Sekiya made history.

And in 2017, the number two Porsche 919 Hybrid rejoined the race on Saturday evening from 56th place, eighteen laps behind the leader. By Sunday afternoon, it had won.

Cover image: By Martin Lee - The wining Mclaren F1 GTR #59 of Yannick Dalmas, Masanori Sekiya & J.J.Lehto at Ford Chicane at Le Mans 1995, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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