WSR made British Touring Car Championship history at Brands Hatch on Sunday by breaking the series all-time wins record with an incredible triple victory.
Reigning champion Jake Hill and team newcomers Daryl DeLeon and Charles Rainford all visited the top step of the podium in Kent in their BMW 330i M Sport race cars on what was an ultra-successful day for the Sunbury-on-Thames organisation.
“Today has been a fantastic day,” commented Team Principal Dick Bennetts. “To break the BTCC’s all-time wins record is a major achievement and a testament to the hard work of everyone who’s been involved with WSR over the past three decades.
“To go from where we were at Donington to three wins with three different drivers two weeks later is incredible and all the drivers richly deserved their wins. This is a great position to be in as we look ahead to Snetterton and the rest of the season.”
It was polesitter Jake who claimed the day’s first silverware; the Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport driver controlling the opening race from the front and scoring his first win of 2025 and the 21st of his BTCC career at his local circuit.
That result was also his 60th podium finish in the series and he added a strong second-place result in the finale plus eighth in Race Two; results that have lifted him to third in the Championship standings, only 12 points away from the top spot.
More significantly it was the 133rd win for WSR, putting the team on their own at the top of series all-time wins record. It was a number that would increase to 135 by the end of the day too.
Jake was joined on the podium in Race One by Charles Rainford, who scored a magnificent second-place finish – on only his fourth BTCC start – after a hard battle during the closing stages.
The Horsham racer went one step better in Race Three as he charged into the lead on the second lap and pulled away to a commanding victory for LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR.
Charles, who finished seventh in Race Two, was also the Jack Sears Trophy winner for the event for the first time and sits second in the standings behind WSR’s Daryl DeLeon, who had earlier claimed his own first outright win on his 50th start.
The Cambridgeshire-based driver’s victory was historic for another reason as it was the first time a Filipino driver had triumphed in the BTCC, and came after a superb overtaking move on Jake as the race resumed following a late safety-car period.
Daryl, aged 19 years, 10 months and nine days, also became WSR’s youngest-ever BTCC race winner and is now the leader of the Jack Sears Trophy contest with two rounds complete.
It is the first time in 10 years that any BTCC team has won all three races on the same day with three different drivers. The last time it happened was at Croft in 2015 when WSR drivers Andy Priaulx, Sam Tordoff and Rob Collard all triumphed.
Aiden Moffat turned in one of the performances of the day as he claimed his best finish of the season in Race Two. The Edinburgh racer climbed from 20th on the Race Two grid to fifth by the chequered flag in his LKQ Euro Car Parts BMW.
He was eighth in the finale to put LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR third in the Teams’ points.
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