WSR continue their British Touring Car Championship campaign at Donington Park this weekend determined to continue their recent upturn in form.
The 2024 double champions enjoyed a spectacular event at Knockhill recently with Charles Rainford leading a BMW 330i M Sport one-two-three in qualifying and Jake Hill scoring a double race win on his return to the cockpit from illness.
Now they face the challenge of the 2.5-mile Grand Prix layout at the East Midlands venue where 12 months ago the 18-time title-winners secured a race victory and four podium finishes.
“We’ve shown much improved form since the summer break for a number of reasons and we’re now in a situation where it seems that the BMW can match some of the front-wheel drive cars on different types of circuit,” commented Dick Bennetts, Team Principal. “The long layout means we’ll have fewer laps in qualifying and that could play against us with how we have to warm our tyres, but we’ll do whatever we can to try and maintain our race-winning speed from Knockhill at a circuit where we won last year.”
Jake Hill was the star of Knockhill as he won twice and outscored all his rivals aboard his WSR-run Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport BMW in what was an incredible comeback by the 2024 champion, who withdrew from the previous event at Croft through illness.
The Kent ace was a double podium-finisher on the GP circuit at Donington last year and has high targets for the weekend as he aims to improve on his current fifth place in the championship standings.
LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR driver Aiden Moffat claimed his best result of the season – fifth – on the shorter Donington layout in April, but has been on good form recently and achieved his biggest points haul of 2025 at Knockhill last time out.
His team-mate Charles Rainford scored his first BTCC pole position last time out at Knockhill for LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR and delivered a second-place finish in the opening race.
The Sussex racer was also the highest-scoring Jack Sears Trophy driver in Scotland and is now just one point behind fellow WSR driver Daryl DeLeon in the battle for the prize with nine races remaining.
Nobody has taken more Jack Sears Trophy race wins than Daryl’s five in 2025, but due to misfortune in Race Three at each of the past two events, the BTCC’s only Filipino race winner saw his advantage over Charles in the battle for the title severely trimmed.
Cambridgeshire-based Daryl has fond memories of his visit to the longer Donington layout last year as it was the scene of his first top-10 finish in the BTCC.
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