BTCC announces 30 cars set to be on grid next year
Thirty cars will appear on the British Touring Car Championship grid in 2019 as series bosses maintain their plan of trying to reduce the size of the entry list.
As alterations have happened in team ownership over the course of the closed season, series director Alan Gow has managed to retain two TOCA BTCC Licences (TBL). These will be kept back by him – and he said that he did not want to allocate them “despite receiving serious applications from no fewer than three new teams wishing to participate in the forthcoming campaign”.
The teams need the TBLS to compete, and they stipulate a number of demands such as guaranteed appearances at each round and a limited number of driver swaps during the course of the 30-race season.
Teams will announce driver line-ups and details of their cars and sponsorship agreements for 2019 over the coming weeks, prior to the release of the finalised entry list, set to be distributed in March.