LEGENDS GETS BTCC SUPPORT SLOTS
Popular championship to feature at three events on flagship tin-top package next season
The Legends Cars championship is set to go “onto another level” next year as it joins the British Touring Car Championship’s 2023 support line-up at Brands Hatch, Croft and Knockhill.
The Legends contest, which features entertaining bump-drafting track action with grids of around 30, is for 5/8th scale racers based on pre-war Ford, Chevy and Dodge bodies. Its current season concludes at Brands this weekend.
Legends will appear on BTCC’s package with six rounds across the Brands Indy May 6-7 meeting and the back-to-back events at Croft on July 29-30 and Knockhill on August 12-13.
It joins Radical and Caterham as recruits to TOCA’s 2023 line-up (see separate story), following Ginetta’s departure to British GT’s package.
Legends championship owner
Phil Cooper said: “Announcements don’t come any bigger than this in the world of Legends Cars racing, we are absolutely elated with the developments for 2023 which will undoubtedly take our category onto another level. We’ve been working hard for some time on the plans which we’re now able to confirm.
“[This is] something I know our drivers and teams are going to make the most of. For a very long time people have said to us we ought to be racing with the BTCC
– next year I am delighted to say we will be.”
BTCC chief executive Alan Gow added: “Legends Cars provides incredibly entertaining racing with their short, sharp, action-packed format. So, I’m sure they will very quickly prove to be a huge hit with our spectators and TV audiences.”