One Motorsport finally confirms BTCC return with Hondas

British Touring Automotive Championship crew One Motorsport has lastly revealed that it’s “able to race” within the sequence for a 2025 return with Hondas after skipping final season.

The Brackley squad appeared on BTCC organiser TOCA’s listing of TBL entrants’ licence holders for 2025 when it was launched in early December, with two allotted.

However since then there had been silence from One concerning its plans, resulting in some hypothesis that the crew might not compete in any case.

“It’s with the utmost pleasure and pleasure that I can formally affirm that One Motorsport will probably be making its return to the BTCC grid this season,” mentioned crew proprietor Steve Dudman.

“After we introduced that we might be sitting out the 2024 marketing campaign I’m positive there have been many individuals that thought we might by no means be again. Nonetheless, that by no means entered my thoughts – the aim was all the time to come back again stronger than ever.”

One’s assertion confirms using its fleet of Honda Civic Sort R equipment, with which it scored 17 race wins utilizing the FK8 mannequin courting again to 2018, when it was often known as BTC Racing.

Sources recommend that this may very well be with the automobiles raced as much as the top of 2022, earlier than One took supply of the later-build Civic FK8s utilized by Workforce Dynamics when that crew pulled out of the BTCC earlier than the 2023 marketing campaign.

It’s strongly anticipated that the Civics will use TOCA buyer engines from M-Sport somewhat than the bespoke Honda items, constructed by Neil Brown Engineering, that powered the Civics in 2023.

As BTC, the crew used TOCA energy earlier than 2023, however these engines had been constructed by Swindon.

“It goes with out saying that having to observe on from the sidelines final yr was tough but it surely was the fitting choice for the crew in the long term,” Dudman added.

“We definitely haven’t rested on our laurels whereas being away, with important funding and improvement going into the automobiles over the previous yr.

“The small crew that we’ve had working again at base deserve numerous credit score as a result of they’ve put in an amazing quantity of effort to get us to the place we’re at present. Now we’re rising that crew again to what it was earlier than we took our sabbatical.

“We’re placing the ending touches on what’s doubtless a really robust driver line-up and there are a selection of business companions – each previous and new – that we’ll be working with over the course of the yr. It’s an thrilling time behind the scenes for the time being.”

Josh Cook, who has scored 16 of his 20 BTCC race wins and 4 top-six championship finishes in Hondas run by BTC/One, has lengthy been anticipated to guide that driver line-up.