One Motorsport finally confirms BTCC return with Hondas

British Touring Automotive Championship workforce One Motorsport has lastly revealed that it’s “able to race” within the collection 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 relating to its plans, resulting in some hypothesis that the workforce might not compete in spite of everything.

“It’s with the utmost pleasure and pleasure that I can formally verify that One Motorsport might be making its return to the BTCC grid this season,” mentioned workforce 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. Nevertheless, that by no means entered my thoughts – the objective was all the time to return again stronger than ever.”

One’s assertion confirms the usage of its fleet of Honda Civic Kind R equipment, with which it scored 17 race wins utilizing the FK8 mannequin relationship again to 2018, when it was often called BTC Racing.

Sources counsel that this may very well be with the vehicles raced as much as the top of 2022, earlier than One took supply of the later-build Civic FK8s utilized by Staff Dynamics when that workforce 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 reasonably than the bespoke Honda items, constructed by Neil Brown Engineering, that powered the Civics in 2023.

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

“It goes with out saying that having to look at on from the sidelines final yr was tough however it was the proper resolution for the workforce 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 vehicles over the previous yr.

“The small workforce that we’ve had working again at base deserve quite a lot of credit score as a result of they’ve put in an incredible quantity of effort to get us to the place we’re at present. Now we’re rising that workforce 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 variety of economic 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 in the mean time.”

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 steer that driver line-up.