The category is the latest addition to the tin-top club’s portfolio for this year and is open to machinery from the popular Super Touring era of the 1990s BTCC as well as more recent BTC-T and S2000-spec cars.
While Cleland and Reid will be competing in the exact cars they raced during the Super Touring days, Turkington will be back behind the wheel of an MG ZS (the model in which he made his BTCC debut 20 years ago) owned by Jason Hughes for the Silverstone season opener at the end of March.
“I’ve known Jason since back in the days when he raced in the BTCC in the MG, and obviously I know the car,” Turkington told Autosport.
“He asked if I’d like to do a race, and it’s a few weeks before we start the BTCC season and I thought, ‘Why not?’
“I’m excited to drive the MG again after 18 years. It’ll be interesting to step back into my first BTCC car, and more than anything I’m looking forward to it because it’ll probably be my first race of the year, and one…
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