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Gamble lands BMW seat for BTCC debut

Gamble lands BMW seat for BTCC debut

The older brother of 2018 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Tom Gamble will partner Adam Morgan in the Lancastrian squad’s brace of BMW 330e M Sports.

Gamble, 25, was third in the 2019 Carrera Cup standings, and has raced only once since then in a 2020 GT4 European Series outing aboard an Aston Martin shared with Seb Perez, the son of his long-time sponsor, Hooch drinks impresario Steve.

Before moving into the Carrera Cup, Gamble was a star of the Ginetta marque’s one-make series – he was third in the BTCC-supporting Junior championship in 2011 and GT4 Supercup in 2017, and in between that won the GT5 Challenge in 2014.

He arrives at Ciceley as the first BTCC driver recruited since former Ginetta motorsport manager Ashley Gallagher arrived at the team as its new commercial director.

“I’ve mainly raced in the TOCA paddock, and to be fair it feels like I’ve been around for a while,” Gamble told Autosport.

“With COVID [and its financial implications] I was a bit…

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