{"id":5120,"date":"2022-05-03T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/will-powell-confirmed-as-final-btcc-driver-for-team-hard-racing\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:08:51","slug":"will-powell-confirmed-as-final-btcc-driver-for-team-hard-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/will-powell-confirmed-as-final-btcc-driver-for-team-hard-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Powell Confirmed as Final BTCC Driver for Team HARD. Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Powell Confirmed as Final BTCC Driver for Team HARD. Racing<\/a><\/p>\n

The reigning Britcar Endurance champion, Will Powell<\/a> has today (3rd May) been confirmed as the final driver in the Team HARD. Racing Cupra for the 2022 KwikFit British Touring Car Championship. <\/p>\n

Powell has raced in multiple UK motor racing championships spanning from single seaters to GT cars. He drove the Brabham BT62 Competition in the marque\u2019s return to racing at Brands Hatch in 2019 before winning the British Endurance Series championship in a McLaren GT3 in 2021 and has also competed in TCR<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Piloting the second Autobrite Direct<\/a> with JourneyHero entry alongside the current Jack Sears Trophy leader, Bobby Thompson, Powell\u2019s car will be the number 20. <\/p>\n

Will Powell, Driver of the Autobrite Direct with Journey Hero<\/a> Cupra, said: \u201cThis is the realisation of a boyhood dream, going back to when we would skip school to camp out at Brands Hatch and watch the touring cars. I\u2019d like to thank Tony Gilham and his family for the opportunity to make the dream a reality, along with our friends at Autobrite Direct, JourneyHero and all my partners at Motus One. <\/p>\n

I think BTCC is the pinnacle of British motorsport and \u2013 despite unusual circumstances and little preparation \u2013 I\u2019m over the moon to join the grid from race four at Brands Hatch. I don\u2019t underestimate the scale of the challenge but I\u2019m looking forward to racing with the best.\u201d <\/p>\n

Tony Gilham, Managing Director of Team HARD. Racing added, \u201cWe have been working with Will and Motus One for a little while now including a successful test day in our Cupra last season so it\u2019s great that we are able to get him onboard to fill our last seat for this season. Will is a great guy and has vast experience in motorsport both on and off the track which will really help accelerate his development in BTCC. <\/p>\n

\u201cCommercially this deal just makes sense for both parties. We both know each other well, the team know Will and vice-versa and coming into the season late, we wanted to find a driver that already has a relationship with both our staff and partners to build for the long-term.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the biggest names in motorsport are already working with Will including David Brabham, who mentors him in racing, so adding their knowledge and experience to our programme is a massive positive for everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Media Contact:
Natalie Karr
Woya Digital \u2013 Digital PR<\/a>
[email protected]<\/a><\/p>\n

Release ID: 253259 <\/p>\n

Published Tue, 03 May 2022 10:08:18 -0500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will Powell Confirmed as Final BTCC Driver for Team HARD. Racing The reigning Britcar Endurance champion, Will Powell has today (3rd May) been confirmed as the final driver in the Team HARD. Racing Cupra for the 2022 KwikFit British Touring Car Championship. Powell has raced in multiple UK motor racing championships spanning from single seaters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}