Four-time British Touring Car champion Colin Turkington will miss the 2025 season and says he does not know if he will race again in the series.
Turkington, who competed in his 20th season in 2024, says a “combination of factors and feelings” led to the decision.
The Northern Ireland driver won the BTCC title in 2009, 2014, 2018 and 2019 to become one of the most successful drivers in the championship’s storied history.
The 42-year-old has won 72 races, claimed 192 podiums and, on top of his four overall titles, claimed five Independent Drivers’ championships. He won all four of his titles driving a BMW for West Surrey Racing.
Dick Bennetts, founder and team principal of WSR, said “commercial considerations” played a role in Turkington’s departure from the team.
After claiming his first title in 2009, the Portadown driver stepped away from the BTCC to race in the world championship, but he returned to the UK series in 2013 before winning his second title in the following year.
A third championship followed in 2018, and he claimed the most dramatic of titles a year later in the final race of the season at Brands Hatch to cement his place as one of the most successful names in UK motorsport.
He won five races last season on his way to finishing fourth in the championship.
