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The understated rivalry driving the BTCC's leading lights

West Surrey Racing team-mates Colin Turkington and Andrew Jordan look set to be among the favourites when the BTCC resumes after their epic scrap in 2019, but instead of talking up their budding rivalry, both are eager to play it down

Matt Kew Apr 16, 2020, 3:04 PM

Col..." was all race engineer Dan Millard could muster before his voice cracked. But it was enough to finally signal to Colin Turkington that he'd won the 2019 British Touring Car Championship.

Turkington had seen the West Surrey Racing crew go wild on the pitwall as he crossed the line in an exhilarating Brands Hatch season finale, he'd heard celebrations coming from the garage over team radio, but they could just as easily have been for team-mate Andrew Jordan.

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Author Matt Kew

Matt Kew is Autosport’s F1 Editor, a role he has held since March 2022 following stints covering Formula E, Extreme E and the British Touring Car Championship.

Matt joined Autosport in 2018 to work predominantly on the magazine, but his relentless quoting of Alan Partridge meant office colleagues soon thought he would be better-suited to increased field work.

Needless to say, Matt had the last laugh when he won the Motorsport UK Young Journalist of the Year Award in 2019.

His interest in motorsport was sparked by regular trips to watch ASCAR crash around Rockingham’s banked oval.

Matt read politics and philosophy at the University of Sheffield - receiving first-class honours for his dissertation assessing the lack of female participation in top-tier motor racing.

He covered a wide variety of national race and rally meetings for Autosport as a freelancer before joining full-time. His best efforts to argue the merits of historic racing are undone by a questionable taste in music and James Bond actors.