Jenkins scores second Trucks title after 15 years as champions crowned at Brands Hatch

The last big event in the Brands Hatch centenary season drew a bumper crowd to watch deciding races in the 2026 British Truck Racing Championship, with several other titles also to be settled, and a huge firework display to be enjoyed.

Top billing went to the trucks, in which David Jenkins, driving a MAN TGX, finally secured his second title 15 years after the first. Season-long consistency helped Jenkins to the top of the points, and Saturday’s first race handed him a slice of good luck. Second in the table Stuart Oliver was knocked into the gravel trap at Druids, and third-placed Craig Reid was helped into a spin at Graham Hill Bend.

Jenkins won the rerun, and his drive to victory in race two gave the Stafford competitor one hand on the championship trophy. Fifth in race three was then enough to prompt team celebrations, while Oliver won both this and the fourth race. The finale was abandoned in near-darkness after two red flags, three racing laps confirming Simon Reid’s Iveco as the winner and Callum Eason and his MAN as Division 2 champions.

Four races – one a hangover from Donington Park – ended the Pickup Trucks season, with a title to be settled between Aaron Thompson, Allen Cooper and Dale Gent. However, mechanical woes crippled Thompson’s chances throughout the weekend despite one win. Cooper was rewarded with the crown, helped by a lucky stoppage in the fourth race with a car off at the first corner, just as Cooper trickled to a halt with a broken throttle cable.

Versatile newcomer Aidan Hills contested the lead in race one before a chaotic last lap gave Chris Brockhurst his first Pickup win. Cooper was second after a spin and Gent fourth with a double track-limits penalty. Gent then won the held-over Donington race from Mark Willis, Cooper and Thompson.

A penalised David O’Regan lost race three to an overjoyed Thompson despite his ongoing mechanical issues. Hills and Cooper followed, then Hills won the decider from O’Regan and Gent but Cooper’s pit road start earned him seventh and the Pickup crown.

Newsham claimed TCR UK spoils as key rival Hart battled engine woes

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Points leader Max Hart’s engine let him down in TCR UK qualifying, denting his title hopes, especially as Callum Newsham (Hyundai) scored a lights-to-flag race one win. A new engine and gearbox transformed Hart’s Audi, which won race two from the back row. Newsham was only sixth, but sealed the championship with victory in the finale.

Civic Cup title rivals Dave Marshall and Alistair Camp were first and second in their opening encounter. A part-reversed second grid added extra jeopardy, and Camp was lucky to emerge unscathed from a first corner incident. A strong recovery took him past Marshall and up to eighth, but only a win would have been enough for a chance to deny Marshall the championship.

Mini Challenge Trophy driver Alex Keens was aiming for back-to-back titles, but Graves Motorsport team-mate Matt Luff wasn’t making things easy. Josh Selvadorai beat Keens in race one, with Luff third, while Luca Marinoni Osborne triumphed in the sequel with Luff second and Keens only sixth.

Selvadorai raced clear in the finale to secure the rookie title, and Keens and Luff were in the thick of a mighty battle for second. Harry Smith, Luff and Keens was the eventual order behind the winner, enough to make Keens a double champion.

Keens finished at the head of the Mini Challenge Trophy pack for the second year in a row

Photo by: Gary Hawkins