Following the launch of our cricket and Formula 1 beats earlier today, Kent Local News is adding a fourth sport to its automated match-report pipeline: the British Touring Car Championship. The headline reason is local: Brands Hatch in West Kingsdown sits inside Kent and hosts two of the BTCC’s biggest weekends each season. From the next race weekend onwards, every BTCC round — Brands Hatch and the rest of the UK calendar — gets a written race report on Kent Local News the morning after.

Why BTCC, and why Brands Hatch matters here

Brands Hatch is the only top-tier motorsport venue in Kent, and BTCC is the championship that draws the county’s biggest race-day crowds. The BTCC schedule visits Brands Hatch twice a year:

  • May Bank Holiday — the short Indy circuit, three races on the Sunday, regularly the season’s most-attended round.
  • October finale — the full GP loop, three races, championship-deciding pressure, sometimes weather drama.

Coverage of these weekends has historically been national: BBC Sport, Autosport, the BTCC’s own site. What’s been missing is a Kent-anchored angle — a write-up that treats Brands Hatch as the home venue it is. That gap is what this beat fills.

What we’ll cover

  • Every BTCC round — not just Brands Hatch. Donington, Thruxton, Croft, Knockhill, Snetterton, Silverstone, Oulton Park.
  • Three races per weekend — each with its own report covering the result, top-ten finishers and any standout drives.
  • Race result, podium and team performance — pulled from the official BTCC results feed, with a top-ten table appended to every report.

How the reports are written

Race data flows through TheSportsDB, a community-curated database that mirrors the official BTCC results within hours of each race finishing. Our editorial system pulls the day’s race classification, deduplicates against earlier coverage of the same weekend, and drafts a 250–380-word report using our automated drafting pipeline.

Like our football, cricket and F1 coverage, every BTCC report runs through the same compliance and format checks as our news, investigation and council-updates desks. So the BTCC section is held to the editorial standard of the rest of the site — not loosened just because it’s auto-drafted.

Reports typically appear by Monday lunchtime UK time after each Sunday race weekend, with a follow-up sweep on Tuesday lunchtime to catch any results published late.

Where to find it

Every race report lives in the dedicated BTCC category. BTCC also feeds into the broader Kent Sport hub alongside our football, cricket and F1 coverage, giving readers a single page that surfaces every sport beat’s latest stories.

The next BTCC weekend is the May Bank Holiday round at Brands Hatch — three races on Sunday 10 May. The race reports for those three races will land here on Monday 11 May.