Brands Hatch Super Touring Power 2025 on Track!

My last post covered all the off track antics and the car show at Super Touring Power (which you can read about here: https://motorsportformentalhealth.com/2025/07/03/brands-hatch-super-touring-power-2025-show-area/)

Today we’ll be looking at everything happening on track and around the pits.

The headline cars are of course the Super Tourers of the 1990s and early 2000s, but Super Touring Power is a celebration of all ‘tin top’ racing from present day back to the 50s and 60s.

Pre 1966 touring cars are also run at the Masters Historic Festival (which I attended this year and you can read about here: https://motorsportformentalhealth.com/2025/06/03/brands-hatch-masters-historic-festival-2025/ ) They’re a class that I really enjoy to watch racing. It’s fun to watch the big American V8s pull away on the straights then the Minis, Cortinas and Anglias all catch back up in the corners.

As always, I plonked myself in the middle of Druids to watch the racing.

A few on the downhill:

I wasn’t as pleased with the photos from this angle. The camera was focusing on the tyre wall rather than the cars, which I didn’t catch at the time. A lot got deleted but I’m going to put a few in.

There were a couple races for each class throughout the day. The second Pre-66 race started with a massive ten car accident. Thankfully everyone was ok, but it’s still gutting to see. Hundreds of hours go into preparing these cars.

Surprisingly the race continued with a heavily reduced field.

At most Brands Hatch events the pits are open to the public which gives us a great opportunity to get a closer look at the cars.

The boxes atop the valve covers on this Mustang really piqued my interest. An oil line fed into them. Maybe it suffered from oil starvation on some longer corners and this kept oil continuously pumping into the heads? I’ve never seen this before.

You will have noticed that a lot of the cars were sporting Scalextric stickers. Scalextric must have sponsored this event. As a slot car guy (https://motorsportformentalhealth.com/category/slot-cars/) it was really cool to see. I thought it was a nice touch that they used the different era logo on the respective cars – so the 1990s logos on a car from the 90s and so forth.

There was a two class race for Pre 93 and Pre 83.

This little BRE Datsun 510 was my favourite car in this group – and probably of the day actually. It was a very cool little car!

Another race was split between Pre 03s and BOSS (Blue Oval Saloon Series). Apologies for the lack of photos, again I didn’t notice how off my focus was until sorting through the pics.

The final supporting class was Historic Thunder and Thunder Saloons. Thunder Saloons are a multiclass series divided by engine capacity. They have to be based on a production saloon, hatchback or estate car, barring Class S which is for space framed cars. As far as I can make out all classes are two wheel driven.

Here’s a bit of a gallery of the pit area for the rest of the supporting classes.

Finally we get to our headline act – the Supertourers!

The cars for the headline event normally pit in the boxes alongside the track rather than in the main paddock area. It always feels strange walking around back there, like you shouldn’t be there, but it is an area open to the public.

I always say this but please don’t go into the boxes unless invited. People are trying to work in there and the last thing they need is people getting in the way.