In 1994, Volvo and Tom Walkinshaw Racing took the motorsport scene by surprise when it joined the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) with a race car based on the Volvo 850 wagon. Although it didn’t win any races, it performed well and went into the history books as the first wagon to join the series. Ten years later, Honda brought the wagon body style back into the sport by prepping a Civic Tourer. The compact grocery getter won four races and scored another 13 podiums. The Japanese retired the wagon after just one season, but, for 2016, the body style return to BTCC in the form of a Subaru Levorg Sports Tourer.
The sole wagon to take part in this year’s competition will be run by Team BMR, which switched to Subaru after using a race-spec version of the Volkswagen CC in 2015. If you’re not familiar with the Levorg, it’s a midsize wagon developed specifically for the Japanese and European markets. It shares its platform with the more familiar Impreza and Legacy.
Team BMR will join the fight as a constructor team and will bring Subaru as a new manufacturer to BTCC. The newly formed team will go head to head with three other automakers - Honda, MG, and BMW. Team BMR and Subaru have signed a three-year partnership and will enter a four-driver lineup in 2016, including BTCC favorites Jason Plato and Colin Turkington.
"I am extremely delighted that BMR are to become a manufacturer team in only our 4th year of competing in the BTCC, I have had aspirations of becoming a race winning team with factory support from the very beginning and I am immensely proud of the team for giving Subaru the confidence in partnering BMR," said team principal Warren Scott.
Continue reading to learn more about the 2016 Subaru Levorg BTCC.
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