My friend was gifted tickets to Knockhill Racing Circuit last weekend, for the annual visit of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). I have only been to the Touring Cars a few times, and the last time was years ago. As I have got older, I am finding myself getting more interested in various types motorsport. And this year I have been watching more of the Touring Cars, so I was pretty happy to get a chance to attend the Sunday of the weekend, which is the main race day.

Earlier in the week, the weather forecast was looking a little unsettled, but when the day rolled around it was sunshine all the way. Luckily, I remembered to put on Factor 50 suncream before I left the house. And so I was fine, whilst it looks like most people I saw were a bit too red. It is rare that I have such foresight to prepare like that, but I was happy that I was. I found the merch stall, and there was lots of cut price merchandise for both BTCC and formula 1. I couldn’t find anything I could settle on, so I never bought anything. Motorsport merch can be very expensive, and I really didn’t want to shell out any money for something that I wasn’t quite sure of.

The tickets that we had were VIP for weekend sponsors, Lokring. This was a super cool experience, something that I haven’t had before at any sports event. We got in, and went to their VIP area which had breakfast rolls, soft drinks, snacks, and coffee. It was really nice and relaxed. Once checked in and fed, we went to watch the racing. The events racing at Knockhill over the weekend were The Vertu Mini Challenge, Porsche Carrera Cup, FIA F4 championship, and the British Touring Cars.

Porsche Carrera cup.

Thomas Ingram, BTTC, currently 2025 championship leader

In between races, we walked to get some lunch and some cans of beer. It was great fun. And there was also times for meeting drivers, and collecting autographs. Me and my friend left it a little late and missed most of the session. But we did meet Gordon Sneddon, who is from Dalgety Bay and won the BTTC title three previous times. He is also heavily linked to Knockhill, with it being his local racetrack. It was pretty cool.

It was a really fun day, but I am not used to being in the sun all day, so was exhausted by the end of the day. As soon as we were leaving I was like “I need to go next year’, but there is a problem. BTCC weekend is earlier in August for 2026. This means that it is on the same weekend as Rebellion Festival down in Blackpool. A punk festival that I planned to attend this year, but hesitated so long, that the tickets sold out. It is very annoying. Why is everything always at the same time?