British GT: Turkington and Graham to debut in the British GT category with WSR

BTCC driver-team combo Colin Turkington and West Surrey Racing are set to join the British GT Championship alongside historic rally champion Ernie Graham.

The four-time BTCC Champion will make his debut in British GT alongside WSR in the BMW M4 GT4 Evo with the historic rally champion Graham also making his debut in British GT. The team will contest the Pro-Am category and despite being novices to GT racing, the team has had significant success in the BTCC. WSR have claimed 137 race wins and 18 championships becoming one of the most successful BTCC teams of all time. They also have success in the FIA World Touring Car Championship, claiming victories with Turkington in the series.

Meanwhile, Graham has had a three-decade long rally career in at all levels ranging from national to world class rallying. In 1994, he won the Middle East Rally Cup before making entries into WRC on a number of occasions. He then moved to Historic rallying taking the FIA European Historic Rally Championship title on three occasions. Graham made his circuit racing debut in 2025, racing the BMW 3 Series in the BMW Car Club Racing Championship, scoring nine podiums in the season. He would also race alongside Turkington at the Silverstone Festival in the Motor Racing Legends Historic Touring Car Challenge.

With the announcement, Colin Turkington said: “I’m delighted to be back in racing full-time in 2026. It’s been an ambition of mine for a little while to dive seriously into GT racing, so to be able to do it in the British GT Championship, with all its history and the big names and major brands that are here, is really exciting. To do it with WSR FlexiFly – a team that really has been a second family to me over the past 20-plus years – is the icing on the cake. I’ve been driving with Ernie since last Summer and while he’s relatively new to circuit racing, he has so much experience from the rally stages and you need serious skill and bravery to do well there. I’m sure we have all the ingredients necessary to perform well.”

Ernie Graham added: “I’m so excited to be moving into the British GT Championship with WSR FlexiFly. I’d wanted to race a BMW from my first visit to the RAC Tourist Trophy at Silverstone in 1988. I’ve now raced and rallied them and this year we get to take things to the next level. Pairing up with Colin for a couple of historic races last year really helped lift my performance and after he introduced me to the team at WSR, and I saw everything they’d achieved with Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen, Nigel Mansell and so many other drivers, my mind was made up that I wanted to come to British GT and have a real go. It might sound strange to leave a world I know, and have been successful in, to take a leap into the unknown, but I’ve always loved new challenges, so I feel ready for it and think we can represent ourselves well.”