The Audi TT Cup contest clearly captured something in the UK circuit racing market, and immediately. After being launched in late 2022 for its 2023 debut, word soon spread of the vast numbers of donor cars and kits being purchased for the new one-make series for the sporty coupe – 29 cars and 21 kits in the 21 days following its first public showing.
In the event, 34 entered for that first 2023 season of the joint venture between the British Racing and Sports Car Club and SW Motorsports, and the actual grid topped at 22.
Yet from this impressive start, Audi TT Cup – newly becoming a points-paying championship for this season – stepped up further. Some 44 entries were in ahead of last month’s Brands Hatch season opener, and therein some 35 Audis packed into the Indy circuit’s qualifying session.
“We knew it was going to be big this year, I don’t think we realised how big it was going to be,” Audi TT Cup’s coordinator Andrew Schofield tells
