Freshly crowned champion in TCR UK’s inaugural season, WestCoast Racing enters the final raceweekend in TCR Europe at Barcelona with three Volkswagen Golf GTI cars.
The 2017 BTCC-champion and TCR UK race winner Ashley Sutton joins the team alongside Swedish siblings Andreas and Jessica Bäckman who where classified third and fourth in TCR UK.
Team manager Dick Jönsson Wigroth explained the team is exploring where to race in 2019 after having run parallell programmes in TCR Scandinavia and TCR UK this year.

“We are considering our options for next year and this was a perfect opportunity for us to get a first taste of TCR Europe. It is especially motivating to be able to work with Ashley Sutton for this race weekend and he will give us a very good indication of how competitive we can be in TCR Europe and a great opportunity for us to finish off this season strongly. At this moment this is just a one-off but TCR Europe is one of several championships we are considering for next year.”

Sutton said: "I am very excited to be competing in the last round of the TCR Europe with WestCoast Racing. I have been keeping my eye on TCR full stop and I've been very keen on dipping my toe in the water. I managed to get a taste of TCR UK but I haven't raced TCR internationally so when I was approached by WestCoast it was the perfect opportunity to do this as it favoured both parties. I’m looking forward to see what’s in store this weekend, I haven't yet driven the Volkswagen Golf GTI and have only done a handful of laps around the Catalunya Circuit itself. So we will be entering the unknown and be taking it as it comes. The team have just come off the back of wrapping up the UK Championship so they are in a good place and I would like to continue that this weekend"