Mikey Doble at Oulton Park: 100th BTCC Start, Two Solid Points Finishes, and the Independents Lead Heading into the Break

So this is a weekend that mattered for more than just the result sheet. Round 10, 11 and 12 of the 2026 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship rolled into Oulton Park on the weekend of 6-7 June, and for Mikey Doble it was the kind of weekend where the off-track milestones were as significant as the on-track ones. The Sunday races marked his 100th BTCC start, every single one of them with Power Maxed Racing , in the third weekend of competition for the LKQ Euro Car Parts Audi A3 Saloon. He left Cheshire sitting top of the Independents Championship outright heading into the BTCC's summer break.

Right. Let's go through it.

100 BTCC starts. All with one team.

Worth pausing on that number for a second, because it's not common.

100 BTCC starts is the threshold where you stop being a young driver finding his feet and start being a fixture in the paddock. Drivers who reach it without ever switching teams are rarer still. Mikey has now made every one of his 100 starts with Power Maxed Racing, from the LKQ rookie season through to leading the Independents Championship in 2026 in a brand-new car. That's a partnership doing exactly what a partnership is supposed to do — both sides growing together rather than apart.

Power Maxed Racing themselves were celebrating their own centenary milestones with both Mikey and stablemate Dexter Patterson reaching 100 BTCC starts at Oulton on the same weekend. Two drivers, two centenary milestones, one team. That's a hell of a Sunday for the team principals before a single race has started.

Race to Pole and Race 1

Saturday's Race to Pole was won by Dan Cammish in the NAPA Racing Ford Focus after Aron Taylor-Smith's on-the-road victory was wiped out by a five-second penalty for weaving on the safety-car restart. Mikey qualified the LKQ Audi in P6 for the Race to Pole and held position. The headlines were elsewhere — a Nic Hamilton crash at the Island Hairpin causing the safety car, Sutton and Ingram having heavy contact at the final corner with Ingram immediately giving the place back — but the underlying job was getting done in the Audi.

Race 1 on Sunday morning went to Dan Cammish, his first BTCC win of 2026 and his 17th career victory. Cammish led from lights to flag in a tight, traffic-heavy race that featured plenty of incident behind. Mikey brought the Audi home P6 on the road, behind teammate Aiden Moffat, the two Power Maxed Audis running together and picking up valuable Independents points. The race featured a moment where Sutton dived down the inside of Mikey at Old Hall after some early-race contact with Cook had sent him backwards — racing room given, racing room respected, no drama.

P6 in Race 1. Points in the bag. Sensible, intelligent racing.

Race 2: top five and the best result of the weekend

Race 2 was Ash Sutton's, and frankly nobody else was getting near him. Running soft tyres with the increased TOCA Turbo Boost allocation, the four-time champion won by more than 19 seconds. Behind him though was where the proper racing happened, and Mikey was right in the thick of it.

Tom Ingram and Dan Cammish — both on the hard Goodyears — held on to second and third in one of the drives of the day for both of them, the Hyundai and the Ford pulling away from the chasing pack. Daryl De Leon took fourth in the WSR BMW and the Independents class win. And then in fifth, ahead of Gordon Shedden, ahead of Ricky Collard, ahead of teammate Dexter Patterson, ahead of Aiden Moffat: Mikey Doble in the LKQ Audi A3.

Fifth place. The best Race 2 result of his BTCC season so far. In the hardest race of the weekend on tyre management and TOCA Turbo Boost strategy, the Audi was where it needed to be. That's not a Hollywood headline finish. That's the sort of result that wins championships at the points level. P5 banked, the Independents points haul stacking up, the championship gap tightening.

Race 3: the difficult finale

Race 3 didn't go the same way. Charles Rainford took his second BTCC win of 2026 in the WSR BMW in commanding fashion after a thrilling early scrap with Restart Racing pole-sitter Chris Smiley. Ricky Collard followed Rainford home in second for an EXCELR8 Team Vertu podium, with Tom Ingram completing his hat-trick of podiums in third.

For Mikey and the LKQ Audi, the finale was a tougher race that ended outside the top ten points-scoring positions. Some weekends the final race delivers itself. Other weekends you bank the early points, you absorb what the third race throws at you, and you move on to the next round. Saturday's Race to Pole and Sunday's first two races had been the points races. Race 3 was the recovery.

The honest version: there's no point dressing up a Race 3 that didn't go your way. Especially in a race where two safety car periods reshuffled the pack and championship-relevant drivers ran into trouble. Mikey will be back at full strength at Thruxton.

Where the championship sits

Going into Oulton, Mikey was second in the Independents Trophy standings and eighth in the overall Drivers' Championship. Coming out of Oulton, he leads the Independents Championship outright heading into the BTCC summer break.

That's the headline. After four race weekends, the LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing entry has moved from joint Independents leader to second to outright leader as the season hits its mid-point. Two race wins in the Independents class, multiple top-ten finishes, consistent points scoring, a brand-new car that's developed week-on-week, and a driver who's made it to 100 BTCC starts entirely on top of his learning curve.

The summer break gives the team a clear stretch of weeks before Thruxton on 25-26 July to do the development work that turns a championship-leading car into a championship-winning one.

The partners on the car

A championship campaign at this level is built on the brands backing the operation. Mikey's commercial partners visible at Oulton Park:

• LKQ Euro Car Parts — title partner of Mikey's car, part of the LKQ Europe group and one of the biggest names in vehicle parts distribution
• Power Maxed Racing — the Bidford-on-Avon based team that has run every one of Mikey's 100 BTCC starts
• The Dirt Terminator — Mikey's newest partner, who joined the programme at Brands Hatch and continues to build presence on the car
• Casesuk.com — phone case specialists, on board since the season opener at Donington
• Steel Seal — title partner of the third Power Maxed Racing car for Dexter Patterson, the stablemate who reached his own 100-start milestone alongside Mikey at Oulton

Every result Mikey puts on the table is content and brand value for the partners on the bonnet. A championship-leading weekend for Independents heading into the summer break is exactly the kind of brand storytelling that sponsorship investment is supposed to produce. Worth recognising the partners who have stayed the course alongside the team across 100 starts.

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What this means going into the break

Two race weekends out of three with finishes inside the top six. Independent class wins banked. The Race 2 fifth-place finish has to rank as the most important on-track result of the weekend, not because it was the highest, but because it came in the hardest race of the three on strategy and tyre management. The Audi has the pace at every kind of circuit so far. The driver has the consistency. The team has the operation. And the championship table has Mikey at the top of the Independents.

That's the basis for a serious second half of the season.

Behind the lens

SuperHub were trackside through the weekend producing content for Mikey's channels and the wider Team Vertu and EXCELR8 work. Race-by-race stills, post-race driver reactions, sponsor activation posts pushed live across the racing days, the 100-start milestone captured for the partners and the fans. Antonia Rankin presenting again on the post-race interviews. When the team is delivering this much story across one weekend — a centenary milestone, a championship leadership position, a fifth-place finish in the hardest race of the weekend — the content side becomes a genuine sponsor asset rather than a nice-to-have.

Thruxton next on 25-26 July, after the BTCC's summer break.

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Race results sourced from the official BTCC timing partner, TSL Timing , and the official BTCC website.