After weeks of anticipation, Bradley Gravett, EXCELR8 Motorsport VERTU MOTORS MINI Challenge JCW and BTCC development driver, announced his much-anticipated 2024 livery at the British Touring Car Championship opener on Thursday testing at Donington Park. Ahead of the first round of the championship this weekend, Bradley said: “EXCELR8 Motorsport as a whole package this season has stepped up even further to undoubtedly become one of the most prominent teams in the paddock. Their branding this season is absolutely on point and looks fantastic. In partnership with the VERTU Motors group (Bristol Street Motors and Macklin Motors), they have done an...

Bradley Gravett has set his focus firmly on challenging for top honours in the Vertu MINI CHALLENGE after confirming his return to the series for 2024 with multiple champions EXCELR8. Gravett, the son of former BTCC champion Robb, joined forces with EXCELR8 towards the end of the 2022 season and went on to enjoy the most successful year of his racing career to date in 2023 in what was his third season in the category. Only missing out on a podium during the opening weekend of the season at Donington Park after a technical issue, Bradley wasted little time in...

Bradley Gravett is a professional racing driver based just outside of London, England, who's currently competing in the premier support series to the British Touring Car Championship, the MINI Challenge JCW Series. With a lifetime around motorsport, Bradley's father, Robb Gravett, is a multiple British Touring Car champion whose professional and incredibly successful motorsport career spanned over 20 years.   Born in the early 90s, midway through Robb's successes, Bradley's professional motorsport career started in karts in 2007 when he competed as a factory Zip Kart Young Guns Driver at the age of 13, under the wing of the global...

Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com can today announce that second-generation racer Bradley Gravett will become a member of the team’s Development Driver programme for the 2023 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship season. Bradley, the son of 1990 BTCC Champion Robb, joined forces with the team earlier this year as part of its assault on the Quaife MINI CHALLENGE, taking part in the final two rounds of the campaign at Silverstone and Brands Hatch in EXCELR8 colours. The 29-year-old has already confirmed a deal that will see him compete in the JCW category of the MINI CHALLENGE for a...

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EXCELR8 Motorsport has moved to strengthen its Quaife MINI CHALLENGE line-up after confirming that Bradley Gravett will join the team’s JCW entry with immediate effect. Bradley, the son of 1990 British Touring Car Champion Robb, will join the Suffolk-based team as part of an expanded line-up for the remainder of the current JCW season, which has two rounds still to run. The 28-year-old will then return for a full season with the multiple championship-winning outfit in 2023 as he bids to further his career development - with the ultimate goal of following in his father’s footsteps and competing in Britain’s...

The MINI Challenge championship, as of 2020, sits under the prestigious umbrella of the Touring Car Association, or better known as TOCA. Formed in 1990 by Alan Gow TOCA Limited in 1991 purchased the rights to the British Touring Car Championship. Between 1991 and 2000, Gow preceded to grow the BTCC to one of the largest motorsport championships of its kind globally, attracting significant automotive manufacture financial investment, vast audiences and some of the world's greatest drivers. After the successes of the championship, it started to attract international attention; Gow, in 2000, sold TOCA to a NASDAQ listed American company,...

The MINI Challenge JCW race car is arguably the closest thing one can get to a British Touring Car and is, in many ways, more of a 'touring car' than an actual British Touring Car, in the 'old fashion' sense, of course. Until the late 90s, a British Touring Car was always a production road car transformed into a race car, which is why the BTCC became so popular as the cars were fundamentally the same as the family car one had on their drive or could buy from a dealership, which gave the series its charm. In recent years,...