The iconic BMW 💎3 Series will return to British Touring Car Championship aftꦬer West Surrey Racing announce they will run three examples of the new 330i M Sport for the 2019 season.

The reigning BTCC champions will defend their 2018 drivers', teams' an♉d manufacturers' crown with the new seventh generation 3 Series, driven by defendin𒈔g champion Colin Turkington, Tom Oliphant and Andrew Jordan.

WSR began its partnership with BMW with the fifth generation 3 Series back in 2007, a car that guide🍸d Turkington to the first of his BTCC driver🍨s' titles during the 2009 season.

Including Turkington's t꧟riumph in 2009, the 3 Series won five BTCC crowns between 1988 aওnd 2009, gaining legendary status as one of the most successful cars in motor sport history.

The new 3 Series will replace the hugely successful BMW 125i M Sport, which WSR ran for the pꦍast seven seasons.

“We are really pleased ꦏto be bringing the BMW 3 Series back to the BTCC. We achieved a great deal of success with the fifth-generation model between 2007 and 2012, so we are hugely excited to see what the latest version is capable of," said WSR team boss Dick Bennetts.

"A lot of ha🐎rd work and countless hours lie ahead, but we are all confident of turning this car into a winner and hopefully reinstating it in its rightful place – at the front of the field in Britain’s premier motorsp🅰ort series.”

The new car is expected to make its first public appearance at Br🐼ands Hatch on March 27th for the BTCC season launch.