Studley BTCC racing team’s £350k car stolen from ExCel London

A British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) team is offering a £25,000 reward after one of its racing cars was stolen from an exhibition centre.

Power Maxed Racing, based in Studley, Warwickshire, said its Dexter Patterson BTCC Audi, worth about £350,000, was taken from a compound at Excel London on Wednesday night.

It comes 15 months after the team had to rebuild from scratch following a fire that destroyed its vehicles and former headquarters in Bretforton, near Evesham.

The BBC has contacted Excel London for a statement. The Metropolitan Police said it did not comment on individual incidents of car crime.

“It does start to make you wonder why you do certain things,” team principal Adam Weaver told BBC Hereford and Worcester.

“You get people asking if the universe is trying to tell us something. I mean, what is the universe trying to tell me?

“We lost all of our cars in the fire, and then we had the resolve to knuckle down, build new cars and come back fighting strong, showing that we never give up.”