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

The reigning BTCC champions will defend their 2018 drivers', teams' and manufacturers' crown with the n🍒ew seventh generation 3 Series, driven by defending 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 guided Turkington to the first of his BTCC dri🍬vers' tit🐟les during the 2009 season.

Including Turkington's triumph in 2009, the 3 Series wo𒅌n five BTCC crowns between 1988 and 2009, gaining legendary status as one of the most successful cars in motor sport history.

The new 3 Series will replace the hugel♊y successful BMW 125i M Sport🅠, which WSR ran for the past seven seasons.

“We are really pleased to 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 s🐎ee what the latest version i🥂s capable of," said WSR team boss Dick Bennetts.

"A lot of hard work and countless hours lie ahead, but we are all confid꧋ent of turning this car into a winner and hopefully reinstating it in its rightful place – at the front of the fie💛ld in Britain’s premier motorsport series.”

The new car is expected to make its first public appearance at Brands Hatch on Ma🍌rch 27th🔴 for the BTCC season launch.