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Adam Weaver
2014
2014
1 (2024)
4 (2015, 2017, 2023, 2024)
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Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
Audi S3 Saloon
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Heritage
Adam Weaver did not arrive in the BTCC by accident. The Automotive Brands Group, the Warwickshire business behind the Power Maxed car care and Steel Seal product ranges, had been involved in the paddock as a sponsor for several years before Weaver decided that writing cheques for other people's racing was no longer enough. In February 2015 he bought the TOCA BTCC Licence from Chris Stockton's BTC Racing outfit, the team that had raced under the Power Maxed name the previous year, and set about building something from scratch.
The first proper season, 2015, was a statement of intent. Running 2 Chevrolet Cruze saloons, with Josh Cook and Dave Newsham at the wheel, brought a podium at Rockingham, and Cook winning the Jack Sears Trophy at the Brands Hatch finale. It was clear from the off that they were a team to be reckoned with. 2016 brought a different kind of publicity, Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher shared the garage with Hunter Abbott and, while the results were modest, the team never left the television cameras short of material.
The move that changed everything came at the end of 2016. Weaver and Race Director Martin Broadhurst succeeded where many had failed and brought Vauxhall back into the BTCC. Two brand-new Astra K shells were built in-house, Tom Chilton and rookie Senna Proctor were named as drivers, and PMR arrived at Brands Hatch for the 2017 opener with a factory-backed car that had never turned a wheel in anger. Chilton scooped silverware on the opening weekend and Proctor claimed the Jack Sears Trophy with 5 rounds still to run. The team was in the BTCC Hall of Fame before most people had even worked out who they were.
2018 remains the year that PMR grew up. Cook returned to the team, Proctor was back for a second season, and together they delivered something the paddock still talks about. The pair started the year off in spectacular style, securing three wins over three rounds, with Senna's charge from P28 to victory in the second race at Brands Hatch going down as one of the greatest drives in BTCC history. Cook added victories at Donington and Thruxton, and the team finished third in the Teams' Championship — their best result to that point, tied on points with second-placed Halfords Yuasa Racing.
In 2019 Jason Plato returned to Vauxhall machinery and was joined by Rob Collard, the pair powering their way to fifth in the Teams' Championship with Plato winning the final race of the season. PMR withdrew entirely from the 2020 season due to COVID's impact on the championship and their commercial obligations. Neither Plato nor Jackson raced for the team that year. The team instead made occasional appearances with guest drivers as an independent entry. In 2021 Plato returned and marked his 600th BTCC race start with the squad.
The period between 2022 and 2024 saw the team rebuilt again. New drivers, new engineering direction, and a gradual return to the front of the independent order. Árón Taylor-Smith and Mikey Doble formed the core of the effort from 2023 onwards, and in 2024 the team took home three titles — the Independent Teams' Championship, the Independent Drivers' title for Taylor-Smith, and the Jack Sears Trophy for Doble.
Images of the devastation
Images of the devastation
Then came August 2025. A fire ripped through PMR's West Midlands facilities, destroying absolutely everything; the product factory, the stock warehouse, and the race team. The heat was so intense it melted solid gearbox casings, reduced entire engines to warped molten metal, and left nothing but ash and twisted steel. The Vauxhall Astras that had carried the team through eight seasons of manufacturer partnership were gone. The trophies were gone. But the BTCC community rallied around, and PMR's drivers were back on the grid at Knockhill the following weekend in borrowed Cupra Leons.
For 2026 PMR announced a bold new chapter, confirming a switch to brand-new Audi S3 saloon machinery with a three-car assault for Aiden Moffat and Mikey Doble running under the LKQ Euro Car Parts banner alongside Dexter Patterson in the Steel Seal-backed third entry. It is the most ambitious programme the team has ever mounted, and it arrives twelve years after a single borrowed Chevrolet first carried the Power Maxed name onto a BTCC grid.
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