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Colin Henry Turkington (born 21 March 1982) is a British auto racing from Northern Ireland who competed in the British Touring Car Championship most recently for Team BMW. He is a 4 time BTCC champion, winning the title in 2009, 2014, 2018 and 2019, having made his debut in the series in 2002.
For 2007, the BTC Touring MG was no longer eligible to win the championship outright, so the team switched to the BMW 320si. Turkington's first win of the season (and BMW's first in the BTCC for over a decade) came in the fourth weekend of the championship at Croft Circuit. Turkington went on to win his first Independent Drivers' title, finishing 5th in the overall Drivers' Championship, with three wins.
Turkington competed with WSR in the Brands Hatch and Guia Circuit rounds of the World Touring Car Championship in 2007. At Brands Hatch, he finished 3rd in the first race on and then finished 4th in the second race, but as his car was not homologated because of its sequential gearbox, Turkington did not collect championship points. In Macau, he finished 13th and 8th in the two races.
In 2008, he was joined at WSR by Formula Three driver Stephen Jelley. Turkington won four races on his way to 5th in the Drivers' Championship, while also retaining his Independent Drivers' crown. He also finished every race that season in the top 10.
In 2009, Turkington took the championship lead at the mid-season point, and went on to win the BTCC title in a thrilling finale, after winning six races. Turkington finished consistently, with an unbroken run of eighteen point-scoring finishes, from Croft Circuit onwards, failing to finish in just one race. However WSR lost the title sponsor RAC and Turkington could not attempt to retain his title in 2010.
In 2013, Turkington returned to the BTCC with WSR (now competing as eBay Motors). He drove one of their three new BMW 125is. He finished 5th in the 2013 Drivers' Championship after taking five race wins.
Turkington stayed with the team for the 2014 season, taking eight race wins and eventually winning his second BTCC Drivers' title.
The Subaru Levorg gained its first win in the BTCC at Oulton Park in Round 10. Turkington took a further 4 wins before the season ended and finished 4th in the drivers championship standings.
Turkington collided with Matt Neal off the startline at the season opener at Brands Hatch, but salvaged a 9th-place finish in Race 2 from the back of the grid after a last-gasp move on Michael Epps. He finished second in Race 3 behind teammate Andrew Jordan. During the year, the Ulsterman took 4 race wins, including the 100th BTCC win for BMW at Thruxton. He went into the final round battling for the championship with Ashley Sutton, his replacement at Team BMR. Despite the title fight going down to the final race, his hopes ended when he collided with Mat Jackson early in the race, meaning he finished the year as runner-up.
In early 2025, Turkington confirmed his absence from the grid for the following season.
In October 2010, it was announced that Turkington and WSR would compete in the final two rounds of the WTCC in Japan and Macau. He took his first WTCC win in Japan after Augusto Farfus and Andy Priaulx were disqualified.
In July 2011, Turkington competed in three more WTCC rounds for Wiechers-Sport.
On 26 October 2012, Turkington announced that he would again be racing in the WTCC at China for the WSR-run Team Aviva-Cofco. Turkington drove the spare RML Group Chevrolet Cruze. He qualified 5th on the grid, but first-lap incidents in both races meant he had to recover from near the back of the field twice. His efforts were rewarded with two points finishes.
† Competed in Free Practice session only.
| 2007 ! nowrap | Team RAC/AVIVA ! nowrap | BMW 320si | BRA 1 | BRA 2 | NED 1 | NED 2 | ESP 1 | ESP 2 | FRA 1 | FRA 2 | CZE 1 | CZE 2 | POR 1 | POR 2 | SWE 1 | SWE 2 | GER 1 | GER 2 | GBR 1 | GBR 2 | ITA 1 | ITA 2 | MAC 1 | MAC 2 | ! NC† ! 0† | ||
| 2010 ! nowrap | eBay Motors !rowspan=2 nowrap | BMW 320si | BRA 1 | BRA 2 | MAR 1 | MAR 2 | ITA 1 | ITA 2 | BEL 1 | BEL 2 | POR 1 | POR 2 | GBR 1 | GBR 2 | CZE 1 | CZE 2 | GER 1 | GER 2 | ESP 1 | ESP 2 | !rowspan=2 10th !rowspan=2 | 97 | |||||
| 2011 ! nowrap | Wiechers-Sport ! nowrap | BMW 320 TC | BRA 1 | BRA 2 | BEL 1 | BEL 2 | ITA 1 | ITA 2 | HUN 1 | HUN 2 | CZE 1 | CZE 2 | POR 1 | POR 2 | GBR 1 | GBR 2 | GER 1 | GER 2 | ESP 1 | ESP 2 | JPN 1 | JPN 2 | CHN 1 | CHN 2 | MAC 1 | MAC 2 ! 13th ! 46 | |
| 2012 ! nowrap | Team Aviva-Cofco ! nowrap | Chevrolet Cruze | ITA 1 | ITA 2 | ESP 1 | ESP 2 | MAR 1 | MAR 2 | SVK 1 | SVK 2 | HUN 1 | HUN 2 | AUT 1 | AUT 2 | POR 1 | POR 2 | BRA 1 | BRA 2 | USA 1 | USA 2 | JPN 1 | JPN 2 | CHN 1 | CHN 2 | MAC 1 | MAC 2 ! 18th ! 15 |
| 2011 ! nowrap | Flash Engineering ! nowrap | BMW 320si | Jyllands-Ringen | Jyllands-Ringen | Ring Knutstorp | Ring Knutstorp | Mantorp Park | Mantorp Park | GÖT 1 | GÖT 2 | FAL 1 | FAL 2 | KAR 1 | KAR 2 | Jyllands-Ringen | Jyllands-Ringen | Ring Knutstorp | Ring Knutstorp | Mantorp Park | Mantorp Park ! 5th ! 130 |
| 2013 ! nowrap | Gianni Giudici ! nowrap | BMW M3 (E92) | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | Masaryk Circuit | Masaryk Circuit | SVK 1 | SVK 2 | Circuit Zolder | Circuit Zolder | ALG 1 | ALG 2 | Donington Park | Donington Park | IMO 1 | IMO 2 | VAL 1 | VAL 2 ! 23rd ! 9 |
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