page_title: MG 6
section_title: Motorsport
hierarchical_section_title: MG 6 / Motorsport
caption_attribution_description: English: Images of the MG / Triple Eight British Touring Cars 2012 - 2014
context_page_description: The MG 6 is a compact car which has been produced by the Chinese owned British automotive manufacturer MG Motor since 2010. It is slotted slightly above the compact sedan MG GT, and the compact hatchback MG 5.
context_section_description: In January 2012, MG Motor announced that it would enter the 2012 British Touring Car Championship. Triple 8 Race Engineering ran a pair of works MG 6 GT models through the MG KX Momentum Racing team, driven by Jason Plato and Andy Neate. Plato ended the season in third place, with the car yet to find its foot in wet conditions.
  The team returned in 2013 with Sam Tordoff replacing Neate in the second MG, who performed well in his debut year having joined through the KX Academy scheme. Plato once again came third, with Tordoff sixth. In 2014, MG won the Manufacturers' Championship to break Honda's four year reign. After just three years of competition, the MG6 GT sealed the title by 95 points at the season finale at Brands Hatch.
  Drivers Plato and Tordoff racked up seven wins and twenty podiums in the thirty race calendar, as Plato finished second in the Drivers' Championship behind Colin Turkington, while Tordoff finished seventh. The season of 2014 also saw a third Triple Eight maintained MG6 GT on the grid, driven by Marc Hynes, who finished his début season in 18th.
  For the campaign of 2015, MG returned with a new driver line up of champion of 2013, Andrew Jordan and Jack Goff, both drivers left prior to the 2016 season. On 8 March 2016, Triple Eight Racing confirmed that Josh Cook and Ashley Sutton would drive for the team in the 2016 British Touring Car Championship.
  MG 6 BTCC drivers to date have been:
  A concept for a new TCR spec MG 6 was announced on 14 April 2019. Two new MG 6 X-Power TCR cars debuted in the 2019 TCR China round at Zhejiang International Circuit in the third round driven by Rodolfo Avila and Zhendong Zhang as invitation entries. 
  The cars took a third and fourth place at Ningbo International Circuit. The car was officially homologated to compete in the inaugural FIA Motorsport Games Touring Car Cup on 1–3 November, the British team car run by AmDTuning.Com driven by Rory Butcher and the Chinese by MG Motor driven by Zhang, with Butcher finishing a best fourth in race 2. Two cars will compete in the 2020 TCR Asia Series with Team MG X-Power monitoring the WTCR with hopes of entering the car in the championship.
caption: MG cars in the BTCC between 2012 and 2014.
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