After fantastic events at Adur, Aldershot and Eastbourne, three rounds of King of Clubs 2026 are done. The finale is this coming Sunday, 20 September, at West London Racing Centre, and while three of this year’s five titles are already settled, two are still genuinely open — one of them with a plot twist nobody could have written in advance.
Fittingly, it’s happening at WLRC — the home of Touring Car racing since the 1990’s and the track where Ben Cane won his last KOC title.
Cane’s not doing any maths
Ben Cane’s route to the 17.5 Touring title looks complicated from the outside — a countback, a drop score, a round deficit to make up in one afternoon. From the inside, he’s not bothered.
“It’s straightforward for me,” Cane says. “I’m racing to win and don’t need to think about the maths.”
It’s the kind of thing a driver says before results back it up — except in Cane’s case, they already have. He’s the reigning KOC champion , winning at this exact venue in 2025, backing that up by winning this year’s Futaba GP, and finishing third at the WLRC BRCA National round this season. Win on Sunday and his three counting scores tally 297, level with series leader Glenn Westwood — but Cane takes the title on countback, two round wins to Westwood’s one.
Westwood’s task looks simpler on paper: finish 2nd or better and it’s his, regardless of anything else that happens on the day. Finish third or worse, and it comes down to whether Cane wins outright. For his part, Westwood isn’t interested in playing it safe either.
“I won’t be racing for second — I always race for the win,” he says. “However, there’s more pressure on Ben, as he needs to win.”
It’s a fair read of the situation, and it sets up the finale nicely: two drivers with genuinely different jobs to do, one straightforward and one who’s decided the complicated version doesn’t apply to him.
Then there’s the twist neither of them can control. Frontie champion James Snashall has already wrapped up his own title with a perfect record, and word in the paddock is he might line up in 17.5 Touring on Sunday simply because he can. He’s got nothing on the line and everything to gain by being fast, which he’s proven all season he is. If he takes the win, he doesn’t just deny it to Cane or Westwood — he takes the one result that would have decided the title, without a single point of his own riding on it.
Watch out too for Ricky Copsey, Soteris Liasi and Tim Hancock, all capable of an event podium or better on the day regardless of the title picture, with the up and coming Kenny Hyde starting to get into conversation. And third overall isn’t locked in either: Jordan McKulsky’s ten-point buffer over Hyde is real, but not safe with one round to go.
Rookies: no maths required
If 17.5 Touring is a fight about mentality, Rookies Cup is just a fight. Ivan Murphy-Brown and Aariz Hussain arrive at the finale dead level on 298 points apiece — no complicated scenarios, no drop-score subplots, just whoever has the better day on Sunday. Word is Aariz has a new car, and Ivan has some new sun glassed for the final. Whether that’s the edge they need is exactly the kind of question a season finale is built for. It’s going to be spicy.
Three champions, and still plenty to race for
James Snashall (Frontie), Jay Westwood (Masters) and Daniel Saunders (Talent Cup) have each taken a maximum three wins from three — 300 points, the highest score possible, unreachable by anyone else. But a settled title doesn’t mean a settled class.
In Frontie, Darren Tickker’s grip on second overall is under real pressure from Mark Trinder, banking big scores from limited outings. In Masters, Jay Westwood is reportedly skipping his own class to race Frontie instead — opening up a genuine battle for the podium places between John Williams and Dave Ringsell, while Peter Neville looks to prove his wet-weather result at Adur was no fluke. And in the Talent Cup, Poppy Allcock-Green and Elliot Theobald are separated by a single point for the runner-up spot, with Poppy Hyde, Aliza Hussain and a fast-returning Oscar Sturt all close enough to spoil the party.
There’s great races in the returning Tamiya and F1 classes too – with a strong field of F1 drivers coming out to play.
We can’t wait.
West London Racing Centre, Sunday 20 September 2026.
Follow @kocrcseries for updates through the day — full final standings and a proper season wrap-up once the dust settles.
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