The 32-year-old reigning Independents champion is the first driver confirmed for the Cheshire squad’s expanded four-driver line-up, and heads there after five years with Honda Civics fielded by the team now known as One Motorsport.
Cook scored 16 of his 18 BTCC race wins to date with that team between 2019-22, when it was BTC Racing, but failed to add to his tally last year, during which he had no real testing programme beyond the pre-season media day.
The West Countryman has been linked to Speedworks ever since Danny Buxton, who was appointed to take charge of BTC early in 2022, upped sticks in late summer last year to join the Toyota operation as head of racing.
Cook finished runner-up in the 2014 Clio Cup UK with Buxton’s SV Racing squad, launching himself into the BTCC, and the two have remained good friends ever since.
The Corolla GR Sport that Cook will race will be one of two entered under the banner of LKQ Euro Car Parts with Synetiq, with the remaining pair to be fielded under Toyota Gazoo Racing UK nomenclature.
LKQ also backed the Civics with which Cook and Aiden Moffat scored podium finishes with One Motorsport in 2023.
“It’s obviously been a great few years for me with One Motorsport,” Cook told Autosport.
Source: Autosport