BTCC News

Having backed Vauxhall in recent seasons, Holiday Inn is to switch teams for the 2008 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship season to renew its ties with SEAT.

The 50th anniversary British Touring Car Championship will see at least 27 cars on track for the campaign which kicks off at Brands Hatch at the end of the month.

Ahead of the annual media day for the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship at Rockingham tomorrow [Wednesday], SEAT has released studio images of the SEAT Leon TDi it will campaign during the 2008 season.

Former national Fiesta champion Andy Neate has expressed his disappointment at missing out on the chance to join Team RAC for the 2008 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship season.

SEAT Sport UK has announced the appointment of Dave Ward, a member of Audi's 1996 title winning British Touring Car Championship team, as its new race team manager.

The HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship has confirmed a new three-year agreement has been reached with ITV which will include an unprecedented amount of live coverage of the 50th anniversary season.

The MINI Challenge has been named as one of the support races for the Snetterton round of the 2008 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship.

Team RAC has announced that Tom Onslow-Cole will not be returning for a second year with the team in the 2008 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.

by Russell Atkins After one of the hardest-fought campaigns in recent Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship memory, Fabrizio Giovanardi has admitted the best successes are always those you have to really fight for.

Jason Plato made a solid start to the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship finale at Thruxton, setting the fifth quickest time in opening practice despite the burns he sustained in an accident while filming for Fifth Gear earlier this week.

Vauxhall's Fabrizio Giovanardi will hope to clinch a first Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship title this weekend at Thruxton - although he won't have it easy with Jason Plato currently nine points ahead in the championship standings.

Paul O'Neill is to make a return to the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Thruxton after confirmation he will replace Tom Ferrier in the Motorbase Performance line-up.

After 27 rounds of all-action racing, the fight for the 2007 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship title will come down to three races at Thruxton this weekend - and you can catch all the live timing from the event right here on Crash.net courtesy of MST Timing .

SEAT Sport UK has confirmed that Tom Coronel will drive its third car in the final rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Thruxton.

The 50th anniversary Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship campaign will include a return to Silverstone as one of its ten rounds, according to the provisional calendar issued by organisers today.

ITV has confirmed that it will once again improve its coverage of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship for the penultimate round of the season at Knockhill next weekend.

Having qualified on the front row of the grid, Darren Turner endured a trying race day at Brands Hatch as luck once again went against the SEAT driver in the latest rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.

Dave Pinkney has his focus firmly on making a return to the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship in time for the season finale at Thruxton following his high-speed accident at Brands Hatch.

The eighth round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship saw one of the biggest accidents in recent seasons after a first lap pile-up in race one saw no fewer than nine cars forced to retire.

Tim Bevan, a racer in the SEAT Cupra Championship, has been killed in a road accident ahead of this weekend's race meeting at Brands Hatch.

Gavin Smith is to make a return to the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship for the remainder of the season, with the Irish driver securing a seat with GR Asia for the events at Brands Hatch, Knockhill and Thruxton.

Armchair fans of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship are in for an extra treat next weekend after ITV announced that it is to expand its coverage of the eighth round of the season at Brands Hatch.

Jason Plato was left somewhat frustrated with the events of the opening race at Snetterton last weekend after an incident with Matt Neal set the scene for a tough seventh meeting of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season.

Team RAC boss Dick Bennetts says there will be a full post mortem to find out why Colin Turkington's car was underweight following the opening Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship race at Snetterton - something that resulted in the Northern Irish driver being excluded from what would have