BTCC News

Making his debut in the British Touring Car Championship this weekend is South African Shaun Watson Smith, in the all new driver line-up driving Team Petronas Syntium Proton Impians.

Granada Sport has announced the presenters and commentators for the television coverage of this season's Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship and support races.

No Alan Gow hasn't gone mad, and there won't be Dennis fire engines competing in the Thruxton season opener next weekend, but there will be the backing of new official media partner, Dennis Publishing.

BMW will be represented on this year's Green Flag MSA British Touring Car grid after Edenbridge Racing confirmed that Briton Justin Keen will drive its dramatic 320i racer from the championship's second meeting at Brands Hatch on 25 April.

The name Hughes will appear on the side of MG in the BTCC in 2004, but the first name will be different. Jason Hughes and his Kartworld Racing team move from the production class with an MG for 2004 and Crash.net went to meet him at his Lancashire base to find out more...

John George says he is pleased at the performance of the LPG powered Honda Civic Type-R after the Mardi Gras entry made its track debut at Donington Park last week.

The new format and rules introduced into the BTCC for the 2004 season have set up a great season of racing, according to young hotshot Gareth Howell.

Overall 'Trophy Winner' of the 2003 International Wine & Spirits Competition for Best Non-Vintage, Champagne Victor, is the Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship's new official podium champagne for 2004.

The Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship has unveiled its official 2004 entry list which gives the series its biggest opening round grid since the heyday of the mid 1990s.

Two of the Midlands' most successful companies have joined forces to contend in the 2004 British Touring Car Championship.

Mardi Gras Motorsport will become the first team to race a gas-powered car in the British Touring Car Championship, having been given the go-ahead to enter an ETCC-spec Honda Civic Type-R in the 2004 campaign.

Further details of the five Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship race meetings to be screened live by UK terrestrial television channel ITV1 have been released today.

The West Surrey Racing team, who run the works MG in the British Touring Car Championship, were out last week at Thruxton testing with a new four cylinder engine.

After months of speculation surrounding the future participation of MG in the British Touring Car Championship, Warren Hughes announced today that he will not compete with MG in 2004.

A Nissan Primera looks set to join the British Touring Car Championship with a ETCC spec Primera to be run by RJN Motorsport.

Watson-Smith added to Proton line-up. As has been rumoured for some weeks, South African touring car ace Shaun Watson-Smith has been named as the leader of Team Petronas Syntium Proton's British Touring Car campaign in 2004.

Team Dynamics has announced the launch of its new car ahead of the 2004 BTCC season at the Autosport International show in Birmingham. The team will field a pair of Honda Civic Type-R's, the same cars used by the works Honda outfit in 2003.

Last year in the BTCC MG XPower driver Colin Turkington was the hottest young blood on the block with so many performances worthy of a long future in the series. Here Colin looks back. Q What was your favourite moment of 2003 season?

The organisers of the British Touring Car Championship [BTCC] yesterday announced a revised schedule for 2004, following confirmation by the FIA's World Motor Sport Council on Friday that the date of the British F1 Grand Prix would switch to the second weekend in July, as opposed to the first.

MG Xpower driver Anthony Reid clocked up yet another race season in 2003. He was racing for MG Xpower in the hotly contested British Touring Car Championship in the highly popular MG ZS EX261.

Alan Gow showed just how much confidence he has in both his own ability to boost the popularity of motorsport and the future of touring car racing in Britain when he told the audience at the BTCC series' annual awards that the series was poised to re-live the success it enjoyed a decade ago.

SEAT UK will have two official entries in the 2004 British Touring Car Championship [BTCC], driven by Jason Plato and Robert Huff. SEAT Sport will build two Toledo Cupra Rs at its headquarters in Martorell, near Barcelona, especially for the BTCC.

Organisers of Britain's premier motorsport series, the Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship, today announced a major development for the season ahead with the news that host broadcaster, ITV , is significantly increasing its coverage of the championship in 2004.

Team PSP's fledgling driver Fariqe Hairuman has completed his acclimatisation to BTCC circuits with a successful return to Snetterton last week. Running a 2003 BTCC Proton Impian, he recorded competitive times and pronounced himself happy with progress.