BTCC News

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.

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?

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.

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.

Good ol' Alan Gow has certainly stirred things up in the BTCC arena for the 2004 season. Next season will feature not one, not two, but three races a day meaning there's going to be action aplenty.

Team PSP's new Malaysian driver, Fariqe Hairuman is being put through his paces by Norfolk's top sports fitness trainer before competing in next year's British Touring Car Championship.

The recently announced revisions to the British Touring Car Championship format for 2004 spells an end to the pitstops in which so many races were won or lost in 2003.

MG Sport and Racing visits Oulton Park in Cheshire determined to keep up its recent run of race wins and podium finishes in the British Touring Car Championship.

Since the trying times at Donington Park, Team Petronas Syntium Proton [PSP] has been burning the midnight oil to repair the damage to David Leslie's car. As a result, the cars will be rebuilt to the specification in which they raced at Donington.

Anthony Reid took a weekend out from the British Touring Car Championship to join the MG Mayflower Trophy championship runners when the series visited Scotland's Knockhill circuit this Sunday, to rather a good result for the Scot.

Barwell Motorsport have today confirmed that they will run ETCC-spec Honda Civic Type R's in the 2004 British Touring Car Championship.

Yvan Muller left Brands Hatch with his British Touring Car Championship lead intact, his reputation for possessing a fiery temper equally enhanced, and an eleven-day ban in his back pocket for his involvement in a pit-lane fracas with rival Anthony Reid.

Honda Racing's Alan Morrison benefitted from a fantastic start in the second race of the day and then the last lap contact at Brands Hatch to come home in second place.

Warren Hughes and MG took victory in the first race of the day at Brands Hatch in the British Touring Car Championship.

Vauxhall's James Thompson has qualified on pole position for the first of his two home Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at Croft.

Anthony Reid led the MG qualifying charge under beautiful sunshine at Croft today in a busy qualifying session at the northern-most circuit in the BTCC calendar.

GA Motorsport has announced that it will be running Carl Breeze for the remainder of the 2003 British Touring Car Championship season, after the Norfolk based racer parted company with Team Halfords.