BTCC News

Colin Turkington gave MG Sport and Racing their first podium finish of the 2003 British Touring Car Championship with third place in round seven at Silverstone today. Colin's joy was team-mate Warren Hughes' disappointment, Warren retiring from third with two laps to go.

British Motorsport Promoters [BMP] today [Thursday] announced a revised management structure for the Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship that will see Alan Gow return as Championship Administrator.

The first race of the day proved to be very short for two MG drivers and full of battle for the third today at Hampshire's Thruxton race circuit.

Yvan Muller may have an impressive race record in Hampshire, and the Frenchman may have led the two free practice sessions of the day, but it was James Thompson who emerged the leading VX Racing car qualifying at Thruxton today.

Honda's Matt Neal will start the fifth round of the British Touring Car Championship from pole position after setting the fastest time in qualifying ahead of reigning champion James Thompson's Vauxhall.

MG's British Touring Car Championship effort of Anthony Reid, Colin Turkington and Warren Hughes head this weekend to a track where the MG has excelled in the past, Brands Hatch.

It was a weekend of mixed fortunes for Petronas Syntium Proton drivers David Leslie and Phil Bennett. Leslie managed to rallycross his way into the points whereas Bennett was forced into an unusual route on to the podium at Mondello Park.

Current Independent British Touring Car champion 'Team Halfords', sponsored by the automotive retail giant, confirms its entrance in the 2003 Green Flag backed BTCC after a phenomenally successful 2002 season both on and off track.

Last week saw the official launch of the British Touring Car Championship for 2003. Crash.net was there, ladder in hand, to catch up with the tallest driver in the series, Matt Neal.

MG XPOWER driver Warren Hughes topped the times yesterday at Brands Hatch at the afternoon test following the media launch day for the 2003 British Touring Car Championship.

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MG Sport & Racing confirmed they are continuing their association with Warren Hughes and Anthony Reid as works drivers for the 2003 Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship.

Synchro Honda Racing - formerly Synchro Motorsport - have confirmed that they will graduate to the British Touring Car Championship Touring Class for the 2003 season.

British Touring Car Championship supreme Richard West visited a cold and windy Thruxton this week to see some of the teams contesting the series trying out there 2003 cars. Before he left, Crash.net asked a few questions in this exclusive interview about the forthcoming season.

CMS Motorsport has joined forces with cancer charity, Macmillan Cancer Relief to take on the best of British Motorsport in the 2003 British Touring Car Championship. Team Macmillan will enter a specially branded Ford Focus Macmillan car in the Production Class category of the series.

It is with great sadness that we must report the death of renowned racing driver Will Hoy, a former star of sportscars and the British Touring Car Championship.

Warren Hughes is one of MG Sport and Racing's race-winning British Touring Car Championship drivers - the Geordie completing his first full year of the series in the MG ZS EX260.

Honda (UK) has confirmed that it will be renewing its attack on the British Touring Car Championship with a pair of Civic Type Rs and a familiar engineering base in 2003.

TOCA have announced a deal which will see Dunlop become the sole supplier pf tyres for the British Touring Car Championship. The four-year deal sees Dunlop Tyres Ltd. replace BF Goodrich as tyre supplier to the UK's premier saloon championship.

British Motorsport Promoters have announced the 2003 British Touring Car Championship calendar. Major changes from this season are the annual visit to Mondello Park in Eire moving to open the season on Easter weekend, while the final round will be at Oulton Park in Cheshire.

BTCC race winner and Team PSP driver Phil Bennett will take on some of Europes best tin-top drivers this weekend in a one off outing in the Renault Sport Clio Trophy race at Donington, driving the Mark Fish Motorsport Clio V6 campaigned by Paul Lomax at the start of this season.

Vauxhall Motorsport's James Thompson was finally crowned the 2002 Green Flag British Touring Car Champion at Donington Park on Sunday [22nd September] giving the popular Yorkshire driver the coveted title in this, his ninth year of trying.

In one of the drives of the season, Warren Hughes brought his MG ZS through the British Touring Car Championship field at Donington Park in the final race of the season to take second place from 15th on the grid.

Warren Hughes' MG ZS Touring Car bore a change of livery for Donington Park's final two British Touring Car Championship races, after his WSR crew made a few alterations in honour of the Geordie's forthcoming wedding.