BTCC News

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.

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.

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.

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.

Both Barwell Motorsport drivers, Aaron Slight and Tom Chilton, had their race weekends ruined through the end-of-season driving standards of their rivals in the final BTCC event at Donington Park last weekend.

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.

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.

2002 BTCC, Rd. 20, Sprint Race, Donington Park, 27 laps:

Perseverance in the face of adversity is always a welcome attribute, and perseverance is something that has been very much in evidence in the Team B&Q Jet York City Racing camp during the latter half of, what proved to be, another superb year of competition in the MSA British Touring Car Cham

Temperatures will rise over this weekend at Donington Park as the Green Flag 2002 MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) reaches fever pitch in the grand finale of what has turned out to be the hottest motorsport series this year.

BTCC Independent drivers championship title contender and ex-World Superbike rider Aaron Slight will be launching his Autobiography at Donington on September 20 - 22.

Cruel luck robbed Tom Boardman of his chance to close in on third position in the Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship BTC Production class at Brands Hatch on Monday [August 26].

2002 BTCC, Rd. 17, Sprint Race, Brands Hatch, 26 laps:

Anthony Reid and Warren Hughes gave MG Sport and Racing a fantastic double race victory at Brands Hatch this afternoon after two incident-packed Green Flag BTCC races around the tight 1.2mile Indy Circuit, witnessed by 15,100 enthusiastic spectators.

Previous visits to the famous Brands Hatch circuit have proved to be frustrating experiences for Team B&Q, but the York-based outfit returns to the track for the penultimate rounds of the British Touring Car Championship with a full season of experience under its belt.

Team Halfords 1992 British Touring Car Champion driver Tim Harvey and Team Principle Vic Lee, return to their Kentish roots for the penultimate British Touring Car round at Brands Hatch this coming weekend.

2002 MSA British Touring Car Championship - Round 16, Feature Race, Knockhill, 40 laps:

The notoriously tight and twisty 1.3 mile Knockhill Circuit is the venue for Rounds 15 and 16 of the Green Flag 2002 MSA British Touring Car Championship this weekend (10/11 August), as the UK's premier motorsport series makes its sole visit to the popular Fife venue.

The 13,500 spectators at Snetterton on Sunday could be forgiven for thinking that Team B&Q had put Perry McCarthy and Johnny Herbert in their cars for this meeting as the team's luck had been akin to some of these two perennially unlucky Essex boys more troublesome weekends.