Jason Plato came close to securing a dramatic HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship title at Brands Hatch, joining Dan Eaves as only the second man to win all three races on the same day.
Jason Plato has admitted that he should have secured the 2009 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship title after falling just short of overhauling Colin Turkington on a dramatic day at Brands Hatch.
Jason Plato has reduced the gap separating him from the lead in the 2009 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) to just 20 points following victory in race two at Rockingham - a success that marked the 2001 title-winner's 50th career success in the hotly-fought tin-top series.
1. Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT Leon TDi 1min 55.530secs 2. Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT Leon TDi 1min 55.726secs 3. Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT Leon TDi 1min 55.891secs
bamboo engineering have become one of the first teams to commit to the 2010 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship after confirming it will expand to a two-car effort next season.
Jason Plato has insisted that he would never want to benefit from team orders in his bid for glory in the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), adamant that the driver who takes the chequered flag first should be the one who deserves to do so.
1. Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 1min 50.841secs 2. Rob Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1min 51.046secs 3. Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT Leon TDi 1min 51.092secs
Despite speculation to the contrary, Kevin Harvick will drive Richard Childress Racing's #29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet Impala SS in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup campaign, his tenth in the top tier of NASCAR competition.
James Nash has been excluded from the final race of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship meeting at Snetterton following the incident which saw Rob Collard crash out of the lead.
1. Colin Turkington Team RAC BMW 320si 30min 33.757secs I 2. Fabrizio Giovanardi VX Racing Vauxhall Vectra +0.233secs C 3. Matt Neal VX Racing Vauxhall Vectra +0.525secs C
A split within the Tempus Sport team will see Harry Vaulkhard complete the remainder of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship season running with a newly-formed outfit named bamboo engineering.
Body-slamming and bump-drafting were the order of the day at Chicagoland Speedway and 50-year old Mark Martin was the last man standing in a wild LifeLock.com 400.
Fabrizio Giovanardi admitted he was angered by the incident in race three which saw him lose out on vital points in the latest rounds of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park.
Rob Huff has taken the first race win for the Chevrolet Cruze after leading from start to finish in the opening World Touring Car Championship race of the weekend in Morocco.
After failing to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup pole for eight years, Mark Martin now has three in one season, despite being the ninth driver to make a qualifying attempt at the one-mile Phoenix International Raceway on Friday.
Tempus Sport team boss Richard Coleman insists there is plenty more to come from his new outfit following its first outing in the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch.
Jeff Gordon finally broke his 47-race drought, and filled another page in his personal log, by winning for the first time in 17 starts at Texas Motor Speedway and picking up the unique 'cowboy boot' trophy at the Samsung 500.
Jason Plato has been named as the winner of the final HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship race of the weekend at Brands Hatch after initial winner Jonathan Adam was hit with a post race penalty by race officials.
Martin Truex Jr spent most of Saturday night in the emergency room of an Atlanta hospital, waiting to pass a kidney stone that had begun to cause him considerable discomfort during Cup practice earlier in the day.
The handshake was only just beginning to cool after Yates Racing and David Gilliland announced that they were amicably terminating their relationship, when the driver popped in a lap good enough to qualify the #71 TRG Chevrolet for Sunday's Auto Club 500.
Martin Truex Jr and Mark Martin are the two men who know where they'll start next Sunday's Daytona 500, having snared the top two times in qualifying for the blue riband event.