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The 2010 Edition of the British Touring Car Championship kicks off at my old ‘home’ circuit, Thruxton this weekend. Despite Vauxhall departing as a works outfit and the current non-appearance of Champion, Colin Turkington it should be another strong exciting championship with a 23 entry field. The BTCC consists of 30 rounds at 10 venues
BMW continued their winning streak at the last round of the World Touring Car Championship in Brno last weekend. Alessandro Zanardi won the first race of the weekend after starting from third on the grid. The ex IndyCar champion was helped to the win by one of the strangest maneuvers I’ve seen on a track in a long time. Augusto Farfus led from
The British Touring Car Championship visited Yorkshire last weekend where Team RAC and Colin Turkington took the honours in two of the three races, and now leads the championship. Team RAC started race day off in dominant fashion. Colin Turkington leading team-mate Stephen Jelley home from Pole Position in race one. The actual race was shortened after
Valencia, Spain played host to rounds 9 and 10 of the World Touring Car Championship. Following the farce at Pau last month, the series has regrouped and the FIA have revised their Turbo Boost tolerance. This may have taken some of SEAT’s advantage away, but reasonable notice this time allowed the Spanish marquee to adjust their cars. It seemed
After some uncertainty earlier in the month, due to construction work for the 2010 British Grand Prix, the Donington rounds of the British Touring Car Championship took place this past weekend.The series added two new race winners for this season, making 8 winners in 9 races. Current champion, Fabrizio Giovanardi in his 888 Vauxhall Vectra was initially
Chevrolet race team, RML repeated their success in the British Touring Car Championship with two wins and a pole at the Moroccan round of the World Touring Car Championship. The weekend started well for the works Chevrolet team with Rob Huff on pole, with team mate, Alain Menu in 2nd, in front of a group of SEAT’s. The British driver lead from
The high speed Thruxton circuit near Andover played host to rounds 4,5 and 6 of the British Touring Car Championship last weekend. We had three winners – making it six different winners from the first six races. What other championship can claim that? Three new entries this weekend. Matt Jackson (leading, above) joins Jason Plato at RML with the
Rounds 4,5 and 6 of the British Touring Car Championship takes place at Thruxton, the UK's fastest circuit this weekend. We also see the welcome return of 2002 and 2004 BTCC Champion, James Thompson and 2008 Championship runner-up, Matt Jackson. BTCC race winner, Paul O'Neill (aka Mel C's brother) also makes a very welcome return to the
A quick follow-up post, given our World Touring Car Championship Preview, which we posted last week. Despite recent rule revisions, SEAT Sport continued their domination of the WTCC with rounds 1 and 2 of the 2009 season in Curitiba. Current champion Yvan Muller was on Pole Position for race 1, the nearest BMW in 5th place. Muller would take a lights
The 2009 World Touring Car Championship starts this weekend in Curitiba, Brazil with current champion, Yvan Muller hoping to retain the championship. His task will be hard. Its a competitive series and the rules have been tweaked, which has pegged back the performance of his all dominating SEAT Leon TDi. 2008 saw Yvan and SEAT finally beat Andy Priaulx