BTCC News

Following the changes to the Formula One calendar with the Silverstone and European races getting different dates, the British Touring Car Championship has made some changes of its own.

British Touring Car Championship stars Tom Chilton, Robert Huff, Matt Neal and Anthony Reid, plus former Champion Tim Harvey, are to appear on Britain's biggest motoring programme Top Gear later this month.

It's looking increasingly likely that Team Varta will not appear in the BTCC next season, with the news that team boss John Batchelor is to spearhead the Brilliance entry into the World Touring Car Championship next season.

Revisions to the 2005 British Touring Car Championship's sporting regulations have been decided which series organisers hope will lead to even better season of racing next year.

While there may be female drivers competing on the Tocatour package, there has now not been a woman in the BTCC itself since Joanna Clarke raced a limited programme for Team B&Q back in 2001.

Australian V8 Supercar competitor for the last six years, former British Touring Car Championship frontrunner and two-time FIA Touring Car World Cup Champion Paul Radisich is considering a return to the UK and European racing.

Newly-crowned as BTCC Independents Class champions, WSR carried its winning ways over the sea to Germany at the weekend, dominating both DPM touring car races at Oschersleben.

After one of the closest title battles the series has ever seen, ITV has announced that it will show a review of the 2004 British Touring Car Championship season at the end of the month.

The 2004 British Touring Car Championship season was "the best we've seen for many years", according to series director Alan Gow.

After clinching the BTCC Independent title at Donington Park, Anthony Reid and the West Surrey Racing team will face a new challenge this weekend when they head to Germany to compete in the German Production Car Championship (DPM).

Fresh from securing third place in the BTCC standings at Donington Park, Jason Plato proved his crowd-pleasing versatility at Brands Hatch at the weekend when he swapped his SEAT touring car for Volkswagen's Caddy racing van, in the VW Racing Cup.

The rear wheel driver Lexus IS200, which last raced in the BTCC back in 2001, could be set for a return to the championship next season.

Colin Turkington has been confirmed as driving for VX Racing next season alongside 2003 champion Yvan Muller.

The final weekend of the 2004 British Touring Car Championship saw Rob Collard take two top ten finishes, leading him to declare Donington Park 'one of our strongest meetings of the year'.

It's almost inconcievable that the 2004 British Touring Car Championship could ahve been any closer. Not only did the title go down to the last race, it could have been decided as late as the very last lap with a point being available for the fastest lap in the BTCC's final race this season.

Jason Plato set the fastest time in the mixed conditions of qualifying for the final day of racing in the British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park.

Gavin Pyper will return to the British Touring Car Championship this weekend after a lengthy absence from the series.

British Touring Car Championship frontrunner Jason Plato is to stranger to delivering the goods on the track - and at Brands Hatch next month he will get the perfect opportunity to do so when he takes the wheel of Volkswagen's van-tastic Caddy TDI racer.

The announcement of the 2005 British Touring Car Championship calendar last week has annoyed one particular race circuit to the extent of issuing a statement on their website.

Charlie Cox, the voice of British Touring Cars in the late nineties, will commentate on the first ever BTCC Masters race at Donington Park.

Anthony Reid goes into the BTCC finale at Donington Park at the end of the month as the only non Vauxhall driver still in with a chance of taking the championship.

SEAT's Cupra Cup championship, which gave the British Touring Car Championship Brands Hatch race winner, Rob Huff, sees all its cars up for sale for next season but it remains on the BTCC support package.

Sureterm Direct has joined the WSR MG British Touring Car Championship team for the final six races of the season at Snetterton and at Donington Park.

The Wiltshire circuit of Castle Combe could be set to see the British Touring Car Championship action in 2005 as the series has yet to be confirmed at MotorSport Vision venues for next season.