BTCC News

Yvan Muller left Brands Hatch with his British Touring Car Championship lead intact, his reputation for possessing a fiery temper equally enhanced, and an eleven-day ban in his back pocket for his involvement in a pit-lane fracas with rival Anthony Reid.

Honda Racing's Alan Morrison benefitted from a fantastic start in the second race of the day and then the last lap contact at Brands Hatch to come home in second place.

Warren Hughes and MG took victory in the first race of the day at Brands Hatch in the British Touring Car Championship.

Vauxhall's James Thompson has qualified on pole position for the first of his two home Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at Croft.

Anthony Reid led the MG qualifying charge under beautiful sunshine at Croft today in a busy qualifying session at the northern-most circuit in the BTCC calendar.

GA Motorsport has announced that it will be running Carl Breeze for the remainder of the 2003 British Touring Car Championship season, after the Norfolk based racer parted company with Team Halfords.

Three weeks on from its gusty performance at Rockingham where a win had been in the offing until the appearance of the safety car, MG Sport and Racing head to Croft near Darlington for rounds 11 and 12 of the BTCC.

Honda Racing's British Touring Car Championship drivers Alan Morrison and Tom Chilton will make special guest appearances at the Max Power Live Show at the NEC in Birmingham this weekend [4-6 July].

For BTCC driver Phil Bennett a weekend off from Britain's premier saloon car series usually means yet more racing. This past weekend it was Snetterton and the Willhire 500...

Michael Bentwood is still optimistic he can regain his lead at the top of the British Touring Car Championship table despite a dramatic crash in Round 11 at Rockingham last weekend.

With driver Paul Wallace moving up to the Touring class Astra at GA Motorsport team boss Gary Ayles now has to weigh up two possibilities with his Production class Alfa Romeo 156s; the BTCC or ETCC?

Anthony Reid and Warren Hughes brought the black and green MG colour scheme to the second podium of the day at Rockingham today, after a race that Anthony Reid so easily could have won.

Team Varta's Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship Production class squad is expected to double in size to four cars from the series' next round at Croft.

GA Motorsports will field both their Vauxhall Astra Coupes for the remainder of the Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship season when their Production class driver Paul Wallace moves up a step to partner Gavin Pyper at the next round at Croft on 12th/13th July.

Vauxhall Racing is currently enjoying continued success in the 2003 British Touring Car Championship and, as the series heads towards the halfway point at Rockingham Motor Speedway, Vauxhall will celebrate the company's centenary at this race event with a display of heritage cars.

Rob Collard took second place in the Independents' Cup category in round eight of the British Touring Car Championship at Silverstone yesterday, a fitting reward for the Hampshire driver and his team who worked flat out to completely rebuild his Vauxhall Astra after a huge accident at Thruxton tw

Team Halfords tried a radical new set-up on its Peugeot 307 hot hatches at Silverstone for rounds seven and eight of the Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship, but things still didn't go the team's way.

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.

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.

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.

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.