More awards for Champion Turkington

BTCC Champion Colin Turkington has received two more titles, with readers of TouringCarTimes.com voting him BTCC Driver of the Year 2009. Following on from his memorable title triumph, Turkington received nearly 40% of the vote to see him take the main award as voted for by you, while 33% of the vote was enough to see the Northern Irishman also crowned BTCC Privateer Driver of the Year.

Turkington received 37.4% of the vote in the Driver of the Year category, beating Jason Plato, on 28.5%, into second place, just as he did in the BTCC. Third was Airwaves BMW driver Rob Collard, who claimed 12% of the vote.

In the Privateer category, Turkington also saw off Plato and Collard into second and third, to complete a sweep of the awards he was eligible for.

The other driver award went the way of Jonathan Adam, who claimed the Rookie of the Year title with over 50% of the vote, beating competition from James Nash and former Grand Prix driver Johnny Herbert.

Adam made an instant impact on the BTCC in 2009, winning on the road in race three at Brands Hatch, before being demoted to second for tagging Plato into a spectacular slide at Paddock Hill Bend.

Vauxhall may have won the BTCC’s Manufacturers’ Crown, but BMW claimed the TouringCarTimes version of the award, with over 40% of the reader’s vote. Chevrolet proved to be the second most popular make of car in the awards, with Vauxhall down in third place with only 8% of votes cast.

It wasn’t a clean sweep for BMW drivers and teams though, with the Racing Silverline team claiming the Best Team in the BTCC award. The RML run team, who ran Chevrolet Lacetti’s for Jason Plato and Mat Jackson, narrowly beat competition from a pair of BMW outfits in Dick Bennetts’ Team RAC and David Bartrum’s Airwaves squad.

Thanks to everyone who voted, and keep checking back to TouringCarTimes for reactions to the awards, as well as the results of the DTM Awards.