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The 2012 British Touring Car Championship calendar has been completed, with the Donington Park round’s date now confirmed as April 15th, the date which has been vacated by the World Touring Car Championship.

Silverstone hosts the grand finale of the 2011 British Touring Car Championship season this weekend, with five drivers in contention for the drivers’ title, with the top three of Matt Neal, Jason Plato & Gordon Shedden separated by just five points.

Motorbase Performance have gone all out in bringing in double champion James Thompson to help Mat Jackson fight for the Championship at Silverstone this weekend. Recent events in Sweden show bringing in the right drivers can really help your Championship bid.

Motorbase Performance’s Mat Jackson rules his Championship chance as “90% impossible” coming from 36 points back going into the final race weekend of the year, but believes any trouble at Honda & Chevrolet could play into his hands this weekend as well as help from new team-mate James Thompson.

Development of the Honda Racing Team’s 2012 challenger, the new Honda Civic built to the British Touring Car Championship’s Next Generation Touring Car regulations is already well under way. We talk to the key members of Honda’s technical staff about the development of their first all-new car since 2007.

BTCC Series Director Alan Gow believes up to 50% of the grid could be running the championship’s new Next Generation Touring Car platform cars next season after recent announcements from Honda, Eurotech and Triple Eight that they will switch in 2012.

Championship organiser’s TOCA have released a provisional calendar for the 2012 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, starting in early April and concluding in late October next year.

Gordon Shedden leaves Rockingham just slipping one point to Honda team-mate Matt Neal, holding a joint lead of the championship and taking victory in race two, but could have left with an extended championship lead if not for contact in race three.

Triple Eight Race Engineering driver James Nash has taken his first win at Rockingham, extending his lead in the independent drivers’ standings whilst the Honda duo are now level in the overall standings.