Welcome to the first TouringCarTimes rankings! Lists and rankings are popular and we decided to introduce our own list. We will rank the two most impressive drivers and/or teams and the most unimpressive driver/team. DTM, WTCC and STCC will start off getting the harsh but honest rankings! –DTM– – Bernd Schneider Quite obvious. Schneider has … More »
The FIA World Touring Car Championship goes to London again. After last year’s successful event in Leicester Square, a special event has been organised to promote the third race meeting of the season: the WTCC Betandwin.com Race of UK that will take place at Brands Hatch on May 20 and 21. On Thursday, May 18, … More »
GR Asia’s Tom Coronel will switch to a brand new SEAT León from the event in Brands Hatch; in the two previous meetings the Dutch driver was at the wheel of a SEAT Toledo Cupra. The León should be a big boost for his hopes to grab the WTCC Independents’ Trophy. “I’m very much looking … More »
New weights for the coming race have been calculated. Andy Priaulx will, at his home event Brands Hatch, be carrying the heaviest handicap weight of the field onboard his BMW Team UK car. The reigning World Champion who is currently leading the Drivers’ classification after winning Race 2 in Magny-Cours, has been given 70 extra … More »
Matt Neal (Droitwich) and an emotional Mike Jordan (Sutton Coldfield) shared the victories in today’s three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at the Mondello Park circuit in Ireland. Two wins and then a third have catapulted reigning Champion Neal from fifth into the lead of the Drivers’ standings, following a heavy crash in … More »
Reigning Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Champion Matt Neal has qualified on pole position for the first of the championship’s three rounds at Ireland’s Mondello Park circuit tomorrow (Sunday). Neal, driving his Team Halfords Honda Integra, needed to set the BTCC’s fastest ever lap time around Mondello of 1m45.333s to achieve pole. Just fractionally slower … More »
Reigning Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Champion Matt Neal has aired his frustration at crashing out of yesterday’s third round at Brands Hatch. Neal had just muscled his way past Team RAC MG driver Rob Collard for second place. But as the two drivers approached Paddock Hill Bend, their two cars touched and Neal’s Team … More »
James Thompson has won today’s (Sunday) second round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent. Thompson (Harrogate), driving SEAT’s new Leon model, led all the way from pole position to add to the victory he achieved in the day’s first race. Colin Turkington (Portadown), in Team RAC’s … More »
Jason Plato has won the third of today’s three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent. Plato (Oxford), driving a SEAT Leon, overtook Rob Collard’s Team RAC MG and Tom Chilton’s Vauxhall Astra to cruise to victory. But officials ended the race four laps early after reigning Champion … More »
The entry list for this year’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship has been released today (Tuesday) at Brands Hatch – 11 days before the world-famous circuit in Kent stages the BTCC’s opening three rounds on 9 April. Nineteen cars are so far entered for 2006 BTCC’s ten race meetings that during the season will … More »