BTCC News

First picture of BMW racer Martyn Bell in the ex-Dirk Muller World Touring Car Championship Schnitzer BMW 320 in which he will race in the 2006 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.

BMW racer Martyn Bell has announced he will make his Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship debut in 2006. Bell will be teaming up with his long term friend and mentor, ex BTCC racer Geoff Steel for his 2006 campaign.

Team Eurotech have released an illustration of what their Honda Integra R will look like in 2006.

Following John Grant's decision not to stand for a second term as chairman of the UK's Motor Sports Association, touring car guru Alan Gow has been appointed as his successor.

by Andy Stobart

As well as making the decision to go Super 2000 with the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, a meeting between the BTCC teams and TOCA has seen a number of changes made to the championships technical and sporting regulations - the most notable change relating to the third race reverse gr

Whilst the entire grid of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship will be treated to some twenty MAXIM 'Little Black Book' girls for the season finale at Brands Hatch, one squad's gone a little further and comandeered the girls for their own Roadshow stand...

Maxim magazine are to supply grid girls for the final round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch this weekend.

The British Touring Car Championship makes a return to the BBC with Team Halfords driver Dan Eaves appearing on prime time on Britain's oldest and favourite television channel with his role in Road Rage School.

Tom Chilton picked up two podium finishes to bring his 2005 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship campaign to a close at Silverstone, although it was an incident with SEAT driver Jason Plato in the second race which was the biggest talking point of the weekend for the Arena Motorsports driv

An estimated 15,000 people packed into central Milton Keynes last night as the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship put on its second spectacular street display of the season ahead of this weekends race meeting at Silverstone.

Some would argue that he has had to deal with 'road rage' on track on more than one occasion this season, so Team Halfords Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship driver Dan Eaves should be well suited to his role as an expert driver on the new BBC1 prime time television show Road R

Following on from the hugely successful quayside demonstration in NewcastleGateshead in July, and the Forth Road Bridge crossing last weekend, the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship is to hold its second city centre demonstration run in Milton Keynes ahead of the next round of the year a

Former Team Atomic Kitten team-mates Colin Turkington and Gareth Howell staged a front row lockout after qualifying for the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Knockhill in Scotland.

It was a case of the lighter SEAT Toledo in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship being quick at the hands of Jason Plato in the second free practice session at Knockhill, but for team-mate James Pickford it seems the car might have been a little too light...

Despite their well-publicised and frequent spats, Jason Plato has given his support to Yvan Muller's title campaign as the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship takes to its third from last round at Knockhill in Scotland.

Whether it is Jason Plato living it up in his Monaco residence or Yvan Muller relaxing with his donkey in France, the stars of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship have little to complain about when it comes to their lifestyle away from the rigours of motor racing.

Current Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship leaders Team Halfords will be testing their Team-Dynamics built Honda Type-R Integras against the very best hillclimb cars in the country as they attend the Shelsley Walsh 100 years of Speed Hill Climbing next weekend.

One quick glance at the standings for the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship highlights a number of drivers that you would expect to be fighting for title glory.

Having starred in the two practice sessions prior to qualifying at Snetterton in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, James Pickford's hopes of a good place on the grid for his SEAT were ruined after he missed the weighbridge coming into the pit lane in the closing minutes.

Yvan Muller says taking his new pet donkey for a walk helps him shed his tough guy image and relax away from Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship races.

Despite coming up through the field to score his first British Touring Car Championship podium since the opening round at Donington Park, West Surrey Racing's Rob Collard returns from Mondello Park particularly incensed about the driving standards in the third race that very nearly forced him int

Following some rather fierce words being exchanged across the paddock last time out at Croft, the Team Dynamics and Jason Plato saga once again made the headlines at Mondello Park when both Hondas and the SEAT came together in the final race of the day.

Two prominent motorsport figures - BTCC team boss Vic Lee and corporate entertainment promoter Gerry Mahony - were among four men who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking offences that led to combined prison sentences exceeding 38 years.