BTCC News

The announcement of the 2005 British Touring Car Championship calendar last week has annoyed one particular race circuit to the extent of issuing a statement on their website.

Charlie Cox, the voice of British Touring Cars in the late nineties, will commentate on the first ever BTCC Masters race at Donington Park.

Anthony Reid goes into the BTCC finale at Donington Park at the end of the month as the only non Vauxhall driver still in with a chance of taking the championship.

SEAT's Cupra Cup championship, which gave the British Touring Car Championship Brands Hatch race winner, Rob Huff, sees all its cars up for sale for next season but it remains on the BTCC support package.

Sureterm Direct has joined the WSR MG British Touring Car Championship team for the final six races of the season at Snetterton and at Donington Park.

The Wiltshire circuit of Castle Combe could be set to see the British Touring Car Championship action in 2005 as the series has yet to be confirmed at MotorSport Vision venues for next season.

British Touring Car Championship contender Michael Bentwood may have thought he was going to start the second race of the day at Brands Hatch from pole after taking the coveted tenth place in race one, but the series officials had different ideas.

The Peugeot 307 will return to the BTCC this weekend at Brands Hatch after Team Varta announced that it is to replace its ETCC spec Honda Civic Type-R with the ex Dan Eaves car used by VLR last season.

John Cleland will go into his "most important race for years" at the end of season Masters event determined to prove he has lost none of his speed.

TOCA has announced the next six drivers who will race in the end of season 'BTCC Masters' event at the last round of the 2004 season at Donington Park.

Paul O'Neill is on the lookout for a BTCC drive after finally getting his racing licence back. The popular scouser was forced to sit out the season with illness but is now out to reclaim his place on the grid.

It's taken a lot of hard work overnight from the VX Racing team but James Thompson will take to the grid for today's BTCC races at Knockhill.

British Touring Car stalwart James Thompson is set to launch an attack on the 2005 World Touring Car Championship with Alfa Romeo in 2005 according to a report in today's Motorsport News.

The debate over tactics in the BTCC rages on after Jason Plato again manipulated the finishing positions of race one to gain a better grid slot for race two.

Anthony Reid has attacked Tom Chilton after an incident with the Honda driver ruined his final race at Croft.

After the six week break from action in the British Touring Car Championship it was back to business for VX Racing at Croft on Saturday and whilst his team-mate Yvan Muller is ahead of him on the grid, James Thompson is gunning for victory at his home circuit.

John George believes that the new Mardi Gras Peugeot 406 is a "100 percent" improvement on the Honda Civic Type-R that the team started the BTCC season with.

Until the BTCC went to Mondello Park, the rivalry between former Vauxhall teammates Yvan Muller and Jason Plato had been surprisingly quiet.

Renault were undoubtedly one of the top teams during the so called heydays of the British Touring Car Championship in the 1990s.

MG XPower girl racer Fiona Leggate hopes to be on a touring car grid one day and she achieved part of that dream when the series visited Ireland and the Mondello race circuit.

Jason Plato is looking forward to a third attempt at the famous Bathurst 1000 after yesterday's announcement of his entry into the race.

As if the resumption of hostilities in Mondello between 2000 BTCC champion Jason Plato and reigning champion Yvan Muller wasn't enough, the pair are set to do battle down under in Australia's most famous motor race, the Bathurst 1000k.

Works Honda British Touring Car Championship driver Tom Chilton took time out from his preparations for this weekend's races at Mondello Park to appear on British television channel ITV 's popular Saturday morning show, Ministry of Mayhem.

The greatest names in British Touring Car history will clash at Donington Park's final championship meeting this season, when champions from the past 14 years go head to head with other notable past BTCC drivers in a spectacular and unique 'BTCC Masters' event.