BTCC News

Doctors have told John B&Q that he must not compete at this weekend's British Touring Car Championship event at Thruxton in Hampshire following his high speed collision with the tyre barriers at Oulton Park two weeks ago.

The number of MG ZS Touring Cars on the BTCC grid doubles this weekend with the debut of Team Atomic Kitten at Oulton Park.

Oulton Park this weekend sees the BTCC's new ballast weight rules applying during qualifying for the first time.

The British Touring Car Championship returns to the scenic Oulton Park Island Circuit in Cheshire for rounds 3 and 4 of the Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship this weekend, the 20th and 21st April.

The MG ZS EX260's return to Brands Hatch this weekend driven by Anthony Reid and Warren Hughes. MG made headlines at the circuit last year when Anthony secured their first ever race victory in the BTCC.

Rob Collard will be out at Brands Hatch this Easter weekend for a second season in the Production Class of the BTCC.

A new team in the BTCC this season are Production Class contenders Beacon Motorsport. Running Honda Accords, the team have signed up two drivers from last year's Lotus one-make championship, Spencer Marsh and Mark Thomas.

Mike Nicholson, Vauxhall's Motorsport Operations Manager, spoke exclusively to Crash at this week's 2002 BTCC launch, the marque out to defend the titles they won last season with their dominant Astra Coupes.

The annual British Touring Car launch day marked an historic occasion as an eight-week old team confirmed its entry and took to the track.

Granada Sport has revealed the team that will front its exciting new coverage of the 2002 MSA British Touring Car Championship on all the major regions of the ITV1 network.

Watford-based TH Motorsport has confirmed that it will run a production class Mitsubishi Carisma in selected rounds of the 2002 British Touring Car Championship.

The newest marque to enter BTCC was unveiled today [Wednesday] in central London, just hours before the team joins other challengers for the first official BTCC test day.

The two Team PSP Proton Impians will be numbered 15 and 20 this season, following a request from new team principal David Wong.

BTCC Touring Class graduate Barwell Motorsport has secured the services of ex-World Superbike star and 2001 Peugeot BTCC driver, Aaron Slight, to fill its remaining Vauxhall Astra seat for 2002.

Ulsterman Colin Turkington is one of the duo of young chargers who will be racing the Team Atomic Kitten MG Touring Cars in this season's British Touring Car Championship.

Coventry based race team VLR, who contended the 2001 BTC Touring category under the Peugeot Sport banner, have ended speculation this week and confirmed the squad for the 2002 British Touring Car Championship season.

The provisional entry list for the 2002 MSA British Touring Car Championship has been issued, with a total of 29 cars entered so far. Opening races of the ten meeting season are on Monday April 1st, at Brands Hatch.

MG Sport and Racing have announced that a new independent team will be running two of the already race winning MG ZS's in this year's British Touring Car Championship.

MG Sport and Racing were testing the MG ZS EX259 Touring Car at Thruxton this week - a rare chance to run at the high-speed Hampshire circuit. We asked Warren Hughes about the test, and also the importance of pit-stops, a feature of the BTCC races the team are preparing to contest...

The Lexus IS200 model that brought variety to the Touring Class of last year's BTCC will be back on the track in 2002.

Terry Grant debuted his MG XPOWER Legend at the Road Racing and Superbike Show at Alexandra Palace in London last weekend, putting on a stunning display with the MG XPOWER Girls for the large crowd.

Ian Harrison - Team Director of Triple Eight Race Engineering, who dominated the 2001 BTCC with their Vauxhall Astra Coupes - has now taken control of the team, having bought out the holdings of former Chairman Derek Warwick and Managing Director Roland Dane.

Andy Priaulx will, as expected, lead Honda's return to the British Touring Car Championship in 2002. The Guernseyman has been confirmed as the team's lead driver for the forthcoming season, when Honda will return to the BTCC with a pair of Civics run by the Arena Motorsport outfit.

Egg will partner with Triple Eight Race Engineering, the team responsible for the works Vauxhall Astra Coupes in the BTCC, for the second year running in 2002.