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Airwaves Racing is hoping to kick off its season proper at Thruxton after two challenging race weekends so far in the 2013 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
The team has grappled with both set-up and reliability issues up to now, but is quietly confident that this weekend at Thruxton in Hampshire (4-5 May) will see a reversal in fortunes.
The Motorbase squad has a good record at Thruxton, with Mat Jackson taking a second place in 2011 and a win in 2012 driving the S2000 specification Ford Focus ST. Jackson is adamant that this must be the turning point in…
Former BTCC champion Colin Turkington claimed his first victory since his championship winning campaign back in 2009 after a faultless drive in the final race at Donington Park. The result also marks the first win for the new eBay Motors BMW 125i M Sport.Honda Yuasa Racing completed the podium order after both Gordon Shedden and Matt Neal muscled past the MG of Sam Tordoff on the final lap.
Starting from the front row, Turkington blasted by pole-sitter Tom Onslow-Cole off the line and immediately pulled clear. Onslow-Cole held on bravely in the early running as he fought off multiple challenges from…
Jason Plato leads the 2013 Dunlop MSA
British Touring Car Championship after taking two wins from the opening three
races of the season on the Brands Hatch Indy circuit.
Matt Neal led home Honda Yuasa Racing
team-mate Gordon Shedden in the final race to ensure the champion squad ended a
challenging weekend on a high. Fellow Honda Civic driver Andrew Jordan is
second in the standings after securing a pole position, two second places and a
sixth from the weekend.
Plato won the opening race of the year
after coming out on top of a pulsating battle with Jordan. Rob Austin had led
the early running in his Audi A4…
Thirty-two cars confirmed
for this year’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship
The Dunlop MSA British
Touring Car Championship (BTCC) has today (Thursday 21 March) announced
both a record and capacity 32-car entry list for the upcoming 2013 season.
An incredible 13 models from
11 different marques are entered, including both Honda and MG as official
…
After Rob Collard secured two stunning wins in his eBay
Motors BMW, one question begs to be asked amongst British Touring Car
Championship fans…
…How many more bids would his 320i ever receive on the
auction website today, after a memorable weekend at Knockhill?!
The Surrey speedster and, in front of his home crowd, Dave
Newsham shared the wins in today’s races at Fife’s spectacular circuit -
attended by huge numbers of people including Olympic cycling gold medal winner
Sir Chris Hoy MBE. Meanwhile the main title protagonists - Matt Neal, Gordon
Shedden and Jason Plato - all experienced a number of highs and lows.…
With a nation still wiping their tears from an emotional end
to a glorious Olympic Games, sports fans can console themselves with one
thought…
…The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship is starting
to hot up nicely with four more race weekends left.
The latest round of racing at Snetterton showcased the very
best of Britain’s premier motor racing series, with Dave Newsham and Andrew
Jordan recording stand-out victories along with the predatory Jason Plato.…
Audi A4 star Rob Austin
has secured a HiQ hat-trick by winning the brand’s latest champagne moment
award for the third time of his Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship
career.
The Evesham speedster
underlined his status as a fans’ favourite and one of the most talented drivers
on the grid with a landslide win in HiQ’s latest poll, which attracted more
than 500 votes â€" the highest of the season.
Austin polled a whopping
71 per cent of all votes, with Andy Neate second (15 per cent) and Jason Plato
third (nine per cent).…
It
was a Sunday sporting spectacle full of tension, drama and excitement - without
a single damn penalty kick in sight!
Unlike
the nation’s faltering football team, the fifth round of Dunlop MSA British
Touring Car Championship was an unadulterated viewing pleasure at Croft form
start to finish.
The
series’ ‘golden generation’ of Matt Neal, Gordon Shedden and Jason Plato also
lived up to all the hype, sharing the three wins to leave the drivers’ title
finely poised.…