Damn lies and statistics: Matt Neal might have won the Drivers’ title, but how did he fair against his rivals when it came to race wins or laps led for example during 2006’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship?
Race wins are clearly a great way to put together a title challenge and Neal and championship [...]

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The debut of the Motorbase Performance SEAT Cupra Toledo in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship on Sunday couldn’t have gone much better.
The team, which is expanding its BTCC operation next season to run three ex-works Toledos, decided to enter one of its new machines into the final races at Silverstone, Northamptonshire, to see [...]

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Double Silverstone winner Gareth Howell says it is important for him to have a full-time drive in 2007’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship with Team Halfords agreed this side of Christmas.
Just as in 2005, Howell was drafted into Halfords’ line-up in the second of this season to boost its chances of retaining the Teams’ [...]

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Birmingham racer Adam Jones crashed out of last weekends Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship before qualifying had got underway. In a bizarre practise incident Adam’s Air cool Engineering sponsored Lexus IS200 was forced of the track by…

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Nick Leason says the fans’ support at Silverstone’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship meeting last Sunday more than made up for the disappointment of not being able to contest the final round after his car lost a wheel on the way to the grid.
Leason and his Daniels Motorsport team were cheered by thousands of [...]

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Reigning Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Champion Matt Neal believes SEAT will have an advantage over his Team Halfords squad as it gears up to win a third successive title in 2007.
Neal and Team Halfords, using their BTC Touring-spec Honda Integra, made history by achieving second successive Drivers’ and Teams’ titles in front of a [...]

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Matt Neal has become the first driver in the modern era to successfully defend the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship title after Team Halfords concluded another dominant season of racing with three victories at Silverstone.
As well as Matt’s drivers’ title - which makes him the first back-to-back champion since Chris Hodgetts in 1986/87 - [...]

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Martyn Bell said he was happy with his performance on Finals Day for the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship as the Barrow-upon-Humber racer brought his first season in the BTCC to a close.
Armed with new suspension on the ex-WTCC BMW 320i, Martyn was hopeful of an improvement in performance in the final race of [...]

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(Update 16/10/06 15:20p.m.) Following an accident in the second race of yesterday’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship meeting, Mike Jordan was airlifted to Coventry hospital with a significant head injury and a punctured lung.
The Team Eurotech Honda Integra driver was involved in an accident with Jason Plato and James Thompson, triggered when Plato’s car [...]

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Vauxhall finished its 2006 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship campaign on a high at Silverstone this afternoon, finishing on the podium in all three races.
Tom Chilton delivered two third places for the Luton-based manufacturer and Fabrizio Giovanardi racked up his seventh podium in this, his debut BTCC year.
The Italian’s result elevates him to fifth [...]

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