Launching a new car in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship is no mean feat but VX Racing seems to be on the right lines with the new Vectra, which qualified on the second and third rows at Brands Hatch today.
The introduction of S2000 rules for 2007, as used in the FIA World Touring [...]

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Northern Irishman Colin Turkington has taken pole position for tomorrow’s opening round of the 2007 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent.
Turkington, from Portadown, set pole position in a time of 49.532s in Team RAC’s BMW 320si E90. Second fastest, just 0.016s slower, was the SEAT of Jason Plato [...]

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Jason Plato has dismissed Matt Neal’s claims that he won’t be able to handle the pressure from new SEAT team-mate Darren Turner in 2007’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
Reigning champion Neal believes Turner’s arrival at SEAT, where he has been granted equal ‘number one’ status, could lead to Plato “self-destructing”.
Plato, said Neal, found it [...]

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Reigning champion Matt Neal has said arch rival Jason Plato will “self-destruct” in 2007 because he won’t be able to handle the pressure he’ll be under from new team-mate Darren Turner.
Ex-McLaren Formula 1 test team driver Turner has been granted equal ‘number one’ status alongside Plato in SEAT’s Dunlop British Touring Car squad.
And Neal believes [...]

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Series returnee John George believes he creep into the points in this Sunday’s opening Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at Brands Hatch, while fellow Honda Integra driver and newcomer Simon Blanckley says just being on the grid will be a dream come true.
George has bought Matt Neal’s 2006 title-winning Honda Integra, being run [...]

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Team RAC boss Dick Bennetts has effectively ruled out hopes of a victory in this Sunday’s opening Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at Brands Hatch.
Bennetts says development of his squad’s new, 2007-spec BMW 320si E90s is behind schedule , meaning team-mates Colin Turkington and Tom Onslow-Cole will be under strict instructions to simply [...]

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VX Racing is starting the 2007 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season with high hopes, after introducing its brand-new Vauxhall Vectra.
2006 saw Vauxhall score its landmark 100th victory at Knockhill and the Luton-based manufacturer is looking to start where it left off.
Italian multiple touring car champion, Fabrizio Giovanardi, collated important information throughout the [...]

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Confidence high after successful Spanish test
Martyn Bell will head into his second season in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship with his confidence ‘higher than ever’ following a successful test session in Spain.
The Barrow-upon-Humber racer spent time at both Albacete and Valencia in his Team AllAboutProperty.com BMW 320i along with new driver coach Kelvin [...]

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Rising star Eoin Murray says he’ll be proud to fly the Irish flag in this year’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
Dubliner Murray will again race his Alfa Romeo 156 for the Quest Racing team and believes top six results are possible after instantly emerging as top ten runner when he debuted mid-way through last [...]

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Mat Jackson says condensing 26 drivers onto Brands Hatch short 1.2-mile Indy circuit Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship qualifying this Saturday “will be like the M25 on steroids”.
Highly-rated newcomer Jackson believes Saturday’s qualifying session, with 26 drivers all rushing to set their fastest lap times for a decent starting grid on Sunday, will make [...]

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