Eoin Murray will not race in Brands Hatch’s opening rounds tomorrow after a qualifying accident badly damaged his Quest Racing Alfa Romeo 156.
Murray crashed into the barriers at Clearways after losing control of his 156 when its front suspension broke.
“I’m gutted – I’m confident we could have qualified inside the top eight,” said the 24-year-old [...]

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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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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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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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Jason Plato says it will be vital for SEAT to dominate Brands Hatch’s opening Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds just as it did in 2006 as some circuits later in the season could see it lose ground in the title race.
SEAT’s Leon model won five of last year’s six BTCC rounds around Brands [...]

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Saturday qualifying will be “crucial” to the outcome of Sunday’s three opening Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at Brands Hatch on 1 April, according one of the top race engineers in the pit lane.
SEAT’s Piers Phillips believes a cool-headed will pay dividends when a record 26-strong field of drivers takes to Brands Hatch’s [...]

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Vauxhall’s Fabrizio Giovanardi worked magic at Brands Hatch this afternoon, turning an unpromising qualifying into the Luton-marque’s 101st British Touring Car Championship victory.
The Italian’s success was at the expense of team-mate, Tom Chilton, who led the race until two laps from the end. The 21-year-old had been struggling with gear shift problems for several minutes [...]

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Fabrizio Giovanardi has won the third of today’s (Sunday) three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent.
Italian Giovanardi took over the lead from team-mate Tom Chilton in the closing laps to give Vauxhall its 101st win in the BTCC.
Second and third were Team Halfords Honda driver Gordon Shedden [...]

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Jason Plato has added to his race one victory with another win in the second of today’s (Sunday) three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent.
Plato, from Oxford, again led all the way from pole position to consolidate his second position in the championship. He also set the [...]

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