http://www.btccaction.co.uk Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:22:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With 600 racing laps completed during the 2008 season, Jason Plato is the man who led the most racing laps, crossing the line first on 171 occasions. The SEAT driver also finished the season with an impressive win count, taking 8 race victories. We bring you the most interesting, and ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/10/16/more-2008-statistics Over the course of 10 qualifying sessions this year and hundreds of laps, SEAT's Darren Turner has emerged with the season's best qualifying record, narrowly pipping team-mate Jason Plato to the top spot. This comes despite the fact that Turner only secured 2 pole positions to Plato's 3. Tom Onslow-Cole was ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/10/12/btcc-supergrid-stats-revealed Andrew Jordan is set to race a Vauxhall Vectra in next year's Independents Trophy, with support from Triple Eight Race Engineering as much as is allowed under the current regulations. The Eurotech-John Guest Racing driver, who finished 13th in this year's driver's championship and 6th in the independent driver's championship, will ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/10/01/jordan-to-race-eurotech-vectra-in-09 Vauxhall's Fabrizio Giovanardi has taken victory in the wet in the second race of the day, his fifth of the season, ahead of Team RAC's Colin Turkington and Adam Jones. Click here for full Round 26 results. Giovanardi's win was surrounded in controversy, however, after the Italian twice made contact with SEAT's ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/08/31/round-26-giovanardi-takes-controversial-win With his eighth victory of the season, Jason Plato moved closer to championship leader Fabrizio Giovanardi in the points standings. The SEAT driver led all 25 laps of the race, finishing 0.545 seconds ahead of Mat Jackson who managed to pip the other SEAT of Darren Turner to second with ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/08/31/round-25-plato-takes-8th-win-of-season Jason Plato boosted his title hopes by securing pole position for the first of Sunday's three HiQ British Touring Car Championship rounds at Silverstone. With six races remaining on the 2008 calendar, the SEAT Sport UK driver trails VX Racing's reigning champion Fabrizio Giovanardi by 40-points but with the Italian ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/08/31/plato-takes-silverstone-pole Jason Plato's hopes of reducing Fabrizio Giovanardi's championship lead are back on track as the SEAT Sport UK driver set the fastest time in the final Free Practice session before Sunday's penultimate rounds of the HiQ British Touring Car Championship at Silverstone. With team-mate Darren Turner setting the second fastest lap ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/08/31/silverstone-prqctice-2-plato-on-top Matt Neal topped the time sheets after the opening Free Practice session at Silverstone in advance of Sunday's crucial rounds 25, 26 and 27 of the HiQ British Touring Car Championship... but it wasn't all good news for the VX Racing star as his Vauxhall Vectra suffered an engine failure. Click ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/08/31/free-practice-dramas-at-silverstone VX Racing has extended their manufacturers’, teams’ and drivers’ leads in the 2008 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), following a successful weekend at Scotland’s Knockhill circuit. With just six races left to go in the 2008 championship, VX Racing look set to retain their titles for another year. Leaving ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/08/27/championship-leaders-vx-racing-head-to-silverstone Having won six of the last nine races, SEAT Sport UK hopes to continue its run of success with its Leon TDI when the penultimate race weekend of the 2008 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship takes place at Silverstone (August 30/31). Three out of three race wins at Knockhill in ... http://www.btccaction.co.uk/2008/08/27/seat-sets-its-sights-on-silverstone-success