Jason Plato won the first BTCC race of today at Donington Park but the second race of the day was an absolute corker.
Rain had begun to fall as the cars assembled on the grid and the original start was aborted as Andrew Jordan stalled his Honda Civic.
Once the race finally got started Gordon Shedden took [...]

I’m at Brands Hatch today for the first round of the British Touring Car Championship.
I was standing opposite the front row of the grid as the race got underway and it was striking how much quicker the rear wheel drive BMWs of Mat Jackson (pole position) and Colin Turkington (third) leapt away from second-placed Fabrizio [...]

Fabrizio Giovanardi snatched the British Touring Car Championship from Jason Plato at the final round by just three points.
The Italian finished second with team mate Tom Chilton between himself and Plato as Mat Jackson took his second victory of the year.

The British Touring Car title duellists Fabrizio Giovanardi and Jason Plato finished first and second in the first race at Thruxton.
The first of the three races that will decide the title was hit by a spate of tyre failures that affected most of the title contenders’ team mates.
It leaves Plato six points ahead of Giovanardi [...]

Title rivals Fabrizio Giovanardi started first and second and finished the same way - but Plato had to charge from the back of the pack after an early collision with Tom Chilton.
With several cars still missing from the first race including Matt Neal and Fiona Leggate there were hopes for a clean second start. Most [...]

Brands Hatch greeted the return of the British Touring Car Championship for its second event of the year with wet weather.
It provoked an enormous crash on the first lap that left two drivers hospitalised, blocked the circuit and caused the race to be restarted.
After a action-packed race it was the championship leaders that came out [...]

Colin Turkington crossed the line first at the end of the first BTCC race at Snetterton - but was disqualified after post-race inspection revealed his car was 5kg underweight.
That meant Team Halford’s Gordon Shedden inherited the win, ahead of Turkington’s team mate Tom Onslow-Cole and Vauxhall’s Tom Chilton.

Rain-lashed Donington Park had the kind of weather we’re more used to seeing at Knockhill. So it was fitting that Dunfermline native Gordon Shedden triumphed in terrible weather in the first race.
Behind him were two drivers with extraordinary tales to tell. Adam Jones finished second in a three year old Seat and Matt Neal stormed [...]

Fabrizio Giovanardi made it two in a row at Thruxton - but he was helped by a drive-through penalty for championship rival Jason Plato.
The race was punctuated by a violent crash between Darren Turner and Matt Allison, but both drivers were uninjured.

Fabrizio Giovanardi’s championship campaigned gathered momentum with a win in the first round at Thruxton - though championship leader Jason Plato took second after a race-long battle.
Giovanardi made a fine start in his Vauxhall but he was instantly under pressure from Colin Turkington who made a phenomenal getaway in his rear-wheel drive BMW.
Turkington couldn’t hold [...]