1993 British Touring Car Championship season
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The 1993 Auto Trader RAC British Touring Car Championship season was 36th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season.
GB withdrew from the championship after the rules had been changed in a direction which BMW felt disadvantaged them. Prodrive
, which had run the works operation for BMW, picked up their now famous Subaru contract to build rally cars, while Vic Lee Motorsport was liquidated after owner Vic Lee’s drug scandal. The assets of the team were taken over by Steve Neal and Ray Bellm
, who picked up personnel from Euroracing’s discontinued sports car effort and merged it into Neal’s Rimstock Racing outfit, creating Team Dynamics
. Bellm would sell his share in the team later in the year, leaving Steve Neal as the only owner. The team started the 1993 season with three 1992-spec 318iS cars piloted by Matt Neal
, Ray Bellm and Alex Portman
, later dropping down to three.
Only weeks after BMW GB withdrew from BTCC BMW withdrew their Schnitzer Motorsport
-run works operation from the German DTM
championship, also there because of their disagreement with new rules. With few other series to contest in Schnitzer Motorsport were sent over by BMW to the British championship along with works drivers Steve Soper
and Joachim Winkelhock
.
Andy Rouse
had lost his Toyota contract to famous Toyota tuners TOM'S
Norfolk-based European arm known as Tom’s GB, who had previously run Group A Toyotas in BTCC in the eighties. Andy Rouse’s seat was taken over by Julian Bailey
, and the new shape Carina replaced the older model. Toyota also supported a junior team run by Park Lane Racing, who would run two older shape Carinas for James Kaye
and Bobby Verdon-Roe
. Rouse himself had landed a Ford works deal, but the new Mondeo would not appear until after the season had started.
Vauxhall
retained their John Cleland
/ Jeff Allam
line-up and their Ecurie Ecosse
semi-works team; at Ecurie Ecosse David Leslie
retained his seat and was after a few races joined by fellow Scotsman Harry Nuttall. Peugeot
added Eugene O’Brien
and Ian Flux to Robb Gravett
for a three-car line-up (with Flux’ car being run by Roy Kennedy Racing); Nissan ran three cars for Keith O'Dor, Win Percy
and Tiff Needell
, and Mazda
returned with Patrick Watts
. Renault
was the new manufacturer to join the championship with Alain Menu
and reigning champion Tim Harvey
as their drivers.
The season started at Silverstone
, where Steve Soper led team-mate Joachim Winkelhock home for a dominating BMW one-two. The second round at Donington Park
was the support race for the European Grand Prix
. The race was hit by torrential rain, and thanks to Michelin
(whose wet-weather tyres were far superior to the ones of the other tire manufacturers) Renault was able to claim a one-two finish, Tim Harvey winning the race ahead of Alain Menu. It soon became apparent that Renault’s pace was tied to conditions, as they struggled to match the championship’s privateers in the dry.
A start line crash at the next round at Snetterton
forced a red flag, and five cars failed to make the restart. The race would be won by Soper, with Julian Bailey in second and David Leslie in third. Winkelhock then took the victory at Round 4 at Donington Park ahead of Jeff Allam and Steve Soper. Winkelhock then took a commanding victory at Oulton Park
, and as Steve Soper had gone off into a tyre wall and forced into retirement Winkelhock now took the championship lead by two points.
Brands Hatch
hosted the first double header of the season. Winkelhock was at the centre of controversy when he shunted David Leslie out of the lead to take the win. Keith O’Dor finished second and Will Hoy third. Leslie was not amused, commenting that Winkelhock had not had any opportunity whatsoever to pull the pass off. Winkelhock apologized, saying he was a lot faster than Leslie in that corner but that there had been a bit of a misunderstanding when he tried his move. Winkelhock then led the second race when he made a mistake going into Clearways and went off into the Armco barrier and retirement. Will Hoy then went off at the same place, but ended up a bit further to the right and into the tires that covered some of the barriers at that corner. With both of his major contenders out Soper could take an easy win ahead of O’Dor and Jeff Allam.
The BTCC then headed to Wales for Round 8 at Pembrey
, where Ford made its debut. Winkelhock won the race with Hoy in second and Soper in third. At the next round at Silverstone Toyota appeared to be heading home a one-two finish for Will Hoy and Julian Bailey. An over-ambitious move from Bailey however put Hoy on his roof and forced Bailey himself into retirement. It was instead Keith O’Dor who took his and Nissan’s first BTCC victory. To make it a perfect day for Nissan his teammate Win Percy finished second in a drag race over the line with Paul Radisich
, who took the returning Ford team’s first podium.
Knockhill held the next double header of the season. A race long battle between Vauxhall driver John Cleland and Toyota driver Julian Bailey saw Cleland finally come out on top, with Will Hoy finishing in third. Further back, Soper lost valuable points when he was pushed off by Radisich in the Ford. Luckily for him Winkelhock was not able to start the second race due to clutch problems. It was now Bailey’s turn to win a race, finishing ahead of Cleland and Hoy. The Renault team decided to skip the Scottish meeting and focus on developing their car.
Oulton Park hosted Round 12 which was the Gold Cup
, and Renault’s car updates appeared to have paid off. Both cars qualified and finished much better than before, Menu taking fourth. Up front Winkelhock led from start to finish while Soper was second ahead of Cleland.
Round 13 took place at Brands Hatch and Winkelhock and Leslie clashed again. First Winkelhock barged past Leslie to take second, and when Leslie attempted to retake the place he pushed Winkelhock into a spin. Both drivers dropped down the field while Radisich won the race from Soper and Peugeot driver Robb Gravett; Soper was however later penalised one position because of his rather forceful move on Gravett on the last lap to take second.
Leslie then finally won a race when the series visited Thruxton. Ford was second and third with Radisich and Andy Rouse, while a sixth place from Soper closed the gap between him and Winkelhock to twelve points.
Donington Park hosted the penultimate weekend of the championship and the last double header meeting. Radisich dominated the first race and won it by more than ten seconds, while wet weather conditions enabled Renault to finish second and third. A puncture had forced Soper to retire, and with Winkelhock finishing fifth the German now had the chance to take the title in the second race. Menu then won Race 2 from Radisich and Winkelhock, but as Soper finished fifth the championship would be decided in the final round at Silverstone.
At Silverstone the race was red flagged following an accident involving Robb Gravett’s Peugeot. Will Hoy led away in the Toyota after the restart, but was later passed by both Paul Radisich and Andy Rouse, who took a one-two finish for Ford. Hoy held on to third, and while Steve Soper finished ahead of Winkelhock he did not get the result he needed and it was Joachim Winkelhock who won the 1993 British Touring Car Championship. Despite missing the first part of the season Paul Radisich finished third in the championship, with John Cleland in fourth and Julian Bailey in fifth.
6 Steve Soper BMW 318i
8 Derek Warwick Toyota Carina E
11 Matt Neal BMW 318i
12 David Pinkney BMW 318is Coupe
15 Paul Radisich Ford Mondeo Ghia
16 Ian Ashley Vauxhall Cavalier
17 Ian Khan Vauxhall Cavalier
27 Alex Portman BMW 318is
30 Bengt Thenander BMW M3
33 Klaas Zwart BMW 318is
45 Robb Gravett Peugeot 405
46 Dave Coyne Peugeot 405
66 Patrick Watts Mazda Xedos 6
77 Chris Rea BMW 318is Coupe
78 Tiff Needell Vauxhall Cavalier
79 David Leslie Vauxhall Cavalier
80 Hayden Measham Vauxhall Cavalier
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| Matt Neal
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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| Ian Khan
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 15
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 10
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 17
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 14
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 12
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 11
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 18
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 15
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|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 18
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| Ian Ashley
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 12
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 9
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|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 15
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 9
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 19
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| Alex Portman
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 15
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 19
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 10
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 16
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 17
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 14
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 14
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 12
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 21
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| David Pinkney
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 13
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 14
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 13
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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| Ray Bellm
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| Ian Cantwell
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 12
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 9
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 16
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| Bob Berridge
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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| Andy Wallace
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| Peggen Andersson
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
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| Jim Wheals
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! valign="middle"| Driver
! align="center"| SIL
! align="center"| DON
! align="center"| SNE
! align="center"| DON
! align="center"| OUL
! colspan="2" align="center"| BHI
! align="center"| PEM
! align="center"| SIL
! colspan="2" align="center"| KNO
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!rowspan=1| 1
|rowspan=1 align=left| BMW
/ BMW Motorsport Team
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 3
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 3
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 8
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 3
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 6
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 3
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
!rowspan=1| 251
|-
!rowspan=1| 2
|rowspan=1 align=left| Vauxhall
/ Vauxhall Sport/Ecurie Eccose
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 3
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 3
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 7
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 3
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 6
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 3
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 12
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 6
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
!rowspan=1| 198
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!rowspan=1| 3
|rowspan=1 align=left| Toyota / Team Securicor Toyota
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 7
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 15
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 3
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 9
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 4
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 7
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 7
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 16
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 3
!rowspan=1| 159
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!rowspan=1| 4
|rowspan=1 align=left| Nissan / Nissan Castrol Racing
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 7
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 8
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 9
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 5
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 7
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 11
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 10
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 11
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 8
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 7
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 11
!rowspan=1| 138
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!rowspan=1| 5
|rowspan=1 align=left| Ford / Team Mondeo
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|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 8
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 3
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
!rowspan=1| 122
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!rowspan=1| 6
|rowspan=1 align=left| Peugeot
/ Peugeot Sport/Roy Kennedy Racing
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 9
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 8
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 7
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 10
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 5
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 9
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 7
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 11
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 9
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 8
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 13
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 9
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 6
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 10
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 18
!rowspan=1| 111
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!rowspan=1| 7
|rowspan=1 align=left| Renault
/ Renault Dealer Racing
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 10
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 13
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 11
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 8
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 8
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|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 9
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 9
|bgcolor="#DFDFDF"| 2
|bgcolor="#ffffbf" width="29"| 1
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 15
!rowspan=1| 93
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!rowspan=1| 8
|rowspan=1 align=left| Mazda
/ Mazda Racing Team
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 6
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
| DNS
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 10
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 4
|bgcolor="#FFDF9F"| 4
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 8
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 12
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| Ret
| DNS
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| 12
!rowspan=1| 51
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Season summary
At the end of 1992 BMWBMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
GB withdrew from the championship after the rules had been changed in a direction which BMW felt disadvantaged them. Prodrive
Prodrive
Prodrive is a British motorsport and automotive engineering group based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. It designs, constructs and races cars for companies and teams such as Subaru, Aston Martin and Ford...
, which had run the works operation for BMW, picked up their now famous Subaru contract to build rally cars, while Vic Lee Motorsport was liquidated after owner Vic Lee’s drug scandal. The assets of the team were taken over by Steve Neal and Ray Bellm
Ray Bellm
Ray Bellm is an auto racing driver from Britain.He began his racing career in 1980, running in Historic racing series and winning the British Historic 2L GT class in 1983 and 1984 driving his Chevron B19 sports car. He made the move to modern sports car racing in 1984, driving for Gordon Spice...
, who picked up personnel from Euroracing’s discontinued sports car effort and merged it into Neal’s Rimstock Racing outfit, creating Team Dynamics
Team Dynamics
Team Dynamics is a UK-based motor-racing team based in Pershore, Worcestershire; best known for their successes as an independent squad in the British Touring Car Championship, including winning the Overall Drivers title in 2005 and 2006 with Matt Neal...
. Bellm would sell his share in the team later in the year, leaving Steve Neal as the only owner. The team started the 1993 season with three 1992-spec 318iS cars piloted by Matt Neal
Matt Neal
Matthew Neal is a British motor racing driver. He won the British Touring Car Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2011. He has also won a European Touring Car Championship race. He is 6' 6" tall, making him almost entirely unable to race single-seaters...
, Ray Bellm and Alex Portman
Alex Portman
Alex Portman is a retired British auto racing driver. He raced in the eighties in the TVR Tuscan Challenge and some Historic Racing events;winning a championship 1991 and 1992 in a Ray Mallock built GT40. In 1990 he drove in the GM Vauxhall Lotus Euroseries, and raced in Canada in 1991 with the...
, later dropping down to three.
Only weeks after BMW GB withdrew from BTCC BMW withdrew their Schnitzer Motorsport
Schnitzer Motorsport
Schnitzer Motorsport is a motorsport team based in Freilassing near Munich, Germany. From the early days of its establishment, the team has operated an automobile racing squad for BMW, and has remarkable results in touring car and sports car racing scenes....
-run works operation from the German DTM
Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft
The Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft was a touring car racing series held from 1984 to 1996. Originally based in Germany, it held additional rounds elsewhere in Europe and later worldwide....
championship, also there because of their disagreement with new rules. With few other series to contest in Schnitzer Motorsport were sent over by BMW to the British championship along with works drivers Steve Soper
Steve Soper
Steve Soper is a retired racing driver from Surrey, England, born in 1951. He raced in sports cars and touring cars at the top level for over 20 years. In 1983 he almost won the British Touring Car Championship before his Rover was deemed illegal. He finished as runner-up in the series in 1988 in a...
and Joachim Winkelhock
Joachim Winkelhock
Joachim Winkelhock , is a German motor racing driver.The younger brother of the late Manfred Winkelhock, Winkelhock was born in Waiblingen, near Stuttgart...
.
Andy Rouse
Andy Rouse
Andrew "Andy" Rouse is an English racing driver, most notably in the BTCC. He won the BTCC in 1975, 1983, 1984 and 1985....
had lost his Toyota contract to famous Toyota tuners TOM'S
TOM'S
is a factory supported racing team and tuner of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The name stands for Tachi Oiwa Motor Sport. Their head office is located in Tokyo, Japan. They are currently heavily involved with Super GT racing and Formula 3 racing...
Norfolk-based European arm known as Tom’s GB, who had previously run Group A Toyotas in BTCC in the eighties. Andy Rouse’s seat was taken over by Julian Bailey
Julian Bailey
Julian Bailey is a former Formula One driver who raced for the Tyrrell and Lotus teams.Although born in the United Kingdom, he was raised in Menorca, Spain, and became an accomplished Formula Ford 1600 racer in Britain, winning the important Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch...
, and the new shape Carina replaced the older model. Toyota also supported a junior team run by Park Lane Racing, who would run two older shape Carinas for James Kaye
James Kaye
James Kaye is a British auto racing driver. He has been a stalwart competitor of Hondas in various championships since 1995, and has had 2 lengthy spells in the BTCC...
and Bobby Verdon-Roe
Bobby Verdon-Roe
Bobby Verdon-Roe is a British racing driver who has raced in various formats of motor sport throughout his career.-Racing Career:...
. Rouse himself had landed a Ford works deal, but the new Mondeo would not appear until after the season had started.
Vauxhall
Vauxhall
-Demography:Many Vauxhall residents live in social housing. There are several gentrified areas, and areas of terraced townhouses on streets such as Fentiman Road and Heyford Avenue have higher property values in the private market, however by far the most common type of housing stock within...
retained their John Cleland
John Cleland
John Cleland was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure....
/ Jeff Allam
Jeff Allam
Jeff Allam , was a British racing driver who made his name in Saloon Car racing. He now works as a dealer principal for Allam Motor Services in Epsom and Dorking which are a Skoda, Alfa Romeo and Kia dealership....
line-up and their Ecurie Ecosse
Ecurie Ecosse
Ecurie Ecosse was a motor racing team from Scotland. The team was founded in 1952 by Edinburgh businessman and racing driver David Murray and mechanic Wilkie Wilkinson, its most notable achievement was winning both the 1956 and 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team also raced in three Formula One races...
semi-works team; at Ecurie Ecosse David Leslie
David Leslie (racing driver)
David Leslie was a racing driver. He was most associated with the British Touring Car Championship, in which he was runner-up in 1999. He was particularly noted for his development skill, helping both Honda and Nissan become BTCC race winners...
retained his seat and was after a few races joined by fellow Scotsman Harry Nuttall. Peugeot
Peugeot
Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...
added Eugene O’Brien
Eugene O'Brien (racing driver)
Eugene O'Brien is a British auto racing driver and coach.-Career:He started his racing career in single-seaters, winning his first race in 1983 . After finishing third in the Junior Formula Ford Series in 1983, he was forced to take a break from racing due to lack of finance...
and Ian Flux to Robb Gravett
Robb Gravett
Robb Gravett is a British retired racing driver and team owner, a winner of the 1987 Willhire 24 Hour, and the 1990 British Touring Car Championship winner with his own Trakstar team, in a Ford Sierra prepared by Australian magnate Dick Johnson...
for a three-car line-up (with Flux’ car being run by Roy Kennedy Racing); Nissan ran three cars for Keith O'Dor, Win Percy
Win Percy
Winston "Win" Percy is a former motor racing driver from England. He competed in many classes of motorsport during his long career, but is perhaps most famous as one of the greats of touring car racing. Joe Saward of Autosport magazine once described him as being "often regarded as the World's...
and Tiff Needell
Tiff Needell
Timothy "Tiff" Needell isa British racing driver and television presenter. He is best known as a former co-presenter of Top Gear and current co-presenter of Fifth Gear.-Biography:...
, and Mazda
Mazda
is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales...
returned with Patrick Watts
Patrick Watts
Patrick Watts is a British auto racing driver. He excelled in single make series in the eighties and competed in saloons in the nineties, mainly in the British Touring Car Championship. He still makes occasional appearances in historic racing events.-Early career:His first title came in 1979,...
. Renault
Renault
Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker...
was the new manufacturer to join the championship with Alain Menu
Alain Menu
Alain Menu is a Swiss racing driver. He was one of the most successful touring car drivers of the 1990s, winning the prestigious British Touring Car Championship twice . He currently races for Chevrolet in the World Touring Car Championship.- BTCC :He is the son of a farmer...
and reigning champion Tim Harvey
Tim Harvey
Tim Harvey is a racing driver from England. He was the 2008 and 2010 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain Champion. A household name in the 1990s, Harvey won the prestigious BTCC title in 1992, and was a frontrunner for most of the late 80s and early 90s...
as their drivers.
The season started at Silverstone
Silverstone
Silverstone is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. It is about from Towcester on the former A43 main road, from the M1 motorway junction 15A and about from the M40 motorway junction 10, Northampton, Milton Keynes and Banbury...
, where Steve Soper led team-mate Joachim Winkelhock home for a dominating BMW one-two. The second round at Donington Park
Donington Park
Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship...
was the support race for the European Grand Prix
1993 European Grand Prix
The 1993 European Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Donington Park on April 11, 1993. It was the third round of the 1993 Formula One season. The race was notable for the dominance of Ayrton Senna.-Report:...
. The race was hit by torrential rain, and thanks to Michelin
Michelin
Michelin is a tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France. It is one of the two largest tyre manufacturers in the world along with Bridgestone. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the BFGoodrich, Kleber, Riken, Kormoran and Uniroyal tyre brands...
(whose wet-weather tyres were far superior to the ones of the other tire manufacturers) Renault was able to claim a one-two finish, Tim Harvey winning the race ahead of Alain Menu. It soon became apparent that Renault’s pace was tied to conditions, as they struggled to match the championship’s privateers in the dry.
A start line crash at the next round at Snetterton
Snetterton
Snetterton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located some north-east of the town of Thetford and south-west of the city of Norwich....
forced a red flag, and five cars failed to make the restart. The race would be won by Soper, with Julian Bailey in second and David Leslie in third. Winkelhock then took the victory at Round 4 at Donington Park ahead of Jeff Allam and Steve Soper. Winkelhock then took a commanding victory at Oulton Park
Oulton Park
Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track in the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is about from Winsford, from Chester city centre, from Northwich and from Warrington with a nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line. It occupies much of the area which was...
, and as Steve Soper had gone off into a tyre wall and forced into retirement Winkelhock now took the championship lead by two points.
Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near West Kingsdown in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events...
hosted the first double header of the season. Winkelhock was at the centre of controversy when he shunted David Leslie out of the lead to take the win. Keith O’Dor finished second and Will Hoy third. Leslie was not amused, commenting that Winkelhock had not had any opportunity whatsoever to pull the pass off. Winkelhock apologized, saying he was a lot faster than Leslie in that corner but that there had been a bit of a misunderstanding when he tried his move. Winkelhock then led the second race when he made a mistake going into Clearways and went off into the Armco barrier and retirement. Will Hoy then went off at the same place, but ended up a bit further to the right and into the tires that covered some of the barriers at that corner. With both of his major contenders out Soper could take an easy win ahead of O’Dor and Jeff Allam.
The BTCC then headed to Wales for Round 8 at Pembrey
Pembrey
Pembrey is a village in Carmarthenshire Wales, situated between Burry Port and Kidwelly, overlooking Carmarthen Bay.-History:The name Pembrey is an Anglicisation of the Welsh, Pen-bre...
, where Ford made its debut. Winkelhock won the race with Hoy in second and Soper in third. At the next round at Silverstone Toyota appeared to be heading home a one-two finish for Will Hoy and Julian Bailey. An over-ambitious move from Bailey however put Hoy on his roof and forced Bailey himself into retirement. It was instead Keith O’Dor who took his and Nissan’s first BTCC victory. To make it a perfect day for Nissan his teammate Win Percy finished second in a drag race over the line with Paul Radisich
Paul Radisich
Paul Radisich is a New Zealand racing driver of Croat origin. He has competed in saloon cars for many years - both European-style tourers and the V8 Supercars of Australia and New Zealand.-Early years:...
, who took the returning Ford team’s first podium.
Knockhill held the next double header of the season. A race long battle between Vauxhall driver John Cleland and Toyota driver Julian Bailey saw Cleland finally come out on top, with Will Hoy finishing in third. Further back, Soper lost valuable points when he was pushed off by Radisich in the Ford. Luckily for him Winkelhock was not able to start the second race due to clutch problems. It was now Bailey’s turn to win a race, finishing ahead of Cleland and Hoy. The Renault team decided to skip the Scottish meeting and focus on developing their car.
Oulton Park hosted Round 12 which was the Gold Cup
Oulton Park International Gold Cup
The International Gold Cup is a prize awarded annually to the winner of a motor race held at the Oulton Park circuit, Cheshire, England, UK. In the 1950s and '60s it formed one of a number of highly regarded non-Championship Formula One races, which regularly attracted top drivers and teams...
, and Renault’s car updates appeared to have paid off. Both cars qualified and finished much better than before, Menu taking fourth. Up front Winkelhock led from start to finish while Soper was second ahead of Cleland.
Round 13 took place at Brands Hatch and Winkelhock and Leslie clashed again. First Winkelhock barged past Leslie to take second, and when Leslie attempted to retake the place he pushed Winkelhock into a spin. Both drivers dropped down the field while Radisich won the race from Soper and Peugeot driver Robb Gravett; Soper was however later penalised one position because of his rather forceful move on Gravett on the last lap to take second.
Leslie then finally won a race when the series visited Thruxton. Ford was second and third with Radisich and Andy Rouse, while a sixth place from Soper closed the gap between him and Winkelhock to twelve points.
Donington Park hosted the penultimate weekend of the championship and the last double header meeting. Radisich dominated the first race and won it by more than ten seconds, while wet weather conditions enabled Renault to finish second and third. A puncture had forced Soper to retire, and with Winkelhock finishing fifth the German now had the chance to take the title in the second race. Menu then won Race 2 from Radisich and Winkelhock, but as Soper finished fifth the championship would be decided in the final round at Silverstone.
At Silverstone the race was red flagged following an accident involving Robb Gravett’s Peugeot. Will Hoy led away in the Toyota after the restart, but was later passed by both Paul Radisich and Andy Rouse, who took a one-two finish for Ford. Hoy held on to third, and while Steve Soper finished ahead of Winkelhock he did not get the result he needed and it was Joachim Winkelhock who won the 1993 British Touring Car Championship. Despite missing the first part of the season Paul Radisich finished third in the championship, with John Cleland in fourth and Julian Bailey in fifth.
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5 Nigel Mansell Ford Mondeo Ghia6 Steve Soper BMW 318i
8 Derek Warwick Toyota Carina E
11 Matt Neal BMW 318i
12 David Pinkney BMW 318is Coupe
15 Paul Radisich Ford Mondeo Ghia
16 Ian Ashley Vauxhall Cavalier
17 Ian Khan Vauxhall Cavalier
27 Alex Portman BMW 318is
30 Bengt Thenander BMW M3
33 Klaas Zwart BMW 318is
45 Robb Gravett Peugeot 405
46 Dave Coyne Peugeot 405
66 Patrick Watts Mazda Xedos 6
77 Chris Rea BMW 318is Coupe
78 Tiff Needell Vauxhall Cavalier
79 David Leslie Vauxhall Cavalier
80 Hayden Measham Vauxhall Cavalier
Race calendar and winners
Round | Circuit | Date | Winning driver | Winning team | |
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1 | R1 | Silverstone Silverstone Circuit Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side... (National) |
28 March | Steve Soper | BMW Motorsport Team |
2 | R2 | Donington Park Donington Park Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship... (Grand Prix) |
12 April | Tim Harvey | Renault Dealer Racing |
3 | R3 | Snetterton Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit is a motor racing circuit in Norfolk, England. Owned by MotorSport Vision, it is situated on the A11 road some 20 km north-east of the town of Thetford and 30 km south-west of the city of Norwich... |
3 May | Steve Soper | BMW Motorsport Team |
4 | R4 | Donington Park Donington Park Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship... (Grand Prix) |
16 May | Joachim Winkelhock | BMW Motorsport Team |
5 | R5 | Oulton Park Oulton Park Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track in the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is about from Winsford, from Chester city centre, from Northwich and from Warrington with a nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line. It occupies much of the area which was... |
31 May | Joachim Winkelhock | BMW Motorsport Team |
6 | R6 R7 |
Brands Hatch Brands Hatch Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near West Kingsdown in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events... (Indy) |
13 June | Joachim Winkelhock Steve Soper |
BMW Motorsport Team BMW Motorsport Team |
7 | R8 | Pembrey Pembrey Circuit Pembrey Circuit is a racing circuit outside Pembrey village, south Wales. It is deemed to be the home of Welsh motorsport, providing racing for cars, motorcycles, karts and trucks... |
27 June | Joachim Winkelhock | BMW Motorsport Team |
8 | R9 | Silverstone Silverstone Circuit Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side... (Grand Prix) |
11 July | Keith O'Dor | Nissan Castrol Racing |
9 | R10 R11 |
Knockhill Knockhill Racing Circuit Knockhill Racing Circuit in Fife is Scotland's national Motorsport centre. The circuit is located in the Fife countryside about north of Dunfermline. The track, initially opened in 1974, is long and 10 metres wide and was created by joining service roads to a nearby disused mineral railway,... |
25 July | John Cleland Julian Bailey |
Vauxhall Sport Team Securicor Toyota |
10 | R12 | Oulton Park Oulton Park Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track in the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is about from Winsford, from Chester city centre, from Northwich and from Warrington with a nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line. It occupies much of the area which was... |
8 August | Joachim Winkelhock | BMW Motorsport Team |
11 | R13 | Brands Hatch Brands Hatch Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near West Kingsdown in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events... (Indy) |
22 August | Paul Radisich | Team Mondeo |
12 | R14 | Thruxton Thruxton Circuit Thruxton Circuit is a motor racing circuit located near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England which is used to host a number of motorsport events including British Touring Cars and Formula 3 racing.... |
30 August | David Leslie | Ecurie Ecosse Vauxhall |
13 | R15 R16 |
Donington Park Donington Park Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship... (Grand Prix) |
12 September | Paul Radisich Alain Menu |
Team Mondeo Renault Dealer Racing |
14 | R17 | Silverstone Silverstone Circuit Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side... (National) |
19 September | Paul Radisich | Team Mondeo |
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TOCA Challenge for Privateers
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Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side...
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Donington Park
Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship...
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Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit is a motor racing circuit in Norfolk, England. Owned by MotorSport Vision, it is situated on the A11 road some 20 km north-east of the town of Thetford and 30 km south-west of the city of Norwich...
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Donington Park
Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship...
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Oulton Park
Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track in the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is about from Winsford, from Chester city centre, from Northwich and from Warrington with a nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line. It occupies much of the area which was...
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Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near West Kingsdown in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events...
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Pembrey Circuit
Pembrey Circuit is a racing circuit outside Pembrey village, south Wales. It is deemed to be the home of Welsh motorsport, providing racing for cars, motorcycles, karts and trucks...
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Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side...
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Knockhill Racing Circuit
Knockhill Racing Circuit in Fife is Scotland's national Motorsport centre. The circuit is located in the Fife countryside about north of Dunfermline. The track, initially opened in 1974, is long and 10 metres wide and was created by joining service roads to a nearby disused mineral railway,...
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Oulton Park
Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track in the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is about from Winsford, from Chester city centre, from Northwich and from Warrington with a nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line. It occupies much of the area which was...
! align="center"| BHI
Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near West Kingsdown in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events...
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Thruxton Circuit
Thruxton Circuit is a motor racing circuit located near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England which is used to host a number of motorsport events including British Touring Cars and Formula 3 racing....
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Donington Park
Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship...
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Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side...
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| Matt Neal
Matt Neal
Matthew Neal is a British motor racing driver. He won the British Touring Car Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2011. He has also won a European Touring Car Championship race. He is 6' 6" tall, making him almost entirely unable to race single-seaters...
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| Ian Khan
Ian Khan
Ian Khan, is an international racecar driver. He took part in the FIA GT and FIA GT3 Championships, as well as the British Touring Car Championship.-Racing Career:...
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Ian Ashley
Ian Hugh Gordon Ashley is a British racing driver who raced in Formula One for the Token, Williams, BRM and Hesketh teams....
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Alex Portman
Alex Portman is a retired British auto racing driver. He raced in the eighties in the TVR Tuscan Challenge and some Historic Racing events;winning a championship 1991 and 1992 in a Ray Mallock built GT40. In 1990 he drove in the GM Vauxhall Lotus Euroseries, and raced in Canada in 1991 with the...
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David Pinkney
David Pinkney is a successful businessman and auto racing driver.-Early Racing Career:David was a semi-regular BTCC driver in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in a BMW from 1992 to 1993...
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Ray Bellm
Ray Bellm is an auto racing driver from Britain.He began his racing career in 1980, running in Historic racing series and winning the British Historic 2L GT class in 1983 and 1984 driving his Chevron B19 sports car. He made the move to modern sports car racing in 1984, driving for Gordon Spice...
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Ian Cantwell
Ian Cantwell is a former British auto racing driver who drove in the British Touring Car Championship.-Racing career:...
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Bob Berridge
Bob Berridge is a British racing driver. He won the title in the Historic Formula One Championship series three years in a row. In 1997, he won in a RAM 01 car and the next two years he won in a Williams FW08...
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Jim Wheals
James "Jim" Wheals is a British auto racing driver. In 1993 he competed in one round of the British Touring Car Championship at Snetterton with a Ford Sierra Sapphire. His race lasted just two laps, when he retired due to engine failure...
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Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side...
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Donington Park
Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship...
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Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit is a motor racing circuit in Norfolk, England. Owned by MotorSport Vision, it is situated on the A11 road some 20 km north-east of the town of Thetford and 30 km south-west of the city of Norwich...
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Donington Park
Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship...
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Oulton Park
Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track in the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is about from Winsford, from Chester city centre, from Northwich and from Warrington with a nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line. It occupies much of the area which was...
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Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near West Kingsdown in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events...
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Pembrey Circuit
Pembrey Circuit is a racing circuit outside Pembrey village, south Wales. It is deemed to be the home of Welsh motorsport, providing racing for cars, motorcycles, karts and trucks...
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Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side...
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Knockhill Racing Circuit
Knockhill Racing Circuit in Fife is Scotland's national Motorsport centre. The circuit is located in the Fife countryside about north of Dunfermline. The track, initially opened in 1974, is long and 10 metres wide and was created by joining service roads to a nearby disused mineral railway,...
! align="center"| OUL
Oulton Park
Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track in the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is about from Winsford, from Chester city centre, from Northwich and from Warrington with a nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line. It occupies much of the area which was...
! align="center"| BHI
Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near West Kingsdown in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events...
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Thruxton Circuit
Thruxton Circuit is a motor racing circuit located near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England which is used to host a number of motorsport events including British Touring Cars and Formula 3 racing....
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Donington Park
Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship...
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Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side...
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BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
/ BMW Motorsport Team
Schnitzer Motorsport
Schnitzer Motorsport is a motorsport team based in Freilassing near Munich, Germany. From the early days of its establishment, the team has operated an automobile racing squad for BMW, and has remarkable results in touring car and sports car racing scenes....
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|rowspan=1 align=left| Vauxhall
Vauxhall
-Demography:Many Vauxhall residents live in social housing. There are several gentrified areas, and areas of terraced townhouses on streets such as Fentiman Road and Heyford Avenue have higher property values in the private market, however by far the most common type of housing stock within...
/ Vauxhall Sport/Ecurie Eccose
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|rowspan=1 align=left| Toyota / Team Securicor Toyota
TOM'S
is a factory supported racing team and tuner of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The name stands for Tachi Oiwa Motor Sport. Their head office is located in Tokyo, Japan. They are currently heavily involved with Super GT racing and Formula 3 racing...
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|rowspan=1 align=left| Nissan / Nissan Castrol Racing
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|rowspan=1 align=left| Ford / Team Mondeo
Andy Rouse
Andrew "Andy" Rouse is an English racing driver, most notably in the BTCC. He won the BTCC in 1975, 1983, 1984 and 1985....
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|rowspan=1 align=left| Peugeot
Peugeot
Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...
/ Peugeot Sport/Roy Kennedy Racing
Peugeot Sport
Peugeot Sport is the department of French carmaker Peugeot responsible for motorsport activities.-Beginnings in rallying:Peugeot Sport was formed in 1981 under the name of Peugeot Talbot Sport, after Jean Todt, a World Rally Championship co-driver for Talbot driver Guy Fréquelin, was asked by...
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|rowspan=1 align=left| Renault
Renault
Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker...
/ Renault Dealer Racing
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|rowspan=1 align=left| Mazda
Mazda
is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales...
/ Mazda Racing Team
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