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The 2008 British Touring Car Championship is reaching its climax and the penultimate event on the calendar featuring rounds 25, 26 and 27 will take place at the Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire this weekend:


Knockhill was a perfect example of the season so far as Jason Plato won two races and retired in the third meaning he barely made inroads into Giovanardi's lead with the Italian racking up three solid finishes in Scotland. He now holds a 41 point lead with six races remaining:

1.  Fabrizio Giovanardi  228
2.  Jason Plato          187
3.  Colin Turkington     160
4.  Mat Jackson          155
5.  Matt Neal            152  
6.  Tom Onslow-Cole      144
7.  Gordon Shedden       137
8.  Darren Turner        119
9.  Adam Jones            94
10. Tom Chilton           81
11. Rob Collard           55
12. Steven Kane           49
13. Andrew Jordan         45
14. Mike Jordan           31
15. Stephen Jelley         8
16. Matt Allison           3
17. Chris Stockton         3
18. Michael Doyle          2
20. Jason Hughes           2
19. Erkut Kizilirmak       1
21. Harry Vaulkhard        1
22. John George            1
23. Martyn Bell            0  
24. Stuart Oliver          0
25. Alan Taylor            0
26. Gareth Howell          0

Giovanardi will clinch the title if he outscores Plato by 12 points at Silverstone, barring a fantastic weekend for the other drivers still in with a mathematical chance of the title (Turkington, Jackson, Neal, Onslow-Cole and Shedden).

Sunday timetable
09.30 Formula Renault UK Championship with Michelin
10.10 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain
11.20 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship
12.00 SEAT Cupra Championship
13.50 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship
14.20 ELF Renault Clio Cup
15.00 Ginetta Junior Championship
15.30 Formula Renault UK Championship with Michelin
16.20 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship
17.00 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain

TV coverage
ITV4 @ 1230-1730, Sunday 31 August (Live BTCC & Supports)
ITV4 @ 1800-1900, Monday 1 September (BTCC highlights)
ITV1 @ 1225-0120, Tuesday 2 September (BTCC highlights)

Further highlight repeats on ITV4 and Men & Motors. Check schedules for these.

Weather forecast
Saturday: Cloudy, Temperature 24°C, chance of rain 10%
Sunday: Rain, Temperature 22°C, chance of rain 60%
http://www.uk.weather.com

Looking forward to this weekend, I remember loving the action on the national circuit 2 years ago. Hoping for more of the same!

Lots of Clios please ITV...

Hopefully ITV will do the right thing and show races with action.

They didn't show any Legends racing at Knockhill which was a shame.

To be fair to them though, atleast most of the races they showed instead were good.

Very true.

And codename_47 pointed out why they couldn't show the Legends - with the heats and final format, they couldn't show the heats and then not the final.

With F1 and possibly GP2 gone, ITV are in a position to do something quite special with the BTCC next year. I wouldn't put it past them to do something similar to what Motors and then Setanta did.

Is GP2 going back to Eurosport next year? I can't fucking stand the ITV announcers.

I hadn't even thought of that, but it is a good point. Maybe BTCC can move to ITV1 on a permanent basis like it was a while back.

Not sure if anything has been said about GP2 yet actually.

I would think whatever happens David Croft will either be doing the F1 on BBC or not doing live motorsport commentating anywhere (assuming ITV loses GP2 that is).

Would be nice, wonder what the ITV4 coverage viewing figures are?

But then you'd have the moaners and old people saying they dont want to watch 5 hour of touring cars on a Sunday afternoon

Dunno, but when it was on ITV1 the BTCC was pulling in around 1.5 million viewers at its peak.

The same old people who moan when Coronation Street gets delayed because of F1.

Wouldn't be surprised if they put the BTCC races live on ITV1 and the supports on ITV4.

This is from the Autosport\Atlas forums-



From this thread.

One thing to consider is that it's well known that the head of ITV, Michael Grade, really doesn't like motorsport.

Too bad we don't get coverage over here

If you're talking about BTCC you'll be able to watch the stream on justin.tv