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The Donington circuit may be in difficulties but everything seems set for it to host rounds 7, 8 and 9 of the 2009 British Touring Car Championship:



Thruxton continued the trend of different winners in 2009, with six different winners from the six races. Giovanardi, Turkington and series returnee Mat Jackson were the victors in Hampshire helped them in the title race, but consistency from Matt Neal enabled him to maintain his lead at the top of the standings:

1.  Matt Neal             64  
2.  Colin Turkington      58
3.  Fabrizio Giovanardi   47
4.  Rob Collard           41
5.  Jason Plato           36
6.  Adam Jones            34
7.  Stephen Jelley        29
8.  Mat Jackson           22
9.  Jonathan Adam         16
10. Andrew Jordan         16
11. James Thompson        14
12. Gordon Shedden        11
13. Dan Eaves             10
14. Harry Vaulkhard        7
15. Paul O'Neill           7
16. Martyn Bell            2
17. David Pinkney          1
18. Tom Chilton            0
19. John George            0
20. Alan Morrison          0
21. Martin Johnson         0
22. Liam McMillan          0
23. Nick Leason            0

Sunday timetable
09.10 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain
09.50 Ginetta G50 Cup
10.30 Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship
11.10 Ginetta Junior Championship
11.45 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship
13.30 Elf Renault Clio Cup with Michelin
14.20 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship
15.00 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain
15.40 Ginetta G50 Cup
16.20 Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship
17.10 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship
17.50 Ginetta Junior Championship

TV coverage
ITV4 @ 1130-1800, Sunday 17 May (Live BTCC & Supports)
ITV4 @ 1530-1700, Tuesday 19 May (BTCC highlights)

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

Weather forecast
Saturday: Sunny, Temperature 15°C, chance of rain 0%
Sunday: Cloudy, Temperature 16°C, chance of rain 20%
http://www.uk.weather.com

Guess it's a bit late to cancel it now.

Is it Starkey's bridge where there's now little run-off because of the building work? I saw footage from the 6 nations bike cup there, it's narrow but there's still space for a tyre barrier, the bikes were racing through no problem. It didn't look much more dangerous to me than worst case scenario accidents on other circuits, like a bad crash on the Rockingham oval section or some areas of Croft.

No its at Mcleans corner, after starkeys bridge. I'll be there on Saturday.

Will Jason Hughes finally return?

Jackson joins Plato under Silverline banner:
http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=1426

Awesome news for Jackson. I'm looking forward to this weekend. Is there any news on whether Paul has raised the budget for this weekend? I remember him saying he had his doubts for the rest of the season.



There is a picture in Autosport magazine this week, the run off has been restored to almost what it used to be.

O'Neill will be racing this weekend: http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=1430

Will finally be able to Sky+ this weekend and therefore start watching one of my favourite series again!

Session results so far this morning:

Ginetta G50 Race 1 & 2 Grids:
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BTCC Practice 1:
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FRenault Race 1 Grid:
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Ginetta Junior Practice:
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Clio Cup Race 1 & 2 Grids:
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BTCC Practice 2 :
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Ginetta G50 Race 1 Results & Race 3 Grid:
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Carrera Cup Race 1 & 2 Grids:
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FRenault Race 2 Grid:
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Vaulkhard qualifies third...! Now I bet no-one expected him to be the quickest Chevy this weekend.

BTCC Race 1 Grid. It looks like Gio's times have been disallowed, meaning Jordan is now on pole with Vaulkhard second:
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Gio failed to restart on the weighbridge according to Autosport.

Probably. There were quite a few ride height check failures during qualifying.

Edit: Oh, OK.

Take it as Leason is on that grid but Eaves isn't that he's been withdrawn?

What a performance by Vaulkhard, so close to the pole.

Really interesting looking grid for tomorrow.

Feel sorry for Gio, but this championship is hotting up! I'd love for 3 different winners tomorrow to make it 9/9 for 2009. Jordan for a win, Vaulkhard for a win and Jelley for a win! Lets make this an open championship that goes down to the last lap of the last race at Brands

Ginetta Junior Race 1 & 2 Grids:
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Clio Cup Race 1 Results:
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Just got back from Donington, the rains been on and off all day. In the Clio race Jeff Smith spun into the gravel on the warm up lap at Mcleans.

And weather.co.uk said there was a 0% chance of rain lol.

They've also upped their rain chance for tomorrow from 20% to 60% so we could be seeing some wet races.

Eaves blew a motor in first practice and the team are keeping the spare engine for Adam Jones.