British Touring Car Championship
The British Touring Car Championship ( BTCC , British Touring Car Championship ) is a touring car racing series.
Sporting regulations
Three equally long races take place on Sundays per race weekend. On Saturdays, there are two 40-minute training sessions on the program, in which the teams can work on the coordination. In the afternoon, a 30-minute qualification decides on the starting grid for the first run. The starting grid for the second race corresponds to the finish line for the first race. Similar to the World Touring Car Championship , the starting order for the third run is in the reverse order of the target income. In contrast to the WTCC, the first eight are not determined, but the winner of the second run draws a drawing to determine whether this applies to the first 6 to 10 vehicles. After the first and second races, additional weights between 45 and 9 kilos will be given for the top five. Only five engines are permitted per vehicle during the season. Anyone who needs an additional engine will lose ten championship counters in the manufacturer and team standings.
Current point system
Points are awarded to the top 15 drivers as follows:
| Current BTCC points system (2012 – today) | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| run | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4th | 5. | 6th | 7th | 8th. | 9. | 10. | 11. | 12. | 13. | 14th | 15th | Pole position | Fastest lap | Leadership lap |
| R1 | 20th | 17th | 15th | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| R2 | 20th | 17th | 15th | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| R3 | 20th | 17th | 15th | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Old point system
|
Additional points are awarded for: pole position, fastest lap, current leading position at start and finish, as well as manufacturer and team.
Technical regulations
Since the 2001 season there have been separate regulations because the popular super touring cars no longer exist. Two-wheel-drive, two- or four-door touring cars with two-liter naturally aspirated engines may be improved in the tightly set regulations.
Brakes, electrics, gears, fire extinguishing systems, pedal boxes and other elements are restricted by prescribed specifications. The output may be around 200 kW with a weight of 1150 kilograms plus the driver.
From these regulations, the FIA derived the Super 2000 regulations for the European Touring Car Championship in 2002 , which, however, allow less freedom than the BTCC regulations. Since 2004 the Super 2000 touring cars have also been registered in the BTCC. Since 2007, the championship has only been decided by cars that comply with the FIA Super 2000 regulations. Cars that are built and driven according to the BTCC regulations can still participate.
New generation touring car
For the 2011 season, the BTCC again had its own regulations under the name New Generation Touring Car . This is intended to respond to the ongoing changes in classification by the FIA for the various concepts, which provide a balance between turbo diesels and naturally aspirated petrol engines, rear and front-wheel drive vehicles and cars with and without sequentially shiftable gearboxes. In order to avoid this, the BTCC is now planning new, separate regulations under the name New Generation Touring Car . Behind it are front-wheel drive touring cars with 2-liter turbo gasoline engines with a maximum engine speed of 7000 rpm and a maximum boost pressure of 0.8 bar with an engine output that is to be limited to just under 220 kW. In order to keep costs low, gearboxes, dampers, subframes and brakes are to be produced by a single supplier. In order to stand out from the Super 2000 vehicles, the minimum length of the base vehicle is limited to 4400 mm. This means that compact hatchbacks such as Seat Leon or Volvo C30 are no longer permitted.
In the meantime, the technical regulations have been made somewhat more revealing, so rear-wheel-drive vehicles are now also permitted, as well as vehicles that are shorter than 4400 mm in series. The reason to lower the costs of the vehicles in contrast to the S2000 regulations of the FIA has meanwhile almost equaled itself, so championship vehicles now also cost more than 200,000 pounds sterling (without engines) and are therefore no longer far from the S2000 vehicles WTCC removed.
Previous masters
Computer games
The following racing games are based on the BTCC model:
- TOCA Touring Cars (1998, for PC and PSX)
- TOCA 2 Touring Cars (1999, for PC and PSX)
- TOCA World Touring Cars (2001, for PSX)
- DTM Race Driver (2002, for PC , Xbox and PlayStation 2 ); in Great Britain under the name TOCA Race Driver
- DTM Race Driver 3 - BTCC- Mod (2005, Mod for PC)
- Race07 Demo - Crown Plaza Edition (2008, for PC) (contains a Vauxhall Vectra from the 2007 BTCC season)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Stephen Dobie: New Touring Car regulations. evo online, June 3, 2009, accessed on June 23, 2009 (English).
1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019