Good evening, this is BTCS Raceday, brought to you from Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit in Kent. The qualifying session yesterday got the inaugural season of the BTCS underway, and there will be a great sense of intrigue as to who will emerge from the first race weekend with the championship lead. Gareth Eaves sits on pole position with Serge Bernard second, and with both drivers racing for the manufacturer Downton and Peugeot teams respectively, it looks entirely likely the manufacturer championship will be very close, and with Daniel Easter and Patrick Feischlenden driving independently run Mercedes and Peugeot cars very close behind on the grid, any one of the teams can be battling for overall honours throughout the day. Each of the three races will be 15 laps in duration, with the possibility of up to three laps added on to make up for any activity on track due to the safety car. Without further ado, let's begin the first round of the British Touring Car Series.
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While the Virtual Grand Prix circus is in France for the next round of the World Championship, the first meeting of the new British Touring Car Series is well and truly underway here at Brands Hatch. The championship features eight different brands of car, with nine models being run by the teams, with entries who have come from all around the world as far as the United States, Australasia and Peru joining British teams in a battle for supremacy. Three manufacturer teams are in the championship: Downton Motorsport, Westwood Motors and Peugeot Sport UK, who are running under the Peugeot Sport Mathershaw banner alongside Lapierre Competition. Leading independent teams include WTC Racing running Mercedes C-Class AMGs, MT Racing who are running the Peugeot 208 GTi T16 and Vinery Racing wit their Renault Lagunas, but there are a total of 31 cars that are entered for the season, with potentially more to come both later in the year and beyond. The new twelve round season encompasses iconic circuits throughout the British Isles as well as a round in the Republic of Ireland, and at each meeting there will be three races. Today however, the first qualifying session of the 2014 BTCS season is the order of the day.
Having recently taken over the running of he IJGP Championship, Bradley Downton has today announced changes to the way teams enter the Championship as of 2015.
VGPC teams will no longer be allowed their own teams in the IJGP however will be allowed to link up with any one of teams who are competing. Meteor Motorsport have announced a new racing team, "MT Racing", which will compete in the inaugural season of the F1F Virtual Touring Car Championship.
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