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2017 British Touring Car Championship

2017 British Touring Car Championship

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The 2017 Dunlop[1] MSA British Touring Car Championship (commonly abbreviated as BTCC) was a motor racing championship for production-based touring cars held across England and Scotland. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded amateur drivers competing in highly modified versions of family cars which are sold to the general public and conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2017 season was the 60th British Touring Car Championship season and the seventh season for cars conforming to the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) technical specification.

Ashley Sutton, after winning the second race at the Knockhill round. Despite failing to score a point in the opening meeting of the season at Brands Hatch, Sutton won six races thereafter to win the championship, the youngest champion since John Fitzpatrick in 1966.

With both BMW and Vauxhall returning to the series this year as manufacturer outfits - joining the existing Honda, Subaru and MG teams, the 2017 season featured five manufacturer backed teams on the grid for the first time since the end of the popular Super Touring era of the sport.

With a maximum grid of 32 cars for the 2017 season, a full entry list was announced which sees a total of 18 different named teams.

Teams and drivers

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Driver Changes

Changed teams

Entering/re-entering BTCC

Leaving BTCC

Team Changes

Mid Season Changes

Race calendar

Circuit locations for the 2017 season

The provisional calendar was announced by the championship organisers on 15 June 2016, with no major changes from previous seasons.[43]

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Results

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Championship standings

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Notes
  • No driver may collect more than one point for leading a lap per race regardless of how many laps they lead.

Drivers' Championship

(key)

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Manufacturers'/Constructors' Championship

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Teams' Championship

Independents Drivers' Trophy

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Independent Teams' Trophy

Jack Sears Trophy

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Footnotes

  1. Team was known as BMR Racing Academy for rounds 1-5.
  2. Power Maxed Racing use two TBL leased out by TOCA

References

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  3. Salisbury, Matt (24 February 2017). "BMW confirms manufacturer backing for West Surrey Racing". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  4. "TURKINGTON RETURNS 'HOME'". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  5. "COLLARD COMPLETES WSR BMW LINE-UP". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  6. Gallagher, Ian (7 February 2017). "Ashley Sutton joins Jason Plato and James Cole at Team BMR". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  7. Gallagher, Ian (6 February 2017). "MG names Aron Taylor-Smith and Dan Lloyd for 2017". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  8. Gallagher, Ian (5 June 2017). "Dan Lloyd, Triple Eight announce split". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  9. "Rory Butcher joins Motorbase Performance for remainder of the season". btcccrazy.co.uk/. BTCC Crazy. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  10. Salisbury, Matt (12 January 2017). "Motorbase Performance confirm 2017 line-up". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  11. "BTCC RETURN FOR STEPHEN JELLEY". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  12. Salisbury, Matt (9 June 2017). "Dennis Strandberg secures Maximum seat for Croft". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  13. Salisbury, Matt (20 July 2017). "Stewart Lines steps back into BTCC seat". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  14. Ashby, Chris (23 November 2016). "Ollie Jackson re-signs with AMD Tuning for 2017". BTCC Crazy. James Mappin. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
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  16. Salisbury, Matt (9 November 2016). "Team HARD in Volkswagen return for 2017". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  17. "EPPS BACK WITH TEAM HARD FOR 2017". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  18. Salisbury, Matt (11 November 2016). "Will Burns to make BTCC debut with Team HARD". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  19. "Jake Hill targets podiums after securing Team HARD return". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  20. "CICELEY MOTORSPORT UNVEILS NEW SPONSOR AND NEW LOOK". BTCC. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  21. "BTC NORLIN RACING JOINS GRID". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. 13 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  22. "JACK GOFF JOINS EUROTECH RACING". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. 23 January 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  23. Gallagher, Ian (5 October 2016). "Tom Ingram to stay with Speedworks Motorsport in 2017". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  24. Gallagher, Ian (27 February 2017). "Speedworks to run facelifted Avensis for 2017 BTCC season". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  25. "Alex Martin confirms switch to Porsche Carrera Cup GB". touringcars.net. 6 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  26. "Rory Butcher joins Motorbase Performance for remainder of the season". btcccrazy.co.uk/. BTCC Crazy. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  27. "2017 British Touring Car Championship calendar revealed". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. 15 June 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016.

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