BTCC Circuits/

Oulton Park

2010 Race Date/

5-6 June

Details/

Oulton Park Circuit
Little Budworth, Tarporley, Cheshire CW6 9BW
Location: off the A49 from j18, M6 or j12, M53
Tel: 01474 872331
Ticket hotline: 0870 950 9000
Website: www.oultonpark.co.uk
Advance race day prices: Oulton Park to confirm

TV Timetable: Awaiting details

Length/2.26 miles
Number of laps/
Distance/

Lap Records/

Qualifying: Jason Plato (GBR), Chevrolet Lacetti, 1m27.186s (91.91mph), on 30 May 2009
Race: Mat Jackson (GBR), Chevrolet Lacetti, 1m28.106s, (90.95mph), on 31 May 2009
* Knickerbrook chicane revised in 2003

2009 Winners/

Race 1: Colin Turkington
Race 2: Colin Turkington
Race 3: James Thompson

Past Winners (since Super Touring era - 1991)/

9: Alain Menu (1994, 1995 x3, 1996, 1997 x2, 1998, 2000)
6: Yvan Muller (2001 x3, 2002, 2004 x2)
5: Jason Plato (1998, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008)
4: Colin Turkington (2007, 2008, 2009 x2), James Thompson (1998, 1999, 2003, 2009), Joachim Winkelhock (1993 x2, 1994, 1996)
3: Gordon Shedden (2006, 2007, 2008), Laurent Aiello (1999 x3), Matt Neal (2003, 2005, 2006)
2: Rickard Rydell (1995, 1996), Anthony Reid (1998, 2000)
1: Mat Jackson (2007), Andy Rouse (1992), Frank Biela (1996), Tom Kristensen (2000), Gabriele Tarquini (2000), Paul O’Neill (2002), Dan Eaves (2004), Tom Chilton (2005)

Number of wins per manufacturer (since Super Touring era - 1991)/

13: Honda
9: Renault, Vauxhall, BMW
4: Nissan
3: SEAT
2: Ford, Volvo
1: Toyota, Audi

Memories (since Super Touring era - 1991)/

2009: Two race wins for Colin Turkington as his title bid gathers momentum.
2008: Tom Chilton is fined £1000 and given a six-place grid penalty at the next fixture for wiping out Steven Kane at Knickerbrook on race 3’s opening lap. First podium finish for young rookie Andrew Jordan in third.
2007: Colin Turkington wins race two by the closest victory margin in BTCC history - 0.046s - from Fabrizio Giovanardi (Vauxhall). Mat Jackson (BMW) achieves his first BTCC win in race 3.
2006: Gordon Shedden's first win in the BTCC in Team Dynamics' Honda Integra.
2005: Vauxhall team-mates Colin Turkington and Gavin Smith twice collide and wipe each other out. It’s a horrible day for Vauxhall – in race 3 all its cars, including that of Yvan Muller, are out inside the first two laps.
2004: Dan Eaves takes his first BTCC win, driving a Team Halfords Honda Civic.
2003: Yvan Muller is crowned BTCC Champion for Vauxhall. Robert Collard wins the Independents title.
2002: An emotional Paul O’Neill achieves his first BTCC race win, with Vauxhall.
2001]: On his BTCC debut, Andy Priaulx – standing in for suspended Vauxhall driver Phil Bennett – twice qualifies on pole position. But he’s then involved in controversy when he inadvertently pushes off one of the team’s title contenders, Yvan Muller!
2000 Tom Kristensen takes his first BTCC win, with Honda.
1999 Double victory for Nissan’s Laurent Aiello. Russell Spence’s Renault Laguna spectacularly mounts the spectator fencing at Lodge during qualifying.
1996 Kelvin Burt (Volvo) escapes with only concussion after a violent 120mph crash against the barriers heading towards Cascades.
1994 Alain Menu takes Renault’s Laguna to its first BTCC race win. Points leader Alfa Romeo boycotts the meeting in a row over technical conformity (fully-adjustable front splitters).
1992 John Cleland (Vauxhall) has a lucky escape when his Cavalier almost overturns after spinning across the grass exiting Druids.