Forthcoming UK Events
| Date | Event | Location |
| 06-08.07.2012 | Formula 1 British Grand Prix | Silverstone (Arena GP) |
| 01-03.06.2012 | British Drift Championship | Norfolk Arena |
| 23-24.06.2012 | MG Live 2012 | Silverstone |
| 25-26.08.2012 | FIA World Endurance Championship | Silverstone |
The 2012 Season Starts Here
The last week has seen a flurry of activity as championships big and small held their annual media days and opening tests, with some already even getting down to racing proper. The British Touring Car Championship heads strongly into a new all-turbo generation and this year boasts 10 models from nine different marques on its 24-car grid, including the technicolour liveried return of the MG name.
The BTCC season opener hits Brands Hatch on 1st April, followed a week later by the first rounds of the British GT Championship and the British F3 International Series at Oulton Park. While some single-seater formulae have struggled in recent times - Formula Renault postponing its UK series due to poor entries - British F3 continues to attract young talent. With recent champions including the Scuderia Toro Rosso pairing of Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne, its status as a stepping-stone to Formula 1 is hard to dispute.
Read more...ITV Increases Commitment to BTCC with Live Online Qualifying Coverage
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- Category: BTCC
- Saturday, 26 March 2011
ITV’s unrivalled coverage of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship will extend even further in 2011 with, for the first time, all ten of the season’s qualifying sessions being shown live on the network’s itv.com website.
The UK’s largest commercial television network already provides the BTCC with what is by far the biggest TV coverage in UK motor sport. Its 2011 coverage will again include seven-hour-plus live broadcasts from all ten race events on both its ITV4 and new ITV4 HD channels (see timings below) – plus 60-minute highlights on both ITV1 and ITV4.
However, ITV has today also confirmed its live online broadcasts of Saturday’s all-important half-hour qualifying sessions that decide the starting grid order for the first of Sunday’s three BTCC races. This is on top of itv.com's already-strong BTCC content that includes live-streaming of ITV4’s race day coverage plus a library of race highlights as well as dedicated news and podcasts.
Simon Parry, Programme Editor for ITV Sport, said: “The BTCC provides our audiences with sporting drama of the highest order and what they see on a Sunday is often a direct result of what happens in Saturday’s qualifying sessions. We were very pleased with the results having experimented with live online coverage of qualifying for last year’s Finals Day fixture so this is a natural progression as itv.com's sporting content continues to expand and also attract an ever-growing audience. We’re delighted to add yet another dimension to our BTCC coverage.”
