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2015 British Touring Car Championship

58th season of the British Touring Car Championship From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2015 British Touring Car Championship
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The 2015 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 racing teams and privately funded amateur drivers competing in highly modified versions of family cars, which are sold to the public and meet the championship's technical regulations. The 2015 season was the 58th British Touring Car Championship season and the fifth season for cars conforming to the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) specification.

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Jason Plato finished second in the Drivers' Championship.
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Matt Neal finished third in the Drivers' Championship.

Colin Turkington was the defending drivers' champion.[2] West Surrey Racing was the defending teams' champion, and MG the defending manufacturers' champions.

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Teams and drivers

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Rule changes

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Organisers outlined a series of rule changes for the 2015 season in October 2014:[58]

  • The amount of success ballast is now implemented to the top ten drivers on the grid and the championship heading into a weekend instead of five. With more drivers now carrying ballast, the weight has been increased with the maximum being 30 kg (66 lb) heavier than in previous years. The maximum success ballast is 75 kg (165 lb) for the championship leader, down to 9 kg (20 lb) for tenth place. Rear-wheel drive (RWD) cars carry their success ballast as far forward in the cabin as possible, in order to better equalise the front to rear weight balance between both drivetrain formats.
  • Cosworth and Xtrac independently analyse the start-line performances and in-gear acceleration of front and rear-wheel drive cars with a view to more equalising them through engine management programming.
  • All engines have now been re-tested and re-validated by both TOCA and an independent specialist company – resulting in a boost level being set for each car and engine type for the season. As the larger amount of success ballast has a greater effect than before, the lap-time boost level adjustment can be dropped.
  • Each car must still use the Dunlop soft tyre for one race at nine events – the Thruxton event does not apply as the soft tyre is not used at the venue – but each car must use them three times in race 1, three times in race 2 and three times in race 3 during the course of the season.
  • The grid for race 2 at each event is set in the order of the fastest lap times achieved in race 1. If during race 1 a driver changes one or more tyres of the same type then any quicker lap time (if achieved) after that tyre change is discounted.
  • The Jack Sears Trophy will be awarded to the top 'Rookie Driver' of the year.[59]
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Race calendar

The provisional calendar was announced by the championship organisers on 18 August 2014. After using the "International" circuit configuration in 2014, the Oulton Park round will revert to the "Island" layout.[60]

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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.[62]

Drivers' Championship

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Manufacturers'/Constructors' Championship

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Teams' Championship

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Independents' Trophy

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Independent Teams' Trophy

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Jack Sears Trophy

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Notes

  1. From Knockhill onwards Team BMR was known as Team BMR RCIB Insurance
  2. Gordon Shedden originally set the fastest lap, but this was disallowed as it was set under yellow flag conditions.[61]

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