Britain’s premier motor sport championship confirms schedule
Series organiser TOCA has today (15 June) confirmed its calendar of events for the 2017 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.The current hugely successful format and order of its ten events will continue for a sixth successive season.“With the BTCC’s enormous and ever-increasing popularity, this format has continually proven to be a real winner," said Series Director Alan Gow.
"It provides our teams, partners, venues, huge TV audience and of course our hundreds of thousands of fans with a consistent and proven calendar that always delivers a great championship".“We have defined our 2017 calendar as early as possible with this unprecedented mid-June announcement to help other UK motor sport events in reducing the amount of clashes that can inevitably occur”.Britain's biggest championship will visit each of the nation's top venues, starting the first weekend in April on the Brands Hatch Indy circuit layout. It's then on to Donington Park, Thruxton, Oulton Park and Croft. The traditional summer break takes up its usual slot in the weeks between the North Yorkshire event and Snetterton, before the series' annual pilgrimage to Knockhill in Scotland. A double in Northamptonshire at Rockingham and Silverstone follows, ahead of the season finale back in Kent on the legendary Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit.Each of the scheduled weekends on the calendar comprise three races of equal distance, totalling 30 rounds over ten events. The location and date for the annual Season Launch event is to be confirmed in the coming months.All of Britain's major circuits are ports of call for the BTCC and its support series, providing an enviable geographical spread which ensures that hundreds of thousands of fans will be able to experience first-hand the UK's biggest motor racing package over the course of 2017.ITV4 will continue to broadcast every BTCC race-day live, free-to-air and in high definition in 2017, as well as streaming live via the ITV Sport website and the ITV Hub app. Regular highlights programmes will be screened on ITV4 following each event and are also available via their ITV Hub catch-up service.
2017 BTCC Calendar:
Rounds Date Circuit, County1,2,3 Sat 1/Sun 2 April Brands Hatch (Indy), Kent4,5,6 Sat 15/Sun 16 April Donington Park, Leics7,8,9 Sat 6/Sun 7 May Thruxton, Hampshire10,11,12 Sat 20/Sun 21 May Oulton Park, Cheshire13,14,15 Sat 10/Sun 11 June Croft, North Yorkshire16,17,18 Sat 29/Sun 30 July Snetterton, Norfolk19,20,21 Sat 12/Sun 13 August Knockhill, Fife22,23,24 Sat 26/Sun 27 August Rockingham, Northants 25,26,27 Sat 16/Sun 17 September Silverstone, Northants28,29,30 Sat 30 Sept/Sun 1 October Brands Hatch (Grand Prix), Kent
