2003 ASCAR season

The 2003 ASCAR Season was the 3rd season of United Kingdom-based NASCAR style stock car racing, originally known as ASCAR. From this season 'Days of Thunder' was adopted as a promotional brand inspired by the NASCAR based movie of the same name. It was used alongside the ASCAR brand for the 2003 season before taking over entirely from 2004.

2003 ASCAR
Previous: 2002 Next: 2004

Teams and drivers
Team Car No. Driver Rounds
Kidd-Richardson Racing Chevrolet 2 Shaun Richardson All
RML Chevrolet 4 Alejandro Lince 7
33 Peter Falding 1
44 Anthony Swan All
48 Steve Grissom 1
84 Ben Collins All
Team West-Tec Chevrolet 5 Rob Speak 7
42 Niklas Lovén 6
Chris Cooke 1
Ford
Pontiac		 96 Michael Vergers 7
Derek Hayes 1
Xcel Motorsport Pontiac 6 Stevie Hodgson 5
7 Andrew Kirkaldy 7
Fast Tec Motorsport Pontiac 12 Mark Proctor All
Shark Racing Chevrolet 17 Tony King 5
TorqueSpeed Chevrolet 24 John Mickel All
25 Ian McKellar Jr. All
26 Oli Playle All
Shearspeed Pontiac 39 Andy Smith 1
Phiroze Bilimoria 1
Intersport Racing Pontiac 40 Kevin Clarke All
Scott Racing Services Chevrolet 66 Kieran Dynes 3
Team HTML Pontiac 68 Earl Goddard 1
Max Papis 1
Derek Hayes 4
69 Roland Rehfeld All
Steward Racing Ford 75 John Steward All
Team Catchpole Racing Chevrolet 77 Phil Weaver All
CWS Racing Chevrolet 78 Colin White All
79 Chris Cooke 3
Andy Smith 4

Race calendar

The season consisted of eight meetings with either one or two races taking place at each. The grid for the opening race of each meeting was set by a qualifying session with the second race grid being set by the finishing order of the first. Two meetings were held at the EuroSpeedway in Germany with the remaining six at the Rockingham Motor Speedway in the United Kingdom.

Round Circuit/Location Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Led Most Laps Winning Driver Winning Team
1 R1 Rockingham Motor Speedway 11 May Ben Collins Roland Rehfeld Michael Vergers Michael Vergers Team West-Tec
R2 Ben Collins Michael Vergers Roland Rehfeld Team HTML
2 R3 Rockingham Motor Speedway 8 June Roland Rehfeld Ben Collins Rob Speak Rob Speak Team West-Tec
3 R4 EuroSpeedway 6 July Anthony Swan Ian McKellar Jr. Ben Collins Ian McKellar Jr. TorqueSpeed
4 R5 Rockingham Motor Speedway 27 July Ben Collins Ben Collins Ben Collins Ian McKellar Jr. TorqueSpeed
R6 Derek Hayes Ben Collins Ben Collins RML
5 R7 Rockingham Motor Speedway 24 August Derek Hayes Derek Hayes Michael Vergers Michael Vergers Team West-Tec
R8 Andy Smith Michael Vergers Ben Collins RML
6 R9 Rockingham Motor Speedway 31 August Roland Rehfeld Roland Rehfeld Ben Collins Ben Collins RML
7 R10 EuroSpeedway 14 September Ben Collins Ben Collins Roland Rehfeld Ben Collins RML
R11 Ben Collins Colin White Colin White CWS Racing
8 R12 Rockingham Motor Speedway 28 September Ben Collins Ben Collins Ben Collins Ben Collins RML
R13 Ben Collins Ben Collins Ben Collins RML

Final points standings
Pos Driver Pts
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13
1 Ben Collins 4* 2 3 2* 3* 1* 5* 1* 1* 1* 11* 1* 1* 2299
2 Colin White 6 5 10 6 5 7 3 6 4 2 1* 5 4 2044
3 Michael Vergers 1* 3* 3 2* 3* 1* 13* 5 11 6 4 5 1963
4 Roland Rehfeld 7 1* 9* 17 7 10 2 3 2* 9* 10 3 6 1962
5 Ian McKellar Jr. 20 13 4 1* 1* 12* 15 DNS 3 3 2* 2 2 1821
6 Anthony Swan 15 11 11 8* 11 15 10 5 7 4 3 8 7 1804
7 Mark Proctor 12 DNS 8 7 6 2* 6 2 9 6 5 9 19 1722
8 Phil Weaver 10 6 13 12 10 5 19 17 16 14 14 17 10 1567
9 Shaun Richardson 18 17 20 10 16 9 9 4 6 15 15 18 12 1546
10 Oli Playle 3 4 19 16 15 8 21 18 13 7 13 23 22 1509
11 John Steward 15 10 16 18 18 DNS 8 8 15 13 9 12 13 1421
12 John Mickel 19 DNS 7 5* 12* DNS 17 16 8 5 4* 21 16 1390
13 Andrew Kirkaldy 14 12 12 15 4 14* 17 10 8 7 20 1363
14 Kevin Clarke 21 DNS 6 19 9 6 11 11 14 8 7 22 DNS 1351
15 Rob Speak 8 8 1* 4 14 DNS 18 DNS 11 6 3 1278
16 Alejandro Lince 5 16 5 13 13 16 14 15 12 WD WD 1116
17 Andy Smith 13 14 20 7 10 12 12 19 18 1034
18 Stevie Hodgson 2 15 2 9 17 DNS 16 17 1020
19 Tony King 11 9 21 19 DNS 12 9 15 14 923
20 Derek Hayes 17 4 4 16* DNS 19 14 8 892
21 Niklas Lovén DNS 18 18 11 8 11 18 13 21 891
22 Chris Cooke 15 14 DNS 14 7 12 610
23 Kieran Dynes 13 10 20 10 9 603
24 Earl Goddard 9 7 280
25 Peter Falding 11 11 252
26 Phiroze Billimoria 20 15 200
27 Max Papis 14 114
28 Steve Grissom 17 DNS 102
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.