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Triple Eight Racing (888 Racing) [1] was a motorsports team formed in 1996 as Triple Eight Race Engineering, which competed in the British Touring Car Championship and the British GT Championship. The team's original focus was to design, build and race Vauxhalls on behalf of the General Motors brand in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC).
The Vauxhall Astra is a compact car/small family car that has ... For 2007, VX Racing dropped the Astra in favour of the Vectra C and reduced to two cars. Fabrizio ...
The Vauxhall Astra Coupe is a BTC-Touring class racing car that was built for the 2001 British Touring Car Championship season by Triple 8 Race Engineering, who ran Vauxhall's official works program. It was the first BTC Touring-specification car to be unveiled in late 2000.
Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport [18] 24 Jake Hill [18] All Independent Entries Duckhams Racing With Bartercard [19] Cupra León: TOCA/M-Sport: 18 Daryl DeLeon [20] All Restart Racing [21] Cupra León: TOCA/M-Sport: 29 Scott Sumpton [22] All 222 Chris Smiley [21] All Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing [23] Vauxhall Astra: TOCA/M-Sport: 40 ...
Power Maxed Racing will switch from Chevrolet Cruze to Vauxhall Astra. The team will also enter the constructor class with manufacturer support from Vauxhall Motors. [2] Motorbase Performance will expand to three cars having loaned TBL from Welch Motorsport. [15]
After campaigning the BTC-T Vauxhall Astra Coupe for 4 years, VX Racing took the decision to replace the car with the brand-new Astra SportHatch for the 2005 BTCC season. [1] [2] An experimental BTC-T spec Vectra had been built in 2003, but the experiment was not continued due to the weight of the car. [3]
The title of BTCC champion is awarded to the driver who scores the most points overall in a British Touring Car Championship season. From 1992 to present a separate championship was awarded to the winning 'independent' (not officially manufacturer backed) driver, and from 2000 to 2003 the Production class had its own championship for the best 'class B' driver.
On 22 November 2016 Power Maxed Racing announced that Vauxhall would be returning to BTCC with the Astra for the 2017 season. The 2017 drivers were Tom Chilton and Senna Proctor. Senna secured victory in the prestigious Jack Sears Trophy, awarded to best rookie, with an unprecedented 5 rounds of the season left to run.