It’s been nearly three months since the dust settled on the 30 door-handle-to-door-handle rounds of the Dunlop MSA British touring Car Championship. So before the cars rumble back into life for 2017, we take a last chance to reflect on a stunning season.
The title was decided by just two points in the very final race of the season at Brands Hatch.
Gordon Shedden took the victory for the second year in a row and the third time in his career to stand shoulder to shoulder with the championship’s greats.
Here, we pick out our top 10 drivers of the 2016 campaign.
1 Gordon Shedden
Team: Team Dynamics
Car: Honda Civic Type-R
Championship position: 1st
Average qualifying position: 6.70 Poles: 2
Laps led: 73 Wins: 4 Podiums: 10 Fastest laps: 3
The reigning champion must have thought keeping hold of the silverware was a long way away when he slipped 52 points behind the top of the table at the halfway point. He rescued his season within 15 races with an average finishing position of fourth place. He sealed the crown by passing rival Sam Tordoff in the final race at Brands Hatch for third place.
2 Colin Turkington
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Factczech..
you logic makes no sense.. BTCC cars are entered with certain regulations and specs.. otherwise each anufacturers woud race with .. say Honda with Typr-R, BMW with M, Volvo with Polestar, Ford with RS, Audii with S etc..
Since it is not.. i.e. parts and engines have to conform to BTCC standards and regiation then.. comparisons are fine.. and succesfu teams are fining that little edge of others..
A bit biased???
The Civic is the top spec for that model, the BMW also with its M, so too, is the MG, and Levorg, only the Focus is fielding the second best model in the ST, surely it's time they field an RS here?
My second point for Matt being underrated here is his massive, advantage in laps led.. surely this should not be overlooked if we are to judge this based on performance?
Well done Matt and also to the Motorbase Ford team... it is hard for Autocar to rate a Ford above their cronies.....