2003 ASCAR season

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The 2003 ASCAR Season was the third 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.

Teams and drivers

2003 Champion Ben Collins.

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