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The 2011 AirAsia Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom season will begin at Brands Hatch on 3 April and will finish after 16 races over 8 events at Brands Hatch on 2 October. The season will support rounds of the British Touring Car Championship. On 28 February, AirAsia X was announced as title sponsor to the series in a three-year deal. [1]
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit in West Kingsdown, Kent, England. First used as a grasstrack motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently hosts many British and International racing events. The venue is owned and operated by Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision organisation.
The British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA. It was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and was renamed as the British Touring Car Championship for the 1987 season. The championship, currently running Next Generation Touring Car regulations, has been run to various national and international regulations over the years including FIA Group 2, FIA Group 5, FIA Group 1, FIA Group A, FIA Super Touring and FIA Super 2000. A lower-key Group N class for production cars ran from 2000 until 2003.
AirAsia X Berhad, operating as AirAsia X, is a long-haul budget airline based in Malaysia, and a sister company of AirAsia. It commenced operations on 2 November 2007 with its first service flown from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, to Gold Coast Airport in Australia. AirAsia X flies to destinations within Asia, Australia, and the United States of America. The airline operates a fleet of 22 aircraft and has placed orders for 76 more. Indonesia AirAsia X and Thai AirAsia X are affiliated with AirAsia X.
The 2011 season will see several rules introduced in an effort to cut costs for competitors to an annual budget of approximately £60,000. These changes including a reduction in the number of rounds from 20 to 16, a reduction in tyre allocation from 60 slick tyres per year to 48 and a reduction of official test days and a freedom of test venue introduced. [2]
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The 2011 ToCA calendar was announced on 8 September 2010. [14] Renault have subsequently announced that the Clio Cup will support the BTCC at eight meetings. [2] Two non-championship races were held at the World Series by Renault meeting at Silverstone in conjunction with the Dutch Clio Cup. [15] Luke Wright won both races for the Scuderia Vittoria team, [16] but he was the only full-time competitor from the British series to take part.
Silverstone Circuit is a motor racing circuit in England located next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side. The Northamptonshire towns of Towcester and Brackley and Buckinghamshire town of Buckingham are close by, and the nearest large towns are Northampton and Milton Keynes.
Scuderia Vittoria is a British motor racing team. The team was formed in late 2010 and is the brainchild of ex-BTCC racers Tom Ferrier and Danny Buxton along with multiple GT and single-seater championship team manager, Piers Masarati. The Middlesex based team ran a Ferrari 458 GT3 and a Ginetta G50 GT4 car in the 2011 British GT season. They also fielded up to 4 Renault Clio's in the UK Renault Clio Cup series.
Round | Circuit | Date | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winning driver | Winning team | |
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1 | R1 | Brands Hatch, Kent | 2 April | Total Control Racing | |||
R2 | 3 April | Stancombe Vehicle Engineering | |||||
2 | R3 | Donington Park, Leicestershire | 16 April | Stancombe Vehicle Engineering | |||
R4 | 17 April | Total Control Racing | |||||
3 | R5 | Thruxton Circuit, Hampshire | 30 April | Team Pyro | |||
R6 | 1 May | Team Pyro | |||||
4 | R7 | Oulton Park, Cheshire | 4 June | Total Control Racing | |||
R8 | 5 June | Team Pyro | |||||
5 | R9 | Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire | 18 June | Scuderia Vittoria | |||
R10 | 19 June | Scuderia Vittoria | |||||
6 | R11 | Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit, Norfolk | 6 August | Total Control Racing | |||
R12 | 7 August | Team Pyro | |||||
7 | R13 | Rockingham Motor Speedway, Northamptonshire | 17 September | Team Pyro | |||
R14 | 18 September | Team Pyro | |||||
8 | R15 | Brands Hatch, Kent | 1 October | Westbourne Motorsport | |||
R16 | 2 October | Stancombe Vehicle Engineering |
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