2003 ASCAR season explained

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

TeamCarDriverRounds
Kidd-Richardson RacingChevrolet2 Shaun RichardsonAll
RMLChevrolet4 Alejandro Lince
33 Peter Falding
44 Anthony SwanAll
48 Steve Grissom
84 Ben CollinsAll
Team West-TecChevrolet5 Rob Speak
align=center rowspan=242 Niklas Lovén
Chris Cooke
Ford
Pontiac
align=center rowspan=296 Michael Vergers
Derek Hayes
Xcel MotorsportPontiac6 Stevie Hodgson
7 Andrew Kirkaldy
Fast Tec MotorsportPontiac12 Mark ProctorAll
Shark RacingChevrolet17 Tony King
TorqueSpeedChevrolet24 John MickelAll
25 Ian McKellar Jr.All
26 Oli PlayleAll
ShearspeedPontiacalign=center rowspan=239 Andy Smith
Phiroze Bilimoria
Intersport RacingPontiac40 Kevin ClarkeAll
Scott Racing ServicesChevrolet66 Kieran Dynes
Team HTMLPontiacalign=center rowspan=368 Earl Goddard
Max Papis
Derek Hayes
69 Roland RehfeldAll
Steward RacingFord75 John StewardAll
Team Catchpole RacingChevrolet77 Phil WeaverAll
CWS RacingChevrolet78 Colin WhiteAll
align=center rowspan=279 Chris Cooke
Andy Smith

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.

RoundCircuit/LocationDatePole PositionFastest LapLed Most LapsWinning DriverWinning Team
1R1 Rockingham Motor Speedway11 May Ben Collins Roland Rehfeld Michael Vergers Michael Vergers Team West-Tec
R2 Ben Collins Michael Vergers Roland Rehfeld Team HTML
2R3 Rockingham Motor Speedway8 June Roland Rehfeld Ben Collins Rob Speak Rob Speak Team West-Tec
3R4 EuroSpeedway6 July Anthony Swan Ian McKellar Jr. Ben Collins Ian McKellar Jr. TorqueSpeed
4R5 Rockingham Motor Speedway27 July Ben Collins Ben Collins Ben Collins Ian McKellar Jr. TorqueSpeed
R6 Derek Hayes Ben Collins Ben Collins RML
5R7 Rockingham Motor Speedway24 August Derek Hayes Derek Hayes Michael Vergers Michael Vergers Team West-Tec
R8 Andy Smith Michael Vergers Ben Collins RML
6R9 Rockingham Motor Speedway31 August Roland Rehfeld Roland Rehfeld Ben Collins Ben Collins RML
7R10 EuroSpeedway14 September Ben Collins Ben Collins Roland Rehfeld Ben Collins RML
R11 Ben Collins Colin White Colin White CWS Racing
8R12 Rockingham Motor Speedway28 September Ben Collins Ben Collins Ben Collins Ben Collins RML
R13 Ben Collins Ben Collins Ben Collins RML

Final points standings

PosDriverPts
R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9R10R11R12R13
1 Ben Collins4*2 32*3*1*5*1*1*1*11*1*1*2299
2 Colin White651065736421*542044
3 Michael Vergers1*3*32*3*1*13*5116451963
4 Roland Rehfeld71*9*17710232*9*10361962
5 Ian McKellar Jr.201341*1*12*15DNS332*221821
6 Anthony Swan1511118*1115105743871804
7 Mark Proctor12DNS8762*629659191722
8 Phil Weaver1061312105191716141417101567
9 Shaun Richardson18172010169946151518121546
10 Oli Playle34191615821181371323221509
11 John Steward1510161818DNS881513912131421
12 John Mickel19DNS75*12*DNS1716854*21161390
13 Andrew Kirkaldy14121215414*171087201363
14 Kevin Clarke21DNS619961111148722DNS1351
15 Rob Speak881*414DNS18DNS11631278
16 Alejandro Lince5165131316141512WDWD1116
17 Andy Smith131420710121219181034
18 Stevie Hodgson2152917DNS16171020
19 Tony King1192119DNS1291514923
20 Derek Hayes174416*DNS19148892
21 Niklas LovénDNS181811811181321891
22 Chris Cooke1514DNS14712610
23 Kieran Dynes131020109603
24 Earl Goddard97280
25 Peter Falding1111252
26 Phiroze Billimoria2015200
27 Max Papis14114
28 Steve Grissom17DNS102

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