BTCC Masters

The idea of the race was to find the "BTCC Master" from sixteen past and present drivers from the British Touring Car Championship.

Only two drivers were unable to race, Yvan Muller and James Thompson due to their contracts with Vauxhall.

The drivers would all take two timed free practice sessions in the cars but the starting grid would be drawn randomly from a hat.

This was evident as early as the second corner as Jason Plato pushed past Patrick Watts for second place sending him onto the grass and dropping him down the field.

While all this was happening at the front, Gabriele Tarquini had set the fastest lap time and had already overtaken half the field.

Further behind as the cars came round the craner curves, Kelvin Burt was pushed by the group of drivers behind him off the track and hard side on into the tyre wall.

When the race had restarted again, Alain Menu made a move past Plato as they went round the old hairpin.