2001 BTCC season
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The 2001 theAA.com British Touring Car Championship season was the 44th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season and marked the beginning of a new era of lower-cost rules and regulations for the series. Image File history File links Btcc_logo. ... The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom. ... The 2000 theAA.com British Touring Car Championship season was the 43rd British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season and marked the final year for Super Touring specification cars in the championship. ... The 2002 Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship season was the 45th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season. ...

Changes for 2001

2001 saw a complete overhaul of the BTCC, aimed at reducing the cost of competition and making the series more appealing to the fans.

New regulations

The spectacular but expensive supertouring car regulations were finally ditched at the end of 2000. 2001 saw the field divided into two classes: BTC-T and BTC-P. The latter was a simple renaming of 2000's "Class B" Super Poduction specification cars, whereas BTC-T (T for Touring) was a completely new set of rules designed to produce closer racing and cheaper cars to build. Supertouring, Class 2 or Class II Touring Cars were the rules laid out by the FIA for national touring car racing in 1994, based on the 2. ...

Other changes

• Alan Gow stepped down as the series boss, replaced by Richard West.
• BF Goodrich replaced Michelin as the control tyre for the series.
• Honda and Ford left the series, although Peugeot returned as a works entry after withdrawing at the end of the 1998 season.
• More conventional qualifying sessions returned, replacing the one-lap showdown system of previous years
• Initially a three-race format was proposed for BTCC race-day: BTC-P and BTC-T to have one 'sprint' race each before the two classes combined for a longer 'feature' race in which the Touring class cars would be required to make a pit-stop. However, after the first race meeting it was decided that the two classes should combine for the sprint race as well.

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Teams and drivers

Touring Class (BTC-T)
No.	Driver	Team	Car	Notes
2	Anthony Reid	MG Sport & Racing	MG ZS	Rounds 21-26. Not eligible for points
4	Yvan Muller	Vauxhall Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé
5	Jason Plato	Vauxhall Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé
8	Matt Neal	Peugeot Sport UK	Peugeot 406 Coupé	Rounds 1-2
9	James Thompson	Team Egg Sport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé
14	Tom Ferrier	JS Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 147	Rounds 3-4, 13-18, 23-26
16	Tim Harvey	JS Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 147	Rounds 1-2, 5-8, 17-26
17	Mark Blair	JS Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 147	Rounds 19-22
15	David Pinkney	JS Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 147	Rounds 1-8
20	Warren Hughes	MG Sport & Racing	MG ZS	Rounds 21-26. Not eligible for points
22	Dan Eaves	Peugeot Sport UK	Peugeot 406 Coupé
27	Phil Bennett	Team Egg Sport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé	Rounds 1-18, 21-26
18	Andy Priaulx	Team Egg Sport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé	Rounds 19-20
41	Kurt Luby	ABG Motorsport/Total Motorsport	Lexus IS200	Rounds 1-12
42	Thomas Erdos	ABG Motorsport/Total Motorsport	Lexus IS200	Rounds 13-24
43	Steve Sutcliffe	ABG Motorsport/Total Motorsport	Lexus IS200	Rounds 25-26. Not eligible for points
44	Steve Soper	Peugeot Sport UK	Peugeot 406 Coupé
111	Aaron Slight	Peugeot Sport UK	Peugeot 406 Coupé	Rounds 11-12. Not eligible for points
Production Class (BTC-P)
No.	Driver	Team	Car	Notes
50	Roger Moen	HTML	Peugeot 306
51	Jim Edwards Jnr	T.C.R. / Interactive Network Solutions	Honda Accord	Rounds 1-8, 11-20
53	Joanna Clarke	Team B&Q / Talksport Radio	Honda Integra R	Rounds 13-18
55	John B-and-Q	Team B&Q / Talksport Radio	Honda Integra R	Rounds 1-8, 11-12, 19-20, 23-26
54	Nick Beaumont	Team B&Q / Talksport Radio	Honda Integra R	Rounds 1-8, 11-24
58	Paul O'Neill	Tech-Speed Motorsport	Peugeot 306
59	Annie Templeton	Tech-Speed Motorsport	Peugeot 306
60	Simon Harrison	HTML	Peugeot 306
62	Rob Collard	Collard Racing	Renault Clio	Rounds 1-16, 21-26
64	Gavin Pyper	GA-Janspeed Racing	Alfa Romeo 156
65	Colin Blair	GA-Janspeed Racing	Alfa Romeo 156
66	Peter Cate	Team Kaliber Sport with Barwell	Honda Accord	Rounds 1-6
99	Simon Graves	Team Kaliber Sport with Barwell	Honda Accord	Rounds 7-18, 21-26
89	Tiff Needell	Team Kaliber Sport with Barwell	Honda Accord	Rounds 19-20. Not eligible for points.
68	Mark Lemmer	Synchro Motorsport	Honda Accord	Rounds 15-18
70	Dave Allan	Synchro Motorsport	Honda Accord	Rounds 1-8, 11-14, 19-26
77	Tom Boardman	Tom Boardman Racing	Peugeot 306	Rounds 1-16, 19-26
78	James Levy	Cranfield Automotive Management	Mitsubishi Carisma	Rounds 5-6
80	Andy Neate	Cranfield Automotive Management	Mitsubishi Carisma	Rounds 1-2
79	Toni Ruokonen	Cranfield Automotive Management	Mitsubishi Carisma	Rounds 1-10
84	Matt Kelly	Bintcliffe Sport Racing	Nissan Primera	Rounds 1-2, 7-8
85	Nick James	Arnold James Sport	Honda Integra R	Rounds 7-8, 15-16, 23-24
86	Steven Wood	TH Motorsport	Proton Satria GTi	Rounds 21-22, 25-26
88	James Kaye	Team Kaliber Sport with Barwell	Honda Accord
94	Gareth Howell	GR Motorsport	Ford Focus
96	Rick Kraemer	GR Motorsport	Ford Focus	Rounds 1-2, 5-26
97	Richard Meins	GR Motorsport	Ford Focus	Rounds 1-12, 17-22, 25-26
52	Gordon Shedden	GR Motorsport	Ford Focus	Rounds 13-14
98	Mat Jackson	GR Motorsport	Ford Focus

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Race calendar and winners

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Championship results