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
Team Car Driver Rounds Kidd-Richardson Racing Chevrolet 2 Shaun Richardson All Deuce Racing-RML Chevrolet 4 Alejandro Lince 33 Peter Falding 44 Anthony Swan All 48 Steve Grissom 84 Ben Collins All Team West-Tec Chevrolet 5 Rob Speak 42 Niklas Lovén Chris Cooke FordPontiac 96 Michael Vergers Derek Hayes Xcel Motorsport Pontiac 6 Stevie Hodgson 7 Andrew Kirkaldy Fast Tec Motorsport Pontiac 12 Mark Proctor All Shark Racing Chevrolet 17 Tony King TorqueSpeed Chevrolet 24 John Mickel All 25 Ian McKellar Jr. All 26 Oli Playle All Shearspeed Pontiac 39 Andy Smith Phiroze Bilimoria Intersport Racing Pontiac 40 Kevin Clarke All Scott Racing Services Chevrolet 66 Kieran Dynes Team HTML Pontiac 68 Earl Goddard Max Papis Derek Hayes 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 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.
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
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