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2003 ASCAR season

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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

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2003 Champion Ben Collins.
Team Car No. Driver Rounds
Kidd-Richardson Racing Chevrolet 2 Australia Shaun Richardson All
RML Chevrolet 4 Colombia Alejandro Lince 7
33 United Kingdom Peter Falding 1
44 United Kingdom Anthony Swan All
48 United States Steve Grissom 1
84 United Kingdom Ben Collins All
Team West-Tec Chevrolet 5 United Kingdom Rob Speak 7
42 Sweden Niklas Lovén 6
United Kingdom Chris Cooke 1
Ford
Pontiac
96 Netherlands Michael Vergers 7
United Kingdom Derek Hayes 1
Xcel Motorsport Pontiac 6 United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson 5
7 United Kingdom Andrew Kirkaldy 7
Fast Tec Motorsport Pontiac 12 United Kingdom Mark Proctor All
Shark Racing Chevrolet 17 United Kingdom Tony King 5
TorqueSpeed Chevrolet 24 United Kingdom John Mickel All
25 United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. All
26 United Kingdom Oli Playle All
Shearspeed Pontiac 39 United Kingdom Andy Smith 1
India Phiroze Bilimoria 1
Intersport Racing Pontiac 40 United Kingdom Kevin Clarke All
Scott Racing Services Chevrolet 66 Republic of Ireland Kieran Dynes 3
Team HTML Pontiac 68 United Kingdom Earl Goddard 1
Italy Max Papis 1
United Kingdom Derek Hayes 4
69 Germany Roland Rehfeld All
Steward Racing Ford 75 United Kingdom John Steward All
Team Catchpole Racing Chevrolet 77 United Kingdom Phil Weaver All
CWS Racing Chevrolet 78 United Kingdom Colin White All
79 United Kingdom Chris Cooke 3
United Kingdom Andy Smith 4

Race calendar

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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 United Kingdom Rockingham Motor Speedway 11 May United Kingdom Ben Collins Germany Roland Rehfeld Netherlands Michael Vergers Netherlands Michael Vergers United Kingdom Team West-Tec
R2 United Kingdom Ben Collins Netherlands Michael Vergers Germany Roland Rehfeld United Kingdom Team HTML
2 R3 United Kingdom Rockingham Motor Speedway 8 June Germany Roland Rehfeld United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Rob Speak United Kingdom Rob Speak United Kingdom Team West-Tec
3 R4 Germany EuroSpeedway 6 July United Kingdom Anthony Swan United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom TorqueSpeed
4 R5 United Kingdom Rockingham Motor Speedway 27 July United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom TorqueSpeed
R6 United Kingdom Derek Hayes United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom RML
5 R7 United Kingdom Rockingham Motor Speedway 24 August United Kingdom Derek Hayes United Kingdom Derek Hayes Netherlands Michael Vergers Netherlands Michael Vergers United Kingdom Team West-Tec
R8 United Kingdom Andy Smith Netherlands Michael Vergers United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom RML
6 R9 United Kingdom Rockingham Motor Speedway 31 August Germany Roland Rehfeld Germany Roland Rehfeld United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom RML
7 R10 Germany EuroSpeedway 14 September United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins Germany Roland Rehfeld United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom RML
R11 United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Colin White United Kingdom Colin White United Kingdom CWS Racing
8 R12 United Kingdom Rockingham Motor Speedway 28 September United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom RML
R13 United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom RML

Final points standings

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Pos Driver United Kingdom United Kingdom Germany United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom Germany United Kingdom Pts
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13
1 United Kingdom Ben Collins 4* 2 3 2* 3* 1* 5* 1* 1* 1* 11* 1* 1* 2299
2 United Kingdom Colin White 6 5 10 6 5 7 3 6 4 2 1* 5 4 2044
3 Netherlands Michael Vergers 1* 3* 3 2* 3* 1* 13* 5 11 6 4 5 1963
4 Germany Roland Rehfeld 7 1* 9* 17 7 10 2 3 2* 9* 10 3 6 1962
5 United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. 20 13 4 1* 1* 12* 15 DNS 3 3 2* 2 2 1821
6 United Kingdom Anthony Swan 15 11 11 8* 11 15 10 5 7 4 3 8 7 1804
7 United Kingdom Mark Proctor 12 DNS 8 7 6 2* 6 2 9 6 5 9 19 1722
8 United Kingdom Phil Weaver 10 6 13 12 10 5 19 17 16 14 14 17 10 1567
9 Australia Shaun Richardson 18 17 20 10 16 9 9 4 6 15 15 18 12 1546
10 United Kingdom Oli Playle 3 4 19 16 15 8 21 18 13 7 13 23 22 1509
11 United Kingdom John Steward 15 10 16 18 18 DNS 8 8 15 13 9 12 13 1421
12 United Kingdom John Mickel 19 DNS 7 5* 12* DNS 17 16 8 5 4* 21 16 1390
13 United Kingdom Andrew Kirkaldy 14 12 12 15 4 14* 17 10 8 7 20 1363
14 United Kingdom Kevin Clarke 21 DNS 6 19 9 6 11 11 14 8 7 22 DNS 1351
15 United Kingdom Rob Speak 8 8 1* 4 14 DNS 18 DNS 11 6 3 1278
16 Colombia Alejandro Lince 5 16 5 13 13 16 14 15 12 WD WD 1116
17 United Kingdom Andy Smith 13 14 20 7 10 12 12 19 18 1034
18 United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson 2 15 2 9 17 DNS 16 17 1020
19 United Kingdom Tony King 11 9 21 19 DNS 12 9 15 14 923
20 United Kingdom Derek Hayes 17 4 4 16* DNS 19 14 8 892
21 Sweden Niklas Lovén DNS 18 18 11 8 11 18 13 21 891
22 United Kingdom Chris Cooke 15 14 DNS 14 7 12 610
23 Republic of Ireland Kieran Dynes 13 10 20 10 9 603
24 United Kingdom Earl Goddard 9 7 280
25 United Kingdom Peter Falding 11 11 252
26 India Phiroze Billimoria 20 15 200
27 Italy Max Papis 14 114
28 United States Steve Grissom 17 DNS 102
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