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Juho Hänninen claimed his third victory of the year in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge after beating Andreas Mikkelsen in arduous conditions on the RACMSA Rally of Scotland. The win earned him enough points to put him out of reach of any of his rivals for this year’s drivers’ title. He will be crowned officially after the next round, the FxPro Rally Cyprus.

Only nine drivers were classified at the finish as the fast pace of the rally took a brutal toll on the drivers and their machines.

Motorsport Mundial 42-10

This week the British Touring Car Championship is heading towards the season conclusion while the World Motocross Championship reaches its penultimate round, the Volkswagen Sirocco Cup races at the Nurburgring with some big incidents and the battle of the Elite League Speedway continues.

BTCC Event 10 Brands Hatch

Jason Plato won twice today at Brands Hatch to be crowned Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Champion for the second time in his career as a 42,000 crowd – a record for a BTCC event at one of the MotorSport Vision group’s circuits – crammed into the world-famous Kent venue to see the final 2010 round of the UK’s premier motor racing series.

Despite his Silverline Chevrolet Cruze carrying the maximum success ballast of 45kgs, Plato dominated the weekend with pole position on Saturday and lights-to-flag victories in today’s first and second races. His win in race two was enough to add a second title to the one he won, also at Brands Hatch, in 2001. Furthermore, it meant he has equalled Andy Rouse’s record of 60 race wins in the BTCC.

The final win of the season, in race three, then went the way of youngster Andrew Jordan who, from pole position on a reversed grid, led all the way for his second win of the season – and his career – in the Pirtek Racing team’s Vauxhall Vectra, using BTCC organiser TOCA’s new turbocharged NGTC engine.

Oxford’s Plato commented: “The BTCC is one of the very best championships in the world so to win it is a very magical feeling. Everyone in my team, Chevrolet and RML who prepare the car, are the best in the business and also a great family of people so it’s a very joyous experience winning it for them. Sixty wins sounds nice but not as nice as 61!”

He added: “When I first started in the BTCC in 1997 with the Renault team I knew we had a fantastic car and it duly won the championship that year. Mid-way through this season when we unlocked all the secrets of the Chevrolet Cruze I got that same feeling again. It has been a phenomenal car to race but, like I say, that’s very much down to the people at Chevrolet and RML. Personally, I am of course delighted. I've been runner-up three times in the last four years so to finally get that second crown probably means I won't be such a pain in the backside to live with now!"

The three drivers who could have beaten Plato to the title today – Honda Racing Team team-mates Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden and Team Aon’s Tom Onslow- Cole – duly finished second, third and fourth in the final standings. Neal finished third and then second in races one and two. The best Shedden could manage was second in race one although it should be noted that, between them, he and Neal have achieved ten wins – five apiece – out of the season’s 30 races in their Honda Civics.

Other drivers to achieve podium results at Brands Hatch included WSR’s Robert Collard with a third in race two, plus Airwaves BMW’s Steven Kane and Team Aon’s Tom Chilton, second and third in race three. Notably, that third place for Chilton in his unique LPG-turbocharged Ford Focus was enough to clinch him the Independent Drivers’ title by just two points from Kane. Onslow-Cole, who’d led the standings comfortably arriving at Brands, slipped to third after retiring from all three races.

Honda/Dynamics held off Arena/Ford to lift the prestigious Manufacturers/Constructors Trophy, while the Honda Racing Team also ran out comfortable winners of the hotly-contested HiQ Teams Championship ahead of Team Aon. However, it is Team Aon which has taken Independent Teams' honours after a season-long battle with Airwaves BMW.

Elsewhere, two drivers were punished for on-track incidents at Brands Hatch. These were: Race 2: Mat Jackson – 2 penalty points on his competition licence and an official reprimand; Race 2: Sam Tordoff – pit lane drive-through penalty.

Auto Mundial 41-10

As promised Auto Mundial this week comes to you from the City of Light, where the Salon de l'Automobile welcomes visitors, media and of course the world's car industry.

Motorsport Mundial 41-10

Coming up on the program this week, DTM is at Brands Hatch in England, The British touring car championship is at round eight in Scotland while the world motocross championship reaches its thirteenth round at Campo Grande in Brazil. There is Formula Three racing in Germany and also some great Elite League Speedway racing with Eastbourne against Peterborough.

Auto Mundial 40-10

We start the week with a quick flip around the Paris show - we'll be there in detail next week but here's a taster - and we'll take a long hard look at the Mini Clubman which was unveiled there. Renault gave us a glimpse of its new Latitude luxury saloon, Mazda showed us the future with Shinari and Skoda just keeps on keeping on - all of this from Paris, where our news headlines this week were written.

In the show this week:-

NEWS

MINI CLUBMAN

RENAULT LATITUDE

MAZDA SHINARI

SKODA FABIA

Motorsport Mundial 40-10

On the program where this week there is Elite League Speedway racing, the Ferrari Europa challenge is at the Hungaroring just outside Budapest for two races, the world Motocross championship is in the Czech Republic which it the same destination for the FIA European Truck racing championship.

Fiesta World Tour - Leg 2 - Part 2 - VNR

As the crew cross the channel to reach the European leg of the tour, there is plenty in store for them, including a high-speed trip around the Nurburgring.

Auto Mundial 39-10

Mazda's Fiesta-sized hatchback is a lot of car for the money, Discovery's a lot of car for a lot more money, and Freelander 2 has to take on the renewed and revised world leader from BMW. Then we're in supercar territory with Zonda, and high-performance motoring with Renault, but we start the week as always with the news headlines - and this really is worldwide stuff.

In the show this week:-

NEWS

MAZDA 3 HATCH

LAND ROVER DISCOVERY

LAND ROVER FREELANDER 2

PAGANI ZONDA F

RENAULT SPORT MEGANE RANGE

IRC Sanremo HLTS International Sound and Commentaries

Paolo Andreucci has claimed his first victory in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge after defeating fellow Italian Giandomenico Basso in a close fight on Rallye Sanremo, which took place on the testing mountain roads of northern Italy's Imperia province on Friday and Saturday (September 24-25).