2002 European Touring Car Championship

The 2002 FIA European Touring Car Championship was the 29th season of European touring car racing and the second season of the European Touring Car Championship.[1]

The season began at Magny-Cours on 20 April, and finished at Estoril on 20 October after twenty races over ten meetings.

It was the first European Touring Car season to be run according to Super 2000 regulations, replacing Super Touring.[2]

Teams and drivers

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Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds
  GTA Racing Team Nordauto Alfa Romeo 156 GTA 1   Fabrizio Giovanardi All
2   Nicola Larini All
3   Romana Bernardoni 1–8, 10
4   Roberto Colciago 8–9
  BMW Team Spain
  Ravaglia Motorsport
BMW 320i 5   Jordi Gené All
6   Fabrizio de Simone All
24   Gianluca de Lorenzi 8
  Carly Motors Team Isert BMW 320i 7   Tom Coronel 1–7, 9–10
8   Gianni Morbidelli 1–4
  Duncan Huisman 5, 7, 9–10
9   Peter Kox 1–5
  BMW Team Belgium BMW 320i 10   Fredrik Ekblom 1–8, 10
  RJN Motorsport Nissan Primera 11   Tommy Rustad All
12   Chris Goodwin 5
  AGS Motorsport Alfa Romeo 156 GTA 14   Paolo Ruberti 1–7
25   Domenico Guagliardo 8
27   Iain Inglis 9
28   Marco Antonelli 10
  Scuderia Bigazzi Alfa Romeo 156 GTA 15   Luis Villamil All
16   Éric Cayrolle All
  CiBiEmme Team Honda Civic Type-R 18   Salvatore Tavano All
19   Sandro Sardelli 2–9
  DART Racing Alfa Romeo 156 GTA 20   Tom Ferrier All
  Carly Motors Team Isert BMW 320i 22   Pierre-Yves Corthals 7, 9
  RJN Motorsport Nissan Primera 23   Chris Buncombe 7
26   Rob Collard 8–10
  Flash Engineering Volvo S60 30   Jens Edman 5
32   Jan 'Flash' Nilsson 5
  Team Hotfielt Sport Ford Focus ST170 31   Thomas Klenke 6
  BMW Team Deutschland BMW 320i 42   Jörg Müller All
43   Dirk Müller All
  GTA Racing Team Nordauto Alfa Romeo 156 GTA 56   Gabriele Tarquini 9
  Volvo S60 Racing Team Volvo S60 60   Rickard Rydell All
61   James Hanson All
Icon Class
I Independents' Championship
* Guest drivers ineligible for points

Results and standings

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Races

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Race Race Name Date Pole Position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team
1   Magny-Cours 21 April   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Fabrizio Giovanardi   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
2   Nicola Larini   Fabrizio Giovanardi   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
3   Silverstone 5 May   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Rickard Rydell   Nicola Larini   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
4   Nicola Larini   Fabrizio Giovanardi   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
5   Brno 19 May   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Rickard Rydell   Fabrizio Giovanardi   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
6   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Fabrizio Giovanardi   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
7   Jarama 2 June   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Fabrizio Giovanardi   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
8   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Nicola Larini   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
9   Anderstorp 30 June   Nicola Larini   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Nicola Larini   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
10   Nicola Larini   Jörg Müller   BMW Team Deutschland
11   Oschersleben 14 July   Tom Coronel   Jörg Müller   Dirk Müller   BMW Team Deutschland
12   Dirk Müller   Dirk Müller   BMW Team Deutschland
13   Spa-Francorchamps 3 August   Nicola Larini   Fredrik Ekblom   Nicola Larini   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
14   Nicola Larini   Jörg Müller   BMW Team Deutschland
15   Pergusa 22 September   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Fabrizio Giovanardi   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
16   Roberto Colciago   Fabrizio Giovanardi   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
17   Donington Park 6 October   Dirk Müller   Jörg Müller   Dirk Müller   BMW Team Deutschland
18   Gabriele Tarquini   Jörg Müller   BMW Team Deutschland
19   Estoril 20 October   Rickard Rydell   Jörg Müller   Fabrizio Giovanardi   GTA Racing Team Nordauto
20   Fabrizio Giovanardi   Jörg Müller   BMW Team Deutschland

Championship standings after Round 1

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Championship standings after Round 2

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Round 3 Czech Republic Brno

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Championship standings after Round 3

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Round 4 Spain Jarama

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Championship standings after Round 4

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Championship standings

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Points system
 1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th 
10 6 4 3 2 1

Drivers' Championship

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Pos Driver Car MAG
 
SIL
 
BRN
 
JAR
 
AND
 
OSC
 
SPA
 
PER
 
DON
 
EST
 
Pts
1   Fabrizio Giovanardi Alfa Romeo 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 4 4 11 5 11† 1 1 4 4 1 Ret 122
2   Jörg Müller BMW 5 5 3 8 5 4 3 4 4 1 2 2 2 1 4 3 5 1 4 1 93
3   Nicola Larini Alfa Romeo 2 2 1 2 3 3 2 1 1 5 6 6 1 9 2 4 Ret DNS Ret 6 86
4   Dirk Müller BMW 3 3 5 4 2 2 4 3 Ret 6 1 1 Ret DNS 3 6 1 5 Ret DNS 70
5   Rickard Rydell Volvo 4 4 4 3 Ret 6 10 14† 3 2 3 3 4 2 10 11 2 Ret 2 4 56
6   Fredrik Ekblom BMW 6 6 10 6 7 Ret 8 5 11 3 Ret 9 3 Ret 5 5 Ret 3 21
7   Tom Coronel BMW 12 Ret 8 Ret 12 8 6 Ret 9 7 Ret 8 9 3 7 6 3 2 16
8   Jordi Gené BMW 11 8 Ret DNS 16 10 9 8 5 9 7 4 Ret 4 8 10 13 3 Ret 14† 12
9   Duncan Huisman BMW 18 11 Ret Ret 6 2 Ret 5 9
10   James Hanson Volvo 14 Ret Ret Ret 4 5 11 11† 10 Ret NC 14† 10 6 Ret DNS 9 Ret 6 11 7
11   Paolo Ruberti Alfa Romeo Ret DNS 6 5 9 7 5 7 15 Ret 12 15† 7 5 7
12   Roberto Colciago Alfa Romeo 15 2 Ret 9 6
13   Fabrizio de Simone BMW 9 9 12 9 14 9 14 Ret 7 14† 5 5 Ret DNS 6 Ret Ret DNS Ret DNS 5
14   Gabriele Tarquini Alfa Romeo 3 7 4
15   Tommy Rustad Nissan Ret 10 11 Ret 11 15† DNS 10 14 Ret 10 10 11 Ret 16 15 Ret DNS 5 10 2
16   Luis Villamil Alfa Romeo 7 11 9 7 6 16 Ret DNS 12 12 8 7 14† DNS 12 13 11 11 Ret DNS 1
17   Peter Kox BMW 8 Ret Ret DNS 8 Ret 7 6 8 8 1
18   Tom Ferrier Alfa Romeo Ret 14† Ret DNS 13 12 13 13† 6 10 Ret DNS DNS 8 14 14 8 Ret Ret 7 1
19   Pierre-Yves Corthals BMW 6 Ret 15† DNS 1
-   Éric Cayrolle Alfa Romeo Ret 13† 7 12† 10 11 12 9 13 Ret 9 Ret 8 7 11 9 Ret Ret 8 8 0
-   Salvatore Tavano Honda 15 12 13 10 17 13 17† Ret 16 DNS Ret 12 Ret DNS 7 7 10 8 Ret 9 0
-   Gianni Morbidelli BMW 10 7 15† DNS Ret DNS 16 Ret 0
-   Marco Antonelli Alfa Romeo 7 Ret 0
-   Gianluca de Lorenzi BMW Ret 8 0
-   Sandro Sardelli Honda DNS DNS 18 14 DNS DNS DNS DNS 11 Ret 13 10† 9 Ret 12 10 0
-   Romana Bernardoni Alfa Romeo 13 15 14 11 15 Ret 15† 12† 17 13 DNS 13 12 Ret NC Ret 9 13† 0
-   Rob Collard Nissan Ret DNS 14 12 10 12 0
-   Chris Buncombe Nissan Ret 12 0
-   Domenico Guagliardo Alfa Romeo 13 12 0
-   Jens Edman Volvo 19† DNS 0
-   Thomas Klenke Ford Ret Ret 0
-   Chris Goodwin[3][4] Nissan Ret DNS 0
-   Iain Inglis Alfa Romeo DNS DNS 0
Pos Driver Car MAG
 
SIL
 
BRN
 
JAR
 
AND
 
OSC
 
SPA
 
PER
 
DON
 
EST
 
Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold - Pole
Italics - Fastest Lap

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

References

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  1. ^ "2002 European Touring Car Championship Calendar". italiaspeed.com. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  2. ^ TouringCarTimes (2020-01-22). "A look back at the introduction of S2000 in 2002". TouringCarTimes. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  3. ^ "European Touring Car Championship 2002". Driver Database. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  4. ^ "European Touringcar Championship — Season 2002". Speedsport Magazine. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
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