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

Team Car No. Drivers 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

Results and standings

Races

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 4 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

Round 2 Silverstone

Championship standings after Round 2

Round 3 Brno

Championship standings after Round 3



Round 4 Jarama

Championship standings after Round 4

Championship standings

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

Drivers' Championship

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 classification
Blue Non-points classification
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired, not classified (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.

Manufacturers' Trophy

Pos Manufacturer Points
1 Alfa Romeo 217
2 BMW 192
3 Volvo 63
4 Nissan 2

References

  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.