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   Shaun Richardson All
RML Chevrolet 4   Alejandro Lince 7
33   Peter Falding 1
44   Anthony Swan All
48   Steve Grissom 1
84   Ben Collins All
Team West-Tec Chevrolet 5   Rob Speak 7
42   Niklas Lovén 6
  Chris Cooke 1
Ford
Pontiac
96   Michael Vergers 7
  Derek Hayes 1
Xcel Motorsport Pontiac 6   Stevie Hodgson 5
7   Andrew Kirkaldy 7
Fast Tec Motorsport Pontiac 12   Mark Proctor All
Shark Racing Chevrolet 17   Tony King 5
TorqueSpeed Chevrolet 24   John Mickel All
25   Ian McKellar Jr. All
26   Oli Playle All
Shearspeed Pontiac 39   Andy Smith 1
  Phiroze Bilimoria 1
Intersport Racing Pontiac 40   Kevin Clarke All
Scott Racing Services Chevrolet 66   Kieran Dynes 3
Team HTML Pontiac 68   Earl Goddard 1
  Max Papis 1
  Derek Hayes 4
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 3
  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   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

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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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