British Touring Car Championship Champions - Alain Menu, Alec Poole, Andy Rouse, Bernard Unett, Bill McGovern, Chris Hodgetts, Colin Turkington, Doc Sh (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Alain Menu, Alec Poole, Andy Rouse, Bernard Unett, Bill McGovern, Chris Hodgetts, Colin Turkington, Doc Shepherd, Fabrizio Giovanardi, Frank Gardner (racing driver), Frank Sytner, Gabriele Tarquini, Jack Sears, James Thompson (racing driver), Jason Plato, Jeff Uren, Jim Clark, Joachim Winkelhock, John Cleland (racing driver), John Fitzpatrick (racing driver), John Love (racing driver), John Whitmore (racing driver), Matt Neal, Richard Longman, Rickard Rydell, Robb Gravett, Roy Pierpoint, Tim Harvey, Will Hoy, Win Percy, Yvan Muller. Excerpt: Matthew Neal (born 20 December 1966 in Stourbridge) is a British motor racing driver. He won the British Touring Car Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2011. He is also a race winner in the European Touring Car Championship. He is 6' 6" (2 m) tall, making him almost entirely unable to race single-seaters. He is also the Group Marketing Director at Rimstock plc, the alloy wheel manufacturer founded by his father Steve. Neal started out in Motocross but moved into cars in 1988, driving in the Ford Fiesta XR2i category. He was the British Group N Champion in 1990 and 1991, he also co-drove a BMW M3 to victory at the 1990 Willhire 24 Hour race at Snetterton. Neal demonstrates his Honda Integra at the 2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed.Neal made his BTCC debut with Pyramid Motorsport at the Silverstone round of the 1991 BTCC season driving a BMW M3. He finished 13th in his first race before returning to the series two rounds later at Oulton Park with the Auto Trader Techspeed Team in another BMW M3. After that race he would race for the team two rounds later at Donington Park. For 1992 he joined his father's Team Dynamics team driving the BMW M3 which Will Hoy had taken to the championship title the year before until the car was badly damaged forcing Neal to switch to the new BMW 318 for the final race of the season. He won the Total Cup for drivers without manufacturer support in 1993, before joining Mazda for a season cut short by a huge crash in round five at Silverstone. He rejoined Dynamics for 1995, remaining for several years and he occasionally humbled the big names, as well as winning the Independents' title three further times in 1995, 1999 and 2000. In 1999 he caused a sensation by winning a race at Donington Park in his Nissan, the first Independent to do so in the modern era, winning him a 250,000 prize. He took a further win a year later. The championship's regulations changed for 2001, and Neal briefly joined Peugeot Sport UK before sitting out most of the seaso