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Favorite Drivers

Welcome to my favourite drivers page where you can find out information on them and send an email saying who your driver of the week is after the latest round of the season. Also look out for my driver of the week which i will choose after every round of the BTCC season.

My Favourite Driver
 
 

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Name: Anthony Reid
Date of Birth: 21/6/59
Lives: Oxford
Nationality: British

BTC-T Driver No: 2
Entrant/Sponsor: MG Sport and Racing
Car: MG Z S

Career rundown:

2001 - BTCC Touring class. MG Sport and Racing. (Including development programme for car.)
2000 - BTCC - Team Ford Mondeo 1 win at Outon Park. Went down to the wire in the final round. Finished runner up in the Championship, losing out to Alain Menu by just two points.
1999 - BTCC - Team Ford Mondeo...no wins. Final position 12th.
1998 - BTCC - won seven times with Nissan, taking the championship title fight to the final round. Helped Nissan to the 98 manufacturers' title. Second in championship. Seven wins. Eleven pole positions.
1997 - Switched to the BTCC in '97 with Nissan alongside David Leslie and came close to victory on several occasions.He also raced in International GT events in a Lister Storm.
1996 - German Super Touring Cup in a Nissan Primera - two third places.
Won the Fuji Intertac race and took part in two South African events.
1995 - Won three races for HKS and contiuned to race Porsches and Ferraris at GT events.
1994 - All Japan races (with an HKS team Opel Cavalier winning three) including the Macau GP. He also raced a Porsche 962 and a Ferrari F40 and also drove a Vauxhall in the FIA Touring Car World Cup and TOCA Shoot-Out at Donington.
1993 - Competed in F3, F3000. Group A and Group N.
1992 - Japanese F3 Champion winning five races with Ralt-Mugen).
1990-91 - Contested Le Mans 24 Hours and Japanese F3 and Sportscars.
1990 - World Sportscar in a Porsche 962. (Began a long and successful association with racing in Japan in 1990.)
1989 - Formula Vauxhall Lotus, where he was third overall.
1985-88 - Formula 3.
1983 - FF2000. He won the Grovewood Award.
1978-83 - Formula Ford.
1977 - Reid's career began at the Jim Russell School.

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Another Favorite Driver

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Date of Birth: 26/4/74
Nationality: British

BTC-T Driver No - 3
Entrant/Sponsor - Vauxhall Motorsport
Car - Vauxhall Astra Coupe

2001 - BTCC Touring class. Team Egg Sport.
2000 - BTCC Again in the Honda Accord. Finished 9th overall.
1999 - BTCC Raced a Honda with West Surrey Racing. Finished fourth.
1998 - BTCC Again drove with Prodrive Honda. Finished third after four wins and two pole positions.
1997 - BTCC Drove a Honda with Prodrive. Won one race and claimed one pole position.
1996 - BTCC Drove with Vauxhall. Won one race.
1995 - BTCC Drove with Vauxhall. Two pole positions and one race win. A violent crash during testing at Knockhill cut his season short.
1994 - BTCC Privateer in a Peugeot 405.
1993 - National Saloon Car Cup in Honda Scholarship Civic V-Tec. Nine pole positions, seven wins and eight fastest laps.
1992 - Formula Vauxhall Junior. Finished fourth.
1991 - Formula Vauxhall Junior.
Pre-1991 - James had rally tuition from Malcolm Wilson and a brief karting career.

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