Tom Ferrier
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racing driver, born 14 November 1981. The highlight of his long karting career was winning the 1998 British Championship. He won the Star Cup of the Formula Renault championship a year later, before switching to saloon cars.
After 2 wins in the Renault Clio Winter series, in 2000 he raced in the national Saloon Championship http://archive.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/2000/7/7/723700.html as well as some Class B BTCC races (the two series used virtually identical cars) in an Alfa Romeo 156
Alfa Romeo 156
The Alfa Romeo 156 is a compact executive car introduced by Italian automaker Alfa Romeo at the 1997 Frankfurt Motor Show as the replacement for the Alfa Romeo 155...
prepared by Gary Ayles
Gary Ayles
Gary Ayles is a race car driver born in the United Kingdom.He competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 1991, filled in for one race in 1992, and returned in 1996 for Nissan, after four years as a works Peugeot driver in Italian Superturismo...
' team. For 2001 he was linked to Vauxhall
Vauxhall Motors
Vauxhall Motors is a British automotive company owned by General Motors and headquartered in Luton. It was founded in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer, began manufacturing cars in 1903 and was acquired by GM in 1925. It has been the second-largest selling car brand in the UK for...
for the main class, but instead raced in both the European Super Production Championship and the BTCC. In Europe he was 12th overall and second in the Under 25 Cup, in an Edenbridge Racing BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
. In Britain he was 10th overall in a JSM Alfa Romeo 147
Alfa Romeo 147
The Alfa Romeo 147 is a small family car produced by Italian automaker Alfa Romeo from 2000 to 2010. The 147 was voted European Car of the Year for 2001, beating the Ford Mondeo and the Toyota Prius....
, leading at Donington Park
Donington Park
Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship...
but suffering an engine failure while running second http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/1559747.stm.
For 2002 he concentrated on the European Touring Car Championship
European Touring Car Championship
The European Touring Car Championship was an international touring car racing series organised by the FIA. It had two incarnations, the first one between 1963 and 1988, and the second between 2000 and 2004...
(ETCC) in a DART Racing Alfa Romeo 156 with support from Alfa Romeo UK http://www.italiaspeed.com/news_sport_touringcars_2002_1_index.html. In 2005 he was a frontrunner in the SEAT Cupra Championship
SEAT Cupra Championship
The SEAT Cupra Championship was a one make series that ran for six years between 2003 and 2008, the last five of which ran as a support package to the British Touring Car Championship. The series will not continue for 2009, due to SEAT UK ending its racing activities...
http://www.seatsportuk.co.uk/sccNet/?Page=Reports&Year=2005. He was entered for the 2004 BTCC by Carly
Carly
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alongside countryman James Hanson, but this did not happen. He did some Caterham racing in 2004 http://www.caterhamracing.com/news/content.php?id=177. Ferrier ultimately returned to the BTCC for the final round of 2006, in a SEAT Toledo bought by Motorbase Performance
Motorbase Performance
Motorbase Performance is an English motor racing team, founded in 2004 by former Production Saloon racer Dave Bartrum. They are best known for their British Touring Car Championship campaigns, which produced a first overall podium at the Snetterton meeting in 2008.-Porsche Carrera Cup Great...
just 2 weeks before http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=702. With virtually no time in the car before the weekend, he took two points finishes http://www.crash.net/news_view.asp?cid=10&id=151026. He also did some British GT Championship races in 2006 http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2006/08/30/glew_brands_hatch_300806_feature.shtml.
He started 2007 in the British GT Championship, for Tech 9 sharing with Phil Quaife
Phil Quaife
Phil Quaife is an English racing driver currently competing in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB for Jota Sport and in the FIA GT3 European Championship in Apex Motorsport's Jaguar XKR.-Career:...
http://www.dailysportscar.com/viewArticle.cfm?articleUID=899E1EE7-1143-FDC9-352A054993223F5F. He rejoined Motorbase for the BTCC mid-season http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=622&PHPSESSID=81c3460e8c2f375e71c965aa62b5bdac. Rain in his first meeting counted against him http://www.motorbaseperformance.co.uk/british-touring-car-championship.html but he scored points at Snetterton
Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit is a motor racing circuit in Norfolk, England. Owned by MotorSport Vision, it is situated on the A11 road some 20 km north-east of the town of Thetford and 30 km south-west of the city of Norwich...
. Involvement in the huge pile-up in race 1 at Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near West Kingsdown in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events...
eliminated him from the rest of that meeting, and the team opted to skip the next meeting at Knockhill to concentrate on the season finale at Thruxton
Thruxton Circuit
Thruxton Circuit is a motor racing circuit located near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England which is used to host a number of motorsport events including British Touring Cars and Formula 3 racing....
. It was ultimately Paul O'Neill
Paul O'Neill (racing driver)
Paul O'Neill is a auto racing driver from Widnes of Irish parentage, and the half-brother of 'Sporty Spice' Mel C.-Career:...
who raced the car however.
In 2009 he competed in rounds of the Time Attack series in a Subaru Impreza
Subaru Impreza
Introduced in November 1993, the Impreza was offered in either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive versions and as a four-door sedan/saloon or five-door station wagon/estate. According to a Motor Trend article written March 1992 on page 26, the name of Subaru's new compact was, initially, to be...
run by Zen Performance.
From 2011, Ferrier and fellow former BTCC driver Danny Buxton formed Scuderia Vittoria
Scuderia Vittoria
Scuderia Vittoria is a British motor racing team. The team was formed in late 2010 and is the brainchild of ex-BTCC racers Tom Ferrier and Danny Buxton along with multiple GT and single-seater championship team manager, Piers Masarati. The Middlesex based team ran a Ferrari 458 GT3 and a Ginetta...
, and entered a team in both the AirAsia Renault Clio Cup (4x Renault Clio Cup Cars) and the British GT (1x Ginetta G50
Ginetta G50
Ginetta G50 is a specialist GT4 class-developed racing car, designed by Ginetta Cars.-Development:In late 2007, in what he later described as his Victor Kiam moment, Leeds-based businessman Lawrence Tomlinson bough Ginetta Cars from the group of enthusiasts, who themselves had bought it out of...
, 1x Ferrari 458 Italia GT). At the conclusion of the 2011 season, the team had achieved 14 wins over both classes, in their debut season.