Tom Chilton

Hi, I'm Tom Chilton and i'm a professional racing driver currently racing in the FIA World Touring Car Championship.

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Driving in the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship alongside James Nash in Team Aon's Global Ford Focus.2010 British Touring Car Independent Champion.The youngest ever BTCC race winner.Also the youngest to ever hold a National B racing car licence at 13yrs old Moand 10months. Tom Chilton cut his teeth in T-Cars and has gone on to impress with his professional approach to racing. He's amongst the fittest of all the drivers, working hard in the gym, on runs and on bike rides. Turning his attention to the BTCC, he was team mate to ex-Superbike racer Aaron Slight in 2002 driving a Vauxhall Astra Coupé for Barwell Motorsport. He proved to be very quick, and although his lack of experience counted against him he nevertheless finished the season in 15th place overall and 5th in the Independents' Cup.In 2003 he moved to Honda Racing and finished in 9th place driving a works Honda Civic Type-R ran by Arena Motorsport alongside Matt Neal and Alan Morrison. With Honda withdrawing manufacturer support for 2004, Arena only had the budget to run a single car for Chilton. However, the car was still well-prepared and he came through to take his first victory during the 9th race of the season, at Silverstone, in the process becoming the youngest winner of a BTCC race. He won again in the 29th race at Donington.His plans for 2005 centered around the DTM with a new programme backed by MG Rover, but this fell through with the demise of the British marque. He and Arena rejoined the BTCC at the second meeting of the season and combined his touring car duties with racing for Zytek in the ALMS and LMS endurance series. Tom won in both ALMS and LMS racing. Winning and qualifying Pole at the famous Laguna Seca race way in California for the ALMS. And in the LMS Winning the 1000km at Nurburgring from 42nd on the grid. He was classified 5th in the 2005 British Touring Car Championship season despite only starting 24 of the 30 races. Chilton's involvement with Zytek continued, subject to funding and availability; Tom and his brother Max drove the car at the Silverstone 1000km in September 2007.Vauxhall signed him for 2006 to drive the #5 Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch. In a struggling season for Vauxhall, Tom never won a race and slipped to 7th overall. Vauxhall retained Chilton and Fabrizio Giovanardi for 2007, but Tom did not want to stay at VX Racing in 2008.He left to partner Gordon Shedden at Team Dynamics for the 2008 BTCC season. In the final round of the championship, Chilton won his first race since round 25 of the 2005 season with a dominant victory at Brands Hatch. This also ensured his tenth place in the championship.For 2009 Chilton has returned to Arena Motorsport to develop a Ford Focus ST in the BTCC. Tom kept developing the 2010 Ford Focus ST with its LPG Turbo to take the BTCC Independent Championship. Also with team mate Tom Onslow Cole the duo took the Independent Teams Championship as well. Career History2010-BTCC with Ford Team Aon. 1st in the Independent Drivers championship and 5th Overall. Also winning the Independent teams championship. 2009• BTCC with Ford Team Aon. 13th overall with a second place in final round at Brands Hatch only losing out by 0.015 sec from 1st place (the narrowest margin in BTCC history).2008• BTCC with Team Halfords. 10th overall with 1 race win in final round at Brands Hatch.2006-07• BTCC with VX Racing. 7th overall in ’06 in Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch and 9th overall in ’07 in Vauxhall Vectra. 1st in the Manufactures Championship. 2005• BTCC with Arena International Motorsport. 5th overall in team’s Honda Civic Type R with 4 race wins. Also raced for Arena-led factory Zytek squad in both LMS and ALMS championships. Finished 6th overall in LMS with 1 race win at Nurburgring and 8th overall in ALMS with 1 race win at Laguna Seca.2004• BTCC with Arena International Motorsport. 9th overall with 2 race wins in team’s Honda Civic Type R. Made history with the first of those 2 wins (at Silverstone) by becoming BTCC’s youngest ever race winner aged 19 years, 1 month and 24 days.2003• BTCC with factory Honda Racing team in its Honda Civic Type R. 9th overall.2002• BTCC with Barwell Motorsport team in its Vauxhall Astra Coupe. 15th overall. Made history on debut by becoming youngest driver ever to contest a BTCC race, still aged only 16, and to finish on the podium – he achieved third outright in the day’s second race.2001• T-Cars. 3rd overall with 7 race wins. Also won Class C title of BRSCC’s Winter Saloon Car series1999-2000• T-Cars. Finished 3rd overall in 2000 and also contested that year’s BRSCC Winter GT Championship.Tom has appeared in Six series of the BBC Top Gear. In Series 5, Episode 5, he was one of the drivers in the People Carrier Race. He then again appeared in the first episode of series 6 as one of the drivers in the Toyota Aygo football match. More recently he has appeared in Series 10 episode 6 when he raced a Chevrolet motorhome with other touring car drivers as well as James May & Richard Hammond. In Series 12 episode 5 he raced (and then rolled over) a double decker bus, and had earlier on in the episode raced against Jeremy Clarkson whilst driving a BMW M3. On 6 December 2009, he appeared in a further episode of Top Gear, racing against other touring car drivers in airport vehicles.In 2009 he appeared with Anthony Reid in a music video for singer-songwriter Andy J Gallagher.