Tom Ferrier
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Tom Ferrier is a British racing driver, born 14th 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, he raced in the national Saloon Championship as well as some Class B BTCC races (the two series used virtually identical cars) in an Alfa Romeo 156 prepared by Gary Ayles' team. For 2001 he was linked to Vauxhall 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. In Britain he was 10th overall in a JSM Alfa Romeo 147, nearly winning at Donington until an engine failure under the safety car.
For 2002 he concentrated on the ETCC in a DART Racing Alfa Romeo 156. In 2005 he was a frontrunner in the SEAT Cupra Championship [1]. He was entered for the 2004 BTCC by Carly alongside countryman James Hanson, but this did not happen. Ferrier ultimately returned to the BTCC for the final round of 2006, in a SEAT Toledo bought by Motorbase Performance just 2 weeks before. With virtually no time in the car before the weekend, he took a 7th place finish in race 2. He has also done some British GT Championship races in 2006.
