T Cars
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T Cars was a saloon car-based motor racing
series based in the United Kingdom
, open exclusively to drivers between the ages of 14 and 17. The series was set up in 1999 and was the first championship in the UK to allow drivers under the age of 16 to drive racing cars. The series was dropped in 2008, due to poor grid entries, and was finally replaced by the new Fiesta Junior Championship for the 2010 season.
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series based in the United Kingdom
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, open exclusively to drivers between the ages of 14 and 17. The series was set up in 1999 and was the first championship in the UK to allow drivers under the age of 16 to drive racing cars. The series was dropped in 2008, due to poor grid entries, and was finally replaced by the new Fiesta Junior Championship for the 2010 season.
Champions
| Season | Champion |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Tom Boardman Tom Boardman (racing driver) Tom Boardman is a British auto racing driver. His greatest achievement to date is winning the 2005 SEAT Cupra Championship for the Triple R team which he runs with father, John, who was previously a rallycross driver in the 1970s.-Early years:Tom first started driving cars at a very young age on... |
| 2000 | Tom Kimber-Smith Tom Kimber-Smith Tom Kimber-Smith is a British race car driver.He was the 2003 British Formula Ford Champion. He is the son of Geoff Kimber-Smith.-Career summary:-Complete Formula Three Series results:... |
| Stuart Hall | |
| 2001 | Ben Reeves Ben Reeves Benjamin Neil Reeves is an English professional footballer currently playing for Southampton. He plays as a midfielder.-Career:... |
| 2002 | Matthew Wilson Matthew Wilson Matthew Wilson is an English rally driver from Cockermouth in Cumbria. He is the son of M-Sport boss and former WRC driver Malcolm Wilson. Wilson currently competes in the World Rally Championship for the Stobart M-Sport Ford team... |
| 2003 | Simon Walker-Hansell |
| 2004 | Will Bratt Will Bratt William Bratt is a British racing driver.-T Cars:After three years in Super 1 karting, Bratt moved into the T Cars series for drivers between fourteen and seventeen years old, in 2003. He finished fourth in the championship in his rookie season, winning a single race at Snetterton... |
| 2005 | Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Adrian Rodney Quaife-Hobbs is a British race car driver, notable for being the youngest driver to win the T Cars championship and the youngest ever winner of an MSA-sanctioned car racing series... |
| 2006 | Luciano Bacheta Luciano Bacheta Akshay Luciano Bacheta is a professional British racecar driver.Bacheta started karting at the age of fourteen in 2004 and stepped up to cars in 2005, racing in the Junior Ginetta series, recording six wins and the most fastest laps and pole positions... |
| 2007 | Daniel Brown |