Nick Leason
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British Touring Car Championship
The British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom. The Championship was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and has run to various rules over the years – "production cars", then FIA Group 1 or 2 in the late 1960s...
in 2007. He previously entered for the last 2 rounds (6 races) of 2006 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...
and Silverstone
Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side...
. Leason achieved a final championship position of 24th. Leason announced he would compete in his first full BTCC season in 2007, driving the Daniels Motorsport
Daniels Motorsport
Daniels Motorsport is a United Kingdom based motorsport team run by Pete Daniels best known for their involvement in Ford Fiesta racing series. They also own a Vauxhall Astra touring car which they ran for Andy Neate in the final weekend of the 2005 British Touring Car Championship season...
-run Vauxhall Astra
Vauxhall Astra
Astra is a model name which has been used by Vauxhall, the British subsidiary of General Motors , on their small family car ranges since 1979. Astras are technically essentially identical with similar vehicles offered by GM's German subsidiary Opel in most other European countries...
Coupe he had raced in the closing rounds of the 2006 season. However, this project was abandoned during pre-season and Leason was instead confirmed as a driver for BTC Racing
BTC Racing
BTC Racing is a UK auto racing team run by Bert Taylor. They ran 2 Lexus IS 200 cars for Chris Stockton and Darren Dowling in the latter two rounds of the 2006 British Touring Car Championship season in preparation for a fuller campaign the following season...
in a Lexus
Lexus
is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. The Lexus marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide, and has...
teamed with Chris Stockton
Chris Stockton
Chris Stockton is a British auto racing driver, who is most recently known for his efforts in the British Touring Car Championship. Prior to this he had won 14 Formula Ford races including the Kent Festival at Brands Hatch. He then won 5 races in a full seasons racing in the Legends series,...
. He did not race at Croft
Croft
Croft may refer to: * Croft, an area of land with a crofter's dwelling, used for crofting .* Bleachfield, an open space used for the bleaching of fabric, sometimes called crofts.Locations in the United Kingdom:...
that year and after persistent reliability troubles decided to abort his full season campaign.
In 2008, Leason announced that he planned to join up with Rick Kerry
Rick Kerry
Rick Kerry is a British motor racing driver from Ipswich, United Kingdom. In 2007, Kerry drove in the British Touring Car Championship in a BMW 120d, the championship's first-ever diesel car.-Racing History:...
and Team AFM Racing
AFM Racing
AFM Racing are a United Kingdom based motorsport team, run by owner-driver Rick Kerry. In 2007 they first competed in the British Touring Car Championship. They ran a BMW 120d ....
to race a pair of diesel fuelled BMW 120d
BMW 1 Series
The BMW 1 Series is an entry level sports car produced by the German automaker BMW since 2004. The 1 Series is unusual in its class as it features rear-wheel drive, 50:50 weight balance, a longitudinally-mounted engine and an advanced aluminum multilink suspension...
's, though the team missed the whole season. Leason did race the diesel powered BMW 120d in the opening four rounds of the 2009 BTCC before withdrawing due to lack of budget.
Race career
- 2009 - AFM Motorsport. BMW 120D. No. 16
- 2007 - BTC Racing. Lexus IS200. No. 19.
- 2006 - Final two BTCC meetings of the season. Team NJL Racing with Daniels Motorsport. Vauxhall Astra Coupe. No. 19
- 2005 - Seat Cupra Championship
- 2004 - Test driver BTCC Ford Focus Project
- 2003 - Test driver
- 2002 - Lamborghini Supertrophy - 3rd in class points, 6th overall
- 2001 - Ford Fiesta Zetec Championship
- 2000 - Proton Coupe Cup
- 1999 - Proton Coupe Cup
- 1998 - Fiesta XR2 Challenge and Stock Hatch Championship
- 1997 - Stock Hatch Championship - 9th in points (Ford Fiesta XR2)
- 1996 - Fiesta XR2 Challenge
- 1995 - Ford Credit Fiesta Championship testing
- 1994 - Ford Credit Fiesta Championship testing