Tom Ferrier (born 14 November 1981) is a British racing driver. He had a long running karting career, a milestone was winning the 1998 British Championship. He also won the Star Cup of the Formula Renault Championship the following year, before switching to more entertaining and less competitive saloon cars. He is the founder of TF Sport.
Ferrier captured two wins in the Renault Clio Winter series. In 2000 he was a competitor at the national Saloon Championship as well as some Class B BTCC races (the two series have closely related car classes) in an Alfa Romeo 156 prepared by Gary Ayles' team. For 2001, he originally signed to drive for Vauxhall in the Touring class,https://www.autosport.com/btcc/news/vauxhall-signs-young-gun-ferrier-for-btcc-5017329/5017329/ but he lost his seat to Phil Bennett who brought more funding and turned down a drive in a fourth Astra that would have been run by Tech-Speed Motorsport as a satellite team.https://www.pressreader.com/uk/autosport-uk/20210211/283188676092452 He chose to race in both the European Super Production Championship and the BTCC. In Europe, he was ranked 12th of the field. Ferrier achieved number two ranking in the Under 25 Cup. In Britain he ranked tenth overall driving a JSM Alfa Romeo 147 in place of original signing Darren Malkin after the latter's sponsorship deal fell through prior to the start of the season. At Donington Park, Ferrier led the field, but succumbed to an engine failure while running in second place.
For the 2002 season, Ferrier focused on the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC), driving a DART Racing Alfa Romeo 156. His pit-support crew was from Alfa Romeo UK. In 2005 Ferrier was a frontrunner at SEAT Cupra Championship. Ferrier was nominated for a place in the 2004 BTCC by Carly Motors alongside countryman and driver James Hanson, but this was not to be. Ferrier participated in some Caterham races in 2004. Ferrier returned to the BTCC just two weeks before the final round of 2006, driving a SEAT Toledo bought by Motorbase Performance. Despite almost no time in the car before the weekend, he had two points finishes. Ferrier also made the British GT Championship races in 2006.
Beginning in 2007, Ferrier drove in the British GT Championship, for Tech 9 sharing with Phil Quaife. Midseason he rejoined Motorbase for the BTCC. Heavy rain at that debut counted against him but he scored points at Snetterton. Involvement in the huge pile-up in race 1 at Brands Hatch 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. It was ultimately Paul O'Neill who was at the helm in that final meeting of the season.
In 2009, Ferrier competed in rounds of the Time Attack series in a Subaru Impreza at the Time attack series hosted by Zen Performance.
Starting in 2011, Ferrier and former BTCC driver Danny Buxton formed Scuderia Vittoria. They entered teams in both the AirAsia Renault Clio Cup (4x Renault Clio Cup Cars) and the British GT (1x Ginetta G50, 1x Ferrari 458 Italia GT). At the conclusion of 2011, their debut season, Ferrier and Buxton had achieved 14 wins overall in both classes,
Racing record
Complete British Touring Car Championship results (key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded 2000–2001 all races, 2006–2007 just for first race, 2000–2001 in class) Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded 2001, 2006–2007 all races, 2000–2001 in class) * signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap (1 point awarded – 2001 just for feature race, 2006–2007 all races)
Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Pos Pts Class 2000 Gary Ayles Motorsport Alfa Romeo 156 BRH1 BRH2 DON1 DON2 THR1 THR2 KNO1 KNO2 OUL1 OUL2 SIL1 SIL2 CRO1 CRO2 SNE1 SNE2 DON1 DON2 BRH1ovr:13cls:3 BRH2ovr:14cls:4 OUL1Ret OUL2Ret SIL1Ret SIL2DNS N/A 18 8th 2001 JS Motorsport Alfa Romeo 147 BRH1 BRH2 THR1Ret THR2DNS OUL1 OUL2 SIL1 SIL2 MON1 MON2 DON1 DON2 KNO1Ret KNO2DNS SNE1Ret SNE2DNS CRO1ovr:20cls:8 CRO2Ret OUL1 OUL2 SIL1 SIL2 DON1ovr:12cls:6 DON2Ret* BRH1Ret BRH2ovr:4cls:4 10th 20 2006 Motorbase Performance SEAT Toledo Cupra BRH1 BRH2 BRH3 MON1 MON2 MON3 OUL1 OUL2 OUL3 THR1 THR2 THR3 CRO1 CRO2 CRO3 DON1 DON2 DON3 SNE1 SNE2 SNE3 KNO1 KNO2 KNO3 BRH1 BRH2 BRH3 SIL112 SIL27 SIL38 19th 7 2007 Motorbase Performance SEAT Toledo Cupra BRH1 BRH2 BRH3 ROC1 ROC2 ROC3 THR1 THR2 THR3 CRO1 CRO2 CRO3 OUL1 OUL2 OUL3 DON1Ret DON214 DON312 SNE19 SNE2Ret SNE312 BRH1Ret BRH2DNS BRH3DNS KNO1 KNO2 KNO3 THR1 THR2 THR3 22nd 2
Complete European Touring Car Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Pts 2002 DART Racing Alfa Romeo 156 GTA MAG1Ret MAG214† SIL1Ret SIL2DNS BRN113 BRN212 JAR113 JAR213† AND16 AND210 OSC1Ret OSC2DNS SPA1DNS SPA28 PER114 PER214 DON18 DON2Ret EST1Ret EST27 18th 1 † – Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
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