Andy Neate
| Andy Neate | |
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Neate at the Silverstone round of the 2013 British Touring Car Championship season.
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| Nationality |
 British |
| Born |
19 August 1974 Aylesbury (England) |
| British Touring Car Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2001 |
| Current team | Halfords Yuasa Racing |
| Car no. | 57 |
| Former teams | Team Club 44 MG KX Momentum Racing Team Aon West Surrey Racing Daniels Motorsport |
| Starts | 102 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | 16th in 2012 |
| Previous series | |
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2008 2006 2004 2002 1999 1997 |
Porsche Carrera Cup GB Ford Fiesta Championship Renault Clio Cup British GT Championship Formula Opel Europa Cup Formula First |
| Championship titles | |
| 2006 | Ford Fiesta Zetec |
Andrew Neate (born 19 August 1974 in Aylesbury) is a British racing driver and businessman, who has driven in several different series throughout his career. He is a Director of lighting company Ceravision.
After first racing in karting, he drove in Formula First in 1997. In 1999 he went on to the Formula Opel Europa Cup and a year later he drove in the Ford Fiesta Championship. He drove in some rounds of the Production class for the BTCC in a Team CAM Mitsubishi Carisma. For 2002 he moved up to the British GT Championship, driving a Marcos Mantis. In 2004 he joined the tour with both the Renault Clio Cup and the SEAT Cupra Championship. He got a drive in 2005, in the British Touring Car Championship for Team Nuts with Daniels Motorsport in a former works Vauxhall Astra Coupe. He only drove in three rounds, finishing eighteenth in the championship with one point. In 2006 he won the Ford Fiesta Championship title, and finished first in class at the Britcar 24 Hours in a Honda Civic Type R, as well as driving at Silverstone in the SEAT Cupra Championship. A year later he raced again in the SEATs, Fiestas and the Britcar 24 in a Mosler GT3 RS where he finished second. He drove in two rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain for Red Line Racing.
At the start of the 2008 Britcar 24 Hours at Silverstone, he was involved in a serious accident at the start of the race. He suffered terrible injuries including a broken neck from which he spent the next eighteen months recovering. He was in talks with West Surrey Racing to drive a BMW 320si in the BTCC in 2009 prior to the Britcar event, but the deal could not be completed due to his injury.
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