Matt Neal

Matt Neal
Neal at the Donington round of the 2014 British Touring Car Championship season
Nationality	British
Born	(1966-12-20) 20 December 1966 (age 50) Stourbridge (England)
British Touring Car Championship career
Debut season	1991
Current team	Halfords Yuasa Racing
Car no.	25
Former teams	VX Racing Peugeot Sport UK Team Mazda Tech-Speed Motorsport Pyramid Motorsport
Starts	609
Wins	59
Poles	14
Fastest laps	47
Best finish	1st in 2005, 2006, 2011
Previous series
2001 1993	ETCC DTM
Championship titles
2005–06, 2011	BTCC
Awards
BRDC Silver Star

Matthew Neal (born 20 December 1966 in Stourbridge) is a British motor racing driver. Neal is a triple BTCC Champion having won the British Touring Car Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2011. Neal is also a record 6 time BTCC Independents Champion having won the title in 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2005 and 2006. He is also a race winner in the European Touring Car Championship. He is 6' 6" (2 m) tall, making him almost entirely unable to race single-seaters. He is also the Group Marketing Director at Rimstock, the alloy wheel manufacturer founded by his father Steve.

Neal started out in Motocross but moved into cars in 1988, driving in the Ford Fiesta XR2i category. He was the British Group N Champion in 1990 and 1991 he also co-drove a BMW M3 to victory at the 1990 Willhire 24 Hour race at Snetterton.

Neal made his BTCC debut with Pyramid Motorsport at the Silverstone round of the [[1991 British Touring Car Championship|1991 BTCC season driving a BMW M3. He finished 13th in his first race before returning to the series two rounds later at Oulton Park with the Auto Trader Techspeed Team in another BMW M3. After that race he would race for the team two rounds later at Donington Park. For 1992 he joined his father's Team Dynamics team driving the BMW M3 which Will Hoy had taken to the championship title the year before until the car was badly damaged forcing Neal to switch to the new BMW 318 for the final race of the season.