Want to know more about Tim Crighton

Tim on the podium at Thruxton 2007

Racing CV:

1989-1999: Tim started like so many aspiring racing drivers by learning his skills in a go kart. Ultimately Tim progressed to race throughout the UK and Europe included top 10 finishes in the British Championship and the Le Mans 24 hour kart race.

1999: T-Cars Junior Touring Car series. 3 podium finishes and 2nd overall.

2000: T-Cars Junior Touring Car series. 1 win and multiple podium positions.

2001: Formula Ford Classic Festival in a Lola, Leading the final when the engine developed a misfire forcing Tim to retire. Formula Vee with Mark Stuart Racing. Testing for the European Endurance Racing Championship in a GroupA BMW M3 E36.

2002: British GT Championship with Ohana GT in a Marcos Mantis.

2003: Italian GT Series in a Lotus Exige.

2004: BRSCC Winter GT Championship. 2nd.

2006: UK Mini Challenge. Numerous pole positions, fastest laps and podium finishes. Testing and development of BMW E21 Historic Touring Car.

2007: BritCar Endurance Championship.

2008: Silverstone BritCar 24 hour - 4th overall. A planed campaign in the Rolex Grand AM series in the USA. Dunlop SportMaxx Series in the UK. UK MINI Challenge - Race winner at Croft with new lap record and pole position.

2009: SEAT Supercopa series with Advent Motorsport. Selected rounds of the British GT championship driving an Aston Martin GT4 with Beechdean Motorsport.

Championships:

A brief overview of the championships that Tim has contested can be found below. For further information on any of the individual series please see their website links.

MINI Challenge:

The 2008 season will see the MINI Challenge enter its 7th year, becoming more desirable, better established and higher profile than any previous year. The 2007 season saw 42 competitors competing over 16 rounds at some of the UK’s finest circuits.

Regular grids of up to 35 challengers have yielded some of the closest and most exciting wheel-to-wheel racing and made the MINI Challenge a fantastic event for drivers, sponsors, and spectators. This season will include 7 meetings all in the UK and 17 rounds - each of which follows qualifying then two or three race format.

www.minichallenge.co.uk

Rolex GRAND AM:

The Rolex Sports Car Series is the premiere series run by the Grand American Road Racing Association. It is a North American-based sports car series that was founded in 2000 under the name Grand American Road Racing Championship to replace the failed United States Road Racing Championship. Rolex took over as series sponsor in 2002.

It is run with a mixture of classes of Sports Racing Prototypes and GT cars. In 2003, the series debuted their custom prototype chassis, known as Daytona Prototypes, named after their premiere event, the Rolex 24 at Daytona which runs alongside the GT class cars.

The 2008 Rolex Sports Car Series season is the ninth season of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16.

www.grand-am.com

SEAT Supercopa:

Launched in 2003 to help nurture British Touring Car talent the SEAT Cupra Championship was originally intended to run for three years. It has proved a huge success with SEAT themselves, sponsors, drivers and spectators alike. By the end of 2006, at the end of SEAT’s original timeline for involvement, the championship was continuing to grow with television figures and spectator attendance improving all the time, SEAT opted to renew its support and has committed to the series until at least 2009. The launch of the all new SEAT Leon in 2006 provided the platform for a revamped championship in 2007. The 2009 series is supported by SEAT Uk, SEAT Sport Spain and Dunlop Tyres. SEAT UK will provide a SEAT Leon road car to the overall victor with new SEAT road cars also available to 2nd and 3rd placed competitors. The series is shown on ITV's Men and Motors channel with highlights screened on MOTORS TV and Channel FIVE. Upgraded to Eurocup specification for the 2009 the SEAT Supercopa cars are now amongst the fastest saloon cars racing in the UK with over 300bhp and 6 speed paddleshift gearboxes. Be sure to catch this exciting series at your local circuit.

www.seatsupercopa.co.uk

BritCar:

Britcar is an Endurance Motor Racing series formed in 1997 as a result of a discussion in a Nurburgring bar between Willie Moore and James Tucker.

Competing cars vary from the Renault Clio RS through BMW M3s, Porsche GT3s, a stalwart of the series: the Marcos Mantis GT, and exotics such as the Mosler.

2002 was the successful first year of competition and following tremendous growth in 2003, it attracted Sky Sports coverage in their Motor Sports section in 2004. 2005 featured the first Britcar 24-Hour Race, and was followed by packed grids in 2006 season culminating in a capacity field for the 24-Hours.

2007 was the EERC's first year as a Motor Sports Association (MSA) approved Championship and, as well the now essential 24 hours, it also plays a supporting role to the British round of the A1 Grand Prix. The presenters of the well known British car show Top Gear took part in this years events, coming third of the diesel cars, and 39th overall in a BMW E46.