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Kris Simton
Simton
Nationality
Flag of United Kingdom.
British
Born 25th November 1994 (Aged 28)

North Yorkshire (England)

British Touring Car Championship Career
Debut Season 1991
Current Team Vauxhall
Car No. 25
Former Teams Tech-Speed Motorsport, Vauxhall, Toyota, Alfa Romeo, Team Dynamics, Honda, egg:Sport
Starts 367
Wins 10
Poles 0
Fastest Laps 3
Best Finish 4th in 1991, 1996, 1998 & 2001, 1st in Independents 1995
VW Vento Cup Career
Debut Season 1992
Current Team
Car No. 55
Starts 10
Wins 0
Fastest Laps 0
Best Finish 6th in 1992
Yugo Challenge Career
Debut Season 1995
Current Team Razo Autosport
Car No. 25
Starts 10
Wins 0
Fastest Laps 0
Best Finish 6th in 1995
Subaru Cup Career
Debut Season 1998
Current Team ArgoCorse
Car No. 25
Starts 10
Wins 0
Fastest Laps 0
Best Finish 4th in 1998
Championship titles
1995 British Touring Car Championship (Independent Class)

Kris Simton (born 25 November 1994) is a British racing driver who races in the British Touring Car Championship for Honda.

Early Life[]

Simton was born on 25 November 1994 in North Yorkshire, England.

Touring Cars[]

British Touring Car Championship[]

1991 Kris Simton

Simton driving for the Techspeed team in 1991

Simton was signed up to the Tech-Speed Motorsport team alongside the American David Todaro for the 1991 British Touring Car Championship. Results were very good for Simton including a win at Castle Combe (which he achieved on his 25th birthday, currently making Simton the only driver currently in BTCO history to win on their birth date.) as well as four other podium finishes and ten Independent championship class wins. Despite these results, Simton was beaten to the Independent drivers title by Mike Bell, perhaps owing to the fact Simton had missed the the 4th Round at Brands Hatch. However, his results helped the team win the Independent Teams title.

Simton left the Tech-Speed team at the end of the 1991 and Vauxhall Sport were impressed with his 4th place finish in the Overall Drivers championship and paired him with Italian BTCC race winner Lorenzo Turri who had joined from the departed Misubishi team. Simton would earn 3 podium finishes throughout the year, but couldn't match his team mates results and finished the season in 7th, but he managed to help Vauxhall win the Teams Championship.

For 1993, Simton joined Toyota to race the brand new Carina E ran by TOM's. Simton and Toyota got off to a great start with an impressive 2nd at the opening round at Silverstone. However, as the season progressed, Simton became unimpressed with the development of the new Carina and despite podiums at Oulton Park and Pembrey, the Carina fell down the performance pecking order. At the end of 1993, Simton finished 5th in the championship and despite an offer from Toyota to drive in 1994, he chose to team up with former teammate, Turri, at Alfa Corse. It would turn out to be a move that yielded little success. While Turri would go on to clinch his 3rd straight BTCO title, Simton could only manage a best result of 2nd following Turri home at Oulton Park (Island) for the one and only Alfa Romeo 1-2 of the season. He would finish 7th in the Championship, which left him frustrated after potientially being able to take 4th in the final round at Brands Hatch (GP).These chances were ruined after a disconnect happened in the final race of the season with 3 laps to go, with Simton looking set to pick up 4th in the standings. He would help however, along with Turri, get Alfa Romeo the Manufacturer's title for 1994.

For the 1995 season, Simton went back to his Independent roots, signing for Team Dynamics. A team that last saw success in 1993, picking up both Independent titles in the hands of Simton's friend Pekka Ylitalo. Simton picked up the record of most experienced driver in 1995, with 139 starts to his name currently. So far, he has missed only 1 round of the series to date at Brands Hatch (Indy) in 1991, due to life commitments. 1995, would also see Simton clinch the pair of Independents titles (Drivers and Teams) with 2 races remaining, this being his first drivers and Team Dynamics' second teams titles, after a titanic scrap with Michael Sneath that seemed to last the entire season with both cars seemingly inseparable on the track, however the 26 year old Devonian would eventually best his northern rival by 42 points.

For the 1996 season, Simton left Team Dynamics after the team withdrew from the season citing a lack of competition in the Independent class. Instead, he took up the vacant seat left at Honda Team MSD alongside Emile Taylor. 3rd place finisher in 1995, Johannes Meles had left the team after the German had moved to Audi Sport for 1996. Simton cited that the move was made after he was impressed by the great results of Meles in 1995 with the then-new Accord, and new team-mate Taylor had shown vast improvement over the season as well. 1996 proved to be a great season for Simton as he would finish 4th in the standings matching his best efforts from 1991 and would take 3 wins at Thruxton, Knockhill, and Silverstone International after a long draught of wins since his first in 1991 at Castle Combe.

For 1997, Simton remained at Honda for a 2nd go with the Accord Mk5. He would pick up a dominant win in the second race at the first round at Donington Park, beating the main challengers for the title by 7 seconds. But would unfortunately, fail to find the same form in the other rounds of the season and would end up finishing 5th in the standings. At the final round at Silverstone International, Simton would participate in his 200th start in the series. A feat unmatched by anyone else to date. To celebrate this, his Honda team painted his Accord in a unique and special one-off Stealth Black livery forgoing his usual #25 for #200 making him the first and only driver to race with 2 different numbers in a season as well as the first and only driver to use a triple-digit number.

1998 was Simton's 3rd and final season with the Accord Mk5. After 1997 team-mate Daniel Bower left the series, the spare seat went to 1997 debutant Christian Tracey. The new pairing worked well together with Honda briefly taking the lead in the Teams standings early on in the season. But unfortunately the early form seemed to fizzle out with the only win of the season for Honda coming courtesy of Tracey at Croft Circuit. Both drivers would find themselves on the podium more often than not however and ultimately Honda would finish P3 in the Teams table. Simton would finish 4th in the Drivers standings, matching his best championship result from 1991 and 1996, while embroiled in a season-long scrap with the Nissan duo of Tom Gill and Henry Williams.

1999 would see Simton staying at the Japanese giant Honda for a 4th successive season with the brand-new Accord Mk6. His 1998 team-mate Tracey would also stay on for another season, and were both joined by Peugeot refugee Jake Black. The season started strong with a win in Race 3 at the opening round of Donington Grand Prix for Simton. However, the season would again turn like 1998, where the Honda driver would not show the same form from Donington. Simton though, would claim 2 more wins at the penultimate round at Oulton Park, claiming his first double wins at a race event. And would also find the podium a further 5 times over the season. This, along with Black's multiple wins would clinch the teams title for Honda for the first time.

2000 was the last season of the Supertouring formula and after the highs of the championship winning season for the Honda team, they would have an all new line-up claiming themselves to be the 'Dream Team'. However, with Black retiring, Tracey also calling it a day during the 1999 season and Simton out of a ride, the Yorkshire-turned Devonian turned to a former team of his at Vauxhall running the venerable Vauxhall Vectra for it's 5th season, causing quite a stir in the paddock. The team had an inconsistent 1999 finishing 6th in the Teams Championship, and Simton saw this as a challenge to take them back to the glory days of 1992 where they won both titles with Simton and then drivers champion Lorenzo Turri. He would be joined at the British team by former team-mate David Todaro from 1991 at Tech-Speed Motorsport and 1999 race-winner Owen Potter.

Motorsports career results[]

Complete British Touring Car Championship results[]

Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded just for first race) Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded)

Year Team Car 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 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 DC Pts
1991 Auto Trader Techspeed Team BMW M3 THR
1
9
THR
2
8
THR
3
8
SIL
1
3
SIL
2
4
SIL
3
6
DON
1
4
DON
2
6
BRH
1
BRH
2
OUL
1
5
OUL
2
5
OUL
3
8
BIR
1
4
BIR
2
6
KNO
1
10
KNO
2
5
KNO
3
6
CAS
1
6
CAS
2
1
CAS
3
2
SIL
1
6
SIL
2
4
DON
1
9
DON
2
9
DON
3
3
THR
1
3
THR
2
4
BRH
1
4
BRH
2
4
BRH
3
6
4th 389
1992 Vauxhall Sport Vauxhal Cavalier GSi SIL
1
7
SIL
2
11
SIL
3
3
THR
1
5
THR
2
6
OUL
1
7
OUL
2
RET
OUL
3
RET
SNE
1
7
SNE
2
6
CAS
1
2
CAS
2
2
CAS
3
4
BRH
1
8
BRH
2
7
DON
1
6
DON
2
RET
DON
3
4
KNO
1
5
KNO
2
5
KNO
3
6
BRH
1
RET
BRH
2
6
BRH
3
C
SIL
1
5
SIL
2
RET
SIL
3
RET
7th 220
1993 Team Securicor Toyota Toyota Carina E SIL
1
4
SIL
2
5
SIL
3
2
DON
1
5
DON
2
4
SNE
1
RET
SNE
2
6
SNE
3
4
OUL
1
7
OUL
2
3
OUL
3
5
BRH
1
5
BRH
2
5
BRH
3
5
PEM
1
5
PEM
2
3
PEM
3
5
KNO
1
5
KNO
2
5
BRH
1
RET
BRH
1
8
BRH
2
4
BRH
3
6
THR
1
6
THR
2
6
SIL
1
10
SIL
2
6
SIL
3
6
5th 285
1994 Alfa Corse Alfa Romeo 155 TS THR
1
8
THR
2
4
THR
3
4
BRH
1
4
BRH
2
4
BRH
3
8
CAS
1
C
CAS
2
C
CAS
3
C
SIL
1
7
SIL
2
RET
SNE
1
6
SNE
2
6
SNE
3
7
OUL
1
9
OUL
2
6
OUL
3
6
DON
1
8
DON
2
7
DON
3
9
KNO
1
RET
KNO
2
9
KNO
3
6
OUL
1
6
OUL
2
2
OUL
3
7
BRH
1
6
BRH
2
6
BRH
3
RET
7th 226
1995 Team Dynamics Ford Mondeo Ghia BRH
1
11
BRH
2
10
BRH
3
8
DON
1
6
DON
2
6
DON
3
6
THR
1
9
THR
2
10
THR
3
6
SIL
1
10
SIL
2
8
SIL
3
9
OUL
1
11
OUL
2
7
OUL
3
8
SNE
1
9
SNE
2
8
SNE
3
9
KNO
1
8
KNO
2
9
KNO
3
9
OUL
1
10
OUL
2
9
OUL
3
7
SIL
1
6
SIL
2
7
SIL
3
6
BRH
1
9
BRH
2
7
BRH
3
12
8th 229
1996 Honda Team MSD Honda Accord Mk5 DON
1
8
DON
2
8
DON
3
7
BRH
1
8
BRH
2
4
BRH
3
8
THR
1
RET
THR
2
11
THR
3
1
SIL
1
5
SIL
2
6
SIL
3
8
OUL
1
5
OUL
2
9
OUL
3
C
SNE
1
4
SNE
2
6
SNE
3
2
BRH
1
6
BRH
2
6
BRH
3
3
KNO
1
6
KNO
2
1
KNO
3
8
SIL
1
5
SIL
2
1
SIL
3
9
OUL
1
4
OUL
2
6
OUL
3
5
4th 304
1997 Team Honda Sport Honda Accord Mk5 DON
1
8
DON
2
1
DON
3
11
SIL
1
4
SIL
2
9
SIL
3
2
THR
1
10
THR
2
10
THR
3
2
BRH
1
6
BRH
2
5
BRH
3
6
OUL
1
9
OUL
2
7
OUL
3
15
DON
1
3
DON
2
7
DON
3
4
CRO
1
2
CRO
2
7
CRO
3
6
KNO
1
KNO
2
KNO
3
SNE
1
5
SNE
2
RET
SNE
3
8
THR
1
8
THR
2
2
THR
3
8
BRH
1
5
BRH
2
7
BRH
3
6
SIL
1
8
SIL
2
7
SIL
3
3
5th 389
1998 Team Honda Sport Honda Accord Mk5 THR
1
8
THR
2
2
THR
3
5
SIL
1
3
SIL
2
15
SIL
3
3
DON
1
C
DON
2
C
DON
3
C
BRH
1
3
BRH
2
6
BRH
3
4
OUL
1
14
OUL
2
8
OUL
3
RET
DON
1
3
DON
2
10
DON
3
2
CRO
1
3
CRO
2
6
CRO
3
3
SNE
1
8
SNE
2
10
SNE
3
4
THR
1
10
THR
2
2
THR
3
9
KNO
1
4
KNO
2
9
KNO
3
4
BRH
1
6
BRH
2
4
BRH
3
3
OUL
1
13
OUL
2
2
OUL
3
10
SIL
1
8
SIL
2
9
SIL
3
7
4th 432
1999 Team Honda Sport Honda Accord Mk6 DON
1
7
DON
2
14
DON
3
1
SIL
1
12
SIL
2
2
SIL
3
11
THR
1
14*
THR
2
12
THR
3
9*
BRH
1
10
BRH
2
4
BRH
3
15
OUL
1
7*
OUL
2
8
OUL
3
6
DON
1
2
DON
2
12
DON
3
2
CRO
1
6*
CRO
2
RET
CRO
3
7
SNE
1
4
SNE
2
6
SNE
3
8
THR
1
7
THR
2
4
THR
3
6
KNO
1
7
KNO
2
9
KNO
3
3
BRH
1
6
BRH
2
8
BRH
3
8
OUL
1
1
OUL
2
12
OUL
3
1
SIL
1
7
SIL
2
2
SIL
3
7
6th 526
2000 Vauxhall Motorsport Vauxhall Vectra BRH
1
8
BRH
2
8
BRH
3
2
DON
1
3
DON
2
5
DON
3
2
THR
1
10
THR
2
10
THR
3
11
KNO
1
4
KNO
2
7
KNO
3
RET
OUL
1
5
OUL
2
6*
OUL
3
9
SIL
1
5
SIL
2
3
SIL
3
4
CRO
1
6
CRO
2
6
CRO
3
2
SNE
1
5
SNE
2
3
SNE
3
C
DON
1
3
DON
2
8
DON
3
4
BRH
1
9
BRH
2
10
BRH
3
8
OUL
1
6
OUL
2
4
OUL
3
5
SIL
1
8
SIL
2
2
SIL
3
7*
5th 260
2001 egg:Sport Vauxhall Astra Coupe BRH
1
6
BRH
2
9
THR
1
8
THR
2
7
OUL
1
6
OUL
2
4
SIL
1
9
SIL
2
6
MON
1
5
MON
2
4
DON
1
5
DON
2
7
KNO
1
7
KNO
2
3
SNE
1
4
SNE
2
6
CRO
1
3
CRO
2
RET
OUL
1
3
OUL
2
5
SIL
1
4
SIL
2
6
DON
1
5
DON
2
4
BRH
1
8
BRH
2
5
4th 189
2002 egg:Sport Vauxhall Astra Coupe BRH
1
9
BRH
2
9
BRH
3
11
OUL
1
7
OUL
2
7
OUL
3
6
THR
1
12
THR
2
13
THR
3
5
SIL
1
10
SIL
2
11
SIL
3
2*
MON
1
7
MON
2
9
MON
3
1
CRO
1
9
CRO
2
1
CRO
3
10
SNE
1
7
SNE
2
13
SNE
3
3*
KNO
1
4
KNO
2
4
KNO
3
10
BRH
1
12
BRH
2
7
BRH
3
9
DON
1
5
DON
2
10
DON
3
4
6th 327
2003 VX Racing Vauxhall Astra Coupe MON
1
MON
2
MON
3
BRH
1
BRH
2
BRH
3
THR
1
THR
2
THR
3
SIL
1
SIL
2
SIL
3
ROC
1
ROC
2
ROC
3
CRO
1
CRO
2
CRO
3
SNE
1
SNE
2
SNE
3
BRH
1
BRH
2
BRH
3
DON
1
DON
2
DON
3
OUL
1
OUL
2
OUL
3
0th* -*

Complete Touring Car World Cup results[]

(Key) (results are overall/class and in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Name Car Class 1 2 Points Position
1991 Vauxhall Sport Vauxhall Cavalier GSi Flag of Spain.svg
BAR
5
Flag of Spain.svg
BAR
5
32 6th
1992 Vauxhall Sport Vauxhall Cavalier GSi 1920px-Flag of Australia (converted).svg
BAT
4
1920px-Flag of Australia (converted).svg
BAT
RET
20 5th
1993 Graff Racing Alfa Romeo 155 TS Italy Flag
MNZ
11
Italy Flag
MNZ
6
25 7th
1994 Top Run Alfa Romeo 155 TS UK Flag
DON
4
UK Flag
DON
RET
20 8th
1995 Tic Tac Turri Racing Peugeot 405 Mi16 B German Flag
NOR
RET
German Flag
NOR
DNS
0 NC
1999 Vauxhall Motorsport Vauxhall Vectra 1920px-Flag of Australia (converted).svg
BAT
3
1920px-Flag of Australia (converted).svg
BAT
6
- 0th


Complete VW Vento Cup results[]

(Key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points Position
1992 SIL
9
THR
9
OUL
6
SNE
10
CAS
3
BRH
6
SPA
8
KNO
5
BRH
6
SIL
9
23 6th

Complete Yugo Challenge results[]

(Key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points Position
1995 Razo Autosport [BIR]
10
[BRH]
2
[DON]
8
[THR]
2
[SIL]
7
[OUL]
3
[SNE]
5
[KNO]
5
[OUL]
RET
[SIL]
7
41 6th

Complete Subaru Cup results[]

(Key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points Position
1998 ArgoCorse SNE
7
SIL
3
DON
4
BRH
4
OUL
8
DON
8
CRO
3
SNE
5
THR
10
KNO
7
72 4th

Career summary[]

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
1991 British Touring Car Championship Auto Trader Techspeed Team 29 1 0 1 4 389 4th
Touring Car World Cup Vauxhall Sport 2 0 0 0 0 32 6th
1992 British Touring Car Championship Vauxhall Sport 26 0 0 0 3 220 7th
Touring Car World Cup 2 0 0 0 0 20 5th
VW Vento Cup 10 0 0 0 1 23 6th
1993 British Touring Car Championship Team Securicor Toyota 28 0 0 0 3 285 5th
Touring Car World Cup Graff Racing 2 0 0 0 0 25 7th
1994 British Touring Car Championship Alfa Corse 26 0 0 0 1 226 7th
Touring Car World Cup Top Run 2 0 0 0 0 20 8th
1995 British Touring Car Championship Team Dynamics 30 0 0 0 0 229 8th
Touring Car World Cup Team Turri 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
Yugo Challenge Razo Autosport 10 0 0 0 3 41 6th
1996 British Touring Car Championship Honda Team MSD 29 3 0 0 5 304 4th
1997 British Touring Car Championship Team Honda Sport 33 1 0 0 7 389 5th
1998 British Touring Car Championship Team Honda Sport 36 0 0 1 11 432 4th
Subaru Cup ArgoCorse 10 0 0 0 2 72 4th
1999 British Touring Car Championship Team Honda Sport 39 3 0 3 8 526 6th
Touring Car World Cup Vauxhall Motorsport 2 0 0 0 1 - N/A
2000 British Touring Car Championship Vauxhall Motorsport 35 0 0 0 8 260 5th
2001 British Touring Car Championship egg:Sport 26 0 0 0 3 189 4th
2002 British Touring Car Championship egg:Sport 30 2 0 0 4 327 6th
2003 British Touring Car Championship VX Racing 0 0 0 0 0 -* 0th*
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