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MATT NEAL

Three Times BTCC Champion &

British Motor Racing Legend

www.mattneal.co.uk here are BTCC Drivers and then walking away with his fair share of
there’s Matt Neal. Son of Team silverware including the Diamond Double
TDynamics founder, Steve Neal, Matt 60th Anniversary race. Yes, there is a lot
has established himself as one of the of new blood, talent and experience on
most iconic names in British motor the grid of the current BTCC line-up but
racing history. for pure racemanship, trackcraft and pig-
headed grit and determination, there are
Matt’s BTCC career started way back in non better.
1991 driving a BMW for Pyramid
Motorsport. Twenty seven years later, His vast experience also makes him a
Matt is still very hungry for a fourth title very valuable asset for testing. I do
and is still very much a potent threat to believe that the success of the Honda
the entire field. We only have to look at Civic Type R FK8 during the season was
his performance during the 2018 season in no small part down to Matt. Of course,
the team is the magic that makes the car
but what a test driver to have.

Matt is a true family man, married to
Karen and father to Matilda and twins,
Will and Henry, both the boys being very
competitive in the Mini Challenge. In fact
in the 2018 season, Henry finished in a
very respectable 5th and brother Will
finished his season in 16th. Both very
commendable and both with very big
futures in motorsport. You never know,
they may even fill dad’s shoes in the big
arena of BTCC one day.

We also have to mention another great
side to Matt, and that is of his work with
Armed Forces Veterans. Matt is the
patron of the local veteran hub, The
Tommy Atkins Centre and the veterans
magazine, The Sandbag Times which
follows him around the season reporting
on his races and season goings-on.

So Matt is about to embark on his 28th
season in 2019, His last Championship
title was back in 2011 but his passion
and determination has not faltered for
one moment. One staggering fact is that
Matt has not finished outside of the top
10 since 2001. Any driver on the track
knocking on his rear bumper would do
well to bear that fact in mind. His track
battles have been the topic of many

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