Nick Whale

He started his racing career in 1980 by hillclimbing and sprinting a Mallock U2 and progressed to saloon car track racing in 1986. In 1988 he won his class at the Willhire 24 Hour race. In 1989 Whale won the Uniroyal British Production Saloon Championship (class B) in a BMW M3. For 1990 he stepped up to the British Touring Car Championship as teammate to Godfrey Hall and John Clark driving a BMW M3, finishing the year in 17th place overall.[1] He returned for a second season in 1991 for Tech-Speed Motorsport as teammate to Nick Baird and later in the season, Matt Neal. He then went on to race in Thundersaloons and British GT until retiring from modern motorsport in 1996. He then ran the 'Works' TVR team in British GT's for '97 and '98 with Mark Hales and Phil Andrews driving, before returning to driving again in historic motorsport. In 1999 he took up historic rallying and became the '99 Safety Devices Historic Champion and in 2000 became the first MSA British Historic Rally Champion in a '73 Porsche 911 RS. Since then he has raced historic saloons, GT's and Can-Am sportscars all over Europe. He won the St. Mary's Trophy at the Goodwood Revival in 2000 (finishing 2nd in 2007) and has finished in the top 6 of the Goodwood TT in a steel bodied E-Type (CUT 7) and 2nd in the Whitsun Trophy in a Mclaren M1B several times. He now races his original ex BTCC BMW M3 with his son Harry and occasionally still features in historic rallying. Harry won the Britcar 24 Hours in 2015 in a Beechdean Motorsport-run Aston Martin Vantage GT3 with Andrew Howard, Jonathan Adam, Jamie Chadwick and Ross Gunn

• Nick Whale at driver database
• Nick Whale at BTCC Pages