Plato at the Knockhill round of the 2017 British Touring Car Championship
Nationality
British
Born
(1967-10-14) 14 October 1967 (age 56) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
British Touring Car Championship career
Debut season
1997
Current team
Rich Energy BTC Racing
Car number
11
Former teams
Williams Renault Vauxhall SEAT Sport UK Silverline Chevrolet MG KX Clubcard Fuel Save Adrian Flux Subaru Racing Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing
Starts
659
Championships
2 (2001, 2010)
Wins
97
Podiums
233
Poles
51
Fastest laps
86
Previous series
2005 2002 1996 1990–91, 1995 1992 1991
WTCC ASCAR Renault Spider Cup Formula Renault GB British F3 Formula Renault Eurocup
Championship titles
2001, 2010 1996 1991
BTCC Renault Spider Cup Formula Renault Eurocup
Timothy Jason Plato (born 14 October 1967) is a British racing driver who last competed in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) for BTC Racing. He has twice been BTCC Champion, in 2001 for Vauxhall and 2010 for Silverline Chevrolet. He has finished in the top 3 in the Championship 12 times and holds the record for the most overall race wins in the BTCC. He has also served as a presenter on the motoring television series Fifth Gear since 2004.
Timothy JasonPlato (born 14 October 1967) is a British racing driver who last competed in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) for BTC Racing...
currently presented by Vicki Butler-Henderson, Sid North, Karun Chandhok and JasonPlato with Grace Webb and engineer Jimmy de Ville also involved in reports...
Muller and JasonPlato retained their seats at Vauxhall and were the class of the field. The title came down between Yvan Muller and JasonPlato in the final...
Cascades. The session belonged to JasonPlato though, setting a time 0.077 seconds faster than rival Matt Neal, making Plato the first repeat pole sitter of...
first but he was demoted to second after making contact with JasonPlato handing Plato the win. Andrew Jordan became the youngest driver to qualify on...
team. In its debut season the team ran two MG6s driven by JasonPlato and Andy Neate. Jason ended the season in third place, with the car yet to find...
dominate the BTCC between 2001 and 2004 with the drivers title won by JasonPlato in 2001, James Thompson in 2002 – 2004 and Yvan Muller in 2003. Vauxhall...
Audi Sport UK in an Audi A4 Quattro. Third place was Menu's teammate, JasonPlato. In the independent class the championship was won by Robb Gravett in...
disallowed by the championship's regulations). Former double champions JasonPlato and Colin Turkington piloted the cars, along with team owner Warren Scott...
between JasonPlato and Andrew Jordan which culminated in Jordan making a last lap dive up the inside of Plato on the final corner. Both Plato and Jordan...
for the series. The season saw a rivalry between Vauxhall teammates JasonPlato and Yvan Muller for the title. 2001 saw a complete overhaul of the BTCC...
single races or single seasons, most notably Colin McRae, Aaron Slight, JasonPlato, Max Papis, and the 2002 champion Nicolas Minassian. The ASCAR Mintex...
made him the closest challenger to Matt Neal for the title, although JasonPlato pipped him to 2nd in the Drivers' Championship in the final race of the...
run on bio-ethanol fuel. In the middle of 2006, Kartworld's owner-driver Jason Hughes converted his 4-cylinder MG ZS to run on Bio-Ethanol, soon followed...
the WTCC from 2005 to 2006. Peter Terting replaced Diefenbacher, while JasonPlato also joined the team for four rounds and Marc Carol for one round. In...
Parfitt Jr. will move from Excelr8 with TradePriceCars.com to Team HARD. JasonPlato will move from Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing to BTC Racing. Leaving...
the European Touring Car Championship, run by RML. At the wheel were JasonPlato, returning to the championship for the first time since his title victory...
Coulthard did not participate in 2010 and was replaced by BTCC driver JasonPlato. Coulthard returned for 2011, joining the All-Stars team alongside Filipe...
Williams campaign, running a pair of Renault Lagunas, was headed by JasonPlato who was promoted to lead driver following the departure of Alain Menu...
and Edmunds reported that the car would not be put into production. JasonPlato was injured in a prototype T1 in October 2007 at the Bruntingthorpe proving...
Volvo's departure. At the Vauxhall team, Yvan Muller was partnered by JasonPlato and Vincent Radermecker, having joined from Renault and Volvo respectively...
from SEAT, who replaced its trio of Toledos with a pair of new Leons. JasonPlato again headed their assault, while the second seat was alternated throughout...