🇬🇧 Andy Neate

Andy Neate is a semi-professional racing driver who competed in the British Touring Car Championship between 2016 and 2021. He spent most of his time with Motorbase Performance, a team that fielded multiple drivers across this period and won races with other entrants on its roster. Neate made 49 starts across six seasons in the BTCC, a national single-class championship that runs amateurs and semi-professionals alongside graded professionals in the same races.[1]

His final season came in 2021, when he finished 20th in the championship standings across 19 rounds. Throughout his time in the series, Neate raced against two-time BTCC champion Ash Sutton and Gold-graded Tom Ingram, both established professionals with hundreds of starts between them. He finished ahead of Sutton twice and ahead of Ingram once across their meetings, though he typically finished behind both drivers when they competed in the same races. The gap between Neate's semi-professional standing and the established professionals who dominated the grid reflected a field that, while mixed in entry level, was headed by drivers of significantly greater experience and success.[2]