🇬🇧 Ash Hand

Ash Hand is a semi-professional racing driver with a Racer Rating of 3,686, placing him in the competitive amateur band; this level describes drivers who race regularly against professionals and occasionally beat them, but do not sustain wins or podium finishes at the top level. His career on record comprises a single season in the 2022 British Touring Car Championship with CarStore Power Maxed Racing, where he started 30 races and finished on average in 15th place without recording a win or podium.[1]

Hand's 2022 BTCC campaign placed him against a strong field of established professionals. His most frequent rivals included multiple champions: Tom Ingram and Ash Sutton, both multiple-time BTCC titleholders; Jake Hill, who would go on to win the 2024 championship; and Josh Cook and Dan Cammish, established professionals in the series. Across 23 shared races with Ingram, Hand finished ahead of him three times but trailed in twenty. Against Sutton he managed one finish ahead in twenty-two races; against Hill, two ahead in twenty-two. His best relative performance came against Cammish, whom he beat five times in twenty-two encounters, though he still finished behind him seventeen times. These records show consistent outpacing by the field rather than competitive parity with any rival.[2]

Hand's sole season in touring car racing ended without further recorded activity. Prior to that campaign, he had achieved success in GT4 sportscar racing, winning the 2019 British GT Championship GT4 class alongside Tom Canning, but this background did not translate into competitiveness when he moved to single-make touring cars against a national-level field of professionals.