Daniel Welch is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in BTCC for Trade Price Cars with Brisky Racing. Welch has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 55 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 1,487 ranks Welch 7502th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2018-07-28 | Snetterton | P21 | +16 |
| 2018-07-28 | Snetterton | DNF | −15 |
| 2018-07-28 | Snetterton | P19 | +36 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | ▸BTCC | Trade Price Cars with Brisky Racing | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P31 | +37 | 1,487 |
| 2016 | ▸BTCC | Goodestone Racing | 30 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | P22 | −236 | 1,450 |
| 2015 | ▸BTCC | Welch Motorsport | 22 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | P24 | −1,114 | 1,782 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Jack Goff | 2,924 | 33 | 1 | 32 | 3% |
| 🇬🇧 Adam Morgan | 4,862 | 32 | 4 | 28 | 13% |
| 🇬🇧 Andrew Jordan | 3,954 | 32 | 1 | 31 | 3% |
| 🇬🇧 Jason Plato | 3,446 | 32 | 7 | 25 | 22% |
| 🇬🇧 Sam Tordoff | 3,992 | 31 | 1 | 30 | 3% |
| 🇬🇧 Matt Neal | 3,767 | 31 | 2 | 29 | 6% |
| 🇬🇧 Colin Turkington | 5,614 | 30 | 3 | 27 | 10% |
| 🇬🇧 Gordon Shedden | 4,877 | 30 | 3 | 27 | 10% |
| 🇬🇧 Aiden Moffat | 4,342 | 30 | 7 | 23 | 23% |
| 🇬🇧 Tom Ingram | 6,921 | 29 | 1 | 28 | 3% |
Daniel Welch is a retired British racing driver who competed in the British Touring Car Championship between 2015 and 2018. He made 55 starts in the BTCC, all of them for Trade Price Cars with Brisky Racing, without recording a win or podium finish. His average finishing position across classified results was 18th, placing him in the lower half of a competitive national field. The BTCC during his tenure featured multiple champions and FIA-graded professionals; Welch regularly competed against drivers such as Andrew Jordan, Sam Tordoff and Matt Neal, all of whom held significantly stronger ratings and typically finished ahead of him in shared races. Against Jordan he managed just one finish ahead in 32 races; against Tordoff, one in 31; against Neal, two in 31.[1]
Welch's record against the grid's elite drivers was similarly one-sided. He finished ahead of four-time champion Ash Sutton five times across their shared races and FIA Gold-graded Jake Hill seven times, but these scattered results against much stronger competitors did not constitute a competitive pattern. His occasional finishes ahead of Tom Ingram, a two-time BTCC champion rated among the series' best, occurred in isolation. His Racer Rating of 1,487 places him in the lower range of active competitors, reflecting a semi-professional career in a strong national championship where he was outpaced by the majority of his rivals. His racing ended in 2018 following three rounds that year.[2]