🇬🇧 Dave Newsham

Dave Newsham is a professional racing driver who competed in the British Touring Car Championship from 2015 to 2017, driving for BTC Norlin Racing. He also made three starts in the NASA Legends Pro class, a 5/8-scale vintage-style coupé series, in 2005. Across 69 career starts, he took a single podium finish.[1]

Newsham's BTCC record spanned three seasons and 66 starts without securing a podium until late in his tenure. He was a regular in the field throughout his time in the championship, racing against a mix of amateur and professional-graded drivers. He finished behind established professionals Tom Ingram and Josh Cook in their head-to-head matchups, though he was closely matched with Cook across multiple races. He did finish ahead of Ash Sutton on three occasions and ahead of Ingram on thirteen, results that came against drivers who would go on to become multiple BTCC champions. His early racing came in 2005 when he competed in three rounds of the NASA Legends Pro class, where he finished sixteenth in the championship standings.[2]

Newsham raced in a field that included world-class touring car professionals; Ingram and Sutton between them have won five BTCC titles in the years since their time against him. He remained mid-field against this level of opposition across his BTCC tenure.