James Cole is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in BTCC for Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher. Cole has recorded 1 win and 1 podium from 103 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 2,667 ranks Cole 3963th 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.
| 2018-09-29 | Brands Hatch | P10 | +95 |
| 2018-09-29 | Brands Hatch | P16 | +31 |
| 2018-09-29 | Brands Hatch | P14 | +50 |
| 2018-09-15 | Silverstone | P21 | −20 |
| 2018-09-15 | Silverstone | P28 | −88 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | ▸BTCC | Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher | 30 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | P21 | +203 | 2,667 |
| 2017 | ▸BTCC | Adrian Flux Subaru Racing | 30 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | P14 | +383 | 2,841 |
| 2016 | ▸BTCC | Subaru Team BMR | 28 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | P24 | −803 | 1,555 |
| 2015 | ▸BTCC | Motorbase Performance | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | P18 | +84 | 1,985 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Andrew Jordan | 3,954 | 74 | 14 | 60 | 19% |
| 🇬🇧 Colin Turkington | 5,614 | 73 | 11 | 62 | 15% |
| 🇬🇧 Jack Goff | 2,924 | 73 | 15 | 58 | 21% |
| 🇬🇧 Adam Morgan | 4,862 | 72 | 14 | 58 | 19% |
| 🇬🇧 Jason Plato | 3,446 | 70 | 24 | 46 | 34% |
| 🇬🇧 Aiden Moffat | 4,342 | 69 | 21 | 48 | 30% |
| 🇬🇧 Matt Neal | 3,767 | 69 | 12 | 57 | 17% |
| 🇬🇧 Tom Ingram | 6,921 | 64 | 11 | 53 | 17% |
| 🇬🇧 Josh Cook | 5,197 | 64 | 20 | 44 | 31% |
| 🇬🇧 Rob Austin | 3,361 | 60 | 17 | 43 | 28% |
James Cole is a retired British racing driver from Southport who competed in the British Touring Car Championship across four seasons from 2015 to 2018, accumulating 103 starts. Over that span he secured a single race win and one podium finish, averaging a grid position of P16.6. His career placed him at club-racing level; his Racer Rating of 2,667 reflects consistent participation in a professional touring car series without establishing a pattern of results that would elevate him into the upper tier of that grid.[1]
Cole's record against the BTCC's front-running drivers tells a typical story of a mid-field regular. Against multiple champions and highly graded professionals who formed the series' core, he finished ahead of them occasionally but considerably more often behind; against Andrew Jordan, a former champion, he had 74 shared races and finished ahead in 14 of them. He beat Colin Turkington, an FIA Gold graded champion with a rating of 5,614, in 11 of their 73 meetings, and held winning records against several other strong professionals including Tom Ingram and Ash Sutton, both multi-time champions, though these were scattered results rather than patterns of dominance. His most competitive head-to-head came against Jason Plato, the other former champion in his regular field, where across 70 races he finished ahead 24 times despite still trailing in more meetings than he led.[2]
The bulk of Cole's BTCC tenure came with Adrian Flux Subaru Racing, which accounted for 30 of his 103 starts. His final season in 2018 yielded no podiums across 30 rounds and he finished P21 overall, marking the end of his recorded racing career.