🇬🇧 Rick Parfitt

Rick Parfitt is a semi-professional racing driver who competed in the British Touring Car Championship, a national single-class championship that fields amateurs and semi-professionals alongside graded professionals in the same races. He drove for UptonSteel with Euro Car Parts Racing in the BTCC across two seasons, from 2021 to 2022, accumulating 54 starts.[1]

Parfitt's BTCC campaign ran from 2021 through 2022. He finished 23rd in the championship standings in his final season, 2022, after completing the full 27-round calendar. Over his two seasons he raced against some of the championship's most established drivers, including multiple BTCC champions Ash Sutton and Tom Ingram, who were regular opponents throughout his time in the series. He occasionally finished ahead of other graded professionals such as Dan Cammish, though he did not finish ahead of Sutton or Ingram often enough to affect the overall championship dynamics.[2]

Parfitt competed in a field dominated by established professionals with extensive BTCC experience; Sutton alone has over 320 BTCC starts and has won the championship four times, while Ingram is a Gold-graded driver with over 350 BTCC starts and a two-time champion. Parfitt typically finished behind these frontrunners but showed enough pace in individual races to beat professional-graded drivers on occasion. His team, Excelr8 with TradePriceCars.com, fielded four drivers across the index with no race wins to its name.