🇬🇧 Ricky Collard

Ricky Collard is a professional sportscar and touring car driver, FIA Gold graded, racing for Barwell Motorsport in GT3 machinery in the British GT Championship. He won the 2024 British GT Championship, the major victory of his career, in a season that included two wins and five podiums from nine starts. His primary series remains the British Touring Car Championship, where he has contested 94 starts for Team VERTU across nine seasons since 2018, taking nine podiums in a national field mixing amateurs with graded professionals.[1]

Collard has raced across 12 seasons and multiple categories. He began in single-seaters with British F4 in 2015, taking six wins and thirteen podiums across twenty-eight starts for TRS Arden, then moved to GB3 in 2016 where he won five times in twenty-one starts for Carlin. He has made occasional appearances in GT World Challenge Europe alongside his domestic commitments, accumulating nineteen starts with one win and one podium from 2019 to 2025. A single outing in 24H Series endurance racing and the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie also appear on his record. He comes from a racing family; his father Rob Collard was a BTCC competitor.[2]

In the BTCC he races alongside three-time champion Ash Sutton and Gold-graded professional Dan Cammish, drivers who typically finish ahead of him. Early in his single-seater career he raced against Lando Norris in British F4, finishing ahead of him on fifteen occasions in a field where Norris would go on to dominate and eventually reach Formula 1 as a generational talent. Collard occupied the stronger end of that field and has maintained professional status throughout his touring car tenure, though his record against the category's established figures places him mid-field in a championship that runs through multiple skill levels in each race.