Nick Whale
Nicholas "Nick" Whale (born 4 March 1963) is a British racing driver. He currently competes in historic rallying and FIA historic saloon racing events. He runs Silverstone Auctions, Nick Whale Motorhomes and Nick Whale Sportscars and was a main board director of both the BRDC and the MSA. He is now a trustee and a Director of the Midlands Air Ambulance.
Career
He started his racing career in 1980 by hillclimbing and sprinting a Mallock U2 and progressed to saloon car track racing in 1986. In 1988 he won his class at the Willhire 24 Hour race. In 1989 Whale won the Uniroyal British Production Saloon Championship (class B) in a BMW M3. For 1990 he stepped up to the British Touring Car Championship as team mate to Godfrey Hall and John Clark driving a BMW M3, finishing the year in 17th place overall.[1] He returned for a second season in 1991 for Tech-Speed Motorsport as team mate to Nick Baird and later in the season, Matt Neal. He then went on to race in Thundersaloons and British GT until retiring from modern motorsport in 1996. He then ran the 'Works' TVR team in British GT's for '97 and '98 with Mark Hales and Phil Andrews driving, before returning to driving again in historic motorsport. In 1999 he took up historic rallying and became the '99 Safety Devices Historic Champion and in 2000 became the first MSA British Historic Rally Champion in a '73 Porsche 911 RS. Since then he has raced historic saloons, GT's and Can-Am sportscars all over Europe. He won the St. Mary's Trophy at the Goodwood Revival in 2000 (finishing 2nd in 2007) and has finished in the top 6 of the Goodwood TT in a steel bodied E-Type (CUT 7) and 2nd in the Whitsun Trophy in a Mclaren M1B several times. He now races his original ex BTCC BMW M3 with his son Harry and occasionally still features in historic rallying.
References
- ↑ http://www.btcc.net/html/history_standings.php?season_id=33 Official 1990 BTCC standings