15 Facts About Chris Smiley

Christopher Smiley was born on 6 April 1992 and is a British racing driver from Northern Ireland currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Restart Racing.

Chris Smiley went on to win the 2013 Mini Challenge GB title, scoring 9 wins and 14 podiums in 20 races.

Chris Smiley made a one-off appearance in the 2014 Volkswagen Racing Cup winning both races at Oulton Park Circuit, as well as finishing 4th in the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup in 2014.

In January 2016, it was announced that Chris Smiley would make his British Touring Car Championship debut with TLC Racing driving a Toyota Avensis.

Chris Smiley returned to the BTCC in 2017 with BTC Norlin Racing where he would stay for the next 3 seasons.

The relationship proved fruitful with Chris Smiley scoring a debut win at Rockingham in 2018 alongside a further 4 podiums.

For 2020 Chris Smiley joined Excelr8 Motorsport and the brand new Hyundai i30 Fastback project.

Chris Smiley finished the season in 14th with 106 points.

Chris Smiley was retained by the team for 2021 but endured a tougher season, finishing 15th with a best result of 4th.

Chris Smiley re-joined his former BTC Racing team boss, Bert Taylor, at the newly formed Restart Racing.

The championship returned to Oulton Park for Round 4 but Chris Smiley was unable to reproduce his race winning form the opening event taking 2 4th places which lifted him back up to 3rd in the championship.

Round 5 took place at Castle Combe and Chris Smiley returned to form by taking pole position.

Chris Smiley managed to battle his way back through the pack to 5th position and secured an additional point for fastest lap.

However in the second race contact between Jamie Tonks and Adam Shepherd caused Shepherd's Hyundai to hit Chris Smiley's Honda breaking the right rear suspension and forcing him out of the race.

In wet conditions Chris Smiley took pole by just over a second and took his second victory of the season in the first race.