1. Thomas James Chilton was born on 15 March 1985 and is a British racing driver who currently drives for Team Bristol Street Motors in the British Touring Car Championship.
36 Facts About Tom Chilton
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Tom Chilton has spent most of his career competing in touring car racing, and his younger brother, Max, is a racing driver.
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Tom Chilton was educated at Reigate St Mary's School and Shiplake College.
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Tom Chilton proved to be very quick, and although his lack of experience counted against him he nevertheless finished the season in 15th place overall and 5th in the Independents' Cup.
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Tom Chilton won again in the 29th race at Donington.
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Tom Chilton was classified 5th in the 2005 British Touring Car Championship despite only starting 24 of the 30 races.
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Tom Chilton decided he did not want to stay at VX Racing in 2008.
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Tom Chilton left to partner Gordon Shedden at Team Dynamics for the 2008 BTCC season and replacing VX Racing-bound Matt Neal.
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For 2009 Tom Chilton returned to Arena Motorsport to drive a Ford Focus ST in the BTCC under the Team Aon banner, but spent much of the year developing the car and he ended the season 13th in the drivers' standings.
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The LPG-powered car was more competitive, taking four of the first five poles, but bad luck meant teammate Tom Onslow-Cole took better results than Chilton initially.
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Onslow-Cole finished ahead in the overall drivers' championship but Tom Chilton secured the Independents' Trophy by a two-point margin over Steven Kane.
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Results were poor initially as the car was developed but Tom Chilton took the car to pole position at Knockhill, going on to win race one.
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Tom Chilton won the final race of the season at Silverstone.
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Tom Chilton finished the year 7th in the drivers' championship on 197 points.
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Tom Chilton took a third-place finish in the third race at the opening round at Brands Hatch, after starting from pole.
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On 20 December 2017, Tom Chilton decided to focus on his BTCC career.
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Tom Chilton took his first win after 2011, winning at Knockhill after started from pole in 3rd race.
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On 10 January 2020, it was announced that Tom Chilton would join the BTC Racing team for the upcoming season as part of an expanded three-car team.
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Tom Chilton took a best finish of 2nd at Thruxon and finished 10th in the Driver's Championship and 4th in the Independent Driver's Championship.
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On 12 January 2021, Ciceley Motorsport announced that Tom Chilton would be joining the team for the 2021 Season.
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Tom Chilton made his debut in the World Touring Car Championship in 2012, driving for the Arena Motorsport team with their Ford Focus S2000 TC alongside fellow WTCC debutant James Nash.
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Tom Chilton scored another point in race two in Slovakia.
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Tom Chilton was given a five place grid penalty for a collision during qualifying for the Race of Austria, he locked up down the inside of Franz Engstler and made contact, putting Engstler out of Q1.
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Tom Chilton finished 19th in the drivers' standings, two places behind teammate Nash.
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Tom Chilton moved to RML for the 2013 season, driving a Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T alongside former world champion Yvan Muller.
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Tom Chilton finished second behind Muller at the season opening Race of Italy Tom Chilton took his first WTCC pole position at the Race of the United States, beating teammate Muller.
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On 12 December 2013 Tom Chilton announced that in 2014 he would drive Car nr.
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Tom Chilton managed to take pole, fastest lap and victory in the first race at Beijing becoming the only non-Citroen driver to win the first race of any race weekend in 2014.
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In 2016 Tom Chilton raced in a Citroen for Sebastien Loeb Racing, together with Moroccan driver Mehdi Bennani.
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In independents, Tom Chilton managed to finish 2nd in the standings after losing to Mehdi Bennani, who secured his independents title in Shanghai due to advantage for his DNF after contact with Gabriele Tarquini in Race 1.
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Tom Chilton continued as a Sebastien Loeb Racing driver in the 2017 WTCC season.
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Tom Chilton took 3 wins in that season at Monza, Motegi, and Losail.
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When he won at Losail, Tom Chilton claimed his independent's title in 20th and final race of the season.
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When he won the independent's title, in overall standings, Tom Chilton finished 3rd behind two championship contenders, Norbert Michelisz and that season's champion, Thed Bjork.
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Tom Chilton has appeared in five episodes of Top Gear.
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Tom Chilton appeared as a single man in Episode 4 of the first series of the ITV show Take Me Out hosted by Paddy McGuinness.