Colin Blair

Education

In 1999 he drove a class A Ford Escort in the Ford Saloon Carolina Challenge, where he finished the season in second place.

Career

After working for a recruitment company, he didn"t start in motor sport until the age of thirty-nine. He stepped up to the BTCC in 2000, with an independent Nissan Primera GT. This was the last year of the Super Touring era and there was a very small field of drivers, with no more than eleven class A cars starting at one time. Blair only raced in selected rounds, sharing the car with David Leslie.

He finished the season second in the independents championship behind the only other Industry driver Matt Neal, and eleventh in the overall drivers championship.

In 2001 he drove in the production class BTCC with Georgia Janspeed Racing in an Alfa Romeo 156 with team mate Gavin Pyper, finishing in eighteenth place. Complete British Touring Carolina Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position - 1 point awarded all races, 2001 in class) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap - 1 point awarded all races in 2001 only, 2001 in class) (* signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap - 1 point awarded, 2001 in class).

Achievements

• He spent two years in 1997 and 1998, racing in the Scottish Road saloon car champion with a class A Ford Sierra RS500.