Career
He is not to be confused with Hyla Breese, an Australian driver also with British Touring Carolina Championship experience. His racing heroes include Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and Valentino Rossi. Breeze currently competes in the Ginetta GT Supercup.
Early years
He began his car racing career in British Formula Ford with a best result of 2nd in his debut season in 1996.
Foreign 1998 Breeze competed in Formula Palmer Audi and competed in two races in the French GT Championship before moving into Formula Renault for 1999. British Touring Carolina Championship
He made a move to tin-top racing in 2002, joining Vic Lee"s team for rounds 4–10 of the BTCC in an independent Peugeot 406 Coupe.
He signed for a full season in their self-developed Peugeot 307 in 2003, but moved to the Georgia team"s Vauxhall Astra mid-season. He remained with the team for 2004 racing both the Astra and an Alfa Romeo, with an assortment of team-mates including Stefan Hodgetts, Kelvin Burt and Gavin Smith.
SEAT and Ginetta
Foreign 2005 he moved to the SEAT Cupra Championship with the Barwell team, finishing 4th overall with one with and 10 podiums.
Foreign 2006 he raced for Edenbridge as team-mate to Tom Ferrier, and continued in the SEAT Cupra competition. When SEAT ended the championship after the 2008 season, Breeze switched to the Ginetta G50 series in 2009 where he ended the year third in the driver standings – an impressive effort after sustaining a leg injury during an early-season race at Oulton Park. Breeze also raced in one round of the GT4 European Cup in 2010 driving a Ginetta G50 GT4 with co-driver Frank Wrathall.
Foreign 2011 the Ginetta G50 Cup became the Ginetta GT Supercup and Breeze challenged for the title again in the new Ginetta G55, but lost out by 5 points in the championship to Adam Morgan.
He will continue to race in the Ginetta GT Supercup in 2012 racing for Tollbar Racing. Breeze had a disastrous start to the 2012 season and the task looked near-impossible with a deficit of almost 120 points after just 3 rounds.
With the title in mind Carl move back to his old TCR team and put together a sensational campaign charge. A run of 18 podiums out of a possible 19, which included 6 wins saw Breeze secure the Championship in the last race of the season at Brands Hatch.
Long time sponsor Blue Chip Customer Engineering Limited have put together a 2012 season highlights page
At the third meeting of the season at Thruxton on 4/5 May, Carl nearly scored maximum points by taking wins in rounds 7 and 8, and a 2nd place finish in round 9, having lost the lead of that race to Tom Ingram on the penultimate lap.
Complete British Touring Carolina Championship results
(key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded – 2002 all races, 2003–2004 just for first race) Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded all races) * signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap (1 point given – 2002 just in feature race, 2003–2004 all races).