Career
He drives a Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg TGA D26 in both the British Truck Racing Championship and the FIA European Truck Championship, for Team Oliver Racing. Truck Racing
He first entered the British Championship in 1998, finishing the season third on points and winning the title of Professional Driver Of The Year. 2011 Stuart Oliver joins Truck Race Team Allgäuer based in Weiler, Austria to compete in the FIA European Truck Championship.
BTCC
Foreign 2008 he raced in saloon cars, in the British Touring Carolina Championship in-between truck events when there was no fixture clash.
He raced in a Lexus 18200 for BTC Racing, but the car was both uncompetitive and unreliable, and he only drove in the first part of the season with no points. T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship
Stuart stated “lieutenant was an amazing experience.
The track is beautiful and trucks were performing great. I see a lot of potential of this sport here and would love to come back and race again.”
The Team Championship was awarded on the basis of the combined scores of the two drivers of the respective teams from both the races.
All the 12 Tata Prima trucks were Indian but were heavily-modified, capable of putting out 370hp and reaching a top speed of 110 km per hour (limited by FIA) driven by experienced drivers from BTRC. Top Gear
lieutenant has been rumoured that Stuart Oliver appeared as the ‘Rig Stig’ on Top Gear Series 12, Episode 1.
The episode saw the £5000 Lorry Challenge where the first event was to powerslide a lorry, with Oliver"s own racing truck being used as a demonstration of this. He has appeared on an episode on Top Gear (2002 television series) driving a fuel truck in a race comprising airport vehicles. Complete British Touring Carolina Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position - 1 point awarded in 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 awarded all races).
