Team Dynamics 2019 Season Guide
Your full guide to the 2019 BTCC with Team Dynamics and SBT Patron. Matt Neal. The team, the drivers, the car, the circuits, the whole thing.
Your full guide to the 2019 BTCC with Team Dynamics and SBT Patron. Matt Neal. The team, the drivers, the car, the circuits, the whole thing.
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MATT NEAL<br />
www.mattneal.co.uk<br />
Three Times BTCC Champion &<br />
British Motor Racing Legend<br />
There are BTCC Drivers and then<br />
there’s Matt Neal. Son of <strong>Team</strong><br />
<strong>Dynamics</strong> founder, Steve Neal, Matt<br />
has established himself as one of the<br />
most iconic names in British motor<br />
racing history.<br />
Matt’s BTCC career started way back in<br />
1991 driving a BMW for Pyramid<br />
Motorsport. Twenty seven years later,<br />
Matt is still very hungry for a fourth title<br />
and is still very much a potent threat to<br />
the entire field. We only have to look at<br />
his performance during the 2018 season<br />
walking away with his fair share of<br />
silverware including the Diamond Double<br />
60th Anniversary race. Yes, there is a lot<br />
of new blood, talent and experience on<br />
the grid of the current BTCC line-up but<br />
for pure racemanship, trackcraft and pigheaded<br />
grit and determination, there are<br />
non better.<br />
His vast experience also makes him a<br />
very valuable asset for testing. I do<br />
believe that the success of the Honda<br />
Civic Type R FK8 during the season was<br />
in no small part down to Matt. Of course,<br />
the team is the magic that makes the car<br />
but what a test driver to have.<br />
Matt is a true family man, married to<br />
Karen and father to Matilda and twins,<br />
Will and Henry, both the boys being very<br />
competitive in the Mini Challenge. In fact<br />
in the 2018 season, Henry finished in a<br />
very respectable 5th and brother Will<br />
finished his season in 16th. Both very<br />
commendable and both with very big<br />
futures in motorsport. You never know,<br />
they may even fill dad’s shoes in the big<br />
arena of BTCC one day.<br />
We also have to mention another great<br />
side to Matt, and that is of his work with<br />
Armed Forces Veterans. Matt is the<br />
patron of the local veteran hub, The<br />
Tommy Atkins Centre and the veterans<br />
magazine, The Sandbag Times which<br />
follows him around the season reporting<br />
on his races and season goings-on.<br />
So Matt is about to embark on his 28th<br />
season in <strong>2019</strong>, His last Championship<br />
title was back in 2011 but his passion<br />
and determination has not faltered for<br />
one moment. One staggering fact is that<br />
Matt has not finished outside of the top<br />
10 since 2001. Any driver on the track<br />
knocking on his rear bumper would do<br />
well to bear that fact in mind. His track<br />
battles have been the topic of many<br />
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