Andrew Priaulx (born Guernsey, 8 August 1974) is a racing driver, European Touring Car Championship champion, and World Touring Car Championship twice champion. Priaulx has competed in many types of motorsport, beginning in karting at the minimum age of eight. After a brief flirtation with powerboat racing, he started hillclimbing while still a teenager. It was quickly apparent that he had great natural ability, …

James Thompson (born April 26 1974) is a British auto racing driver from York. He has twice been champion of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). From 2005, he raced away from the BTCC for the first time in over a decade, joining Alfa Romeo, Seat then Alfa Romeo again in the World Touring Car Championship. He started racing in the BTCC in a privately-entered Peugeot in 1994, his performances earning him a factory Vauxhall drive for 1995.

Rickard Rydell (born 22 September 1967 in Stockholm) is a Swedish racing driver. In the early 1990s, Rydell raced in various Formula Three series. He also won pole position in the 1991 Macau Grand Prix, and won the 1992 race. He competed in Japanese F3 in 1992 and 1993, British F3 in 1989 and 1991, and the Swedish F3 series in 1987 and 1988. In 1990, he raced in F3000. In 1984-1985, he won the Swedish 100cc go kart championship. His first year in the BTCC was 1994, …

Tiago Vagaroso da Costa Monteiro is a former Formula One driver who drove for Jordan, Midland and Spyker F1 -- all progressive iterations of the same team as it was bought up by new owners -- during a two year stint as part of the Formula 1 circus. In the first year of his Formula One career (2005) he set a new record for the most finishes by a driver in a season (18), and also achieved a podium position (3rd place) at the highly controversial United States Grand Prix.

Jörg Müller is a German race driver, driving for BMW. His formally team-mate Dirk Müller is unrelated, as is French driver Yvan Muller. Jörg Müller is the son of formally European carting-champion Ewald Müller. In 1989 Müller won the titles in German Formula Opel Lotus and in European Formula Ford 1600.

Tom Romeo Coronel (born 5 April 1972, Naarden), is a Dutch auto racing driver. Tom's twin brother Tim (whose middle name is Alfa) is also a racer, just like their father Tom Coronel Sr. His greatest successes early in his career were winning Formula Nippon in 1999, Japanese Formula 3 series in 1997, and the Dutch Formula Ford 1800 series in 1992. Also, he is the winner of the 1997 Marlboro Masters.

Jordi Gené Guerrero is a racing driver, competing in the WTCC for SEAT. His younger brother, Marc is also a racing driver.

Rob Huff of Britain is part of Chevrolet's WTCC motor racing team, driving the Lacetti alongside the more experienced Alain Menu and former Formula One driver Nicola Larini. A Christmas Day birth in 1979, he had a long junior career in karting. He won the 2000 Formula Vauxhall championship, and class B of the 2001 Ethyl MG Championship (also finishing as runner-up in this series in 2000). His father's Chartered Surveying firm has been one of his main sponsors.

Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi, (born October 23, 1966), is an Italian racing driver. He won two CART championship titles in North America during the late 1990s. He also had a less successful career as a Formula One driver. More recently he has attracted widespread praise for his racing comeback in the aftermath of a crash in 2001 which resulted in him losing both legs. As of 2007 he competes in the World Touring Car Championship.

Mario Theissen is the boss of BMW Motorsport - and the newest Formula 1 team principal. The German car manufacturer has announced its purchase of Sauber and the aim is to create a new manufacturer team in the sport. To take BMW to the World Championship. Theissen is a man with ambition but the one thing that is never lacking in the sport is ambition. The hard thing is to do the job and win. Buying Sauber makes a lot of sense to BMW but not to many others in F1 circles.

Fabrizio Giovanardi (born December 14, 1966) is a racecar driver. He was born in Sassuolo near Modena in Italy. Fabrizio began his career karting before switching to Italian Formula 3. In season 1989 he switched to Formula 3000 to compete with First Racing and won the race in Vallelunga. A move to touring cars brought more luck, as he claimed the 1992 Italian championship.

Peter Terting is a German auto racing driver, born on February 19 1984 in Kempten. He won the Volkswagen Lupo Cup in 2002, earning him a DTM drive for Abt Sportsline in 2003, although this proved to be too big a step up, and the teenager struggled to be competitive. After winning the 2004 German SEAT León Championship, he earned a full-time drive in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) for SEAT, joining Rickard Rydell and Jordi Gené.

Dirk Müller is a German race driver, driving for AF Corse Motorola in the 2007 FIA GT Championship. His former Schnitzer BMW team-mate Jörg Müller is unrelated, as is French driver Yvan Muller. In 1996, Dirk Müller won a Formula 3 race at the Nürburgring. In 1998, after a win in the GT1 class of the 24 Hours of Daytona, he scored his first title, the German Porsche Cup, to be followed by the ALMS GT title in 2000.

Olivier Tielemans (born 1 June 1984 in Weert) is a Dutch race car driver. His career started back in 1991 when he came 4th in the Dutch Kart Championship. Between 1995 and 1997 he raced in the Belgian Kart Championship and became Rookie of The Year. He didn't race competitively again until 2002 when he raced in the Italian and European Formula Renault Championships. In 2003 he finished 5th in the Benelux Formula Renault Championship.

Italian Roberto Ravaglia (born May 26, 1957, in Venice, Italy) currently runs BMW's Team Italy-Spain in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC), who took Alessandro Zanardi to a famous race victory at Oschersleben. Before retiring in 1997, he was one of most successful touring car racing driver, primarily for BMW, and won seven titles in three (four) championships. He was twice Italian karting champion, and raced in Formula 3 in the early 1980s.

Roberto Colciago is a race car driver born in Saronno, Italy on the 4 April 1968. He raced in Formula 3000 in 1991 but did not score any points, with an 8th place at Vallelunga as his best result. From late 2000 to the end of the 2002 season he raced for Audi in the Swedish Touring Car Championship, winning two driver's titles. In 2001 he also raced in the European Super Touring Championship for Audi, claiming two race wins and finished 6th overall.

Mat Jackson is a racing driver from Henley-in-Arden, England, born 10th June 1981. For 2007 he and his family-ran team contest the British Touring Car Championship in the BMW used by Andy Priaulx to win the 2006 World Touring Car Championship. He started racing in karts in his teens, before finishing 4th in the 2000 Renault Clio Cup, his first attempt at tin-top racing.

Marcel Costa (born November 4, 1978 in Guardiola de Bergueda), is a Spanish auto racing driver, currently racing for the BMW Team Italy-Spain (run by Roberto Ravaglia) in the World Touring Car Championship. Costa was the 2002 Spanish Formula Three Champion, yet after a season in the Spanish GT Series, where he was a class champion, Costa spent 2004 and 2005 in the motor racing wilderness, with just a win in the Barcelona 24 Hours to his credit.

Erkut Kizilirmak is an auto racing driver from Turkey. He started racing in rallying in 1992 and switched to Touring Cars in 2002, at the age of 32. In 2005 he won the Turkish Touring Car Championship, in a Vauxhall Astra Coupé formerly raced by Yvan Muller in the BTCC.He also made an appearance in the Turkish round of the World Touring Car Championship in 2005. His connections with the series and the Triple 8 Race Engineering company, increased in 2006, …

Claudia Hürtgen is a German race driver. After fellow German Ellen Lohr, who won the German Formula 3-Championship and a DTM race, she is considered Germany's best female pilot. Claudia started with karting and moved to German Formula 3. In 1993, during the F3 invitational race of the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, she suffered hand injuries in a roll-over crash, ending her career in single-seaters. Coming back with touring cars in 1995, she won the Austrian championship.

Marc Gené Guerrero is the test driver for the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team. Recently, he also served as a replacement for Ralf Schumacher for the WilliamsF1 team, following his injury in the 2004 United States Grand Prix. His brother Jordi is also a racing driver, competing in the WTCC for SEAT.

Elio Marchetti (born August 17, 1974) is an Italian racing driver from Viterbo who participated in the 2006 FIA World Touring Car Championship rounds at Monza and Magny-Cours for DB Motorsport in an Alfa Romeo 156. He also competed in the Italian Touring Car Championship for the same team. From 1988 to 1992 Marchetti was a Motocross and Supercross rider, a hobby he still enjoys.

Lo Ka Fai (born August 14, 1976 in Hong Kong, China) is a racecar driver who competed in the Asian Touringcar Championship in 2002, 2004 and 2005. He also joined the Asia-Seat team for the 2005 World Touring Car Championship, but never competed in any races.