Gordon Shedden

CHAMPION 2012, 2015, 2016

A modern-day hero, Gordon Shedden has won 48 times and taken three titles in the British Touring Car Championship.

He joined Team Dynamics in the top flight in 2006 and was a winner in his maiden season, and spent nearly all of his BTCC career with the Pershore team. His hallmarks are blistering one-lap pace and some stunning overtaking.

But it wasn’t always that way. Eddie Hinckley, Shedden’s engineer, explains: “He was just very focused and has very good car control. He could be quite hard to work with but then all drivers are self-centred – even Matt Neal can be sometimes! His progress was superb. Shedden was green to start with and Matt helped him along the way, and turned him into the full driver that he is now.”

Shedden has pulled off some remarkable comebacks to claim BTCC glory, notably in 2016, when he recovered 50 points to battle his way back to the top of the table. “He is a great overtaker and he grew some resilience in his racing – and with some of the situations he found himself in, he had to,” explains Hinckley. “He used to get in some tempers when things weren’t going well when he first joined us – I remember him kicking the locker in the truck – but he learned that you didn’t have to win every race to win the championship. That’s just how a British Touring Car Championship driver matures.”