Matt Allison

Who is Matt Allison?

Matt Allison is an English racing driver. He is most well known for winning the 2006 British GT Championship and for racing in the UK's most popular racing series the British Touring Car Championship. He progressed through the ranks of British Karting winning 2 Championships and 2 Runners Up Trophies before moving to Formula Ford in the year 2000.

In his first year of car racing Matt won the BRDC Formula Ford 1600 single seater championship in 2000. He progressed to the senior Ford 1800 category for 2001-2003 with numerous podium finishes and a championship best finish of 5th in 2002. Funding issues, preventing a move to Formula Renault/F3 saw switch to front wheel drive saloon racing in the form of the Renault Clio Cup. A 3rd place in only his third ever saloon car race meant that Matt was again at the front of a respected British Championship and pushing for the title. Finishing 3rd overall with an impressive 12 podiums Matt went on to win the highly prestigious Renault Clio Winter Cup Series in 2005.

In 2006 Matt saw his career take a big step forwards when he was given the opportunity to enter the world of sports cars by racing in the British GT Championship. Matt drove his Porsches 911 GT3 to 4 wins, 9 podiums and 6 pole positions to clinch his third British Championship in six years. Racing across Europe, Matt won the highly prestigious Pau Grand Prix Street Race in France in July 2006 beating over 60 entries from across Europe.