British racing driver (born 1984)

Oliver Jackson (born 26 April 1984 in Whitechapel, London) is a British racing driver who currently competes in the British Touring Car Championship.

Ollie Jackson AmD Tuning Cobra Exhausts Audi BTCC Brands Hatch 2017

Contents

• 1 Personal life
• 2 Racing career
  • 2.1 Caterhams
  • 2.2 Porsche Carrera Cup GB
  • 2.3 British GT
  • 2.4 British Touring Car Championship
    • 2.4.1 Triple 8 (2011)
    • 2.4.2 AmD Tuning.com (2012)
    • 2.4.3 Speedworks Motorsport (2013)
    • 2.4.4 Welch Motorsport (2014)
    • 2.4.5 AmD Tuning.com (2016–2018)
    • 2.4.6 Motorbase Performance (2019–)
• 3 Racing record
  • 3.1 Complete British GT Championship results
  • 3.2 Complete British Touring Car Championship results
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Personal life

Ollie Jackson is from Reigate, Surrey and was educated at Epsom College. He then obtained a BSc in Computer Information Systems from the University of Bath and an MSc in Automotive Product Engineering from Cranfield University. His current occupation is Chief Engineer for Controlled Braking at Alcon Specialist Brakes and Clutches in Tamworth, Staffordshire. He previously worked at Lotus Engineering as a Vehicle Dynamics Engineer.

Racing career

Caterhams

Jackson started his racing career driving in the Caterham Academy, a series for novice drivers. He took one race win in 2005 before moving up to the Mega Graduate Cl* in 2006, claiming two wins. He took two further wins in 2007 to finish as runner-up in the championship. For 2008 he raced in Caterham Superlights and took two victories on the way to second in the championship.

Porsche Carrera Cup GB

In 2009 he moved up to the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain racing for Motorbase Performance. In his maiden season he finished 7th on 163 points. He stayed with the team for 2010, winning 11 of the 20 races as winner of the pro-am1 category and claiming pro-am1 *le ahead of Jonas Gelžinis and Tony Gilham. At the end of 2009, Jackson had an unrivalled record in the Carrera Cup Great Britain having scored points in all 40 races he competed in.

Jackson driving for AmD Tuning.com at Brands Hatch in the 2012 British Touring Car Championship.

British GT

In January 2011, Jackson was announced as a driver for the new works-backed Lotus team which would compete in the GT4 category of the British GT Championship with the Lotus Evora. He competed in the first 8 rounds of the championship, finishing 6th in the GT4 category with a cl* win at Spa-Francorchamps.

British Touring Car Championship

Triple 8 (2011)

In September 2011, Triple 8 Race Engineering announced they had signed Jackson to race one of their Vauxhall Vectras in the final two rounds of the 2011 British Touring Car Championship season. He ended the season 26th in the overall drivers' championship and 20th in the independents' trophy.

AmD Tuning.com (2012)

Jackson continued in the BTCC in 2012, this time driving for AmD Tuning.com in their S2000-NGTC Volkswagen Golf. Jackson and the team missed the Knockhill round to go testing before they resumed racing at Rockingham. Jackson finished 18th in the drivers' championship and 13th in the independents' trophy at the end of the season, claiming three top ten finishes.

Speedworks Motorsport (2013)

Jackson joined Speedworks Motorsport team for the 2013 season, driving a full Next Generation Touring Car–spec Toyota Avensis alongside Dave Newsham.

Welch Motorsport (2014)

Jackson joined Welch Motorsport for the 2014 season, as confirmed at the Autosport International Show at the NEC Birmingham.

AmD Tuning.com (2016–2018)

On 9 March 2016, Jackson was confirmed at AmD Tuning.com in their Audi S3 Saloon, finishing 26th with 14 points. He continued with the team for two more seasons, scoring a podium at Brands Hatch in 2018. He finished 22nd with 42 points in 2017 and 23rd with 59 in 2018.

Motorbase Performance (2019–)

For 2019, Jackson returned to Motorbase Performance, running under the Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher banner alongside Tom Chilton, with Nicolas Hamilton also part of the line-up. He finished 19th in the standings with 81 points and on 28 January 2020, it was confirmed that he would return for a second consecutive season in a new Ford Focus ST Mk.IV. At Silverstone, Jackson secured his maiden win when he took victory in the reverse grid final race, and would go on to win again at Snetterton.

Jackson then remained with the team again for 2021, running under the MB Motorsport banner.

Racing record

Complete British GT Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete British Touring Car 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)

* Season still in progress.

References

External links

• British Touring Car Championship Official Website