After a successful year running his own car in the MR2 Championship back in 2005, it has always been Tony’s ambition to run his own racing team.

A similar experience in 2007 saw Tony and his team become the V W Cup champions in 2007. In 2008, Tony moved up to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB, which is a prime support race to the British Touring Car Championship where he finished as runner-up in the pro-am1 category, losing out by just 1 point. In 2009, he joined one of the more experienced Porsche Carrera Cup teams in order that both he and his team could learn from them and further develop their knowledge. In 2010, Tony and his team decided to again go it alone and have another crack at the Porsche Carrera Cup pro-am1 championship under their own banner where Tony finished a creditable 3rd.

In 2011, Tony decided that the place to be was on the biggest motor sport stage in the UK, outside of Formula 1 when he moved in to the British Touring Car Championship where again, he and the team gained some valuable experience.

With Tony opening his own garage towards the end of 2011, the decision to once again run a racing team in 2012 was an obvious move. With the new premises, equipment and qualified full-time staff to support all aspects of running a racing team, Tony was soon in talks with drivers about this season.

As such, he is again competing in the BTCC and also the VW Cup. The team will be running 3 cars in this season’s VW Cup, 2 in the VAG Trophy and 1 in the Track Day trophy.

As well as preparing each car prior to a race weekend, support at each venue and set-down after each race weekend, the in-house management team are able to take care of each of the drivers, whether that is offering support on their websites, social media sites or looking after their sponsors and guests at a race meeting, Tony Gilham Racing offers a driver the complete package.