Carl Breeze

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Carl Breeze (born 7 July 1979 in Kings Lynn) is a British auto racing driver. He is not to be confused with Hyla Breese, an Australian driver also with British Touring Car Championship experience. His racing heroes include Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and Valentino Rossi. Breeze currently competes in the Ginetta GT Supercup.

Career

Early years

Breeze won 3 major British karting titles before moving up to car racing. He began his car racing career in British Formula Ford with a best result of 2nd in his debut season in 1996. For 1998 Breeze competed in Formula Palmer Audi[1] and competed in two races in the French GT Championship before moving into Formula Renault for 1999. In 2001 he was champion, with results which were stronger than Kimi Räikkönen's the previous year, although unlike Kimi he had experience of the championship and its circuits.

British Touring Car Championship

File:Carl Breeze - Peugeot 307 at the BTCC support race at the 2003 London Champcar Trophy Race, Brands Hatch (50814049256).jpg
Breeze driving the Team Halfords Peugeot 307 at Brands Hatch during the 2003 British Touring Car Championship season.

He made a move to tin-top racing in 2002, joining Vic Lee's team for rounds 4–10 of the BTCC in an independent Peugeot 406 Coupe. He signed for a full season in their self-developed Peugeot 307 in 2003, but moved to the GA team's Vauxhall Astra mid-season. He remained with the team for 2004[2] racing both the Astra and an Alfa Romeo, with an assortment of team-mates including Stefan Hodgetts, Kelvin Burt and Gavin Smith.

SEAT and Ginetta

File:Carl Breeze SEAT Cupra 2007.jpg
Breeze driving at Snetterton in the 2007 SEAT Cupra Championship.

For 2005 he moved to the SEAT Cupra Championship with the Barwell team, finishing 4th overall with one with and 10 podiums. For 2006 he raced for Edenbridge as team-mate to Tom Ferrier,[3] and continued in the SEAT Cupra competition.

When SEAT ended the championship after the 2008 season, Breeze switched to the Ginetta G50 series in 2009 where he ended the year third in the driver standings – an impressive effort after sustaining a leg injury during an early-season race at Oulton Park. In 2010, he remained in Ginetta G50 and finished the season as Vice-Champion. Breeze also raced in one round of the GT4 European Cup in 2010 driving a Ginetta G50 GT4 with co-driver Frank Wrathall.[4]

For 2011 the Ginetta G50 Cup became the Ginetta GT Supercup[5] and Breeze challenged for the title again in the new Ginetta G55, but lost out by 5 points in the championship to Adam Morgan. He will continue to race in the Ginetta GT Supercup in 2012 racing for Tollbar Racing.[6]

Breeze had a disastrous start to the 2012 season and the task looked near-impossible with a deficit of almost 120 points after just 3 rounds. With the title in mind Carl move back to his old TCR team and put together a sensational campaign charge. A run of 18 podiums out of a possible 19, which included 6 wins saw Breeze secure the Championship in the last race of the season at Brands Hatch.[7] Long time sponsor Blue Chip Customer Engineering Ltd have put together a 2012 season highlights page [8]

In 2013, a last-minute deal meant that Breeze was able to return to defend his 2012 championship,[9] remaining with TCR. A season-opening win at Brands Hatch Indy circuit saw the campaign get off to a good start, followed by two more wins at Donington Park in rounds 4 and 5.

At the third meeting of the season at Thruxton on 4/5 May, Carl nearly scored maximum points by taking wins in rounds 7 and 8, and a 2nd-place finish in round 9, having lost the lead of that race to Tom Ingram on the penultimate lap.

Racing record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

(key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded – 2002 all races, 2003–2004 just for 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 given – 2002 just in feature race, 2003–2004 all races)

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Pen.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Pos Pts
2002 Team Halfords Peugeot 406 Coupé <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />TScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". BRH
1 		BRH
2 		OUL
1 		OUL
2 		THR
1 		THR
2 		SIL
1
DNS 		SIL
2
ovr:16
cls:14 		MON
1
Ret 		MON
2
ovr:18
cls:12 		CRO
1
ovr:8
cls:8 		CRO
2
ovr:12*
cls:12 		SNE
1
ovr:14
cls:14 		SNE
2
ovr:6
cls:6 		KNO
1
Ret 		KNO
2
ovr:14
cls:13 		BRH
1
Ret 		BRH
2
DNS 		DON
1
ovr:13
cls:13 		DON
2
ovr:7
cls:7 		−5 17th 8
2003 Team Halfords Peugeot 307 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />TScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". MON
1
Ret 		MON
2
ovr:10
cls:10 		BRH
1
Ret 		BRH
2
ovr:10
cls:10 		THR
1
ovr:10
cls:10 		THR
2
Ret 		SIL
1
Ret 		SIL
2
DNS 		ROC
1
Ret 		ROC
2
ovr:9
cls:9 		13th 22
GA Motorsport Vauxhall Astra Coupé CRO
1
ovr:8
cls:8 		CRO
2
ovr:9
cls:9 		SNE
1
Ret 		SNE
2
ovr:7
cls:7 		BRH
1
ovr:10
cls:10 		BRH
2
ovr:15*
cls:15 		DON
1
ovr:8
cls:8 		DON
2
ovr:8
cls:8 		OUL
1
ovr:15
cls:15 		OUL
2
ovr:11
cls:11
2004 Team Sureterm
GA Motorsports 		Alfa Romeo 156 THR
1
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		THR
2
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		THR
3
11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BRH
1
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BRH
2
DNSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BRH
3
DNSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SIL
1
7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SIL
2
16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SIL
3
5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		OUL
1
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		OUL
2
13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		OUL
3
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MON
1
11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MON
2
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MON
3
8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		CRO
1
11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		CRO
2
13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		CRO
3
14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		KNO
1
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		KNO
2
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		KNO
3
DNSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		15th 14
Vauxhall Astra Coupé BRH
1
13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BRH
2
12Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BRH
3
10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SNE
1
14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SNE
2
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SNE
3
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		DON
1 		DON
2 		DON
3

Complete Ginetta G50 Cup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded just in first race; races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races;-

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />DCScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Points
2009 Total Control Racing BRH
1
1 		BRH
2
2 		BRH
3
1 		THR
1
1 		THR
2
3 		THR
3
1 		DON
1
4 		DON
2
2 		DON
3
2 		OUL
1
4 		OUL
2
C 		CRO
1
2 		CRO
2
Ret 		CRO
3
DNS 		SNE
1
1 		SNE
2
1 		SNE
3
1 		KNO
1
Ret 		KNO
2
4 		KNO
3
3 		SIL
1
4 		SIL
2
3 		SIL
3
16 		ROC
1
4 		ROC
2
Ret 		ROC
2
8 		BHGP
1
7 		BHGP
2
7 		BHGP
3
8 		3rd 629
2010 Total Control Racing THR
1
5 		THR
2
3 		THR
3
4 		ROC
1
2 		ROC
2
1 		ROC
3
2 		BHGP
1
1 		BHGP
2
1 		BHGP
3
13 		OUL
1
1 		OUL
2
1 		CRO
1
3 		CRO
2
3 		CRO
3
3 		SNE
1
1 		SNE
2
1 		SNE
3
2 		SIL
1
2 		SIL
2
6 		KNO
1
4 		KNO
2
10 		KNO
3
9 		DON
1
13 		DON
2
9 		DON
3
3 		BRH
1
1 		BRH
2
1 		BRH
3
3 		2nd 717

Complete Ginetta GT/GT4 Supercup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded just in first race; races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races;-

Year Team Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />DCScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Points
2011 Total Control Racing G55 BHI
1
3 		BHI
2
9 		BHI
3
2 		DON
1
2 		DON
2
NC 		DON
3
3 		THR
1
1 		THR
2
2 		THR
3
1 		OUL
1
2 		OUL
2
3 		CRO
1
4 		CRO
2
5 		CRO
3
2 		SNE
1
1 		SNE
2
2 		SNE
3
4 		KNO
1
3 		KNO
2
4 		KNO
3
Ret 		ROC
1
1 		ROC
2
14 		BRH
1
1 		BRH
2
1 		BRH
3
5 		SIL
1
3 		SIL
2
4 		2nd 689
2012 Tollbar Racing with WIRED G55 BHI
1
4 		BHI
2
12 		BHI
3
Ret 		DON
1
2 		DON
2
2 		DON
3
4 		THR
1
3 		THR
2
9 		THR
3
3 		1st 719
Total Control Racing OUL
1
2 		OUL
3
2 		CRO
1
1 		CRO
2
2 		CRO
3
2 		SNE
1
4 		SNE
2
1 		SNE
3
3 		KNO
1
1 		KNO
2
1 		KNO
3
2 		ROC
1
2 		ROC
2
3 		SIL
1
2 		SIL
2
1 		BHGP
1
2 		BHGP
2
3 		BHGP
3
3
2013 Total Control Racing G55 BHI
1
1 		BHI
2
6 		BHGP
3
Ret 		DON
1
1 		DON
2
1 		DON
3
Ret 		THR
1
1 		THR
2
1 		THR
3
2 		OUL
1
4 		OUL
2
4 		CRO
1
2 		CRO
2
3 		CRO
3
Ret 		SNE
1
2 		SNE
2
1 		SNE
3
4 		KNO
1
3 		KNO
2
3 		KNO
3
4 		ROC
1
8 		ROC
2
7 		SIL
1
7 		SIL
2
3 		BHGP
1
6 		BHGP
2
3 		BHGP
3
6 		2nd 626
2014 United Autosports <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />ProScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". BHI
1
4 		BHI
2
Ret 		BHI
3
Ret 		DON
1
4 		DON
2
4 		DON
3
5 		THR
1
2 		THR
2
2 		THR
3
5 		OUL
1
2 		OUL
2
6 		CRO
1
1 		CRO
2
1 		CRO
3
2 		SNE
1
3 		SNE
2
2 		SNE
3
4 		KNO
1
1 		KNO
2
1 		KNO
3
2 		ROC
1
3 		ROC
2
4 		SIL
1
4 		SIL
2
4 		BHGP
1
9 		BHGP
2
8 		BHGP
3
Ret 		3rd 615
2015 HHC Motorsport <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />ProScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". BHI
1
2 		BHI
2
2 		BHI
3
2 		DON
1
3 		DON
2
1 		DON
3
5 		THR
1
1 		THR
2
1 		THR
3
3 		OUL
1
2 		OUL
2
1 		CRO
1
4 		CRO
2
2 		CRO
3
Ret 		SNE
1
Ret 		SNE
2
7 		SNE
3
3 		KNO
1
4 		KNO
2
9 		KNO
3
5 		ROC
1
1 		ROC
2
1 		SIL
1
3 		SIL
2
4 		BHGP
1
1 		BHGP
2
1 		BHGP
3
3 		2nd 705

24 Hours of Silverstone results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Car No.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Class Laps <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Pos.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Class
Pos.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2010 Template:Flagicon Strategic Racing / John Welch Motorsport Template:Flagicon Mark Pilatti
Template:Flagicon Adam Christodoulou
Template:Flagicon Luke Wright
Template:Flagicon Aaron Williamson 		SEAT Leon Supercopa 45 3 523 10th 6th

References

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  1. ↑ 1998 Championship Standings Template:Webarchive, Formula Palmer Audi.
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  4. ↑ What a GT4 weekend! Double win in the Eifel for IMS Ginetta and Matt Nicoll-Jones Template:Webarchive, GT4 European Cup.
  5. ↑ NEW GINETTA GT SUPERCUP FOR 2011 Template:Webarchive, Ginetta Cars.
  6. ↑ GINETTA GT SUPERCUP STARS READY FOR BATTLE, Ginetta Cars.
  7. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  8. ↑ [1] GINETTA TITLE WINNING SEASON VIDEO & PICTURES
  9. ↑ CARL BREEZE SET FOR MICHELIN GINETTA GT SUPERCUP RETURN Template:Webarchive, Ginetta Cars

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External links

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