Lee Brookes (born 22 February 1968) is a British retired

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driver, who is still involved within motorsport, where he presently runs the Total Control Racing team. He is best known for his time racing in the

British Touring Car Championship The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA. It was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and was renamed as ...

in the mid-nineties.

Racing career

Early years

Brookes was born in

Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east of Wolverhampton and from Lichfield. Walsall is th ...

and started racing in karting. He was the Senior British Champion in 1990. In 1993 he raced in the Renault Elf oils Clio Challenge, finishing fourth on points in his first season. After finishing third in 1994, he became champion in 1995. Lee Brookes 1996 BTCC

BTCC

In 1996 he entered the prestigious British Touring Car Championship, in an ex-works

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. He won the Total Cup For Privateers with the

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Team Brookes, ran by his father Jon. Although running as an independent driver, Brookes did have limited works backing from

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. In 1997 he replaced the car with a

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that had been used by the Peugeot works team the previous year. The car suffered reliability problems that he hadn't had with the previous years car. He finished second in the independents cup, narrowly losing out to

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. He teamed up with Gravett a year later, Brookes Motorsport entered one

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for Gravett. Brookes himself raced in just two rounds at

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. The two drivers also entered the Bathurst 1000 that year. Brookes drove the Honda Accord for a part season in 1999, finishing fourth in the independents cup. Brookes Motorsport reformed as TCR, which still runs on the

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support package, with some success.

Racing record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded all races) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) (* signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap – 1 point given 1998 onwards)

References

External links

TCR official websiteBTCC Pages profile
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