Neal Bates (born 19 March 1965) is an Australian rally and racing car driver. Throughout his career Bates has been associated with

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in the Australian Rally Championship and for 19 years his Neal Bates Motorsport outfit ran Toyota's official rally program in Australia. Bates claimed four drivers' titles in this time and helped Toyota win four manufacturers' crowns. Bates' navigator/co-driver since 1993 has been Coral Taylor. Bates long-time partnership with Toyota also brought the first of many circuit racing opportunities, a drive in a star search program in Toyota's

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team. This led to a number of touring car racing opportunities with the factory Toyota Corolla teams as well as V8 Supercar teams including

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and Gibson Motor Sport.

Career results

WRC results

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

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race

Complete Sandown endurance results

References

External links

Neal Bates website

WRC Results (eWRC)

Profile on Driver Database
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