TouringCarTimes’ Top 30 Drivers of 2025: 10-1

It’s time to reveal who has emerged on top in 19th annual TouringCarTimes’ rundown of the Top 30 touring car drivers in the world from the past season.

Our team of writers have ranked their top performers from the various championships we cover, and here we present the final part of our rundown of the best performers on track.

Check out part one, from positions 30 through 21, here.
Check out part one, from positions 20 through 11, here.

10 – Jenson Brickley, TCR Europe Champion with Monlau Motorsport:

Jenson Brickley had shown his skills in TCR Spain during 2024 but had to raise his game in 2025 with the move up to TCR Europe with Monlau Motorsport.

The Brit started the season in near-perfect fashion at Portimão, taking a second place and a win to assume the early points lead. As team-mate Eric Gené – amongst others – put the pressure on, Brickley returned to the podium at Misano and then took a brilliant second win of the year in the reverse grid race at the Red Bull Ring.

While others fell by the wayside in Barcelona during the dramatic finale, Brickley matched Teddy Clairet with a second and fourth, but came out a deserved champion on countback.

9 – Jake Hill, 4th in BTCC with Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport:

It’s fair to say that fourth in the standings was far below the pre-season aims of Jake Hill for his BTCC title defence, but the West Surrey Racing man battled hard throughout 2025 and only missed out on the top three by twelve points – despite sitting out three races through illness.

Hill endured a tough opener at Donington Park as WSR struggled to get to grips with the removal of hybrid over the winter, and a win at Brands Hatch Indy was a rare highlight in the opening half of the campaign.

Having been forced to sit out Croft, Hill roared back into action with a double win at Knockhill and a series of strong results over the remaining rounds allowed him to end the year – and his time in the series – just off the end-of-season podium.

8 – Esteban Guerrieri, 3rd in TCR World Tour with GOAT Racing:

Whilst the title fight in the TCR World Tour would ultimately come down to two Lynk & Co drivers, Esteban Guerrieri would be a thorn in their side for much of the 2025 season after a strong campaign at the wheel of his GOAT Racing Honda.

Guerrieri’s season kicked off in impressive fashion with a double win in the opening round of the season in Mexico, and perhaps the biggest surprise from that point on is that he didn’t make it back onto the top step again.

In fact, there would be just three more podium finishes but there would also be impressive consistency as Guerrieri finished into the top eight in all bar two races all season. A tough weekend in China ultimately ended his title hopes, but it was still a solid year for the Argentine racer.

7 – Chaz Mostert, Supercars Champion with Walkinshaw Andretti United:

Having finished in the top three in three of the previous four seasons, Chaz Mostert went into 2025 seeking to secure a first Supercars and ultimately emerged on top having been the big beneficiary of the revisions to the scoring system.

The Sprint Cup saw the WAU driver pick up a single win in New Zealand, with seven further podium finishes enabling him to earn a spot in the Finals Series as one of the top ten drivers in the standings.

Across the Finals Series however, Mostert bagged three wins and only once finished outside the top two as he clinched his maiden Supercars title – nailing the new system to ensure that Toyota will be represented by the #1 when it joins the grid in 2026.

6 – Thed Björk, 2nd in TCR World Tour with Lynk & Co Cyan Racing:

Having enjoyed his best season for a number of years, Thed Björk showed that his 2024 TCR World Tour campaign was no flash in the pan as he once again finished as runner-up in the standings for Lynk & Co.

The Swede kicked off his season in fine fashion with a win in the opening race of the season in Mexico and would be a constant figure towards the front of the grid all year – finishing inside the top ten in every single race during the season.

The Asian leg of the campaign in particular saw Björk impress with six podiums in the final eight races but he ultimately missed out on adding to his 2017 WTCC title, finishing a strong second despite having to concede positions to team-mate and champion Yann Ehrlacher earlier during the year.

5 – Ash Sutton, 2nd in BTCC with NAPA Racing UK:

For the sixth successive season, Ash Sutton ended a BTCC campaign on the end-of-season podium having been embroiled in a titanic, two-way battle for the championship title.

The NAPA Racing UK driver kicked off his quest for a record-breaking fifth title with a double win at Donington Park and was the man to beat through the opening half of the season as he finished in the top ten in every race – only twice failing to make the top five.

Losing the title lead following a puncture at Croft, Sutton found himself playing catch-up and it was a mark of his quality that he remained in contention until the final weekend of the year, despite a run of disappointing qualifying results and the fact that the Ford Focus ST wasn’t the potent weapon it had been in previous seasons.

4 – Matt Payne, 5th in Supercars with Grove Racing:

Matt Payne enjoyed his best season by far in Supercars to mark himself out as a true championship contender, although the youngster would ultimately lose out in the standings following the introduction of the new scoring system.

The Grove Racing driver picked up an impressive double win at Taupo early in the season, and then won again in Tasmania as he found himself spearheading Ford’s title challenge. The Enduro Cup then provided Payne with victory in the biggest race of the season as he followed up third place at The Bend with a win alongside Garth Tander in an astonishing Bathurst 1000.

A disappointing weekend at Sandown – where he picked up his only result outside the top 15 all season – knocked him out of contention for the title and left him fifth in the standings, whereas he previous points system would have seen him rewarded with the runner-up slot.

3 – Yann Ehrlacher, TCR World Champion with Lynk & Co Cyan Racing:

After a tricky 2024 season, Yann Ehrlacher bounced back in fine form in 2025 to lift the TCR World Tour title for the first time – adding the honour to his two World Touring Car Cup crowns.

Although failing to score in the final race of the Mexico season opener left him on the back foot early on, the Lynk & Co driver then won twice in Valencia to really kick-start his title campaign and was a model of consistency from that point onwards.

Scoring at least one podium finish at every round during the season would prove to be key, with further victories coming at Vila Real and Zhuzhou as the Frenchman put himself in prime position to wrap up the title in Macau. Third place in race one wrapped things up, allowing Ehrlacher to then relax in the Guia Race knowing that the job was already done.

2 – Broc Feeney, 3rd in Supercars with Triple Eight Race Engineering:

In any other Supercars season, Broc Feeney would have gone into the winter months celebrating title success but unfortunately for the Triple Eight driver, he would be the biggest loser from the introduction of the new scoring system.

Feeney picked up a record-breaking 18 pole positions during the season and won 14 times at the wheel of his Chevrolet Camaro – with nine of those wins coming in an eleven race spell at the end of the Sprint Cup.

Despite the strong form of Chaz Mostert, Feeney was still well placed to wrap up the title until the season finale in Adelaide, where a clash with Ryan Wood and then an engine issue on his car ultimately cost him dear.

Failing to wrap up the championship was the only negative of a season where he was the stand out driver on the grid, as seen by the fact that he would have won the title by more than 200 points under the old scoring system.

1 – Tom Ingram, BTCC Champion with Team VERTU:

Choosing the top touring car driver of 2025 was far from easy but in the end, Feeney’s failure to wrap up the Supercars crown tipped the scales in favour of the other standout performer of the year as Tom Ingram became British Touring Car Champion for a second time.

For two successive seasons, Ingram had scored more points than he needed to win the 2022 title but had fallen short in the standings as he had to settle for second behind Ash Sutton and then Jake Hill in 2023 and 2024.

Going into 2025, Ingram’s focus was firmly on reclaiming his title and he took full advantage of the winter work carried out by the EXCELR8-run Team VERTU squad to see off Sutton in huge two-way battle for honours.

A podium hat-trick at Donington Park showed he would be right in contention and Ingram would only fail to finish in the top eight twice all season, with a DNF at Snetterton after going off into the barriers being the only real mistake he made all year. Even then, he recovered from the back of the grid to fourth in the next race…

Even with limited TOCA Turbo Boost, he made it to the Quick Six in qualifying at every event bar the Brands Hatch finale and scored 18 podium finishes in 30 starts, seven of which were victories.

The last of those wins in race two of the finale wrapped up the championship crown, with Ingram ultimately ending the year having scored a record-breaking number of points, which leave him as the favourite going into 2026 as he looks to become a three-time champion.

TouringCarTimes Driver of the Year – Hall of fame

2007 – Mattias Ekström
2008 – Yvan Muller
2009 – Colin Turkington
2010 – Jason Plato
2011 – Rob Huff
2012 – Gordon Shedden
2013 – Jamie Whincup
2014 – José María López
2015 – José María López/Mark Winterbottom
2016 – Shane van Gisbergen
2017 – Norbert Michelisz
2018 – Scott McLaughlin
2019 – Colin Turkington
2020 – René Rast
2021 – Shane van Gisbergen
2022 – Shane van Gisbergen
2023 – Ash Sutton
2024 – Will Brown
2025 – Tom Ingram