Neal Bates
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| Neal Bates | |
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| Nationality | Template:Flagicon Australian |
| Born | Neal Anthony Bates Script error: No such module "person date". |
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| Relatives | Rick Bates (twin brother) Alison Drower (sister-in-law) Zach Bates (nephew) Harry Bates (son) |
| Australian Rally Championship | |
| Years active | 1989–2009 |
| Teams | Neal Bates Motorsport |
| Best finish | 1st in 1993, 1994, 1995 & 2008 |
| Previous series | |
| 1997–2003 1997 1997 1993–97 1989–93 1989 | V8 Supercars Australian Super Touring Championship Australian GT Production Car Championship World Rally Championship Australian Endurance Championship Australian Touring Car Championship |
| Championship titles | |
| 2008 1995 1995 1994 1993 | Australian Rally Championship Targa Tasmania Australian Rally Championship Australian Rally Championship Australian Rally Championship |
| Awards | |
| 2013 | Peter Brock Medal |
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Neal Anthony Bates (born 19 March 1965) is an Australian rally and racing car driver. Throughout his career Bates has been associated with Toyota 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.[1]
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 Australian Touring Car Championship team. This led to a number of touring car racing opportunities with the factory Toyota Corolla teams as well as V8 Supercar teams including Paul Weel Racing, Glenn Seton Racing and Gibson Motorsport.
Career results
WRC results
Complete Bathurst 1000 results
* Super Touring race
Complete Sandown endurance results
| Year | Team | Co-drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Page Template:Tooltip/styles.css has no content.Template:Encodefirst | Page Template:Tooltip/styles.css has no content.Template:Encodefirst |
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| 1989 | Toyota Team Australia | Template:Flagicon Mike Dowson | Toyota Corolla FX-GT | A | 142 | 11th | 2nd |
| 1990 | Toyota Team Australia | Template:Flagicon John Faulkner | Toyota Corolla FX-GT | V8 | 85 | DNF | DNF |
| 1998 | Paul Weel Racing | Template:Flagicon Paul Weel | Ford EL Falcon | OC | 122 | DNF | DNF |
| 2001 | Tekno Autosports | Template:Flagicon Steve Webb | Porsche 996 GT3 | N | 161 | 2nd | 2nd |
| 2003 | ICS Team Ford | Template:Flagicon Rick Bates | Ford AU Falcon | - | 136 | 25th | 25th |
Complete Bathurst/Eastern Creek 12 Hour results
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neal Bates and Coral Taylor Profiles". Toyota Racing Development. 3 March 2008. Archived from the original on 19 September 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2008.
External links
- Neal Bates website Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- WRC Results (eWRC)
- Neal Bates career summary at DriverDB.comTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
