BTCC legend Matt Neal life of cars // The Jonny Smith Late Brake Show
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2024
- In this episode of The Late Brake Show Jonny chats to BTCC legend Matt Neal about his life in cars; his road cars, Max Power, crashes, motocross, superstitious pants and how his race driving career kicked off. He also gives Jonny a tour of his British Touring Car Championship Team Dynamics workshop.
Matt Neal is a three time BTCC champion and is celebrating his 30th year in British Touring Cars. Since his debut in 1991 driving an E30 M3 BMW Matt has driven over 700 BTCC races. He drove in the famous Super Touring era and was the first independent team to win a race (1999 behind the wheel of a Nissan Primera) and be gifted £250,000 for the accolade.
Matt Neal and Jason Plato have collectively spent over 50 years racing in BTCC. They are veterans, legends and notorious rivals. Over the years much paint has been swapped between the two of them on track, and off-track things have almost come to blows. Even if you don't follow the British Touring Car Championship closely, there is no denying the high octane closeness and unpredictability of this series.
Matt Neal Stats:
BTCC driver 1991-present
Car #25
Races: 719
Wins: 63
Championship wins: 2005, 06 and 2011
Poles: 17
Podiums: 160
Fastest Laps: 52
Current team: Halfords Yuasa Racing
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:48 Race stats
1:35 Matt's Dad racing
2:39 Cowboy hat and kart
4:00 Renault 5 Turbo racing
4:23 6 wheeled Jaguar!
4:45 Matt's first car
5:11 Mk1 XR2
5:25 Modified Golf GTi
5:52 Matt's BMW E30 M3
6:46 Matt likes hearses
7:22 Motocross riding
8:08 Starting Rimstock business
8:32 Matt's first race car - Fiesta mk2
10:10 Steve Neal - Matt's Dad
10:35 First Touring cars - E30 M3
10:45 Skyline race car
11:49 BMW M3 E30 for 1992 season
12:10 30 years in BTCC
12:20 Tyre wars
12:42 Winning £250k as an independent race team
13:20 Mental strength & motivation in competing
14:50 Massively superstitious Matt
15:35 Mazda crash story
16:07 LUCKY PANTS
17:00 Huge crash 1994
17:50 Max Power Primera days
18:17 Max Power arsing about
18:55 The winning 1999 Nissan Primera
19:12 BTCC 1995 Mondeo & his baby sons
19:32 Worst race car of his life
20:05 Nascar with Plato!
20:20 Workshop walkabout
20:30 2020 Civic race car
20:59 2021 hybrid race car build
21:44 Henry Neal's Civic race car
23:12 Porsche race car and old piano
24:44 V10 BMW M6
24:18 Not Matt's favourite Type R
24:43 FK8 Civic Type R bare shell
24:57 Lotus Cortina shell
25:12 Matt's Honda NSX
25:58 Honda's biggest problem?
26:18 Outro
26:49 Neal Vs Plato!
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How an interview can change an opinion, guess he's in race mode at weekends but here, just chilled and chatting, a totally different guy. He's not up himself, real fun, like these interviews.
I think people forget that these are sportsmen, and all we see of them is when they're at work and full of adrenaline. It's really tough to judge someone based on that...
Totally changed my opinion of him
totaly agree jo
Completely agree. Wasn't a Neal fan st all but after listening to him here and with JP I'm warming up to him lol
I know I’m late too the party guys but yeah 💯%. This and the chat Jonny done with Plato and Neal has flipped my script 👍✌️
That period of Matt constantly on the verge of being the first privateer race winner was a golden age of BTCC, great times.
So wanted it to be longer!!!!! More details, more dirt, more inside knowledge and then the penny drops........ Plato next 😁. Great stuff keep it up.
DEFINITELY
I would have loved to know how it went being a team mate with Plato
Jonny, you have smashed 2020 and are now pretty much the best car-related UA-camr. If I handed out UA-cam awards, I would present you with the golden exhaust pipe.
Ha! Thank you Dan.
Couldn't think of s nicer way to round out the year, well done Johnny for lining this up 👍
Great interview. I remember a poster Matt’s pit was giving out in the 90s; Matt with a cheeky smile on his face, polishing the PVC shorts of a Max Power girl with a cloth. Different times indeed.
Loving this channel more and more every video. Jonny's amazing access to the most interesting people in the car world along with his skill in interviewing make this the best car channel on UA-cam.
More interviews please. You are very, very good at it. By the way did I say, your are a very, very good interviewer
Thank you very much Paul. Am really glad you are enjoying the vid. 3 more to come in the next 24hrs.
Just watching Jason and can’t stop laughing. Brilliant stuff
Yes please!!! A lot more interviews with touring car legends. They are fascinating. Thank you!!!
Thank you for this. Matt Neal is one of my heroes and I have followed his career from the first race of his BTCC chapter. Of course everyone of my age will always remember his first win as an independent, but he has had many more great moments over the years. I am proud to say that I have every BTCC race from 1988-2019 on either tape or DVD so I can honestly say I have been a big fan for years.Thanks again & have a great christmas.
Matt Neal... the most successful privateer in btcc history. Legend and a truley decent chap.
Fantastic chat, loved the photos! Didn't feel like 30 minutes at all, flew by. Great episode, keep up the good work!
Another excellent video, loved the JP solo, it's just two mates chewing the fat, no egos, excellent! John Cleland for a future episode please?
Hi Jonny,
I loved this video with Matt,
It was brilliant and could listen to this type of chat for hours.
More please.
👍 Big Thumbs up
Thanks
All of the Idol Chat's have been exceptional. There is something about the informality of a UA-cam video and the lack of the usual media full stops and pauses like adverts that let the interview evolve which helps them be so engaging. They are so good to watch, but also Jonny, your interview style, letting people talk without interruption, the pre-interview research which is evident from the incisive and explorative questions all mean you put people at ease and tease out fantastic nuggets of information. That's some skillset!
Brilliant....just watched all your latest vids! Really enjoyable, funny and spot on! More of these please..great stuff!
Really enjoy this one. Please do more of this type of interviews. They are amazing!
Excellent. What an insight into a modern legend of a driver. Thank you!
Love this type of interviews. It’s great to see legendary drivers talking honestly and truthfully about their rise to excellence. Keep them coming. Cough Seb Loeb cough!
Loved this series, great to see the personalities come through. More please Jonny!
Matt Neal is a Proper Character .... His Tiffs with JP = 'Legendary' !! :-)
What a great guy, completely chilled and a great story teller
Yes, more of this. Just watched this and Jason Platos one back to back!
Brilliant!!
Brilliant interview. Love the fact that his first car was a Fiesta 950 Popular Plus as I had the same in the same colour lol. The BTCC is a fantastic championship. Hadn't realised he had done it for so long. Brilliant Jonny really enjoying your new channel ☺️
This is absolutely top notch interviewing. Relaxed style, great connection with interviewee, excellent background knowledge, balance of light and serious ... more of this please!
Brilliant interview. I was lucky to have met / interviewed Matt a few times around the first championship win years and it's no surprise to see how well he comes across here. A genuinely nice bloke who makes time for motorsport fans. He's a big fan of other drivers too!
Love all the pics Matt pulled out. A man like myself; notes and pics documenting a lifes history 👍 great interview again 👏
So many memories for me in this video.. and I'm sure many others growing up as a petrol head through the 90's/Early 00's! Top Work Jonny ;)
I watched this and the Plato chat back to back. Superb insights into their experience of life and career. I remember the early 90’s all too well! Thanks Jonny, more idol chats please :)
Didn't know his back story, interesting person and humble as well.
Great insight into Matt Neal's world. So very humble and understated.
Please more!!!!!! Seriously, awesome video!!!Thank you very much Sir!!!
Another fab interview, many thanks!
Great stuff Jonny. As someone approaching 50 I remember the glory days of BTCC and Max Power.
Love the trip down memory lane.
Love your content and channel.
More please guvnor!
Brilliant. Just Brilliant. Both Matt and Jason, what lovely guys. Top of the class for you Jonny.
Finally uploaded past 98%! Great chat, really enjoyed it. Thanks both.
Another great video Jonny, what a lovely guy Matt Neal is, real gent. Keep'um coming....!!
Loved both interviews with Matt Neal and Jason Plato. Took me right back to my early twenties where in post Apartheid SA, we could view the BTCC on our pay TV channel. Our own SATouring Car series eventually used those same Primeras in BP green, yellow and white colours. Before that they used a Nissan Sentra (Sunny/Pulsar in the UK) with the Primera engine. They were amazing to watch going around Kyalami. I still watch watch some of the old races from the late 90s to 2000s. Thanks so much for the great interview.
This is a great mini series of interviews, and something different. Jason and Matt, two of the greats of the last 20 or so years.
Another legend of the BTCC great watch hope there is a full video coming of him and Jason together 🙏
I'm just catching up on your channel Jonny & this vid was brilliant !!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS from Mark in Ohio !!!
That was a fantastic little chat with Matt Neal more please
Another superb interview. Thanks 👍🏼
Yes Jonny! Great content! I grew up watching the Touring Cars in the 90’s and the Max Power era. Great times remembered with this and the Plato content. Great stuff 👍👍👍 Thank you and Merry Christmas.
Loved this mini-series with Matt and Jason. These chats with significant figures in Motorsport and the motor industry are great. Looking forward to who else you get to interview in future.
Excellent format and would love to see more!
Really enjoyed this Matt neal is great and please do something with him and Jason love those guys
Watch the channel tomorrow...
Just watched both chats with Matt and Jason + the two together. Please do more of these Jonny.
Keep it up.... It is so good to watch and hear the BTCC legends... I'am a big fan of the Touring Car racing and I think that you also have to do some garage/workshop tours... But keep up the good work
This channel keeps getting better. Keep up the good work
Excellent episode, thanks Jonny & Matt
More interviews like this please! Excellent!
Johnny Smith, great show! These guys really got my eyes open to cars! BTTC in the 90s so great. Fantastic interview and great show
Loved this, Jonny. I didn't realise Matt and I would have been in the same year at school. It's fantastic that he and Jason still compete in BTCC - long may the continue.
I remember meeting Matt and the guys from Rimstock at The Ford Fair at Blenheim palace in the mid 90s. Such a nice guy. I went to a lot of the Touring car meets and was at Silverstone sat at the end of the start finish straight and saw the barrel roll from behind. My favourite era of racing.
Brilliant. Thanks Jonny & Merry Christmas. Love the channel.
Really good video and insight. I've only recently subscribed to the channel but I have thoroughly enjoyed the interviews with Matt and Jason Plato. Keep 'em coming!
Who can seriously dislike this or any video like this!? Again, Jonny you've done an awesome job of putting these videos together, I've watched this one after the Plato interview and after the 2 part Plato and Neal interview and just can't get enough of it! If I can add a few more names to the comment I left on the part 2 Plato and Neal interview video they would be, Rickard Rydell, Frank Biela, Jo Winkelhock and possibly Derek Warwick.. I'm sure there's more great names I've temporarily forgotten to mention but you should get where I'm coming from! 😁
Thank you jonny for bringing such great content .
Jonny this interview and the one with Plato are bloody excellent wish they both could of been longer more chat about their old cars and more chat about the late 90s era of Btcc please keep more like this coming.👍
I've only just started watching this Matt has always been one of my all time favourites
So good to watch this. I was lucky enough to know Matt and his father Steve back in the early 90’s. Matt is such a good guy. Its exciting to see his sons starting their own races careers. Matt’s enthusiasm for bikes got me started!
One day all the lads attended a 4 hour kart racing event at Rye house in Hertfordshire. Matt singlehandedly led our chaotic team to a win, despite the fact it was pissing with rain and we were the only team on slicks !
Johnny, this is very good, loving the channel! Just great 👍🏻
Loved the Max Power photos. Olivia on the roof with a bucket of water. Neither of them wanting to admit that they knew much about it at all.
Great interview.
My BTCC hero. Thanks so much for that little bit of entertainment.
It can’t be easy for you to just arrange to meet with legends, but it’s so worth it when you do.
More interviews with drivers and designers please.
Great show.
Wait this space for another hour or so. Thank you for watching the channel.
@@TheLateBrakeShow Oh you bet now you have said that..... Bloody brilliant again
Brilliant - could listen to Matt all day - proper proper racer - hard as nails 👍🏻 amazing again Jonny
Loving this format, more please
I don't normally enjoy interview videos but this was really good, I feel like you probably get more out of people because of your light hearted, relaxed style. I can't wait for the next video.
Another awesome vid,I love these interviews. Your research is brilliant and shows you want to be knowledgeable about your guest. Keep them coming buddy...
More episodes like this please. Great stories and cars.
These episodes are amazing. Just wish they where longer hahaha! If you make them 3 hours long id watch them. Amazing!
I first found out about Matt Neal through reading Max Power in the 90s. Then I remember watching that race when he got his first independent win. To this day it's the greatest most exciting motorsport race that I've seen. Glad that he's still going.
The Parkinson of Petrol Power, awesome firewall-side chats Johnny. Well done and make us more like these 👍🏻
Loved this. Love BTCC. More please. Collard. Sheddon. Sutton. They would be good interviews. Thanks Jonny.
More episodes like this please, awesome job and lovely to hear more about Matt.
Fantastic Jonny...that was brilliant.
Your interview and subject selection skills are excellent, and the production values are the icing on the cake. Prior to this I had no clue who Matt Neal even was and had only the barest notion of BTCC but watched the entire 27 minutes with gusto and was left wanting more.
Loving this. Please more.
brilliant film thanks
Brilliant set of videos. Keep going.
Finally watched them all now a fantastic 2 hours well done Guys :)
Such great interviews. Well conducted and very interesting. Nice one Johnny! 😀
Keep it up Jonny, so enjoying the format.
These interviews always seem effortless and are a real pleasure to watch.
I am going to assume its a combination of good editing and Jonny's interviewing skill and passion for the subject.
Jonny - another very good interview. Well done mate.
Jonny keep doing idol chats with car folks from the world over. You are moving in exactly the right direction. 🏴
Loved this episode , would to see more like this Johnny. First time I remember seeing Matt Neal was in the pits at brands hatch when we was carrying the spare parts for Martin Bell's touring car BMW 3 series
Been waiting to watch these since they came out at Christmas! Changed my opinion of Matt - can’t wait for Plato’s now!
Thanks for the great videos of Matt and Jason, Jonny. Is it possible to get Rob Gravett, John Cleland and some of the other touring car legends to pop in for a chat?
Are Revaglia and Cecotto still about
Another great interview. A friend of mine own d a team inthe late 90s running the Nissan Primera as well one of the white ones. A bloody beautiful car.
Seriously, you have a lovely show. Great fun and so friendly - please do more of them.
Brilliant inter yet again Mr Smith….Neal v Plato or Plato v Neal(let’s not be bias here) Loved & still ❤ British Touring Cars…& these 2 legENDS 🎊..⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✌🏻
Superb batch of videos these were 👍
Jonno! Pulled it out of the bag again! I knew nothing of Matt Neal but I avidly watched him and Plato fight it out over the years (Yes, I was a 'Potato' fan). Mesmerized for the whole video and disappointed when it ended.
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Wow, Jonny. What a guest!!! Truly superb!!! 👍👍👍
Yes ofcourse,we want more episodes like this. Thanks Jonny.
Funnily enough my father had a huge accident in the late 1950s . He was taken home from hospital and I was taken into the bedroom to see him. I was only four. It was pretty shocking and I can remember it like yesterday . Matt talks about his dads accident and it brings it all back.
Great interview Johnny, love to see more 👊
Have always been a Plato fan..... but big respect for Mat after this and the one with Plato. Excellent Johnny
Really enjoying watching your show
Next guest - BTCC GOAT Jason Plato ;-)
PS - another brilliant video!
Potato! Potato! Potato!
Potato is the next victim. And then...
@@TheLateBrakeShow Karun Chandhok over a massive breakfast spread?
Custard test?