Abbie Eaton Bio, Career, Age, Net Worth, Tattoo and Grand Tour

Abbie Eaton Biography

Abbie Eaton (Full name: Abigail “Abbie” Eaton) is a racing driver from the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. For the second and third series of The Grand Tour Eaton stars as the test driver. Eaton is a qualified racing instructor, and when not racing, works as a performance driving coach.

Abbie Eaton Age

Abbie Eaton was Born on 2nd January 1992, in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. Thus as of 2019, she is 27 years old.

Abbie Eaton Family

She lives in Northampton, England, with her pets. She was born to her father, Paul Eaton(also a racing driver)

Abbie Eaton Dating

Following accusations of homophobia directed at The Grand Tour cast and crew by angry gays with an axe o grind, Through Twitter, she disclosed herself as a gay.

Abbie Eaton Car

Abbie Eaton Net Worth

Abigail “Abbie” Eaton is a racing driver from the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. She stars as the test driver for the second and third series of The Grand Tour. The racing driver net worth has not been displayed we are working overnight to get you the details, which we will update soon.

Abbie Eaton Tattoo

Abbie Eaton Career

Racing career

She started motor racing at the age of ten. The driver set lap records in different racing series.

Karting

The Paul Eaton daughter started karting in the Comer Cadet class, gaining invaluable track craft along with numerous podiums and wins. She then resumed kart racing for three more years, moving up into Minimax and then Junior Max, competing in the Super 1 series.

SAXMAX

In 2007, she completed her first season racing cars, in the SAXMAX Championship at various tracks around the United Kingdom with the highest position of fourth place.

In 2008, the young driver returned to the SAXMAX championship and led for most of the year but ended in fourth place, with three podiums and two fastest laps.

Production Touring Car Trophy & British GT

In 2009, she moved into her first year of adult car racing in the Production Touring Car Championship, driving a Vauxhall Corsa Sri-R. She won the class B championship outright with (15/18) wins sixteen podium positions, and seven fastest laps, finishing second overall in the championship.

In 2010, she was without a team when her British GT debut fell through a few weeks before the season was about to start. However, she did manage to make one race in the Mazda MX-5 Mk1 championship, finishing third out of over 90 entries.

Mazda MX-5 Cup

In 2011, Eaton raced a rear-wheel Mazda MX-5 Cup car. After a tough season missing several rounds due to a lack of budget, She was capable of achieving eleven top-ten finishes and the highest qualifying coming third.

Eaton competed in a handful of races in the 2012 Mazda MX-5 Cup but had to withdraw owing to family circumstances.

Mazda MX-5 Supercup

Her’s own “AE Racing” logo on her 2014 racing helmet, with a Mazdaspeed logo on her back
In 2013, Eaton raced in the last three races of the Mazda MX-5 Supercup with a win, two second places, one third and one fourth. She also raced in the Autumn Challenge and achieved two-second places.

In 2014, she returned to the British Racing and Sports Car Club (BRSCC) Mazda MX-5 Supercup Championship for the last time. Despite car troubles early in the season, the famous driver went on to achieve five wins, seven podium finishes, six fastest laps, two pole positions, and a new lap record.

She was crowned the 2014 Mazda MX-5 Supercup Champion. During a race at the Anglesey Circuit, she qualified on pole position eight-tenths of a second ahead of second-placed position, and went on to win, set the fastest lap, and then set a new lap record, all within three races.

GT Cup
She entered GT Racing via the UK based championship GT Cup. And competed for part of a season in a BMW E46 M3 GTR run by Geoff Steel Racing. Eaton achieved one win, eight podium finishes, and three fastest laps.

British GT

Abbie Eaton and Marcus Hoggarth’s Maserati GT4 at the Brands Hatch motor racing circuit in 2016. In 2016, she moved to the British GT Championship in a Maserati GranTurismo MC GT4, the first time that Maserati had been in the British Tish GT for over 20 years. She shared driving duties with Marcus Hoggarth, and their team placed second in the Pro/Am Championship and fourth overall.

Blancpain GT
Since 2017 with a year out, was then offered a one-off drive for the 2017 Blancpain GT Series in a Ferrari 488 GT3 run by AF Corse. This was her’s first time in a GT3 specification car and first time at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza circuit in Italy.

Following ten laps of practice, she entered the race as one of the 52 cars starting, and finished in the first position in the Am Cup, making her the first female ever to win a class in the series. The car was number 961, driven by Eaton, Alex Demirdjian, and Davide Rizzo.

Television Career

She appeared on ITV’s Drive-in 2015, coaching rapper Professor Green in various racing car challenges over a five-week period. This involved mud buggy, stock car, and sports car races.

Eaton and Professor Green were the most successful pairing, staying out of the eliminator night race and making it through to the final round. With Professor Green were crowned champions in the last episode.

Eaton also stars as the test driver for the second and third series of the British motoring show The Grand Tour, replacing the former first series test driver Mike Skinner.

Later she was introduced to the show in the second episode of the second series, on 15th December 2017, when she was shown testing a green Mercedes-AMG GT R around the Eboladrome test track.

In the Mercedes, she says “Right, here we go” to herself, before starting the lap and completing the test drive silently. Eaton did not have her name mentioned at all throughout the episode, only being referred to as “she”, and her name was only shown in the credits at the end of the episode, credited as “driver”.

Motor1.com speculated that The Grand Tour would likely be under legal restrictions, and needing to provide differentiation between The Grand Tour test driver and anonymous drivers such as The Stig.

A spokesperson for Amazon suggested to Jalopnik of a compromise between the explicitly named “the American” test driver portrayed by Skinner, and being unable to use a completely anonymous driver like on Top Gear.

During the first episode of the third series, Jeremy Clarkson referred to her simply as, “Abbie”, suggesting that Amazon may have finally made a decision in this matter.

During the fifth episode of the third season, Clarkson presents her at the beginning of a race by noting that the car “is being driven by The Grand Tour’s racing driver, Abbie Eaton.”

Abbie Eaton Supercars

Abbie Eaton completes Adelaide Super2 field

The drive, whose background is GT and production-car racing in the UK and Europe, completes a 20-car field for the 2019 season opener.

She turned her ambition of racing a Supercar into a pair of tests in late-2018, with Walkinshaw Andretti United and then MSR.

A Super2 debut with the latter has now come to fruition, with Eaton to drive one of MSR’s Triple Eight-built Commodores in Adelaide with major sponsorship from Blackwoods.

“It has been an incredible process since arriving here in Australia back in November to finally say that we’re on the grid in Adelaide,” Eaton, who has been based in Newcastle in recent months, said.

“We’ve been working day and night since June last year to make this a reality and to get the deal done on Saturday morning was surreal, but it is a dream come true.

“The MSR team have been fantastic in their support, as have the team at Supercars with their encouragement and interest in getting me to Adelaide.

“I can’t thank Blackwoods and MIS Motorsport Insurance enough for supporting me to be on the grid.

“Blackwoods is such a well-recognized brand among industrial suppliers in Australia and have been a strategic partner with MSR for some time, so I’m really happy to be representing them and their 60 stores around Australia.

“We’ve also got a great opportunity, through Blackwood’s inclusive programs, to engage female tradespeople, which are strong in numbers across Australia.”

Her partners Ash Walsh in another MSR Holden, while the team is also fielding Joel Heinrich in an ex-DJR Team Penske Falcon.

With Eaton, Heinrich, Tyler Everingham, Dylan O’Keeffe, and Justin Ruggier, there will be a total of five Super2 debutants on the grid this weekend.

“I’ve watched many a race from the Adelaide 500 and of course the Formula 1 day over the years and it is one of the most talked about events internationally,” Eaton added.

“After having the two tests in December I know what I need to work on and how to get the best out of a Supercar.

“It’s just a case of doing that whilst learning another new circuit. This year I’m focussing on learning the circuits and if I can snatch a podium or two out of it then that will be fantastic.

“Matt and his team are specialists when it comes to the Super2 Series and with their expansion to three cars, along with Todd in the main game and their championship-winning historical data, there will be plenty of data to compare, work through and establish a baseline.

“While I’m excited and thrilled that this has come together, it’s now down to work.

“I’ll be giving it my all throughout the weekend and doing what we can to repay the faith shown in me and ensure we’ll be on the grid for the rest of the season.”

Practice for the new season starts at 12:50 pm ACDT on Thursday, with the Adelaide street circuit hosting one 19-lap race each on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Abbie Eaton Responds To ‘The Grand Tour Is Homophobic’

Yesterday we told you that the singer Will Young announced on Twitter that he was going to try to take legal action against the Grand Tour after he thought their jokes about Jeremy and the Jeep Wrangler were homophobic. All of you were more than shocked at this and were happy to voice your thoughts in the comments of that article. Well today, The Grand Tour’s very own racing driver Abbie Eaton has replied to Will Young’s rant via her on Twitter account.

In a response to Evie Swayland, a member of the production team of The Grand Tour, who said that she found Will Young offensive after his Twitter rant, Abbie Eaton settled Young’s argument with one simple post. Jeremy and the gang can’t be homophobic, because Abbie Eaton herself is gay.

Of course, we wouldn’t usually bring this up because people’s sexual orientation is none of our business, but we found Abbie Eaton’s post so funny that we couldn’t resist but share it with you. You can see Clarkson, Hammond, and May playing quite happily with Abbie Eaton on the new Grand Tour Game. So, Will Young. Your move.