Switzerland's Alain Menu was one of the most successful Touring Car drivers of the 90s, and has continued to race well into the 2000s. Like many drivers who eventually build a career in touring cars, he began his career in single-seater racing, reaching the International Formula 3000 championship in 1991. For the next year he raced a BMW in the BTCC, showing promise before being injured mid-season. In 1993 he began a six-year association with Renault in the series. Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct automobile racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars. ... Formula 3000 is a type of formula racing. ... BMW AG (an abbreviation for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works), is a German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. ... The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom. ... Renault S.A. is a French vehicle manufacturer producing small to upper-midsize cars, vans, buses and trucks. ...

He was championship runner-up for 3 years in succession between 1994 and 1996, even after the cars began to be ran by an offshoot of the Williams Formula 1 team. He finally took the crown in a dominant car in 1997, taking 12 wins. For 1999 he switched to Ford, winning a second title in 2000 against team-mates Anthony Reid and Rickard Rydell before moving on. Three seasons in an Opel in the DTM were not a huge success, although he has won a few GT races since 2001. Williams is a patronymic form of the name William, and is a common surname in Britain and nations with an English heritage. ... Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel auto racing. ... Ford may mean a number of things: A ford is a river crossing. ... Anthony Reid is a British auto racing driver, born on 17/05/57 in Glasgow, Scotland. ... Rickard Rydell (born 22 September 1967) is a Swedish racing driver. ... Opel, originally and more correctly known as Adam Opel AG is an automobile maker in Germany. ... DTM is an abbreviaton of: Turing machine Demographic transition model Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Digital terrain model, see also gravity anomaly Dortmund Airport (IATA-Code) Device Type Manager. ... GT may stand for: Ford GT (car) Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly known as Georgia Tech Golden Tee (video golf game from Incredible Technologies, Inc. ...