The 1999 Auto Trader RAC British Touring Car Championship season was won by Laurent Aïello in his debut season driving for the Nissan works team, with team mate David Leslie in second place.
 Rickard Rydell, the 1998 champion came third, with James Thompson and Jason Plato coming fourth and fifth.
Vitaly Aleksandrovich Petrov (Russian: Вита́лий Алекса́ндрович Петро́в ; ] , born 8 September 1984) is a Russian racing driver who drove in Formula One for Renault F1 Team in 2010, Lotus Renault GP in 2011 and Caterham F1 Team in 2012.
 Born in Vyborg, he is known as the "Vyborg Rocket" (Russian: Вы́боргская Раке́та ; ] ) in Russia.
 He was the first Russian to compete in the Formula One World Championship.
Donald Walter Murdoch (born October 25, 1956 in Cranbrook, British Columbia) is a Canadian retired former professional ice hockey player.
 After a standout junior career with the Medicine Hat Tigers, Murdoch made the New York Rangers as a 20-year-old and had an impressive rookie season, scoring 56 points in 59 games his rookie season, including a Rangers rookie record of 32 goals.
 On October 12, 1976, Murdoch tied Howie Meeker's record for most goals in one game by a rookie with 5, against the Minnesota North Stars.
 A torn Achilles tendon ended his season in February.
Colin Fleming (born April 21, 1984 in San Diego, California) is an American former racing driver who completed in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup, Formula Renault 2000 Germany and Formula Renault 3.5 in 2005 and 2006 with Jenzer Motorsport and Carlin Motorsport, he was also a member from the Red Bull Junior Team, Fleming finished 4th in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup in 2004 and was rookie of the year in the Formula Renault 2000 Germany also in that year.
 He also raced against fellow American and Californian and future Formula One Driver Scott Speed.
 In 2005 he switched to the Formula Renault 3.5 with Swiss team Jenzer Motorsport, despite three DNS in the first 3 and missing one race of that season he finished 13th with 34 points with a best finish of 3rd in the second race in the Bugatti Circuit, to 2006 he switched to Carlin where he finished 6th in the first race of the season in Zolder, however he failed to qualify to the Second Race of the weekend and he finished 4th in Circuit de Monaco and 8th in both races in Istanbul Park, after this round he asked to leave Carlin and the Red Bull Junior Team, Red Bull officially released him and he was replaced by fellow Red Bull Junior Team member and Future Formula One Champion Sebastian Vettel, after leaving Red Bull, he returned to the United States to complete in the Atlantic Championship mid-season and he finished 20th with 45 points and since then has not raced anymore in a Major Series, until he decided to retire.
 Now Colin is a high-level executive with Salesforce.
The Ligier JS31 was a Formula One car designed by Michel Tétu and Michel Beaujon for the Ligier team for use in the 1988 Formula One season.
 It was powered by the new, normally aspirated, 3.5L Judd CV V8 engine and, like the rest of the F1 grid in 1988, ran on Goodyear tyres.
 Drivers for the team were French veteran René Arnoux in his 3rd season driving for team boss Guy Ligier, and Swede Stefan Johansson who had finished 5th in the World Championship with Ferrari in and 6th with McLaren in .
Jonathan Smith (born November 3, 1986) is a racecar driver from Beacon Falls, Connecticut.
 He started racing at the age of five on dirtbikes, by the age of 12 he was racing BMX bicycles, where he was crowned State Champion in his first year.
 Smith began racing go-karts at the age of 14 where he competed in the Nite Series at Poughkeepsie Speedway in New York proving himself in his first year by finishing in second place in both series' championships.
 In his second year of competition, Smith moved to Stock Light division, Poughkeepsie Speedway's most competitive go-karting class, where he took home the championship.
 In 2001, Smith decided to take a break from racing to focus on high school.
 When he returned to racing the spring of 2006, he entered into automobile racing in the Dodge Weekly Series driving a late-model in the NASCAR sanctioned division.
 In his rookie season, with the help of Ryan Posocco Racing, Smith’s team ran at Stafford Motor Speedway in Stafford Springs, Connecticut and finished in the top third of the championship race, and as the runner up in the Rookie of the Year competition.
 Smith's talent did not go unnoticed, and he was selected to participate in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity program where he was placed with veteran Barney McRae and Motion Racing in 2007.
 During this season Smith drove in the NASCAR Busch East Grand National Series, NASCAR’s top developmental racing series.
 Smith finished the year 16th in the point standings, scoring a top 5 finish in only his second series race.
 In 2008, Smith joined Troy Williams Racing with Sean Watts to pilot their #21 Aqua Pure Health/Raintree Vacations Dodge in the newly named Camping World Series East (formerly Busch East, currently K&N Pro Series).
 He also drove in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity program for a second season that year.
 In the 2009 season, Smith was brought on by two time series champion Mike Olson and Fadden Racing.
 Since 2010, Jonathan has driven a limited schedule, but is poised to continue his racing success.
Colin Gallie (born 9 July 1971 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a British auto racing driver.
 He is best known for his one season driving in the British Touring Car Championship in 1997.
 He entered a 1994 BMW 320i for Team DCRS in the independents cup.
 He made an impressive start to the season, winning his class in the first two races.
 For most of the year he was top of the table, but his ageing car struggled with reliability towards the end of the season.
 He finished third in the independents class behind overall winner Robb Gravett and Lee Brookes in second.
John Sprinzel (born October 1930 in Berlin) is a German born British former auto racing driver.
 He was renowned for competing in saloon and sports car racing and rallying.
 Sprinzel finished third overall in the inaugural 1958 British Saloon Car Championship season driving for his own Team Speedwell in an Austin A35.
 Navigated by future BMC and Ford Competitions Manager Stuart Turner, he won the British Rally Championship in 1959, driving an Austin-Healey Sprite and an Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI.
 In International events during 1960, he won his class at the 12 Hours of Sebring race and scored 2nd place overall in both the Liège-Rome-Liège and RAC rallies.
 These successes were all achieved in Austin-Healey Sebring Sprites, a car he was instrumental in developing.
 He has published three volumes of memoirs: 'Sleepless Knights' (1962), 'Spritely Years' (1994) and 'Lucky John' (2013) and also a tuning manual for BMC cars 'Modified Motoring' (1959 and 1961).
The Renault R30 was a Formula One motor racing car designed and built by Renault for the season, and was driven by Robert Kubica and rookie Vitaly Petrov.
 The car was unveiled on January 31, 2010 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia.
Matthieu Vaxivière is a French racing driver.
 He was born on 3 December 1994 in Limoges, France.
 He was the 2011 French F4 champion.
 In 2012 he raced in the V de V Endurance Cup, French GT, and 2e Grand Prix Èlectrique.
 In addition, he was 14th in the 2012 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps season and 29th in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup, driving for Tech 1 Racing.
 In 2013 he finished 10th in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and 18th in the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps.
 In 2014 he was assigned as one of the drivers for the Lotus F1 Junior team, while competing in the Formula Renault 3.5 series alongside Filipino-Swiss driver Marlon Stöckinger.

Question: Who is nicknamed the "Vyborg Rocket" and had his rookie season driving the Renault R30 in 2010?
Answer: Vitaly Petrov