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My rankings of the greatest BTCC drivers since 1991 (the beginning of the modern era), in reverse order from 60:

60. Jonathan Palmer
Only raced in one season of the BTCC, the inaugural season of the modern era in 1991. Palmer had some solid results for the works BMW squad, but failed to win a race, and was not on the same level as Steve Soper, who beat him in the championship despite missing six races.
59. Jonathan Adam
Adam only raced in the BTCC for one season, but did a very respectable job for Motorbase up against experienced teammate Rob Collard and finished eighth in the championship to Collard's sixth. Adam never won a race, although he took race three on the road at Brands Hatch before being penalised for punting Jason Plato. He took one other podium finish at Oulton Park.
58. Giampiero Simoni
Drove for Alfa Romeo in their title-winning season of 1994, Simoni won one race and finished fifth in the championship, some way off his champion teammate, Gabriele Tarquini. He actually did a better job with a far less competitive Alfa Romeo in 1995, quicker than Derek Warwick, but was replaced by a Tarquini before the season was out and never returned to the BTCC.
57. Ray Bellm
One of the co-founders of Team Dynamics, Bellm drove in the first three seasons of modern era BTCC, with his best results coming in 1991, where he finished fifth in the championship as teammate Will Hoy took the title. Bellm struggled the following year against Harvey and Soper, and did not complete the season. He then drove only a few rounds in 1993 for Team Dynamics before leaving the sport.
56. John Bintcliffe
Bintcliffe had a similar BTCC career to Simoni. He was teammate to Frank Biela in the dominant 4WD Audi, but while Biela topped the 1996 championship by almost 100 points, the less experienced Bintcliffe finished a lowly seventh with no race wins. The 1997 Audi was far less competitive, but Bintcliffe drove better and took another seventh in the championship, with Biela second, and won two races. He then had a very poor season in a very slow Audi in 1998, well off the pace of Yvan Muller.
55. Vincent Radermecker
The slowest works driver in the strongest ever BTCC grid of 2000, Radermecker was very much the third driver at Vauxhall. But given as his teammates were Jason Plato and Yvan Muller, he still did a decent job, although he never won and was tenth in the championship. Radermecker also drove for Volvo in 1999, and eighth in the standings was a decent result, stronger than what Rydell's previous teammates Morbidelli and Burt.
54. Lee Brookes
The 1996 independents' champion did a very good job to beat the formidable opposition of Richard Kaye, Matt Neal and Robb Gravett, and also impressively finished every race in the season bar one in the Toyota Carina. He returned in 1997, but was less consistent and finished second in the championship to Robb Gravett.
53. Robb Gravett
The reigning champion going into the first season of the Super Touring era, but Gravett struggled in the Ford Sierra with only one podium. He then moved to Peugeot for the next two seasons, which was an uncompetitive car, but Gravett did at least beat teammates Eugene O'Brien and Ian Flux. He then had two part-seasons in the privateers' cup in 1995-1996, but got some good results including a shock podium at Snetterton in 1995. He drove a full season in 1997 and took his first independents' title, and then finished second to Tommy Rustad in 1998, his final season in the BTCC.
52. Mike Jordan
The father of BTCC champion Andrew Jordan drove in the BTCC between 2006 and 2008. The only season he had a teammate he was beaten in the championship by his son, but that was his worst season and driving was perhaps not his priority. He looked much stronger in his first few seasons, winning at Mondello Park in 2006 and challenging for the independents' championship in 2007, but it is difficult to know how much of that was down to the car, which was previously used by Matt Neal to win the championship. Ran the Eurotech team for a long time after his retirement from racing.
51. Kelvin Burt
Burt's first full season in the BTCC was 1995, as he raced a Ford Mondeo alongside Paul Radisich, and looked a strong driver, winning at Snetterton and finishing not far off Radisich in the points (although Radisich was clearly the stronger driver). It was enough to convince Volvo to sign him for 1996, but despite a win at Silverstone, he had two poor seasons in which he was well off Rydell's pace, and was dropped after 1997. He returned to the BTCC in 2004 for two rounds and took a strong fourth place at Silverstone.