Priaulx began karting at the minimum age of eight. After a brief period in powerboat racing, he took up hillclimbing as a teenager, sharing a car with his father Graham. He won the British Hillclimb Championship title in 1995. He then moved to circuit racing, competing in the Formula Renault UK Championship and British Formula 3, before switching to the Renault Spider championship in 1998 and dominating it in 1999. He returned to British Formula 3 in 2000 and 2001, finishing sixth in the 2001 championship.
In 2001, Priaulx served as a guest driver for the Egg Vauxhall team in the British Touring Car Championship, standing in for the suspended Phil Bennett. He took pole position on his debut at Oulton Park. In 2002, he was signed by the works Honda BTCC team, winning one race and taking two further podiums.
In 2003, Priaulx joined Bart Mampaey's BMW UK team for the European Touring Car Championship, finishing third. In 2004, he became ETCC champion after a season-long battle with Dirk Müller. Both drivers finished with the same points total, but Priaulx had won five races to Müller's three.
Priaulx repeated his title success in the World Touring Car Championship in 2005, 2006, and 2007, clinching each at the final round in Macau. In 2005, his two second-place finishes in the final round were sufficient as rivals Dirk Müller and Fabrizio Giovanardi both failed to score. In 2006, he won the opening race of the final meeting and finished fifth in the last event to beat Jörg Müller by a single point. In 2007, Priaulx entered the final meeting at Macau as joint championship leader alongside former BTCC champion Yvan Muller. He finished eighth in the first race and won the second from pole position to claim his third consecutive title.
Priaulx was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
BMW withdrew from the WTCC factory effort after 2010. Priaulx contested the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup for BMW in 2011. He spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, with his best result being sixth at the Hockenheimring in the 2013 season finale after starting third.
In 2014, Priaulx switched to the United SportsCar Championship in the United States. In January 2015 he returned to the British Touring Car Championship with West Surrey Racing, driving a BMW 125i M Sport, combined with BMW endurance programmes in the European Le Mans Series and the North American Endurance Cup.
On 5 December 2015, Priaulx parted from BMW after 13 years to join Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK for their debut in the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship. He was unveiled alongside teammates Marino Franchitti, Stefan Mücke, and Olivier Pla. In 2019, he raced for Ford in the WEC and joined Cyan Racing Lynk & Co for the FIA World Touring Car Cup (WTCR), partnering Yvan Muller, Thed Björk, and Yann Ehrlacher. On 17 November 2019, Priaulx secured his maiden WTCR win in Macau.
Priaulx competed at the Bathurst 1000 in 2002 and 2003 with Kmart Racing, partnering Yvan Muller in 2002 and Cameron McLean in 2003, both in Kmart Racing Commodores. He also contested the Sandown 500 in 2003. In 2009, he drove a Walkinshaw Racing Holden with David Reynolds at the Phillip Island and Bathurst endurance races. In 2010, he partnered Craig Lowndes in the Armor All Gold Coast 600. He has also competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and in the Le Mans Series.
Priaulx is from Guernsey, a crown dependency of the United Kingdom. He incorporates the Guernsey flag prominently in his helmet designs. Due to his surname — common in Francophone countries — he has occasionally been mistakenly identified as French. A French national flag was displayed above the podium at the first race in Curitiba during the 2007 WTCC season.
Priaulx's son Sebastian Priaulx is also a racing driver. In May 2018, Andy and Sebastian competed together in the C1 24hr at Rockingham. Sebastian competed in the 2019 British GT Championship, driving with Scott Maxwell, but finished 8.5 points behind the GT4 title winners Tom Canning and Ash Hand.
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