Richard Lyons (racing driver)































Richard Lyons
Nationality
United Kingdom British
Born
(1979-08-08) 8 August 1979 (age 39)
Hillsborough, County Down (Northern Ireland)
Championship titles
1996

2004
2004
British Formula Vauxhall Junior – Winter series
Formula Nippon
All-Japan GT Championship
Awards
1998 Autosport British Club Driver of the Year

Richard Lyons (born 8 August 1979) is a British motor racing driver currently competing in the Japanese Super GT series.




Contents






  • 1 Junior Formula


  • 2 Formula Nippon / A1 Grand Prix


  • 3 Japanese GT's


  • 4 V8 Supercars


  • 5 Career Results


    • 5.1 Complete JGTC/Super GT results


    • 5.2 Complete Formula Nippon results


    • 5.3 Complete A1 Grand Prix results


    • 5.4 V8 Supercar results




  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Junior Formula


Born in Hillsborough, County Down, Lyons started in Formula Vauxhall Junior in Britain winning the Winter Series in 1996, before finishing the regular championship sixth in 1997 and second in 1998. He then moved to Formula Palmer Audi, finishing second in the 1999 Championship. He drove in Formula Renault 2000 with not much success.



Formula Nippon / A1 Grand Prix


He drove Formula Nippon in Japan from 2001 to 2005 winning the Championship in 2004 and finishing third in 2005.


He has also run in the A1 Grand Prix series for the A1 Team Ireland for the 2006–07 season. He started all up fourteen races with four top ten finishes.



Japanese GT's




Lyons won the first GT500 race at the 2010 JAF Grand Prix.


He drove GT and Sports Cars in Japan for nine years between 2002 and 2010. His best finish was in 2004 where he won the All-Japan GT Championship GT500 Championship. All in all he started over seventy races for ten wins in that period.


For 2013 he is racing in an Audi R8 LMS in the Japanese GT300 SuperGT Championship.



V8 Supercars


Lyons also made occasional appearances in V8 Supercar, with a best finish of fifth place sharing a Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford Falcon, in the 2007 Bathurst 1000, sharing the car with Australian-based Danish GT racer Allan Simonsen. He returned in 2011 and drove for Tekno Autosports sharing with Jonathon Webb at Phillip Island and Bathurst. Then he joined Ford Performance Racing to replace an injured Will Power[1] at the 2011 Gold Coast 600, finishing the two races Third and First with Mark Winterbottom.[2]



Career Results



Complete JGTC/Super GT results


(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)




















































































































































































































































































































Year
Team
Car
Class
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
DC
Points

2002

Dome x Mugen Project

Honda NSX
GT500

TAI
2

FUJ
15

SUG
16

SEP
13

FUJ
6

MOT
1

MIN
12

SUZ
14

9th
47

2003

NISMO

Nissan Skyline GT-R
GT500

TAI
8

FUJ
1

SUG
5

FUJ
2

FUJ
11

MOT
13

AUT
6

SUZ
4

3rd
65

2004

NISMO

Nissan Z
GT500

TAI
1

SUG
Ret

SEP
3

TOK
Ret

MOT
3

AUT
1

SUZ
7


1st
73

2005

NISMO

Nissan Z
GT500

OKA
Ret

FUJ
4

SEP
1

SUG
8

MOT
6

FUJ
10

AUT
6

SUZ
2

3rd
60

2006

NISMO

Nissan Z
GT500

SUZ

OKA

FUJ

SEP
2

SUG
3

SUZ
2

MOT
10

AUT
6

FUJ
6
10th
62

2007

NISMO

Nissan Z
GT500

SUZ
2

OKA
Ret

FUJ
1

SEP
14

SUG
Ret

SUZ
3

MOT
13

AUT
12

FUJ
14
8th
48

2008
Team Cerumo

Lexus SC430
GT500

SUZ
4

OKA
7

FUJ
1

SEP
Ret

SUG
3

SUZ
9

MOT
9

AUT
4

FUJ
2
2nd
72

2009
Team Cerumo

Lexus SC430
GT500

OKA
6

SUZ
1

FUJ
9

SEP
10

SUG
10

SUZ
3

FUJ
10

AUT
11

MOT
12
10th
41

2010
Team Cerumo

Lexus SC430
GT500

SUZ
9

OKA
2

FUJ
4

SEP
6

SUG
9

SUZ
6

FUJ
C

MOT
Ret

9th
37

2012

Petronas Lexus Team TOM'S

Lexus SC430
GT500

OKA

FUJ
4

SEP

SUG





17th
8
Hitotsuyama Racing

Audi R8 LMS
GT300





SUZ
14

FUJ
Ret

AUT
6

MOT
9

20th
7

2013
Hitotsuyama Racing

Audi R8 LMS ultra
GT300

SUZ
15

FUJ
Ret

SEP
14

SUG
8

SUZ
11

FUJ
13

FUJ

AUT
21

MOT
21
26th
3

2014
Audi Sport Team Hitotsuyama

Audi R8 LMS ultra
GT300

OKA
8

FUJ

AUT
18

SUG
3

FUJ
23

SUZ
Ret

BUR
Ret

MOT
4

15th
22

2015
Audi Team Hitotsuyama

Audi R8 LMS ultra
GT300

OKA
3

FUJ
Ret

CHA
19

FUJ
20

SUZ
5

SUG
13

AUT
5

MOT
8

13th
28

2016
Audi Team Hitotsuyama

Audi R8 LMS (type 4S)
GT300

OKA
7

FUJ
7

SUG
Ret

FUJ
2

SUZ
6

CHA
24

MOT
1

MOT
4

3rd
57

2017
Audi Team Hitotsuyama

Audi R8 LMS (type 4S)
GT300

OKA
14

FUJ
14

AUT
13

SUG
20

FUJ
10

SUZ
Ret

CHA
23

MOT
8

21st
5

2018
Audi Team Hitotsuyama

Audi R8 LMS
GT300

OKA
Ret

FUJ
10

SUZ
23

CHA
Ret

FUJ
14

SUG
23

AUT
14

MOT
11

22nd
1


Complete Formula Nippon results


(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)











































































































































Year
Entrant
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
DC
Points

2001
Team Morinaga NOVA

SUZ
8

MOT
8

MIN
Ret

FUJ
9

SUZ
11

SUG
12

FUJ
Ret

MIN
Ret

MOT
13

SUZ
12

NC
0

2002

DoCoMo DANDELION

SUZ

FUJ

MIN
7

SUZ
8

MOT
11

SUG
2

FUJ
7

MIN
Ret

MOT
7

SUZ
Ret

10th
6

2003

DoCoMo DANDELION

SUZ
9

FUJ
Ret

MIN
Ret

MOT
3

SUZ
1

SUG
5

FUJ
Ret

MIN
Ret

MOT
3

SUZ
9

6th
20

2004

DoCoMo DANDELION

SUZ
8

SUG
1

MOT
8

SUZ
1

SUG
4

MIN
8

SEP
9

MOT
2

SUZ
3



1st

33

2005

DoCoMo DANDELION

MOT
1

SUZ
5

SUG
2

FUJ
4

SUZ
3

MIN
Ret

FUJ
4

MOT
13

SUZ
5



3rd

30

2008
TP Checker Impul

FUJ

SUZ

MOT

OKA

SUZ1

SUZ2

MOT1

MOT2

FUJ1
13

FUJ2
13

SUG
NC
0

2009

DOCOMO TEAM DANDELION RACING

FUJ
Ret

SUZ
6

MOT
7

FUJ
3

SUZ
13

MOT
Ret

AUT
10

SUG
13



10th
11


Complete A1 Grand Prix results


(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)



























































Year
Entrant
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
DC
Points

2006–07

A1 Team Ireland

NED
SPR

NED
FEA

CZE
SPR

CZE
FEA

CHN
SPR

CHN
FEA

MYS
SPR

MYS
FEA

IDN
SPR
17

IDN
FEA
12

NZL
SPR
Ret

NZL
FEA
19

AUS
SPR
10

AUS
FEA
Ret

RSA
SPR
6

RSA
FEA
Ret

MEX
SPR
Ret

MEX
FEA
16

CHN
SPR
12

CHN
FEA
5

GBR
SPR
8

GBR
SPR

DSQ
19th
8


V8 Supercar results













































































































































































































































Year
Team
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
Final Pos
Points

2006

Triple Eight Race Engineering

ADE
R1

ADE
R2

PUK
R3

PUK
R4

PUK
R5

BAR
R6

BAR
R7

BAR
R8

WIN
R9

WIN
R10

WIN
R11

HID
R12

HID
R13

HID
R14

QLD
R15

QLD
R16

QLD
R17

ORA
R18

ORA
R19

ORA
R20

SAN
R21
17

BAT
R22
12

SUR
R23

SUR
R24

SUR
R25

SYM
R26

SYM
R27

SYM
R28

BHR
R29

BHR
R30

BHR
R31

PHI
R32

PHI
R33

PHI
R34

46th
210

2007

Triple Eight Race Engineering

ADE
R1

ADE
R2

BAR
R3

BAR
R4

BAR
R5

PUK
R6

PUK
R7

PUK
R8

WIN
R9

WIN
R10

WIN
R11

EAS
R12

EAS
R13

EAS
R14

HID
R15

HID
R16

HID
R17

QLD
R18

QLD
R19

QLD
R20

ORA
R21

ORA
R22

ORA
R23

SAN
R24
10

BAT
R25
5

SUR
R26

SUR
R27

SUR
R28

BHR
R29

BHR
R30

BHR
R31

SYM
R32

SYM
R33

SYM
R34

PHI
R35

PHI
R36

PHI
R37
24th
63

2011

Tekno Autosports

YMC
R1

YMC
R2

ADE
R3

ADE
R4

HAM
R5

HAM
R6

PER
R7

PER
R8

PER
R9

WIN
R10

WIN
R11

HDV
R12

HDV
R13

TOW
R14

TOW
R15

QLD
R16

QLD
R17

QLD
R18

PHI
Q
25

PHI
R19
18

BAT
R20
13









31st
511

Ford Performance Racing






















SUR
R21
3

SUR
R22
1

SYM
R23

SYM
R24

SAN
R25

SAN
R26

SYD
R27

SYD
R28


2012

Triple Eight Race Engineering

ADE
R1

ADE
R2

SYM
R3

SYM
R4

HAM
R5

HAM
R6

PER
R7

PER
R8

PER
R9

PHI
R10

PHI
R11

HDV
R12

HDV
R13

TOW
R14

TOW
R15

QLD
R16

QLD
R17

SMP
R18

SMP
R19

SAN
Q

SAN
R20

BAT
R21

SUR
R22
6

SUR
R23
6

YMC
R24

YMC
R25

YMC
R26

WIN
R27

WIN
R28

SYD
R29

SYD
R30

NC
0 †

† Not Eligible for points



References





  1. ^ http://www.speedcafe.com/2011/10/17/fpr-replaces-power-with-lyons-for-gc600/ Retrieved 24 October 2011 from Speedcafe.com


  2. ^ http://www.speedcafe.com/2011/10/23/lyons-winning-after-late-call-up-unbelievable/ Retrieved 24 October 2011 from Speedcafe.com




External links




  • Richard Lyons career summary at DriverDB.com

  • Lyons secures second title. Retrieved BBC Sports Webpage




















Sporting positions
Preceded by
Satoshi Motoyama

Formula Nippon
Champion

2004
Succeeded by
Satoshi Motoyama
Preceded by
Satoshi Motoyama
Michael Krumm


All-Japan Grand Touring Car
GT500 Champion

2004
With: Satoshi Motoyama
Succeeded by
Yuji Tachikawa
Toranosuke Takagi

Awards
Preceded by
Doug Bell

Autosport
British Club Driver of the Year

1998
Succeeded by
Andy Priaulx







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