Richard William Lyons (born 8 August 1979) is a British motor racing driver that competed in the Japanese Super GT series.
| Richard Lyons | |
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| Nationality |  British |
| Born | 8 August 1979 Hillsborough, County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Racing licence |  FIA Gold |
| 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 |
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
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)
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
† Not Eligible for points
References
External links
- Richard Lyons career summary at DriverDB.com
- Lyons secures second title. Retrieved BBC Sports Webpage