Jamie Green
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| Jamie Green | |
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| 2006 DTM driver | |
| Nationality |  |
| Car # | 3 |
| Car | C-Klasse DTM |
| Drivers' championships | 0 |
| Starts | 21 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podium finishes | 5 |
| Poles | 6 |
| Fastest laps | 3 |
| Debut season | 2005 |
| Best championship result | 5th (2006) |
| 2006 position | 5th (31 points) |
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Jamie Green is a 24-year old professional racing driver from the city of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He is currently employed by AMG Mercedes in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) touring car championship.
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[edit] Early career
At the age of 10, Green entered the Junior British Open Stock Car championship and won the title in his first season. He then progressed to karting, finishing runner-up in the Junior TKM series in 1996.
In 1997, he moved up to the Junior ICA Winter Series, in which he won the title, and finished runner-up in the 'McLaren Mercedes Champions of the Future' series. He won the Formula A Winter Series in 2000, then finished runner-up in British Formula A in 2001. He dovetailed the British campaign with the European Formula A championship during 2000 and 2001, in which he achieved two race wins.
[edit] Formula Renault
Green's first season in single seater formula cars was spent in the British Formula Renault Winter Series in 2001, in which he achieved a best race finish of 2nd place. The 2002 season was spent in the British Formula Renault championship, finishing the year as championship runner-up with two race wins. His Formula Renault career culminated with a win in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge at Macau in November 2002.
[edit] Formula 3
In 2003, Green progressed to the British Formula 3 championship with Carlin Motorsport. He again finished in the runner-up position in his first season and won four races. During that year, he made his debut in the F3 Euroseries, competing in three rounds (six races) for Team Kolles and one round (two races) for ASM Racing.
2004 saw Green enter his first full season in the Euroseries with ASM, having gained backing from Mercedes-Benz. He achieved seven race wins on route to the championship title.
[edit] The DTM
For the 2005 season, Mercedes placed Green in the DTM. He drove one of its customer cars - a 2004 C-class - run by Persson Motorsport, with which he achieved a 6th-place finish on his debut, secured two pole positions and finished 6th overall in the championship standings, with a total of 29 points.
2006 saw him promoted - along with his team-mate from Persson, Bruno Spengler - to the factory AMG line-up, alongside multiple champion Bernd Schneider and former Formula 1 driver Mika Häkkinen. He achieved four pole positions and a best finish of 2nd place on two occasions, but no wins. He was classified 5th overall, with a total of 31 points.
[edit] Other achievements
In 2002, Green won the McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year award, beating five other nominated finalists in a series of on-track trials in touring cars and formula single-seaters.
[edit] Championship titles
2004 Formula 3 Euroseries
2000 Formula A - British Super Libre Winter Series
1997 Junior ICA - British Winter Series
1992 Junior British Open Stock Car Championship
