James Kaye

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James Kaye
2007 BTCC driver
Nationality
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Car #	15
Team	Synchro Motorsport
Car	Honda Civic Type R
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	1
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Debut season	1988
Best championship result	10th (1992)
2006 position	12th (61 points)
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James Kaye is a British auto racing driver. He has been a stalwart competitor of Hondas in various championships since 1995, and has had 2 lengthy spells in the BTCC. After racing in the British National Production Saloon Championship with several championship in the late 80s and early 90s, he entered the BTCC as an independent in 1992, winning the independent title in his Toyota, and again in 1994. In 1993 he raced a semi-works Toyota for the Park Lane team, ineligible for the Total Cup for Independents. In 1995 he was hired by Honda for their BTCC programme, racing there for 2 seasons.

He had an assortment of sports car drives for Honda from 1997-1999, returning to touring cars in the National Saloon Championship in 2000. The same cars were eligible for the newly-created Class B of the BTCC that year, and James was runner up in a Honda Accord. This was renamed the Production Class for 2001, and James again finished 2nd, before winning the Production Class title in 2002 for Synchro Motorsport, a team of Honda employees working in their spare time at the Honda factory in Swindon.

The team moved up to the Touring class of the BTCC for 2003, defined as an Independent team as they had no financial or technical backing, James classified as Indendent runner-up and 14th overall. As of 2006 he still races for the team, and was 11th overall in 2004 and 2005. He took his first series podium at Oulton Park in 2006 after 14 years of trying.

His younger brother Richard Kaye, and his Father Peter Kaye have also raced professionally.