Richard Lyons (racing driver)

Richard Lyons (born 8 August 1979) is a Northern Irish motor racing driver.

Junior Formula

He started in Formula Ford in Britain winning the Winter Series in 1996, before moving to Formula Vauxhall Junior finishing the 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. He's 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.

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 A1 Grand Prix results

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

V8 Supercar results

References

• Lyons secures second title. Retrieved BBC Sports Webpage
• Official Web page (English)
• Official Web page (Japanese)
• Driver Database stats