Tom Kimber-Smith

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Tom Kimber-Smith
Nationality	British
Born	(1984-11-01) 1 November 1984 Ascot (United Kingdom)
2014 Le Mans Series
Current team	Greaves Motorsport, Barwell Motorsport
Previous series
2000 2001-03 2004 2005 2006	T Cars Formula Ford UK Formula Three Euroseries Formula Renault UK British GT

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2006-2007, 2011-
Teams	Team LNT, Greaves Motorsport, Starworks Motorsport
Best finish	7th (2012)
Class wins	3 (2006, 2011, 2012)

Tom Kimber-Smith (born 1 November 1984 in Ascot, Berkshire) is a British race car driver.

He has enjoyed success in sportscars, winning both the Le Mans 24 Hours and Le Mans Series LMP2 class for Greaves Motorsport in 2011. He will remain with the team to defend his LMS crown in 2012, teaming-up with Alex Brundle.^[1] He is set to race at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans with Starworks Motorsport who have entered in the LMP2 class, which Kimber-Smith won in 2011 with Greaves. He joins after Starworks original third driver Stéphane Sarrazin joined Toyota Racing who also saw one of their drivers, Hiroaki Ishiura, depart the team.^[2]

Kimber-Smith claimed his third Le Mans class victory in four attempts, teaming with Ryan Dalziel and Enzo Potolicchio in Starworks Motorsport's HPD ARX-03b.

He is the son of Geoff Kimber-Smith, a former driver in the British Touring Car Championship.

Career

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final placing
2000	T Cars	???	?	?	?	?	1st
2001	British Formula Ford	Infocus Racing	?	?	?	4	31st
2002	British Formula Ford	Panasonic Batteries Racing Team JLR	18	0	0	226	6th
2002	Formula Ford Festival	Panasonic Batteries Racing Team JLR	1	0	0	N/A	NC
2003	British Formula Ford	Panasonic Batteries Racing Team JLR	20	1	5	421	1st
	Formula Ford Festival	Panasonic Batteries Racing Team JLR	1	0	0	N/A	3rd
	Formula Renault UK Winter Series	Team JLR	?	?	?	14	15th
2004	Formula Three Euroseries	Team Kolles	20	0	0	2	20th
2004	Masters of Formula 3	Team Kolles	1	0	0	N/A	27th
2005	Formula Renault 2.0 UK	Team JLR	20	0	0	206	12th
2005	Formula Renault 2.0 Netherlands	Team JLR	2	0	0	15	25th
2006	British GT Championship	Team LNT	11	5	2	71	2nd
	24 Hours of Le Mans (GT2)		11	5	2	71	1st
	American Le Mans Series		1	0	0	14	35th

Complete Formula Three Series results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2004	Team Kolles	Dallara F302/076	Mercedes	HOC 1 21	HOC 2 Ret	EST 1 7	EST 2 21	ADR 1 9	ADR 1 Ret	PAU 1 13	PAU 2 10	NOR 1 DSQ	NOR 1 21	MAG 1 Ret	MAG 2 Ret	NÜR 1 DSQ	NÜR 2 DSQ	ZAN 1 14	ZAN 2 Ret	BRN 1 18	BRN 2 23	HOC 1 22	HOC 2 Ret	20th	2

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2006	Team LNT	Lawrence Tomlinson Richard Dean	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	GT2	321	15th	1st
2007	Team LNT	Danny Watts Tommy Milner	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	GT2	60	DNF	DNF
2011	Greaves Motorsport	Karim Ojjeh Olivier Lombard	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	326	8th	1st
2012	Starworks Motorsport	Enzo Potolicchio Ryan Dalziel	HPD ARX-03b	LMP2	354	7th	1st

References

↑ Weeks, James (16 December 2011). "Kimber-Smith sticks with Greaves but loses Le Mans berth". motorstv.com (Motors TV). Retrieved 16 December 2011.
↑ "LE MANS: Kimber-Smith Replaces Sarrazin At Starworks For LM24". speedtv.com (Speed). Retrieved 26 May 2012.

External links

Official website
Tom Kimber-Smith career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Tom Boardman	T Cars Champion 2000	Succeeded by Ben Reeves
Preceded by Westley Barber	British Formula Ford Champion 2003	Succeeded by Valle Mäkelä

Persondata
Name	Kimber-Smith, Tom
Alternative names
Short description	British racing driver
Date of birth	1 November 1984
Place of birth	Ascot (United Kingdom)
Date of death
Place of death

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