Jonny Kane

Kane driving the Lola B08/80 during the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Jonny Kane (born 14 May 1973) is a professional racing driver who has competed at various levels of motorsport. He currently drives for Strakka Racing in the Le Mans Series.

Kane, who was born in Comber, Northern Ireland, began his career in karting and Formula Ford. In 1994 and 1995 he raced in Formula Vauxhall and Formula Opel where he was the 1994 British winter champion and the 1995 overall British champion. He then spent two years in British Formula Three driving for Paul Stewart Racing where he captured 6 wins and won the 1997 championship. He made four starts in Formula 3000 in 1998 with marginal results, then came to the United States and raced in Indy Lights in 1999 and 2000, winning two races and finishing 4th in series points in 1999 for Team KOOL Green. He was a test driver for the Arrows Formula One team in 2001, then moved to sports cars, driving in the Le Mans Series and American Le Mans Series with amongst others Aston Martin.^[1] In 2005 he made his FIA GT debut and has driven for TVR and Spyker.^[2]

Since 2006 Kane has competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a best finish of 5th overall at the 2010 event which was also a LMP2 class victory in the HPD ARX-01C for Strakka Racing. Since 2008 Kane has completed in the LMP2 class of Le Mans Series for a number of teams including Embassy Racing and Strakka. At the 2010 1000 km of Hungaroring Kane, made history by winning the race outright in a LMP2 car co-driven by Danny Watts and Nick Leventis. This was the first time that a LMP2 car has taken first, both in qualifying (pole position) and the race.^[3]

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2001	MG Sport & Racing Ltd.	Anthony Reid Warren Hughes	MG-Lola EX257	LMP675	30	DNF	DNF
2002	MG Sport & Racing Ltd.	Anthony Reid Warren Hughes	MG-Lola EX257	LMP675	129	DNF	DNF
2006	Spyker Squadron b.v.	Jeroen Bleekemolen Mike Hezemans	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2-R	GT2	202	DNF	DNF
2007	Spyker Squadron b.v.	Jaroslav Janiš Mike Hezemans	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2-R	GT2	70	DNF	DNF
2008	Embassy Racing	Warren Hughes Joey Foster	Embassy WF01-Zytek	LMP2	213	DNF	DNF
2009	Speedy Racing Team Sebah Automotive	Benjamin Leuenberger Xavier Pompidou	Lola B08/80-Judd	LMP2	343	12th	2nd
2010	Strakka Racing	Nick Leventis Danny Watts	HPD ARX-01C	LMP2	367	5th	1st
2011	Strakka Racing	Nick Leventis Danny Watts	HPD ARX-01d	LMP2	144	DNF	DNF
2012	Strakka Racing	Nick Leventis Danny Watts	HPD ARX-03a	LMP1	303	30th	8th
2013	Strakka Racing	Nick Leventis Danny Watts	HPD ARX-03c	LMP1	332	6th	6th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

* Season in progress.

References

External links

• Official website (under construction — October 2010)
• Jonny Kane career summary at DriverDB.com