Liam Doran

Liam Doran

Personal information
Born	(1987-03-22) March 22, 1987 United Kingdom
Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Rallycross
Medal record Competitor for the  United Kingdom X Games Gold 2011 Los Angeles Rally Car Racing

Liam Doran (born March 22, 1987)^[1] is a professional rallycross driver competing in the FIA World Rallycross Championship, Global RallyCross Championship, X Games, and European Rallycross Championship. He is the son of the British rallycross driver, Pat Doran.

Having signed with Monster Energy in 2011 he has gone on to achieve an X Games Gold medal and numerous other accomplishments in various disciplines.

Racing career

2000

Doran started his career at the age of 14 choosing to follow in his fathers footsteps. In 2000 he competed in a junior mini in the sport of Rallycross. Liam progressed through the stages rapidly and continued in Rallycross, driving a Citreon Saxo stockhatch and then a rear-wheel drive Ford Fiesta in 2007.

2009

In 2009 Doran ran among the quickest drivers in Europe in a Ford Fiesta ST Supercar and beat them, managing in the process to come 2nd in the MSA British Rallycross Championship.

2010

Doran secured a drive with 14 times European Rallycross Champion Kenneth Hansen driving with the Citroen Total Rallycross Team in a Citroen C4. He managed to get to grips with the new Citroen very quickly and soon managed to get some outstanding results, being the driver to score the most points in the 2nd half of the season, all this taking into consideration it was his 1st year at European Level.

2011

A young Doran built up a fearsome reputation within the Rallycross Industry and resulting from this managed to sign with global brand Monster Energy. The newly formed Monster Energy Citroen Rallycross Team opened new doors of opportunity for Liam.

Doran was invited^[2] to participate in X Games 17 and went in as the underdog to drivers such as Tanner Foust, Ken Block and Travis Pastrana. The X Games Rally final saw Doran go head-to-head with Marcus Gronholm, where he beat the former WRC Champion to win the Gold Medal.^[3]

From his US success an opportunity arose to compete in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS).^[4] Following an impressive performance in his first race he was offered the opportunity to drive in the series for 2012.

2012

With continued strong support from Monster Energy, Doran managed to achieve a 2nd position in the 2012 European Rallycross Championship, concluding the season with a victory in Germany.

2013

With another full calendar scheduled and a new European rallycross team mate in 21 year old Norwegian, Andreas Bakkerud, LD Motorsports is now one of the strongest of the teams in the 2013 season.

2014

For 2014 Doran raced a Citroën DS3 Supercar in the FIA World Rallycross Championship.^[5] He contested the first 6 rounds and the final round of the season, finishing in 25th overall with 17 points. He made the finals stage once, in Sweden, and finished 5th.

2015

For 2015, Doran continued in World RX, this time combining with reigning World Champion Petter Solberg to create the SDRX team. In the opening round in Portugal he failed to make it out of the heats

European Rallycross Championship results

Division 1/Supercars

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	ERX	Points
2009	Liam Doran	Ford Fiesta	GBR -	POR	FRA 8	HUN 13	AUT	SWE	BEL -	GER 13	POL	CZE 4	15th	30
2010	Liam Doran	Citroën C4	POR 4	FRA 3	GBR 3	HUN (7)	SWE 7	FIN 1	BEL 2	GER (6)	POL 1	CZE 6	3rd	112
2011	Liam Doran	Citroën C4	GBR 4	POR 5	FRA 3	NOR 9	SWE (10)	BEL 3	NED (15)	AUT 9	POL 11	CZE 11	7th	83
2012	Liam Doran	Citroën DS3	GBR 3	FRA (8)	AUT 4	HUN 6	NOR 2	SWE	BEL 6	NED Ret	FIN 2	GER 1	2nd	104
2013	LD Motorsports	Citroën DS3	GBR 11 6	POR 1 8 + 5 + 6	HUN 12 6	FIN 4 13 + 5 + 3	NOR 1 7 + 6 + 6	SWE 35	FRA 14 3	AUT 7 14 + 2	GER 9 10 + 2		5th	121

World Rallycross Championship results

Supercars

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos.	Points
2014	Monster Energy World RX	Citroen DS3	POR 19	GBR 20	NOR 7	FIN 12	SWE 5	BEL 10	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA	TUR	ARG 17		25th	17
2015	SDRX	Citroen DS3	POR 15	HOC	BEL	GBR	GER	SWE	CAN	NOR	FRA	ESP	TUR	ITA	ARG	15th	2

season in progress

References

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