James Weaver (racing driver)

James Weaver 1990

The Weaver / Palmer / Lloyd Porsche 956, second in the 1985 Le Mans 24-hour race

James Weaver (born March 4, 1955 in London ) is a retired British automobile racing driver .

Career

Weaver began his career in Formula 3 in the late 1970s , but soon switched to touring and sports cars . In 1983 he made his debut for Mazda at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . In 1985 he achieved his best overall rank with second place overall in a Porsche 956 with Richard Lloyd and Jonathan Palmer as partners. In 1998 he drove the unsuccessful LMP1 as a works driver at Porsche . In 1999 he took part in the Sarthe for the twelfth and last time and contested the race in a closed Audi R8C until the car failed .

In 1989 he finished second behind John Cleland in the British Touring Car Championship . In 1997 he won the Daytona 24 Hours on a Riley & Scott Mk III . This race went down in history because a total of seven drivers drove the winning car through repeated driver swaps within the team. In 2000 and 2001 he won the overall ranking in the prototype class of the Grand-Am Sports Car Series . In the 2000s Weaver drove for Dyson Racing in the American Le Mans Series and after the end of the 2006 season announced his retirement from motorsport.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1983	Mazdaspeed	Mazda 717C	Jeff Allam	Steve Soper	Rank 18
1985	Canon GTI Racing	Porsche 956	Jonathan Palmer	Richard Lloyd	Rank 2
1986	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan R85V	Masahiro Hasemi	Takao Wada	Rank 18
1987	Richard Lloyd Racing	Porsche 962C	Jonathan Palmer	Price Cobb	failure	accident
1989	Richard Lloyd Racing	Porsche 962C GTI	Derek Bell	Tiff Needell	failure	Fire
1990	Richard Lloyd Racing	Porsche 962C GTI	JJ Lehto	Manuel Reuter	failure	Fire
1991	Salamin Primagaz Team Schuppan	Porsche 962C	Hurley Haywood	Wayne Taylor	not classified
1995	PC Automotive Jaguar	Jaguar XJ220	Richard Piper	Tiff Needell	failure	malfunction
1996	Gulf Racing	McLaren F1 GTR	JJ Lehto	Ray Bellm	Rank 9
1997	David Price Racing	Panoz Esperante GTR-1	Andy Wallace	Butch Leitzinger	failure	Engine failure
1998	Joest Racing	Porsche LMP1	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	David Murry	failure	Engine failure
1999	Audi Sport UK	Audi R8C	Andy Wallace	Perry McCarthy	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1987	Bob Akin Motor Racing	Porsche 962	Bob Akin	Steve Shelton	Rank 6
1988	Dyson Racing	Porsche 962	Price Cobb		Rank 3
1989	Bayside Racing Bruce Leven	Porsche 962	Dominic Dobson		Rank 3
1991	John Shapiro	Porsche 962 GTi	John Paul Junior		failure	suspension
1994	Auto toy store	Spice SE89	Derek Bell	Andy Wallace	Rank 2 and class win
1995	Dyson Racing	Riley & Scott Mk III	Butch Leitzinger	Rob Dyson	Rank 35
1996	Dyson Racing	Riley & Scott Mk III	John Paul Junior	Rob Dyson	Rank 24
1997	Dyson Racing	Riley & Scott Mk III	Butch Leitzinger	Andy Wallace	Rank 2
1998	Dyson Racing	Riley & Scott Mk III	Butch Leitzinger	Dorsey Schroeder	Rank 12
1999	Dyson Racing	Riley & Scott Mk III	Butch Leitzinger	Elliot Forbes-Robinson	Rank 2
2000	Champion Racing	Lola B2K / 10	Ralf Kelleners	Dorsey Schroeder	failure	suspension
2001	Dyson Racing	Riley & Scott Mk IIIC	Butch Leitzinger	Elliot Forbes-Robinson	failure	Cylinder overheated
2002	Dyson Racing Team Inc.	Riley & Scott Mk IIIA	Butch Leitzinger	Elliot Forbes-Robinson	Rank 4
2003	Dyson Racing	MG-Lola EX257	Butch Leitzinger	Andy Wallace	failure	Steering defect
2004	Dyson Racing Team Inc.	MG-Lola EX257	Butch Leitzinger	Andy Wallace	Rank 6
2005	Dyson Racing Team	MG-Lola EX257	Butch Leitzinger	Andy Wallace	Rank 3
2006	Dyson Racing Team	Lola B06 / 10	Butch Leitzinger	Andy Wallace	Rank 5

Web links

• Career statistics on driverdb.com