Tommy Byrne
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 Ireland
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| First start: | Grand Prix of Austria 1982 | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1982 Las Vegas Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1982 Theodore Racing | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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Thomas "Tommy" Byrne (born May 6, 1958 in Drogheda ) is a former Irish racing driver .
Career
Tommy Byrne made a meteoric rise in motorsport at a young age. Hardly out of Formula Ford - in 1981 he drove in this racing series - he became British Formula 3 champion in 1982 and made it to Formula 1 in the same year .
For Teddy Yip's Theodore team , he qualified at five Grand Prix events. At the Austrian Grand Prix he made his debut in the Theodore TY02 - Cosworth . Byrne started the race from 26th and last place on the grid and had to retire after a spin. He contested his second Grand Prix at the end of the year at the Las Vegas Grand Prix at the Caesars Palace Grand Prix Circuit , where he had to give up again after a driving error that resulted in a ride.
As quickly as Byrne got into Formula 1, he was gone again quickly. In 1983 he had a brief stint in Formula 3, which was a step backwards for the ambitious Byrne. In the absence of sponsorship money, a return to Formula 1 was out of the question. Byrne therefore went to the USA
From 1986 to 1992 he drove in the Indy Lights series every season . In 55 starts he was able to record 10 wins. He is the second in the record lists of the racing series. In 1988 (behind Jon Beekhuis ) and 1989 (behind Mike Groff ) he was second overall. When Byrne retired in 1992, astonishingly, he hadn't contested a single champ car race.
Byrne now lives in Florida and works as a driving instructor and instructor at Honda and Acura . In 2008 his book Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw was published .
statistics
Sebring results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1986 |
 Spirit Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro |
Wally Dallenbach
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failure | Ignition damage |
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| SURNAME | Byrne, Tommy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Byrne, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drogheda |