Alex Lynn

Lynn in the GP3 Series at Silverstone 2014

Alexander George "Alex" Lynn (born September 17, 1993 in London ) is a British automobile racing driver . In 2013 he won the Formula 3 race of the Macau Grand Prix , and in 2014 he won the GP3 series . He competed in the GP2 series in 2015 and 2016 .

Career

Lynn began his motorsport career in karting in 2005 , where he was active until 2009. That year he also made his debut for Fortec Motorsport in the winter series of the British Formula Renault , which he finished in tenth place. In 2010, Lynn competed with Fortec Motorsport in the British Formula Renault. While his teammate Tom Blomqvist won the championship, Lynn finished tenth with a third place as the best result. He then competed again for Fortec in the winter series of the British Formula Renault. Lynn won three out of six races and was the champion ahead of his teammate Joni Wiman . In 2011, Lynn began the season for Giles Motorsport in the Toyota Racing Series , the highest single- seater series in New Zealand. He competed in four out of five events and won one race for himself. In the final classification he was in ninth place, while his teammate Mitch Evans was champion. He then returned to Fortec Motorsport in the British Formula Renault. Lynn made a dominant start to the season and achieved seven pole positions and victories in the first eight races . At the end of the season he had 12 wins, 14 pole positions and 10 fastest laps from 20 races. With 521 points, Lynn finally won the championship title ahead of his teammate Oliver Rowland , who was runner-up with 475 points. Lynn also took part in four races of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup . There he achieved a pole position and a second place as the best result. He was 14th in the drivers' championship.

At the beginning of 2012, Lynn took part in the winter series of the European F3 Open for Team West-Tec . He then competed in the British Formula 3 championship for Fortec Motorsport in 2012 . He won a race and finished fourth overall with a total of nine podium finishes. In addition, he made six guest starts for Fortec Motorsport in the Formula 3 Euro Series and competed in the Macau Grand Prix . There he came third. In early 2013 , Lynn took part in the Toyota Racing Series for M2 Competition . With three wins and a total of nine podium finishes, he was runner-up. With 803 to 915 points he lost to his teammate Nick Cassidy . Lynn then competed in the European Formula 3 championship in 2013 for the Prema Powerteam . Lynn won three races and finished on the podium 14 times. Lynn reached third place in the overall standings and was thus defeated by his teammate Raffaele Marciello , who won the championship. In addition, Lynn won the Macau Grand Prix with Prema in 2013 and came second in the Formula 3 Masters .

In 2014 , Lynn competed for Carlin in the GP3 series and was accepted into Red Bull 's sponsorship program. Already in his GP3 debut race in Barcelona he scored a victory starting from pole position. Further victories followed in Spielberg and Spa-Francorchamps . Lynn led the championship consistently and finally won it with a total of eight podium finishes. He only failed to score twice. With 207 to 163 points he was finally ahead of Dean Stoneman . In addition, Lynn took part in Formula 1 test drives for Lotus for the first time .

In 2015 , Lynn moved to DAMS in the GP2 series . Lynn also became a Formula 1 development driver at Williams . As a result, Lynn announced that she had retired from Red Bull's sponsorship program. He scored his first victory in the sprint race in Barcelona . In Mogyoród he won the main race. He finished the season in sixth place overall. He was tied with his teammate Pierre Gasly , who was eighth overall. In 2016 , Lynn stayed with DAMS in the GP2 series. He won in Barcelona , Hockenheim and on Yas Island . In the championship he again reached sixth place. With 124 to 23 points, he clearly prevailed against his teammate Nicholas Latifi .

After he immediately achieved pole position as a substitute driver for DS Virgin in the FIA Formula E Championship at the New York City ePrix 2017 , he was given a permanent cockpit at DS Virgin for the 2017/18 season . He finished the season with a sixth place as the best result in 16th place overall.

For the 2018/19 season , he initially no longer received a contract as a regular driver. From the Rome E-Prix he replaced Nelson Piquet jr. at Jaguar Racing . With ten points he finished 18th in the drivers' championship at the end of the season.

statistics

Career stations

2005–2009: karting 2009: British Formula Renault , winter series (10th place) 2010: British Formula Renault (10th place) 2010: British Formula Renault, winter series (champions) 2011: Toyota Racing Series (9th place) 2011: British Formula Renault (champions) 2011: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (14th place)

2012: European F3 Open , winter series 2012 : British Formula 3 (4th place) 2013 : Toyota Racing Series (2nd place) 2013 : European Formula 3 (3rd place) 2014 : GP3 series (champions) 2014 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2015 : GP2 series (6th place)

2015 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2016 : GP2 series (6th place) 2016 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2017 : Formula E (23rd place) 2018 : Formula E (16th place)

Individual results in the European Formula 3 championship

year	team	engine	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th	Points	rank
2013	Prema Powerteam	Mercedes	MON			SIL			HO1			BRH			SPI			NOR			ONLY			ZAN			VAL			HO2			339.5	3.
			8th	6th	3	2	6th	3	15th	7th	6th	1	2	DNF	7th	12	8th	3	1	3	14th	7th	6th	3	2	3	3	1	4th	4th	2	8th

Individual results in the GP3 series

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	Points	rank
2014	Carlin	ESP		AUT		GBR		GER		HUN		BEL		ITA		RUS		UAE		207	1.
		1	18th	1	20th	2	6th	2	3	4th	4th	8th	1	6th	2	7th	5	5	2

Individual results in the GP2 series

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	Points	rank
2015	DAMS	BRN		ESP		MON		AUT		GBR		HUN		BEL		ITA		RUS		BRN		UAE		110	6th
		19th	15th	5	1	13	11	3	20th	5	6th	1	9	11	8th	DNF	10	DNF	10	8th	3	8th	C.
2016	DAMS	ESP		MON		AZE		AUT		GBR		HUN		GER		BEL		ITA		MAS		UAE		124	6th
		6th	1	4th	5	DNF	9	11	3	16	14th	12	DNF	7th	1	3	10	12	5	4th	12	8th	1

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2016/17	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	HKG	MAR	BUE	MEX	MON	PAR	BER		NYC		MTR						3	23.
										DNF	DNF
2017/18	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	HKG		MAR	SAN	MEX	PUN	ROME	PAR	BER	ZUR	NYC						17th	16.
		8th	9	9	DNF	10	6th	DNF	14th	16	16	DNF	14th
2018/19	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	TO YOU	MAR	SAN	MEX	HKG	SAY	ROME	PAR	MCO	BER	BRN	NYC					10	18th
								12	DNF	8th	DNF	7th	DNF	16

( Legend )

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2017	G-Drive Racing	Oreca 07	Roman Rusinov	Pierre Thiriet	failure	accident
2018	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Maxime Martin	Jonny Adam	Rank 37
2019	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Maxime Martin	Jonny Adam	Rank 43

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2017	Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-VR	Cadillac DPi-VR	Jordan Taylor	Ricky Taylor	Overall victory

Web links

Commons : Alex Lynn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official Website of Alex Lynn (English)
• Career statistics of Alex Lynn (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography ( Memento from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (alexlynnracing.com; accessed December 17, 2011)
2. ↑ Orlandi y Lynn con Team West-Tec en las Winter Series ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (gtsport.es; accessed on February 17, 2012)
3. ↑ Lynn sticks with Fortec for British F3 graduation ( Memento from October 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (motorstv.com on October 20, 2011)
4. ↑ Jamie O'Leary, Marcus Simmons: Alex Lynn leaves Fortec for Prema as he makes Euro F3 switch. autosport.com, November 15, 2012, accessed March 3, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Annika Kläsener: More motorsport - Lynn and Gasly join the Red Bull Junior Team. Sainz Junior still in the squad. Motorsport-Magazin.com, December 18, 2013, accessed December 18, 2013 . 
6. ^ Mathias Brunner: Lotus: GP3 champion Alex Lynn ends an era. speedweek.com, November 26, 2014, accessed November 27, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Philipp Schajer: GP2 - DAMS signs Lynn and Gasly. Two super rookies. Motorsport-Magazin.com, January 8, 2015, accessed January 24, 2015 . 
8. ^ Sven Haidinger: Development driver: Red Bull Junior Lynn zu Williams. Motorsport-Total.com, January 28, 2015, accessed January 28, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Maria Reyer: Alex Lynn no longer a Red Bull Junior. Motorsport-Total.com, January 30, 2015, accessed January 30, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Peter Allen: Lynn joined by Latifi at DAMS in GP2 for 2016. paddockscout.com, December 18, 2015, accessed January 1, 2016 .