James Winslow

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James Winslow (born April 16, 1983 in Witham , Essex , England ) is a British racing driver .

Career

Winslow began his motorsport career in 1998 in the British Formula Ford and also competed in this series in 1999 and 2002. In 2004 he took part in two races of the British Formula 3 Championship and finished ninth in the national class. In 2005 Winslow switched to the Asian Formula 3 championship . He won a race and finished the championship in third place. 2006 Winslow entered the Asian Formula 3 championship again. He won 8 out of 18 races and finally the championship title by a clear margin over Tyson Sy . Winslow made headlines when he saved Moreno Soeprapto's life after a collision. Soeprapto started at Winslow and picked it up. When he hit the barrier, the fuel hoses on his car were destroyed and the fuel ran out. Winslow helped Soeprapto free himself from the car, which later went up in flames, and saved his life.

In 2007 Winslow switched to the Asian Formula Renault V6 and immediately won the championship title with three wins ahead of Armaan Ebrahim . He also started in the Australian Formula 3 Championship and finished fourth in this series with three wins. In 2008 Winslow only competed in Australian Formula 3. He won five races and won the championship title. He prevailed against Leanne Tander with 198 to 194 points .

In 2009 Winslow moved to North America and started eleven of twelve races in the Atlantic Championship for various teams . With a sixth place as the best result, he finished the season in eighth place overall. In 2010 Winslow moved to Sam Schmidt Motorsports in Indy Lights . He took part in 6 out of 13 races. With a fifth place as the best result, he finished 14th in the drivers' championship at the end of the season. In 2011 Winslow competed for Andretti Autosport in the first four races of the Indy Lights. At the end of the season he was in 19th place overall. In addition, Winslow took part in six of the seven events of the Australian Formula 3 Championship. With 202 to 210 points, he finished second behind Chris Gilmour , who started every race.

statistics

Career stations

  • 2010 : Indy Lights (14th place)
  • 2008: Australian Formula 3 (2nd place)
  • 2011 : Indy Lights (19th place)

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2014 MalaysiaMalaysia Caterham Racing Zytek Z11SN United KingdomUnited Kingdom Michael Munemann United KingdomUnited Kingdom Alessandro Latif failure accident
2016 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Race performance Oreca 03R SwitzerlandSwitzerland Nicolas Leutwiler JapanJapan Shinji Nakano Rank 44
2017 FranceFrance Graff Oreca 07 FranceFrance Eric Trouillet FranceFrance Enzo Guibbert Rank 43
2019 PolandPoland Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P217 PolandPoland Jakub Smiechowski United KingdomUnited Kingdom Nigel Moore Rank 45

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Autosport Magazine, September 28, 2006, page 18
  2. ^ "Winslow Added To Andretti Autosport's St. Petersburg Lights Lineup" (theautochannel.com on March 23, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Winslow, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Witham (Essex) , Essex, England, United Kingdom