Jim Matthews

Marc Goossens , Christophe Tinseau and Jim Matthews' Riley & Scott Mk IIIC at the 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours

Jim Matthews (born March 19, 1961 in Durham ) is a former American car racing driver and racing team owner.

Racing career

Jim Matthews began his career in US sports car racing in the mid-1990s . He had his first international outing at the Daytona 24-hour race in 1995 . The mission ended in failure. In 1997 he became a full-time racing driver and joined the IMSA GT series with his own racing team, Jim Matthews Racing . The emergency vehicle was a Porsche 993 and the best place was sixth in the 1:45 hour race in Lima Rock . Teammate was David Murry , with whom he contested all races of the season. After another year in the racing series, this time on a Riley & Scott Mk III , Matthews switched to the American Le Mans Series in 1999 with a Ferrari 333SP .

For the 2000 season, Matthews signed a cooperation with the Swedish racing driver Stefan Johansson . The team started this year under the name Johansson-Matthews Racing. In 2000 he made his driver debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , where he competed five times. In all five missions he was never able to place in the final classification. The track record at the Sebring 12-hour race is better . In 2002 he finished third overall with Guy Smith and Marc Goossens on a Riley & Scott Mk IIIC. By the end of his driving career in 2010, he had contested 96 sports car races, celebrating two overall and two class wins.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	Johansson-Matthews Racing	Reynard 2KQ	Stefan Johansson	Guy Smith	failure	Engine failure
2002	Riley & Scott Racing	Riley & Scott Mk IIIC	Marc Goossens	Didier Theys	failure	Engine failure
2003	Riley & Scott Racing	Riley & Scott Mk IIIC	Marc Goossens	Christophe Tinseau	failure	Engine failure
2004	PK Sport Ltd.	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	David Warnock	Paul Daniels	failure	Electrics
2005	JMB Racing	Ferrari 575 GTC	Stéphane Daoudi	Jean-René de Fournoux	failure	malfunction

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1995	Pro technology racing	Porsche 911	Sam Shalala	Doug Frazier	Dan Pastorini		failure	Engine failure
1996	Pro technology racing	Porsche 911	Sam Shalala	Mark Hillestad	Matt Turner	Walt Drilling	Rank 32
1997	Jim Mathews Racing	Porsche 911	David Murry	Hurley Haywood			Rank 17
1998	Matthews-Colucci Racing	Riley & Scott Mk III	David Murry	Hurley Haywood	Derek Bell		failure	Engine failure
1999	Doran Enterprises	Ferrari 333SP	Tom Kendall	Mark Dismore			failure	Gearbox damage
2000	Johansson Matthews Racing	Reynard 2KQ	Guy Smith	Stefan Johansson			failure	Engine failure
2002	Riley & Scott Racing	Riley & Scott Mk IIIC	Guy Smith	Marc Goossens			Rank 3
2003	Jim Matthews Racing	Riley & Scott Mk IIIC	Jan Magnussen	Marc Goossens			failure	suspension
2004	New Century Mortgage Racers Group	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Marc Bunting	Pierre Ehret			failure	accident
2006	J3 Racing	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	Wolf Henzler	Tim Sugden			failure	Power transmission

Web links

Commons : Jim Matthews  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Jim Matthews at Racing Sports Cars
• Jim Matthews at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1995 Daytona 24 Hours
2. ↑ 1997 1.45-hour Lime Rock race