John Fergus

John Fergus (born March 21, 1952 in Columbus ) is a former American racing driver .

Racing career

John Fergus began his professional career in the US Super V Championship , where he was active between 1981 and 1984. He had his best championship season in 1984 when he was 13th in the final ranking of this championship (overall winner was the Dutchman Arie Luyendyk ). The races in Formula Vee remained the only single- pole races in John Fergus' career.

He became known as a sports car pilot . As an amateur, he had won the overall rankings of the SCCA Solo II National Championships , a sports car series for amateur racing drivers , three times in the late 1970s, in 1977, 1978 and 1979 . As a professional, he won the GTU class of the IMSA GTP series in 1991 and was the most successful driver in the ProSports 2000 Series . He won the overall ranking of this championship in 1988, 1989, 1999 and 2000.

His best place in the Sebring 12-hour race was sixth in 1993 . He was once at the start of the Le Mans 24-hour race . In 2002 a gearbox failure on Autoexe LMP-02 , the trio Jim Downing , Yōjirō Terada and John Fergus stopped prematurely.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2002	Autoexe Motorsport	Autoexe LMP-02	Jim Downing	Yōjirō Terada	failure	Gearbox damage

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1991	Roush Racing	Ford Mustang	Dorsey Schroeder		Rank 13
1992	Full time racing	Dodge Daytona	Don Walker	Neil Hanneman	Rank 17
1993	Roush Racing	Ford Mustang Cobra	Tom Kendall		Rank 6
1995	Champion Porsche	Porsche 911	Neto Jochamowitz		Rank 11
1996	Champion Porsche	Porsche 911 Turbo	Derek Bell		Rank 9
1997	Prototype Technology Group	BMW M3	Dan Marvin		failure	mechanics
2002	Autoexe Motorsport	Autoexe LMP-02	Jim Downing	Yōjirō Terada	Rank 25

Web links

• John Fergus at the Driver Database
• About John Fergus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1984 US Super V Championship
2. ↑ IMSA GTU class 1991