John Graham (racing driver)

John Graham 2017 in Road America

John Graham (born October 22, 1955 in Belfast ) is a retired Canadian racing car driver .

Racing career

John Graham began his career in the North American Can-Am series , where he finished third overall in the U2L class in 1981. From 1983 he became a regular starter in the IMSA GTP series and the sports car world championship . In 1982 he contested his first 24-hour race at Daytona and made his debut at the 12-hour race at Sebring in 1984 when he finished sixth overall . In 1984 it was used for the first time in the Le Mans 24-hour race .

The best place in Daytona was fifth overall in 1998 , driven out in a Porsche 911 GT2 with John Morton and the two Dutch Huisman brothers Duncan and Patrick as team partners. In the fifth attempt at Le Mans 2000 , he achieved first place in the overall classification. 25th overall was also the win in the LMP675 class.

After retiring at the end of the 2008 season, he returned to endurance racing for one season in 2017 and also drove some races in the NASCAR Cup Series .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1984	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	George Fouché	Jürgen Lässig	failure	accident
1985	Team Labatt	Gebhardt JC853	Frank Jelinski	Nick Adams	not classified
1988	PC Automotive	Argo JM19C	Alain Iannetta	Olando Iacobelli	failure	battery
1998	CJ Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT2	John Morton	Harald Grohs	failure	accident
2000	Multimatic Motorsports	Lola B2K / 40	Scott Maxwell	Greg Wilkins	Rank 25 and class win
2001	Dick Barbour Racing	Reynard 01Q-LM	Milka Duno	David Murry	failure	accident
2002	MBD Sportscar Team	Panoz LMP07	Milka Duno	Didier de Radiguès	failure	Electrics

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1984	T-Bird Swap Shop	Porsche 935K4	Bob Wollek	Al Holbert	Preston Henn	Hugo Gralia	Rank 6
1990	Bieri Racing	Tiga GT286	Uli Bieri	David Tennyson			failure	Engine failure
1991	Bieri Racing	Alba AR2	Uli Bieri				failure	accident
1992	Bieri Racing	Alba AR2	Uli Bieri	Heinz Wirth	Andrew Hepworth	Vito Scavone	failure	Engine failure
1995	Power Macintosh Racing	Spice HC93	Rick Sutherland	Stanley Dickens			Rank 10
1997	John Christie	X-250	Robin Smith				failure	Electrics
1998	CJ Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT2	John Morton	Ron Fellows			Rank 8
1999	CJ Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT2	John Morton	Davy Jones			Rank 24
2000	Multimatic Motorsport	Lola B98 / 10	Scott Maxwell	David Empringham			failure	Valve damage
2002	MBD sports car	Panoz LMP07	Scott Maxwell	Milka Duno			failure	Electrics
2003	JML	Panoz LMP01	Scott Maxwell	Benjamin Leuenberger			Rank 9

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : John Graham  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• John Graham at the Driver Database
• John Graham at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Can-Am series 1981 U2L class