Jon Lancaster

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Lancaster 2007 in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup.

Jon Lancaster (born December 10, 1988 in Leeds ) is a British racing driver . He took part in several races of the GP2 series from 2012 to 2015 .

Career

After Lancaster was active in karting between 1999 and 2006 , he switched to formula racing in 2006 . He competed in two Formula Ford races in the Star of Silverstone series and won one race. Then Lancaster switched to the winter series of the British Formula Renault . In the overall standings, the Briton took 16th place. In 2007 Lancaster started for SG Formula in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and won the runner-up title behind Brendon Hartley . Lancaster also started in the French Formula Renault, in which he finished sixth in the overall standings.

In 2008 Lancaster switched to the Formula 3 Euro Series for the ART Grand Prix championship team . In the first race at Hockenheim , Lancaster had a serious accident. In a position battle with Jean Karl Vernay , Lancaster's front wheel touched the rear wheel of Vernay's car. Lancaster's car overturned and he was taken to the hospital for an examination. He had to skip the second race at Hockenheim. In the further course of the season Lancaster won a race at the Nürburgring and was twelfth in the overall standings.

After Lancaster had not found a cockpit in 2009, he joined the Comtec Racing team for the fourth race weekend of the 2009 season in the Formula Renault 3.5 . With a win he finished 13th overall at the end of the season. 2010 Lancaster denied his second season in the Formula Renault 3.5 for Fortec Motorsport , where he was teammate of Sten Pentus . Lancaster made unwanted headlines at his home race at Silverstone . Starting from pole position , he lost control of his vehicle at the start and cleared Daniel Ricciardo, who was starting behind him, from the track. While his teammate finished fourth, he finished 13th overall with third place as the best result.

In 2011 Lancaster first took part in a race weekend in the FIA Formula 2 Championship . He then entered the Auto GP for the third race weekend of the 2011 season and competed for SuperNova . In his third Auto-GP race in Donington he coped with the rainy conditions best and scored his first victory. Because of an ankle injury that he sustained while training for a triathlon , he had to end the season prematurely after the third race weekend. At the end of the season he was eleventh overall.

In 2012 Lancaster switched to Ocean Racing Technology in the GP2 series . For the second race weekend he was replaced at short notice by Brendon Hartley because there were budget problems. It was then no longer used. In 2013 , Lancaster returned to the GP2 series for the third race weekend. He replaced Pål Varhaug at Hilmer Motorsport . At the first race in Barcelona , Lancaster achieved a podium finish with a third place. He won the sprint races at Silverstone and at the Nürburgring. It was his first GP2 victories. After five events for Hilmer Motorsport, Lancaster lost his cockpit for a weekend to Robin Frijns , who had previously been his team-mate on four race weekends. Lancaster then returned to the cockpit. With a total of three podium finishes, he finished the season in eleventh place. In addition, Lancaster competed in a race of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) 2013 for Greaves Motorsport and was fifth. In 2014 , Lancaster started the GP2 season for MP Motorsport . At the second event he was replaced by Tio Ellinas . For the fifth race weekend he returned to Hilmer in the GP2 series. At the end of the season he was 23rd in the overall standings. In addition, Lancaster competed for the first time in 2014 for Race Performance in the 24 Hours of Le Mans .

In 2015 Lancaster drives for Greaves Motorsport in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS). After the third race, he finished third in the LMP2 classification. He also took part in Greaves Motorsport at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . Lancaster also started a GP2 race weekend for Hilmer Motorsport.

statistics

Career stations

  • 1999-2006: karting
  • 2006: British Formula Renault , winter series (16th place)
  • 2007: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (runner-up)
  • 2007: French Formula Renault (6th place)
  • 2007: British Formula Renault, winter series (14th place)
  • 2008 : Formula 3 Euro Series (12th place)
  • 2013 : WEC , LMP (23rd place)
  • 2014 : GP2 series (23rd place)
  • 2015: ELMS , LMP2
  • 2015 : GP2 series (32nd place)

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 23 24 Points rank
2012 Ocean Racing Technology MalaysiaMalaysia MAS BahrainBahrain BRN BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON SpainSpain ESP United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR GermanyGermany GER HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA SingaporeSingapore SIN 0 34.
DNF 17th                                            
2013 Hilmer Motorsport MalaysiaMalaysia MAS BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR GermanyGermany GER HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA SingaporeSingapore SIN United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates UAE     73 11.
        3 10 12 17th 5 1 7th 1 23 18th     13 17th 9 5 DNF DNF    
2014 MP Motorsport BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON AustriaAustria AUT United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR GermanyGermany GER HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA RussiaRussia RUS United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates UAE     6th 23.
17th 15th                                            
Hilmer Motorsport     22nd 13 DNF 5 17th 16 19th DNF 12 15th 12 16 18th 14th
2015 Hilmer Motorsport BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON AustriaAustria AUT United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA RussiaRussia RUS BahrainBahrain BRN United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates UAE     0 32.
                16 17th                            

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2014 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Race performance Oreca 03 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Michel Frey FranceFrance Franck Mailleux Rank 13
2015 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Greaves Motorsport Gibson 015S SwitzerlandSwitzerland Gary Hirsch FranceFrance Gaëtan Paletou failure battery

Individual evidence

  1. ^ “Lancaster joins Fortec for FR3.5” (autosport.com on March 29, 2010)
  2. ^ "Jon Lancaster signs with SuperNova" (autogp.org June 18, 2011)
  3. ^ "Donington, Race 1: Lancaster takes all" (autogp.org on July 16, 2011)
  4. ↑ “Ceccon tops Practice 1 in Oschersleben” (autogp.org on July 29, 2011)
  5. ^ "GP2 - Lancaster drives for Ocean in 2012" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on March 6, 2012)
  6. ^ "Lancaster soon back in the ocean cockpit?" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 20, 2012)
  7. ↑ Norman Fischer: "Hilmer: Lancaster replaces Varhaug". Motorsport-Total.com, May 8, 2013, accessed May 8, 2013 .
  8. ^ Peter Allen: "Lancaster and Daly secure seats to complete GP2 grid for Bahrain". paddockscout.com, April 2, 2014, accessed April 2, 2014 .

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SURNAME Lancaster, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds , UK