Oliver Gavin

Oliver Benjamin Gavin

Nation:	United Kingdom
DTM
First race:	Hockenheimring I 1996
Teams (manufacturers)
1996 Joest
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 23 (12) - - -
Podiums:	-
Overall wins:	-
Points:	16

Oliver Benjamin Gavin (born September 29, 1972 in Huntingdon ) is a British automobile racing driver .

Career

Monoposto

Oliver Gavin, who like many other racing drivers started his career in karting , celebrated some successes in the monoposto , but is best known as a sports car driver. In 1990 he won the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award. In 1995 the professional world first noticed him when he won the British Formula 3 Championship . He drove in 1996 in the ITC and later in Formula 3000 and was a test driver for the Pacific Formula 1 team for a while . Before Bernd Mayländer became involved , he drove the Formula 1 Safety Car from 1997 (since the Silverstone Grand Prix) to 1999 .

Sports car

Oliver Gavin is currently working for Chevrolet in the USCC (formerly ALMS ). He has competed 13 times at the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 2001. He made his debut in this 24-hour race in 2001 at the wheel of a Saleen S7R , together with the Austrian Franz Konrad , who drives with a German license, and the American Terry Borcheller ; the trio reached the 26th place overall.

Gavin has been a works driver at Corvette Racing since 2002 and has been at the start at Le Mans on various GT racing car models of the Chevrolet Corvette ever since . In 2004, 2005 and 2006 he won the LM-GT1 class together with Olivier Beretta from Monegas and Jan Magnussen from Denmark . In 2006 he was fourth overall; only two Audi R10 TDIs and the Pescarolo C60 used by Henri Pescarolo were faster than the Corvette team at the time.

By the end of the 2016 season, the Briton had celebrated 3 overall and 49 class wins in GT and sports car races. This makes him one of the most successful GT drivers in motorsport history.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2001	Saleen-Allen Speedlap	Saleen S7R	Franz Konrad	Terry Borcheller	Rank 26
2002	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Johnny O'Connell	Ron Fellows	11th place and class win
2003	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Kelly Collins	Andy Pilgrim	Rank 11
2004	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Olivier Beretta	Jan Magnussen	Rank 6 and class win
2005	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Olivier Beretta	Jan Magnussen	5th place and class win
2006	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Olivier Beretta	Jan Magnussen	4th place and class win
2007	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Olivier Beretta	Massimiliano Papis	failure	malfunction
2008	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Olivier Beretta	Massimiliano Papis	Rank 15
2009	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Olivier Beretta	Marcel Fässler	failure	malfunction
2010	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	Olivier Beretta	Emmanuel Collard	failure	accident
2011	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Richard Westbrook	Jan Magnussen	failure	accident
2012	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Richard Westbrook	Tommy Milner	not classified
2013	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R-ZR1	Richard Westbrook	Tommy Milner	Rank 23
2014	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Richard Westbrook	Tommy Milner	Rank 18
2015	Corvette Racing GM	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Jordan Taylor	Tommy Milner	17th place and class win
2016	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Jordan Taylor	Tommy Milner	failure
2017	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Marcel Fässler	Tommy Milner	Rank 24
2018	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Marcel Fässler	Tommy Milner	failure	malfunction
2019	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Marcel Fässler	Tommy Milner	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2001	Konrad Team Saleen	Saleen S7-R	Franz Konrad	Terry Borcheller	Rank 6 and class win
2002	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Johnny O'Connell	Ron Fellows	9th place and class win
2003	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Kelly Collins	Andy Pilgrim	failure	Gearbox damage
2004	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Jan Magnussen	Olivier Beretta	failure	Clutch damage
2005	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Jan Magnussen	Olivier Beretta	Rank 6
2006	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Jan Magnussen	Olivier Beretta	3rd place and class win
2007	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Massimiliano Papis	Olivier Beretta	Rank 7 and class win
2008	Chevrolet Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Massimiliano Papis	Olivier Beretta	Rank 10
2009	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Marcel Fässler	Olivier Beretta	Rank 6
2010	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Emmanuel Collard	Olivier Beretta	Rank 16
2011	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6-ZR1	Jan Magnussen	Richard Westbrook	Rank 14
2012	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	Tommy Milner	Richard Westbrook	Rank 20
2013	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Tommy Milner	Richard Westbrook	15th place and class win
2014	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Tommy Milner	Robin Liddell	Rank 17
2015	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Tommy Milner	Simon Pagenaud	failure	malfunction
2016	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Tommy Milner	Marcel Fässler	Rank 10 and class win
2017	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Tommy Milner	Marcel Fässler	failure	malfunction
2018	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Tommy Milner	Marcel Fässler	Rank 15
2019	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Tommy Milner	Marcel Fässler	Rank 18

Web links

Commons : Oliver Gavin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/february-2013/94/lunch-oliver-gavin