Richard Jones (racing driver)

Richard Jones (born February 3, 1949 ) is a retired British automobile racing driver .

Career

Richard Jones can look back on a long career as a racing driver. He was active in motorsport for almost three decades. At the beginning of his career he competed in both monoposto and sports car races . His first international success was eighth overall with Ian Harrower on a Chevron B26 at the 1000 km race in Zeltweg in 1974 . After a few races in Formula 3 in 1977, he also drove Formula 1 races . Not in the world championship, but in the Aurora series . In 1978 he drove a March 742 in 28th place overall; In 1979 - this time with an Ensign N174 and a Surtees TS19 - he remained unplaced.

From 1980 onwards he only competed in sports and touring car races . He started for different teams in the World Sports Car Championship and was active in the British Touring Car Championship at the end . He had his last season as a driver in 2009, when he entered several races in the British GT Championship.

When 24-hour race at Le Mans he had in 1978 made his debut. His best place in the overall standings was 13th in 1982 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	TeamColleg	placement	Failure reason
1978	Mogil Motors Ltd. with Kores Racing	Chevron B31	Tony Charnell	Robin Smith	Fréderic Alliot	not classified
1979	Mogil Motors Ltd.	Chevron B36	Tony Charnell	Robin Smith		17th place and class win
1982	Richard Cleare Racing	Porsche 934	Richard Cleare	Tony Dron		Rank 13 and class win
1983	Richard Cleare Racing	Kremer CK5	Richard Cleare	Tony Dron		failure	Turbo damage
1984	Dorset Racing Associates	Dome RC82	Nick Faure	Mark Galvin		failure	no oil pressure
1985	Bartlett Chevron Racing	Chevron B62	Max Cohen-Olivar	Robin Smith		failure	Engine failure
1986	John Bartlett Racing	Bardon DB1	Robin Donovan	Nick Adams		not classified
1987	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C	Graham Duxbury	Nick Adams		not classified
1988	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C	Martin Birrane	Nick Adams		failure	Gearbox damage
1989	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C	John Hotchkis	John Hotchkis junior		failure	Leak in the oil tank
1990	GP motorsport	Spice SE86C	Dudley Wood	Stephen Hynes		Rank 27
1991	Euro Racing Chamberlain	Spice SE89C	Robin Donovan	Nick Adams		failure	Electrical damage
1992	British Racing Motors	BRM P351	Wayne Taylor	Harri Toivonen		failure	Gearbox damage
1995	Richard Jones	Porsche 911 GT2	Gerard MacQuillan	Nick Adams		Rank 17

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1990	Racecraft International	Spice SE87L	George Sutcliffe	Michael Dow	failure	Engine failure

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .

Web links

• Richard Jones at Racing Sports Cars
• Richard Jones at the Driver Database