Sam Hancock

Sam Hancock 2011 at Le Mans

Sam Hancock (born January 3, 1980 in Surrey ) is a British racing car driver and the older brother of Ollie Hancock .

Career in motorsport

Sam Hancock began his professional racing career in 1997 in Formula Vauxhall junior , where he finished tenth overall in the 1997 championship. This was followed by three years in Formula Palmer Audi and one season in the Barber Dodge Pro Series , which failed to meet expectations of good championship results.

With the start of the motorsport year 2001, Hancock switched to GT and sports car racing . He drove a Lola B98 / 10 in the FIA Sports Car Championship for Kremer Racing and made his debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2002 . Up until 2012 he had competed seven times in the 24-hour race in western France. In none of his missions could he finish the race.

He celebrated successes in the European Le Mans Series . 2004 he won together with Alexander Frei on a plant - Courage C65 LMP2 standings this racing series.

In 2008 he was third overall in the British Porsche Supercup and in 2015 he won the overall ranking of the Salvadori Cup .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2002	JMB Racing	Ferrari 360 Modena GT	Cort Wagner	Martin Short	failure	accident
2004	Courage Compétition	Courage C65	Alexander Frei	Jean-Marc Gounon	failure	Fire
2005	Intersport Racing	Lola B05 / 40	Liz Halliday	Gregor Fisken	failure	malfunction
2006	Courage Compétition	Courage LC70	Alexander Frei	Gregor Fisken	failure	Engine failure
2010	Aston Martin Racing	Lola-Aston Martin LMP1	Darren Turner	Juan Barazi	failure	Engine failure
2011	Simon Dolan Iota	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2	Chris Buncombe	Simon Dolan	failure	Engine failure
2012	Iota	Zytek Z11SN	Haruki Kurosawa	Simon Dolan	failure	malfunction

Web links

Commons : Sam Hancock  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sam Hancock at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Formula Vauxhall junior 1997