Stuart Hall (racing driver)

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The Aston Martin Vantage V8 of Roald Goethe , Jamie Campbell-Walter and Stuart Hall at the 2013 Silverstone 6-hour race
Stuart Hall in the Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 , at the Aston Martin Festival as part of the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours
The Pescarolo 03 2012 in Le Mans

Stuart Hall (born October 18, 1984 in Chelmsford ) is a British automobile racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Monopostosport

Stuart Hall started motorsport at the age of 16. He won the British T-Car Championship in 2000, a racing series with silhouette vehicles in which only drivers between the ages of 14 and 17 were allowed to start. In the final standings Hall was ahead of his young colleagues Tom Kimber-Smith and Tom Chilton .

There followed several years in which he in -seater went -Nachwuchsformeln at the start. The first stage was Formula Ford , where he finished fourth overall in the 2002 British winter series behind Alx Danielsson , Tom Kimber-Smith and Oliver Jarvis . In 2003 he switched to the British Formula Renault Championship , whose winter series he finished in 2004 as the overall winner. After further races in Formula Renault, he was registered in the British Formula 3 championship in 2006 . In the overall standings, which Mike Conway won, he placed fourth overall.

Sports car racing

In 2007 Hall switched to sports car racing. He signed a contract with Rollcentre Racing and made his debut in the European Le Mans Series with seventh place in the 1000 km race in Monza . In the same year he also made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . Together with João Barbosa and Martin Short , he finished fourth overall. He finished fifth in the LMP1 classification for drivers in the 2007 Le Mans Series .

In 2009 he received a works contract with Aston Martin Racing . When 24-hour race at Le Mans this year, Hall was involved in an extraordinary incident. Hall contested the race in the Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 ; his partners were the Swiss Harold Primat and the Dutch Peter Kox . On Saturday afternoon he was targeted by the race management. After leaving the track on all four wheels of the Aston Martin without permission for the second time within a short period of time, he was ordered to the pits for a stop-and-go penalty . A little later the punishment was more severe. For the first time in the history of the race, a single driver was disqualified during the race. Hall had pushed the Radical SR9 away from Pierre Bruneau when approaching the Ford chicane, causing the LMP2 prototype to hit the wall violently . The radical had to be shut down as irreparable. The race management then imposed a draconian penalty and excluded Hall from the rest of the race. Until they dropped out, Primat and Kox had to continue the race as a team of two.

Hall did not return to Le Mans until 2012 . It was a year before he and Jamie Campbell-Walter won the LMGTE-Am driver trophy of the FIA World Endurance Championship . In Le Mans 2012, he drove the inferior Pescarolo 03 for Henri Pescarolo's team . The Pescarolo 03 was an adapted Aston Martin AMR-One from the previous year and was prone to defects and difficult to control. In training had Jean-Christophe Boullion an accident and was reluctantly willing to finish the race. The driver was relieved by an early engine failure to continue piloting the difficult vehicle.

In 2014 and 2015, Hall competed in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship for the Roald Goethe- owned Aston Martin Vantage GTE .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2007 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rollcentre Racing Pescarolo 01 PortugalPortugal João Barbosa United KingdomUnited Kingdom Martin Short Rank 4
2008 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Creation Autosportif Creation CA07 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Johnny Mowlem BelgiumBelgium Marc Goossens Rank 24
2009 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Aston Martin Racing Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 NetherlandsNetherlands Peter Kox SwitzerlandSwitzerland Harold Primate failure Engine failure
2012 FranceFrance Pescarolo team Pescarolo 03 FranceFrance Jean-Christophe Boullion FranceFrance Emmanuel Collard failure Engine failure
2013 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage GTE GermanyGermany Roald Goethe United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jamie Campbell-Walter Rank 30
2015 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage GTE GermanyGermany Roald Goethe ItalyItaly Francesco Castellacci failure accident

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 2000 T-Cars season
  2. ^ British Formula Ford winter series 2002
  3. ^ British Formula Renault Winter Series 2004
  4. Monza 1000 km race 2007
  5. Information on the Hall incident at Le Mans 2009
  6. Pescarolo 03