Tim Mullen

Tim Mullen 2006 at Le Mans

Tim Mullen (born March 28, 1976 in Portadown ) is a retired British racing car driver .

Racing career

Tim Mullen began his career in the British single-seater sport . He was a successful young driver and won the British and Irish Formula Ford championships in 1995 . This was followed by winning the Formula Vauxhall Junior in 1996 . After racing in Formula Renault and Formula Palmer Audi , he turned to GT and sports car racing in 2000 .

By the end of his racing career, he had contested 110 races, of which he was able to win nine. His first overall victory was the 2006 Donington 2-hour race , a race in the British GT Championship . Teammate in the Ferrari F430 was Chris Niarchos . Together with Niarchos, he won the overall ranking of this championship at the end of the year .

Tim Mullen drove in the FIA GT Championship , competed several times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and was registered in the races of the European Le Mans Series in the 2010s . He achieved his last success in 2012 when he won the overall classification of the 24 Hours of Barcelona .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2005	Kruse Motorsport	Courage C65	Phil Bennett	Ian Mitchell	Rank 24
2006	Scuderia Ecosse	Ferrari F430 GT	Andrew Kirkaldy	Chris Niarchos	Rank 17
2007	Scuderia Ecosse	Ferrari F430 GT	Andrew Kirkaldy	Chris Niarchos	failure	Power transmission
2008	Virgo Motorsport	Ferrari F430 GTC	Rob Bell	Tim Sugden	failure	Engine failure

Web links

Commons : Tim Mullen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tim Mullen at the Driver Database
• Tim Mullen at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ British Formula Ford Championship 1995
2. ↑ Irish Formula Ford Championship 1995
3. ^ Formula Vauxhall Junior 1996
4. ↑ 2006 Donington 2 Hours
5. ↑ British GT Championship 2006