Tom Winters

Thomas "Tom" Winters is a retired American racing car driver .

Career

Tom Winters was active as a sports car driver in motorsport in the 1970s and 1980s. He started mainly in the IMSA GTP series and made his debut in 1979 in the Sebring 12-hour race . He once again drove the endurance race at Sebring International Raceway , with the best placement in the final classification in 1987 when he was 15th in the overall standings. His best result in the Daytona 24-hour race came in 1980 when he finished 17th in the final standings.

He was once at the start of the Le Mans 24-hour race . For the Alméras brothers he reached 18th place in the overall ranking.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1984	Alméras Frères team	Porsche 930	Jean-Marie Alméras	Jacques Alméras	Rank 18

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1979	Personalized Porsche	Porsche 914/4	Wayne Baker	Robert Kirby		Rank 20
1980	Trinity Racing	Mazda RX-7	Mark Welch	Jim Cook		Rank 16
1981	Trinity Racing	Mazda RX-7	Steve Dietrich	Hugh McDonough		Rank 26
1982	ProMotion Whitehall	Porsche 924 Carrera GTR	Robert Overby	Bob Bergstrom		failure	malfunction
1983	Whitehall PhD	Porsche 924 Carrera GTR	Peter Dawe	Bob Bergstrom		Rank 36
1984	Whitehall Promotions	Porsche 924 Carrera GTR	Bill Adam	Bob Bergstrom		failure	suspension
1985	Whitehall Motorsports	Porsche 924 Carrera GTR	Elliot Forbes-Robinson	Bob Bergstrom		failure	Brake defect
1986	Whitehall Rocketsports	Oldsmobile Toronado	Paul Gentilozzi	Bob Bergstrom	Gene Felton	failure	Gearbox damage
1987	Whitehall Rocketsports	Oldsmobile Toronado	Paul Gentilozzi	Irv Hoerr		Rank 15

literature

• Ken Breslauer: Sebring. The official History of America's Great Sports Car Race. David Bull, Cambridge MA 1995, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .
• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .
• JA Martin and Ken Welles: Prototypes - the History of the IMSA GTP Series . Bull Publishing, Phoenix 2000, ISBN 1-893618-01-3 .

Web links

• Tom Winters at Racing Sports Cars
• Tom Winters at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1980 Daytona 24-hour race