William Binnie

William Binnie trained at Harvard Business School , here in the Kresge building

Allen Timpany , Chris Buncombe and William Binnie's Lola B05 / 40 at the 2007 Silverstone 1000km race

William Harrison "Bill" Binnie (born February 2, 1958 in Glasgow ) is an American entrepreneur, politician and former racing car driver and racing team owner of Scottish descent.

education and profession

William Binnie was born in Glasgow, but moved to the United States with his parents at the age of five and soon after received US citizenship . After studying at Harvard University , he attended Harvard Business School and after completing his apprenticeship took a consulting position at McKinsey & Company .

Binnie quickly made a name for himself as an expert in buying and selling businesses on behalf of investors . Within a short period of time, he acquired six plastic manufacturers producing household and utility goods . This included Polytech from Minneapolis and American Western from Sioux Falls . From the six companies he formed the stock corporation Carlisle Plastics , of which he was CEO from 1985 to 1994. In 1996 he held 62.5% of the shares and thus the majority of shares in the company. At the end of the year he sold the shares in Tyco International .

He was the youngest chairman in the history of the New York Stock Exchange in the early 1990s and invested his fortune in mass media in the years that followed .

politics

William Binnie was running for the 2010 Senate election in the state of New Hampshire to run for the Republican Party . But he failed with his campaign and was only third behind Kelly Ayotte and Ovide Lamontagne in the primary.

Racing driver and team boss

William Binnie has always had a passion for motorsport and racing cars, some of which he maintained himself. In the late 1990s, he mainly competed in historic car races. In 1999 he drove a Jaguar D-Type at the Monterey Historic Festival and a Maserati 300S in the framework program for the 2002 24 Hours of Le Mans .

He started professional sports in 2004 and founded his own racing team, Binnie Motorsports , in 2005 . The wealthy Binnie financed the use of the LMP2 vehicles in the following years . He made his debut at the Le Mans race in 2004 with a class win in the LMP2 class, which he repeated in 2007 . He drove in the American and European Le Mans Series and in 2006 achieved sixth place overall in the 1000 km race at Spa-Francorchamps and the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring . His last race was at the Sebring 12-hour race in 2012 , where he finished 49th.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	Intersport Racing	Lola B2K / 40	Rick Sutherland	Clint Field	Rank 25 and class win
2005	Rachel Welter	WR LMP04	Yōjirō Terada	Patrice Roussel	not classified	Fire
2006	Binnie Motorsports	Lola B05 / 42	Yōjirō Terada	Allen Timpany	Rank 13
2007	Binnie Motorsport	Lola B05 / 42	Chris Buncombe	Allen Timpany	18th place and class win

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	Intersport Racing	Lola B2K / 40	Clint Field	Rick Sutherland	Rank 25
2005	Binnie Motorsports	Lola B05 / 42	Robert Julien	Adam Sharpe	failure	taken out of the running
2006	Binnie Motorsports	Lola B05 / 40	Allen Timpany	Rick Sutherland	Rank 11
2012	JWA-Avila	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Joël Camathias	Markus Palttala	Rank 49

Web links

Commons : William Binnie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• William Binnie at Historic Racing
• William Binnie at Racing Sports Cars
• Binne Motorsports

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps 2007
2. ↑ 1000 km race on the Nürburgring 2007