Richard Lyons (racing driver)

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Richard Lyons
Nationality	British
Born	(1979-08-08) 8 August 1979 (age 45) Hillsborough, County Down, Northern Ireland
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Championship titles
1996 2004 2004	British Formula Vauxhall Junior – Winter series Formula Nippon All-Japan GT Championship
Awards
1998	Autosport British Club Driver of the Year

Richard William Lyons (born 8 August 1979) is a British motor racing driver that competed in the Japanese Super GT series.

Born in Hillsborough, County Down, Lyons started in Formula Vauxhall Junior in Britain winning the Winter Series in 1996, before finishing the regular championship sixth in 1997 and second in 1998. He then moved to Formula Palmer Audi, finishing second in the 1999 Championship. He drove in Formula Renault 2000 with not much success.

He drove Formula Nippon in Japan from 2001 to 2005 winning the Championship in 2004 and finishing third in 2005.

He has also run in the A1 Grand Prix series for the A1 Team Ireland for the 2006–07 season. He started all up fourteen races with four top ten finishes.

He drove GT and Sports Cars in Japan for nine years between 2002 and 2010. His best finish was in 2004 where he won the All-Japan GT Championship GT500 Championship. All in all he started over seventy races for ten wins in that period.

For 2013 he is racing in an Audi R8 LMS in the Japanese GT300 SuperGT Championship.

Lyons also made occasional appearances in V8 Supercar, with a best finish of fifth place sharing a Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford Falcon, in the 2007 Bathurst 1000, sharing the car with Australian-based Danish GT racer Allan Simonsen. He returned in 2011 and drove for Tekno Autosports sharing with Jonathon Webb at Phillip Island and Bathurst. Then he joined Ford Performance Racing to replace an injured Will Power^[1] at the 2011 Gold Coast 600, finishing the two races Third and First with Mark Winterbottom.^[2]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

† Not Eligible for points

• Richard Lyons career summary at DriverDB.com
• Lyons secures second title. Retrieved BBC Sports Webpage