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John Martin

b. 1984

Australian racing driver

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Born 1984. John Martin is an Australian racing driver.

John Martin is an Australian professional racing driver. Martin has had wide experience racing in European based open-wheel series since 2006. In that time Martin has had a wide experience of open-wheel racing having driven in various national and international series driving Formula Ford, Formula 3, A1 Grand Prix and Formula Renault 3.5. For the past two seasons, Martin has raced for several teams in the football inspired series Superleague Formula. Martin has long been associated with the British Alan Docking Racing team having raced with them in a variety of formulae for four of the five years he has been racing in Europe. In 2012 Martin will again race with ADR, racing an Oreca 03 sports car in the LMP2 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Career Martin competing for A1 Team Australia at the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa. Martin driving for Räikkönen Robertson Racing at the Croft round of the 2008 British Formula 3 season.

Karting 2004: Pole and 2nd at Australian Resa nationals; 2nd in Queensland, Australian Rotax light; 2nd in Queensland, Australian clubman heavy and 4th in senior national heavy 2003: Geelong Ford Kartstars championships, Australia 2002: 1st in Resa Queensland state championship 2001: 5th in Resa nationals

Formulas Martin finished 28th in the 2007 Masters of Formula 3. He joined A1 Team Australia and drove in the A1 Grand Prix series during the 2007–08 season, and continued to race for the team in 2008–09. Martin drove the Rangers F.C. car in the 2009 Superleague Formula season for one win from thirteen races. In 2010, he started the Superleague Formula season with Atlético Madrid before ending the season with Beijing Guoan, starting twenty nine races for six wins and twenty top-tens.

Racing record

Career summary † - Guest driver, ineligible for points.

‡ - Team standings.

Complete A1 Grand Prix results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Pos Points 2009 Comtec Racing CATSPR CATFEA SPASPR SPAFEA MONFEA HUNSPR HUNFEA SILSPR SILFEA BUGSPR BUGFEA ALGSPR ALGFEA NÜRSPR NÜRFEA ALCSPR ALCFEA 22nd 8

Complete Superleague Formula results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Non Championship round

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 2012 ADR-Delta Tor Graves Jan Charouz Oreca 03-Nissan LMP2 346 13th 6th 2013 G-Drive Racing Roman Rusinov Mike Conway Oreca 03-Nissan LMP2 327 EX EX

Complete 24 Hours of Daytona results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 2014 Action Express Racing Brian Frisselle Burt Frisselle Fabien Giroix Chevrolet Corvette DP P 695 3rd 3rd

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 2017 Walkinshaw GT3 Liam Talbot Duvashen Padayachee Porsche 911 GT3 R AAM 289 4th 1st 2018 Nineteen Corp P/L Mark Griffith David Reynolds Liam Talbot Mercedes-AMG GT3 APA 266 15th 9th

Complete TCR Australia results

Complete S5000 results

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Frequently asked questions

Who is John Martin?

Australian racing driver

When was John Martin born?

John Martin was born on 8 July 1984 in Gosford.

What is John Martin's occupation?

John Martin is a racing driver.

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John Martin is Australian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: John Martin

· Wikidata: Q961419

· DBpedia: John Martin (Australian racing driver)

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