Kyle Tilley

Kyle Richard George Tilley (born 16 February 1988) is a British professional racing driver. He mainly competes in historic motorsport and sports car racing such as the Historic Formula One Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship and also the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie. In IMSA, he drives in the LMP2 class for his team Era Motorsport and in NLS he competes for Lionspeed GP. He won the Asian Le Mans Series LMP2 championship in 2021.

Other sports car series in which Tilley has raced include the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, Pirelli World Challenge, European Le Mans Series, and NASCAR Cup Series.

Racing career Tilley originally participated in cycling before a knee injury forced him to quit the sport, and he began kart racing at the age of eight. He later raced in Formula Ford, a series with high financial demands that forced him to work three jobs—a delivery driver for a catering business, a mechanic for a Historic Formula One Championship team, and a sales assistant—to pay for crew members and the car. In 2010, he won the Castle Combe Formula Ford 1600 Pre 90 championship.

Tilley moved to sports cars in 2011 and spent the next two years driving for Topcats Racing in Britcar. Plans to return to full-time open-wheel racing in 2013, competing in the British Formula 3 International Series for his own team, were aborted; in May, he made a guest appearance in Formula Ford 1600 at Castle Combe Circuit where he finished tenth.

Tilley continued sports car racing upon moving to the United States. In 2015, he and co-driver Jerry Kaufman won a 13-hour endurance race at Virginia International Raceway sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America. The following year, the two joined Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge team BimmerWorld to race in the ST class. Tilley and Kaufman continued to drive together in the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge SprintX GTS class for The Racer's Group, where they finished second in the championship.

In 2019, Tilley started racing in Historic Formula One. Driving a 1977 Ensign N177, he won at Circuit Zandvoort and Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, both races in wet conditions, and finished third in the Fittipaldi Class standings.

Era Motorsport's debut came at the 2020 24 Hours of Daytona, in which the team ran an Oreca 07 for Tilley, Merriman, Ryan Lewis, and Nicolas Minassian. The team initially formed a partnership with DragonSpeed before opting to run the full LMP2 season as a standalone operation. The car finished third in the LMP2 class, followed by Tilley and Merriman scoring three more podium finishes that year. The duo also entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans for IDEC Sport alongside Jonathan Kennard; despite Merriman crashing in practice and being replaced by Patrick Pilet for the race, the car finished fifteenth.

In 2021, Era allied with Jota Sport to field an LMP2 for Tilley and Merriman in the Asian Le Mans Series. Tilley, Merriman, and Andreas Laskaratos claimed the LMP2 Am division championship after winning all four races. Era also won the 24 Hours of Daytona LMP2 class with Tilley, Merriman, Ryan Dalziel, and Paul-Loup Chatin. In April, Tilley and his team started competing in the European Le Mans Series.

Tilley began dabbling in stock car racing in May 2021 when he joined Live Fast Motorsports for the NASCAR Cup Series' Texas Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas. His schedule in the team's No. 78 also included races at Road America, Watkins Glen International, and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Personal life A native of Bath, Somerset, Tilley lives in Carmel, Indiana. He is an alumnus of Sheldon School in Chippenham. 2021 Era Motorsport LMP2 Oreca 07 Gibson Technology GK428 V8

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24 Hours of Daytona 24 Hours of Daytona results Year Class No Team Car Co-drivers Laps Position Class Pos. Ref 2020 LMP2 18 Era Motorsport Oreca 07 Dwight Merriman Ryan Lewis Nicolas Minassian 800 11 3 2021 LMP2 18 Era Motorsport Oreca 07 Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Paul-Loup Chatin 787 6 1

24 Hours of Le Mans Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Ref 2020 IDEC Sport Jonathan Kennard Patrick Pilet Oreca 07 LMP2 363 15 11

Asian Le Mans Series (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant Class Make Engine 1 2 3 4 Pos Points 2021 Jota Sport LMP2 Am Oreca 07 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 DUB DUB ABH ABH 1st 104

NASCAR (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) Cup Series NASCAR Cup Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Pts Ref 2021 Live Fast Motorsports 78 Ford DAY DRC HOM LVS PHO ATL BRD MAR RCH TAL KAN DAR DOV COA31 CLT SON NSH POC POC ROA35 ATL NHA GLN30 IRCQL† MCH DAY DAR RCH BRI LVS TAL ROV TEX KAN MAR PHO 62nd 01 2022 DAY CAL LVS PHO ATL COA RCH MAR BRD TAL DOV DAR KAN CLT GTW SON NSH ROA30 ATL NHA POC IRC MCH RCH GLN39 DAY DAR KAN BRI TEX TAL ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO 39th 8 † – Qualified but replaced by Andy Lally ·

Xfinity Series NASCAR Xfinity Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Pts Ref 2021 B. J. McLeod Motorsports 99 Chevy DAY DRC HOM LVS PHO ATL MAR TAL DAR DOV COA CLT MOH TEX NSH POC ROA ATL NHA GLN40 106th 01 5 Toyota IRCQL† MCH DAY DAR RCH BRI LVS TAL ROV TEX KAN MAR PHO† – Qualified but replaced by James Davison ·

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