Richard Lyons

Richard William Lyons (born 8 August 1979) is a British motor racing driver that competed in the Japanese Super GT series. In the 2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed Lyons set the fastest shootout time of 49.51 seconds while driving the Nissan 350Z GT500.

Junior Formula

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.

Formula Nippon / A1 Grand Prix

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

Lyons 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.

Japanese GT's

Lyons 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 in the GT500 class. All in all, he started over seventy races for ten wins in that period.

For 2013, Lyons continued to race in an Audi R8 LMS in the Japanese GT300 Super GT Championship.

V8 Supercars

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 at the 2011 Gold Coast 600, finishing the two races Third and First with Mark Winterbottom.

Career results

Complete JGTC/Super GT results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Formula Nippon results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 DC Points 2001 Team Morinaga NOVA SUZ MOT MIN FUJ SUZ SUG FUJ MIN MOT SUZ NC 0 2002 DoCoMo DANDELION SUZ FUJ MIN SUZ MOT SUG FUJ MIN MOT SUZ 10th 6 2003 DoCoMo DANDELION SUZ FUJ MIN MOT SUZ SUG FUJ MIN MOT SUZ 6th 20 2004 DoCoMo DANDELION SUZ SUG MOT SUZ SUG MIN SEP MOT SUZ 1st 33 2005 DoCoMo DANDELION MOT SUZ SUG FUJ SUZ MIN FUJ MOT SUZ 3rd 30 2008 TP Checker Impul FUJ SUZ MOT OKA SUZ1 SUZ2 MOT1 MOT2 FUJ1 FUJ2 SUG NC 0 2009 DOCOMO TEAM DANDELION RACING FUJ SUZ MOT FUJ SUZ MOT AUT SUG 10th 11

Complete A1 Grand Prix results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points 2006–07 A1 Team Ireland NEDSPR NEDFEA CZESPR CZEFEA CHNSPR CHNFEA MYSSPR MYSFEA IDNSPR IDNFEA NZLSPR NZLFEA AUSSPR AUSFEA RSASPR RSAFEA MEXSPR MEXFEA CHNSPR CHNFEA GBRSPR GBRSPR19th8

V8 Supercar results Year Team 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 37 Final pos Points 2006 Triple Eight Race Engineering ADER1 ADER2 PUKR3 PUKR4 PUKR5 BARR6 BARR7 BARR8 WINR9 WINR10 WINR11 HIDR12 HIDR13 HIDR14 QLDR15 QLDR16 QLDR17 ORAR18 ORAR19 ORAR20 SANR21 BATR22 SURR23 SURR24 SURR25 SYMR26 SYMR27 SYMR28 BHRR29 BHRR30 BHRR31 PHIR32 PHIR33 PHIR34 46th 210 2007 Triple Eight Race Engineering ADER1 ADER2 BARR3 BARR4 BARR5 PUKR6 PUKR7 PUKR8 WINR9 WINR10 WINR11 EASR12 EASR13 EASR14 HIDR15 HIDR16 HIDR17 QLDR18 QLDR19 QLDR20 ORAR21 ORAR22 ORAR23 SANR24 BATR25 SURR26 SURR27 SURR28 BHRR29 BHRR30 BHRR31 SYMR32 SYMR33 SYMR34 PHIR35 PHIR36 PHIR37 24th 632011 Tekno Autosports YMC R1 YMC R2 ADE R3 ADE R4 HAM R5 HAM R6 PER R7 PER R8 PER R9 WIN R10 WIN R11 HDV R12 HDV R13 TOW R14 TOW R15 QLD R16 QLD R17 QLD R18 PHI Q PHI R19 BAT R20 31st 511 Ford Performance Racing SUR R21 SUR R22 SYM R23 SYM R24 SAN R25 SAN R26 SYD R27 SYD R28 2012 Triple Eight Race Engineering ADE R1 ADE R2 SYM R3 SYM R4 HAM R5 HAM R6 PER R7 PER R8 PER R9 PHI R10 PHI R11 HDV R12 HDV R13 TOW R14 TOW R15 QLD R16 QLD R17 SMP R18 SMP R19 SAN Q SAN R20 BAT R21 SUR R22 SUR R23 YMC R24 YMC R25 YMC R26 WIN R27 WIN R28 SYD R29 SYD R30 NC 0 † † Not Eligible for points