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

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series.

Junior Formula

Born in

Hillsborough, County Down Royal Hillsborough (Irish: ''Cromghlinn'', meaning 'Crooked Glen'Patrick McKay, ''A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names'', p. 81. The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, 1999.), more commonly known simply as ...

, 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

He drove Formula Nippon in Japan from 2001 to 2005 winning the Championship in

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and finishing third in

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. He has also run in the

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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

Richard Lyons GT500 Race 1 2010 JAF Grand Prix

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.

V8 Supercars

Lyons also made occasional appearances in V8 Supercar, with a best finish of fifth place sharing a Triple Eight Race Engineering

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, 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

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, finishing the two races Third and First with

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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)

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

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

V8 Supercar results

† Not Eligible for points

References

External links

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Lyons secures second title. Retrieved BBC Sports Webpage
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