Stuart Hall (born 18 October 1984 in

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) is a British racing driver. He is the 2013 GTEAM World Endurance Champion and has competed at the

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for teams including

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Career

Single-seaters

After winning the T Cars championship in 2000, Hall moved into single-seaters. In 2002 he finished ninth in the

British Formula Ford Championship The British Formula Ford Championship was an entry level single seater motor racing category, designed to give racing drivers their first step into car racing after karting. Drivers from around the world were attracted to the United Kingdom to c ...

, before coming fourth in that year's Winter Series, where he won two of the four races. The following year he only started 12 of the 20 races in the series, concentrating instead on his

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studies. After debuting in

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in the 2003 UK Winter Series, he raced full-time in

Formula Renault UK British Formula Renault Championship referred to one of two Formula Renault championships that were held in the United Kingdom. The main series was Renault Sport UK's Formula Renault 2.0 UK championship which was held from 1989 to 2011 and was ge ...

in 2004. Driving for

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, he finished seventh overall with three podium finishes. He then won the Winter Series, winning one of the four races. He remained in Formula Renault UK in 2005, but slipped to eighth overall although he had increased his podium tally to five. 2006 saw Hall move up to

British Formula Three The British Formula Three Championship was an international motor racing series that took place primarily in the United Kingdom with a small number of events in mainland Europe. It was a junior-level feeder formula that used small single sea ...

. He raced the first five race weekends with Fortec, before missing the sixth round at

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and returning with T-Sport. He finished the year 13th in the standings.

Sportscars

Hall switched to sportscars in 2007, contesting the

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in Rollcentre Racing's Pescarolo- Judd

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, though he raced the season finale in Brazil with the

Creation Autosportif Creation Autosportif, Ltd. was a sports car racing team based in Oxford, England. It was founded in 2003 by Ian Bickerton and Mike Jankowski and has raced in the FIA GT Championship, FFSA GT Championship, American Le Mans Series, Le Mans Endura ...

team. He finished fifth in the drivers' standings, and also finished fourth at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Rollcentre. He drove for Creation in 2008, finishing seventh in the Le Mans Series and 11th at Le Mans. He joined Aston Martin Racing in 2009, contesting the 24 Hours, from which his car retired, and the final two rounds of the Le Mans Series. Hall made just a few

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appearances in 2010–11, before signing to race the new Pescarolo 03 at the

2012 24 Hours of Le Mans The 80th 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: ''80e 24 Heures du Mans'') was an 24-hour automobile endurance race for Le Mans Prototype and Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance cars held from 16 to 17 June 2012 at the Circuit de la Sarthe close to Le ...

. In

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, Hall drove a Vantage V8 GTE for Aston Martin Racing in the LMGTE Am class of the

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. He won it together with

Jamie Campbell-Walter Jamie Campbell-Walter is a British professional racing driver. He was born in Oban, Scotland on 16 December 1972. He won the FIA GT Championship in 2000 and took a World Endurance Championship title in 2013 as an Aston Martin Racing factory dr ...

in 2013 but spent two further seasons in that car. In 2015 Hall was also runner up in the GTC class of the European Le Mans Series with AF Course in a Ferrari 458 GT3. Between 2016 and 2018 Hall drove a Mercedes AMG GT GT3 for ROFGO Racing earning victory in the Silverstone 12hours during that period. Hall spent three seasons in the Blancpain Endurance Series between 2019 and 2021 with GPX Racing and Team WRT respectively. In 2022 Hall won the GT4 Class of the British Endurance Championship with MKH Racing. A team that he lends his name too. Historic Racing Hall regularly competes in Historic Racing. Driving the famous cars from the ROFGO Collection and GPX Historic Collection. Hall has won the Monaco Historic Grand Prix 3 times. Once in 2016 in a McLaren M19 and twice in 2022 in a McLaren M19 and M23. He has also won numerous Historic events around the world including venues in Dubai, the USA and Europe.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Britcar 24 Hour results

References

External links

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