Joe Girling

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Joe Girling
Nationality British
British Touring Car Championship career
Debut season2013
Current teamM247 Racing with Tech-Speed Motorsport
Car number90
Starts27
Championships0
Wins0 (1 in class)
Poles1
Fastest laps0
Best finish11th in 2013
Previous series
2011
Last updated on: 3 August 2013.

Joe Girling is a British racing driver who competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 2013 for Tech-Speed Motorsport, under the M247 Racing banner.

Career[]

In 2011, Girling entered the Renault Clio Cup Trophy, a two-race event held at Rockingham. He finished fifth in the first race, and fourth in the second, driving a Stancombe Vehicle Engineering-entered car.[1]

In March 2013, it was announced that Girling would be driving for Tech-Speed Motorsport in the British Touring Car Championship, driving a Super 2000-class Chevrolet Cruze.[2] He made his début in the series at the opening round, held at Brands Hatch's Indy Circuit. He sat out the first two races due to a broken driveshaft,[3] before finishing eighteenth overall in the third race of the day.[4] At Donington Park, he took his first victory in the Jack Sears Trophy, following a series of retirements in the class, in the third race of the day.[5] Thruxton proved to be less successful, with his best result being third in class in race one.[6] He withdrew from the Oulton Park round of the series for medical reasons,[7] and missed the races at Croft due to an accident in qualifying.[8] He also missed the round at Snetterton.[9] Prior to the Knockhill round he decided to take a sabbatical from the BTCC.[10]

Racing record[]

Complete British Touring Car Championship results[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded just in first race) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races) (* signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap – 1 point given all races)

Year Team Car 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 Pos Pts
2013 M247 Racing with Tech-Speed Motorsport Chevrolet Cruze LT BRH
1
DNS 		BRH
2
DNS 		BRH
3
18 		DON
1
21 		DON
2
Ret 		DON
3
18 		THR
1
23 		THR
2
Ret 		THR
3
20 		OUL
1 		OUL
2 		OUL
3 		CRO
1
DNS 		CRO
2
DNS 		CRO
3
DNS 		SNE
1 		SNE
2 		SNE
3 		KNO
1 		KNO
2 		KNO
3 		ROC
1 		ROC
2 		ROC
3 		SIL
1 		SIL
2 		SIL
3 		BRH
1 		BRH
2 		BRH
3 		37th 0

References[]

  1. ^ "2011 Renault Clio Cup Trophy Timings" (PDF). Timing Solutions Ltd. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2013.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ O'Leary, Jamie (19 March 2013). "Tech-Speed confirms 2013 BTCC return with Joe Girling". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  3. ^ Sillars, Paul (31 March 2013). "It's ok to be the underdog". M247 Racing. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Joe Girling race results". Driver Database. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  5. ^ "BTCC » Three win in Jack Sears Trophy at Donington - Page 2". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Race results - Thruxton". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  7. ^ Passingham, Michael (7 June 2013). "Joe Girling Sitting Out Oulton". BTCC Crazy. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  8. ^ Salisbury, Matt (24 June 2013). "AmDTuning.com vows to bounce back from tough Croft". Matt Salisbury. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  9. ^ Gallagher, Ian (3 August 2013). "Jason Plato fastest in first Snetterton practice". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  10. ^ "Moffat to make BTCC history". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. 20 August 2013. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.

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