Ryan Cullen

Ryan Cullen
Ryan Cullen
	Ryan Cullen in Monza, 2017
Nationality	Irish
Born	26 March 1991 (age 30)
GP3 career
Debut season	2013
Car number	24
Former teams	Marussia Manor RacingTrident Racing team
Previous series
2013; 2012; 2012; 2012; ; 2012	MRF Challenge; British Formula Ford Championship ; Formula Ford EuroCup ; Formula Renault BARC Winter Series 1 round ; Formula Renault BARC Championship 1 round; MSA Formula Ford Championship of GB

Ryan Cullen (born 26 March 1991) is an Irish racing driver, who recently drove in the GP3 Series in 2014 for Marussia Manor Racing. He also drove in British Formula Ford Championship in 2012. He currently competes in the European Le Mans Series with DragonSpeed.

Racing Biography[]

Cullen first drove in the British Formula Ford in 2012 as a novice driver which means a driver has no race experience as stated in the MSA regulations, placing sixth overall in the standings and obtaining three podium positions, impressing a number of people on his first season of racing. He did the Post season tests with Status GP. Cullen got signed with junior team F1 Marussia Manor Racing in the GP3 Series in 2013.

Cullen did the MRF series in the 2013/2014 season finishing 6th overall in the standings, in his rookie season. Gaining more race experience for only his second season of racing. This helped him maintain his drive for the GP3 series 2014.

He stayed with the team in 2014 before they pulled out of the GP3 series due to financial troubles, and Cullen was suddenly left without a drive.^[1] After missing the races in Russia, he found himself back in the GP3 Series with Trident Racing for the season finale in Abu Dhabi after not driving competitively for 3 months. Cullen tested with race winning team koiranen GP in the Post season tests in Abu Dhabi, even though only testing Cullen floated inside the top ten in every AM/PM sessions.

Cullen went back to the MRF series for 2014/2015 a potential title winning season. So far Cullen Two main Race wins, Three podiums, 3 fastest laps and one pole position. which places him second in the championship heading into 2015.

Racing record[]

Complete GP3 Series 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	Pos
2013	Marussia Manor Racing	CAT FEA 21	CAT SPR Ret	VAL FEA 20	VAL SPR 20	SIL FEA 21	SIL SPR 17	NÜR FEA 19	NÜR SPR 25	HUN FEA 23	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA 18	SPA SPR 17	MNZ FEA 20	MNZ SPR Ret	YMC FEA 20	YMC SPR 24			29th
2014	Marussia Manor Racing	CAT FEA 15	CAT SPR 16	RBR FEA 17	RBR SPR 13	SIL FEA 19	SIL SPR Ret	HOC FEA 20	HOC SPR 19	HUN FEA 24	HUN SPR 21	SPA FEA 14	SPA SPR 13	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 16	SOC FEA	SOC SPR			25th
2014	Trident																	YMC FEA 19	YMC SPR Ret	25th

Complete Porsche Supercup results[]

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts
2015	VERVA Lechner Racing Team	CAT	MON	RBR	SIL Ret	HUN Ret	SPA 19	SPA 12	MNZ 20	MNZ 22	USA C	USA 15	18th	10
2016	Lechner Racing Middle East	CAT 13	MON 14	RBR 6	SIL 20	HUN 8	HOC 14	SPA 14	MNZ Ret	USA 14	USA 14		11th	45
2017	Walter Lechner Racing Team	CAT 21	CAT 16	MON 12	RBR 12	SIL Ret	HUN Ret	SPA 15	SPA 11	MNZ 6	MEX 9	MEX 9	11th	41

Complete European Le Mans Series results[]

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2018	APR - Rebellion Racing	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 15	MNZ 8	RBR 6	SIL 5	SPA 15‡	ALG 12	12th	23.25
2019	United Autosports	LMP2	Ligier JS P217	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 12	MNZ 3	CAT 8	SIL 8	SPA 9	ALG 4	12th	37.5
2020	DragonSpeed	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 8	SPA 14	LEC	MNZ	ALG		24th	4.5

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results[]

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2019	DragonSpeed	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	DAY 1	SEB	MDO	WGL	MOS	ELK	LGA	PET	8th	35

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2019	United Autosports	Alex Brundle Will Owen	Ligier JS P217-Gibson	LMP2	348	19th	14th
2020	G-Drive Racing with Algarve	Oliver Jarvis Nick Tandy	Aurus 01-Gibson	LMP2	105	DNF	DNF
2021	Risi Competizione	Oliver Jarvis Felipe Nasr	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	275	NC	NC

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results[]

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2019–20	Jackie Chan DC Racing	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	SIL	FUJ	SHA	BHR	COA	SPA 6	LMS	BHR	16th	8

References[]

^ "Marussia's junior team pull out of Russian GP3 race but team stress decision not because of Jules Bianchi crash". October 8, 2014. Retrieved November 6, 2014.

External links[]

Cullen Motorsport
Ryan Cullen career summary at DriverDB.com

[1] "Marussia's junior team pull out of Russian GP3 race but team stress decision not because of Jules Bianchi crash". October 8, 2014. Retrieved November 6, 2014.

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