Jamie Campbell-Walter is a British professional racing driver. He was born in

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on 16 December 1972. He won the

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and took a

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title in

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as an

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factory driver. He now owns and runs Bullet Sports Management with business partner and former team-mate

Nicolas Minassian Nicolas Minassian (born 28 February 1973) is a French professional racing driver of Armenian descent. After finishing 2nd place in the 1993 Formula Renault Eurocup, Marseille-born Minassian graduated to the French Formula Three Championship whe ...

Family

Jamie is the son of Richard & Annie Campbell-Walter. Richard Campbell-Walter is the brother of famous 50/60's model

Fiona Campbell-Walter Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter, formerly Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, (born 25 June 1932) is a New Zealand-born British model. She had a successful career in the 1950s and was photographed by Henry Clarke and Cec ...

. Jamie is the grandson of Rear Admiral Keith McNeil Campbell-Walter.

Early career

Like many young drivers, Campbell-Walter started racing in

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. He made his debut in the

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Winter Series in 1993, taking second place in the championship, followed by a third place in the British national championship in 1994. Campbell-Walter moved to the higher

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series in 1995 where he was fifth in the championship, which he hoped would propel him into the

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the following year. However, even though he did perform one test in a British Formula 3 car, he was unable to find the funding necessary and did only 5 races for James Crofts Racing in the 1996 TVR Tuscan Challenge.

National and international GT racing

In 1997, Campbell-Walter returned to racing, taking a drive in the

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, a one-make trophy organised by the British manufacturer. He took fourth place in the series championship after winning two rounds for Colin Blower Motorsport. Blower, who was in charge of development for the

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's motorsport program, invited Campbell-Walter to co-drive with him in the racing Cerbera in selected rounds of the

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. The pair won the

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round before the both of them made their debut in the

at the 4 Hours of Donington Park, retiring after 38 minutes. The following year, Campbell-Walter stayed with Colin Blower for the TVR Tuscan Challenge, where he took five wins but was only able to finish fourth in the drivers championship once more. In the British GT Championship, he moved to the Harrier team, finishing 21st in the overall classification and 10th in the GT1 class. A move to Lister Racing in 1999 saw Campbell-Walter take his first ever drivers championship, winning the British GT title driving alongside Julian Bailey in the

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GT1. The pair took seven wins in eleven rounds, including the

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, and lead the Blue Coral G-Force

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driving line-up of Magnus Wallinder and Geoff Lister by 20 points, securing the championship before the season was even over. Having taken part in selected rounds of the FIA GT Championship in the previous season, Lister Racing made a full force assault on the international series in

, retaining the line-up of Campbell-Walter and Bailey. The duo were once again successful, taking the GT1 title with 59 points after five wins in ten races. Campbell-Walter also won the two rounds of the British Championship he took part in, alongside David Warnock, and won six events with a partial season in the TVR Tuscan Challenge. At the end of the season, Campbell-Walter was awarded the

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for most outstanding performance by a British driver in international competition. For the following three seasons, Campbell-Walter remained at Lister Racing, taking another seven wins, and finishing fifth (

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), third (

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) and sixth (

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) in the drivers championship. Over those years he was partnered by

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, Nicolaus Springer and Nathan Kinch. In 2002 it was awarded by

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Best international GT driver. In

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, Lister reduced its commitments to GT racing and Campbell-Walter moved to privateer

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 Enduran ...

. However, Creation's Lister was not as competitive as the works car had been on previous years, and Campbell-Walter, driving alongside partner Jamie Derbyshire scored no podium position and finished the championship in 13th place. In 2005, he made a lone appearance in FIA GT to drive in the

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for Russian Age Racing, taking the wheel of a

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. In 2006 Campbell-Walter also drove for the Red Bull BMW team in the Silverstone 24 hours race and won the race, his first 24-hour victory. In 2007 Campbell-Walter once again won the Silverstone 24-hour race in the Red Bull BMW team and also won the Dubai 24 hours race with the same team and car. For 2010 & 2011 Jamie joined the Sumo Power GT Team driving the infamous

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in the

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. The first was a huge success for such a new car and Campbell-Walter was teamed up with Warren Hughes. For 2011, Campbell-Walter has stayed with the team and has been joined by

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youngest son of 3 time Formula One World Champion

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. For 2012, Campbell-Walter drove for Gulf Racing in a Mclaren MP4 12C with Stuart Hall and Roald Goethe. They contested the Blancpain Endurance series including the famous Spa 24 hour race. For 2013, Campbell-Walter was signed up by Aston Martin as a factory driver. He contested the FIA World Endurance Championship in an Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE. A hugely successful year, winning 2 races and finishing on the podium 4 times going on to win the championship. This included a 4th-place finish at Le Mans 24hrs.

Le Mans and prototype racing

Following their years in FIA GT, Creation Autosportif bought its own

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program, having acquired the

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-built DBA 03S from RN Motorsport, later becoming known as the Creation CA06/H. Campbell-Walter was partnered with

for the 2004 Le Mans Endurance Series, taking two pole-positions and podium positions at Nurburgring and

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. In

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, the team's fortunes improved and Campbell-Walter and Minassian (occasionally partnered also by

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) achieved a second place at

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, a third place at

, and another third at

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. Campbell-Walter also made his competition debut at the

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, following a failed attempt in 2003, where his Lister Storm LMP was crashed in qualifying. The Creation team took fourteenth place overall and seventh in class, with Campbell-Walter driving alongside Minassian and Andy Wallace. For the 2006 season, while Creation expanded to two cars later in the season, Campbell-Walter was forced to drive an

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on occasion for Cirtek Motorsport. Once reunited with Creation, he drove alongside Felipe Ortiz and

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to take third place at Donington. He also ran at

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with Ortiz and Gabbiani, but retired three hours before the finish with engine failure. For 2007, he was once more a driver for Creation Autosportif, driving alongside

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and Felipe Ortiz, taking the first points for the Creation CA07 at Nurburgring. Campbell-Walter achieved one podium in Interlagos, Brazil. Then contributed to getting the team's second and third podiums of the year at Laguna Seca and Petit Le Mans.(USA) In 2008, Campbell-Walter suffered an accident at Monza, breaking 4 vertebra in his back, he escaped death after having a wishbone fail at 195 mph. Campbell-Walter returned to a race car within 7 months. In 2009, Campbell-Walter competed at Le Mans 24hrs and finished 14th in class with

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. In 2013, Campbell-Walter competed at Le Mans 24hrs and finished 4th in class at the wheel of a factory Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

Outside racing

In 2010, Campbell-Walter was the official Formula One driver for the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. He drove the ex Minardi 2 seater Formula One car for promotional purposes and for paying clients. In 2019 Jamie Campbell-Walter founded a management company together with his former team-mate

and María Catarineu, Bullet Sports Management, which represents drivers including

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and

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driver Ferdinand Habsburg, FIA F3 drivers

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and

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drivesr

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and

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and

driver

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Racing record

Complete British GT Championship results

(

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

Complete FIA GT results

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Complete Le Mans Endurance Series results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Britcar 24 Hour results

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Touring Car racing

V8 Supercar results

† Not Eligible for points

References

External links

Drivers' page in the official Creation Autosportif site

Jamie Campbell-Walter biography in the official FIA GT Championship site
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