John Martin is an Australian professional racing driver. Martin has had wide experience racing in European based open-wheel series since 2006. In that time Martin has had a wide experience of open-wheel racing having driven in various national and international series driving

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and Formula Renault 3.5. For the past two season Martin has raced for several teams in the

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inspired series Superleague Formula. Martin has long been associated with the British

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team having raced with them in a variety of formulae for four of the five years he has been racing in Europe. In 2012 Martin will again race with ADR, racing an

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sports car in the LMP2 class of the

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Career

Karting

*2004: Pole and 2nd at Australian Resa nationals ; 2nd in

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, Australian

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light ; 2nd in Queensland, Australian clubman heavy and 4th in senior national heavy *2003: Geelong Ford Kartstars championships, Australia *2002: 1st in Resa Queensland state championship *2001: 5th in Resa nationals

Formulas

He finished 28th in the 2007

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. He joined

A1 Team Australia A1 Team Australia was the Australian team of A1 Grand Prix, an international racing series. Management The team chairman is former Formula One world champion Alan Jones, backed by general manager and former NASCAR driver Peter Nolan. The se ...

and drove in the

series during the 2007–08 season, and continued to race for the team in 2008–09. Martin drove the

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car in the

2009 Superleague Formula season The 2009 Superleague Formula season was the second Superleague Formula championship. The series was rebranded the "Superleague Formula by Sonangol" for this season and also 2010 with the Angolan oil company becoming the title sponsor. It bega ...

for one win from thirteen races. In 2010 he started the Superleague Formula season with

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before ending the season with

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, starting twenty nine races for six wins and twenty top tens.

Racing record

Career summary

† - Guest driver, ineligble for points. ‡ - Team standings.

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

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

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

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

Complete Superleague Formula results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Non Championship round

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete 24 Hours of Daytona results

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results

Complete TCR Australia results

Complete S5000 results

References

External links

Career statistic
''driverdb.com''
Official web
{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, John 1984 births Living people People from Gosford Racing drivers from New South Wales Formula Ford drivers British Formula Three Championship drivers A1 Team Australia drivers World Series Formula V8 3.5 drivers Superleague Formula drivers 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers FIA World Endurance Championship drivers 24 Hours of Daytona drivers WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers Tasman Series drivers A1 Grand Prix drivers G-Drive Racing drivers Action Express Racing drivers Comtec Racing drivers Alan Docking Racing drivers Starworks Motorsport drivers Double R Racing drivers Australian Endurance Championship drivers Garry Rogers Motorsport drivers