Joe Girling

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Joe Girling
NationalityFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  British
Born (1990-01-14) 14 January 1990 (age 33)
British Touring Car Championship career
Debut season 2013
Current team M247 Racing with Tech-Speed Motorsport
Car number90
Starts27
Championships0
Wins0 (1 in class)
Poles1
Fastest laps0
Best finish11th in 2013
Previous series
2011 Renault Clio Cup Trophy
Last updated on: 3 August 2013.

Joe Girling (born 14 January 1990) is a British racing driver who competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 2013 for Tech-Speed Motorsport, under the M247 Racing banner.

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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)

YearTeamCar123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930PosPts
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 		37th0

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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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