Warren Hughes

Warren Hughes

Nationality	British
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2001 - 2002, 2005 - 2008, 2010
Teams	MG Sport & Racing Ltd. RML Chamberlain Synergy Motorsport, Quifel ASM Team Embassy Racing Team RLR
Best finish	20th (2005, 2010)
Class wins	1 (2005)

Warren Hughes is a race car driver from Newcastle, England. His wife's name is Roz, and they have 2 sons. After a promising junior career, Hughes raced in touring car and sports car racing.

Hughes driving for Alan Docking Racing at Silverstone during the 1995 British Formula Three Championship season.

In 1990, Hughes was the British Formula Ford champion, winning 19 of the 24 races. He then had several successful years in Formula Three, teamed briefly with Rubens Barrichello and later Jacques Villeneuve. He was 7th in the series in 1992 and 4th in 1993, 1995 and 1998. In 1994 after racing in the Japanese F3 series, he first tested a Formula One car for the fading Lotus team.

1996 was his first season outside open-wheel racing, in the STW Cup German Touring Car Championship with Ford. After starting 1997 without a drive, he returned to Formula Three in late 1997, and remained there in 1998. In 1999 he contested the MGF Cup, winning half its 14 races and setting 11 fastest laps to become champion.

2000 saw him first dabble in sports car racing, doing a single round of the British GT Championship, but he concentrated on Euro F3000 for Arden. He was championship runner-up, only missing the podium in 3 races. Hughes also tested for the Williams Formula One team during this year.

A year later Hughes became a factory MG driver, for their projects run by West Surrey Racing. His main duty was to develop and subsequently race their MG ZS British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) entry, alongside Anthony Reid. He also teamed with Reid and Jonny Kane for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, although the car did not finish. He again raced at Le Mans for the team in 2002.

Hughes was 6th overall with 2 wins in the BTCC in 2002, and 7th with a single win in 2003, but the company's financial problems meant that he was dropped for 2004. He raced in the Le Mans Endurance Series in 2004, 2005 and 2006, also doing some rounds of the British GT series.

In 2005 a one-off appearance for the British RML team resulted in LMP2 class victory and lap record for Hughes in the Le Mans 24 Hour race driving alongside Tommy Erdos and Mike Newton. 2007 and 2008 saw Hughes again competing in the Le Mans Series for Embassy Racing.

In addition Hughes also acts as a driver coach for British Formula 3 team Hitech Racing, Austrian racer Walter Grubmuller and BTCC team Bamboo Engineering and their driver Harry Vaulkhard.

Racing record

Complete BTCC results

(key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded - 2001-2002 all races, 2003 just for 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 - 2001-2002 just for feature race, 2003 all races)

Year	Team	Car	Class	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	Pen.	Position	Points
2001	MG Sport & Racing	MG ZS	Touring	BHI 1	BHI 2	THR 1	THR 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	MON 1	MON 2	DON 1	DON 2	KNO 1	KNO 2	SNE 1	SNE 2	CRO 1	CRO 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 5*	DON 1 11	DON 2 8	BHI 1 Ret	BHI 2 Ret*		16th	0†
2002	MG Sport & Racing	MG ZS	Touring	BHGP 1 Ret	BHGP 2 8*	OUL 1 2	OUL 2 2	THR 1 11	THR 2 10	SIL 1 1	SIL 2 11	MON 1 10	MON 2 7	CRO 1 5	CRO 2 11	SNE 1 7	SNE 2 3	KNO 1 Ret	KNO 2 Ret	BHI 1 2	BHI 2 1*	DON 1 7	DON 2 2*							-5	6th	110
2003	MG Sport & Racing	MG ZS	Touring	MON 1 4	MON 2 Ret	BHI 1 Ret*	BHI 2 5*	THR 1 Ret	THR 2 6	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 3	ROC 1 8*	ROC 2 3	CRO 1 Ret	CRO 2 10	SNE 1 Ret	SNE 2 8	BHI 1 1*	BHI 2 6*	DON 1 4	DON 2 7	OUL 1 4	OUL 2 8								7th	98

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2010	Sumo Power GT	Nissan	ABU QR 13	ABU CR 12	SIL QR 5	SIL CR 1	BRN QR 21	BRN CR 17	PRI QR 3	PRI CR 8	SPA QR 19	SPA CR 11	NÜR QR 16	NÜR CR 8	ALG QR 9	ALG CR Ret	NAV QR 5	NAV CR 3	INT QR 14	INT CR Ret	SAN QR 13	SAN CR 16	16th	52
2011	Sumo Power GT	Nissan	ABU QR	ABU CR	ZOL QR	ZOL CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	SAC QR 4	SAC CR 4	SIL QR 4	SIL CR 7	NAV QR	NAV CR	PRI QR	PRI CR	ORD QR	ORD CR	BEI QR	BEI CR	SAN QR	SAN CR	18th	24

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2001	LMP675	34	M	MG-Lola EX257 MG (AER) XP20 2.0L Turbo I4	MG Sport & Racing Ltd.	Anthony Reid Jonny Kane	30	DNF	DNF
2002	LMP675	26	M	MG-Lola EX257 MG (AER) XP20 2.0L Turbo I4	MG Sport & Racing Ltd.	Anthony Reid Jonny Kane	129	DNF	DNF
2005	LMP2	25	M	MG-Lola EX264 Judd XV675 3.4L V8	Ray Mallock Ltd. (RML)	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	305	20th	1st
2006	LMP2	39	D	Lola B05/40 AER P07 2.0L Turbo I4	Chamberlain-Synergy Motorsport ASM Team Racing for Portugal	Miguel Amaral Miguel Ángel de Castro	196	DNF	DNF
2007	LMP2	40	D	Lola B05/40 AER P07 2.0L Turbo I4	Quifel ASM Team Racing for Portugal	Miguel Amaral Miguel Ángel de Castro	137	DNF	DNF
2008	LMP2	45	M	Embassy WF01 Zytek ZG348 3.4L V8	Embassy Racing	Jonny Kane Joey Foster	213	DNF	DNF
2010	LMP2	40	D	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S/2 Zytek ZG348 3.4L V8	Quifel ASM Team	Miguel Amaral Olivier Pla	318	20th	7th
2011	LMP1	20	D	Zytek 09SC Zytek ZG348 3.4L V8	Quifel ASM Team	Miguel Amaral Olivier Pla	48	DNF	DNF

External links

• Official site
• BBC article about early days at MG
• Team RLR Recruits Warren Hughes for Hungaroring

Awards and achievements
Preceded by David Coulthard	Autosport British Club Driver of the Year 1990	Succeeded by Kelvin Burt