Tom Kimber-Smith

Tom Kimber-Smith
Tom Kimber-Smith
	Kimber-Smith at the 2013 6 Hours of Silverstone
Nationality	British
Born	1 November 1984 (age 39); Ascot, Berkshire, England
European Le Mans Series career
Debut season	2012
Current team	Greaves Motorsport
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	41
Starts	7
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	13th in 2012
Previous series
2006-07; 2006, 08; 2005; 2004; 2002-03; 2001; 2000	Le Mans Series GT2; British GT; Formula Renault UK; Formula 3 Euro Series; Formula Ford UK; Slick 50 FF Championship; T Cars
Championship titles
2003	Formula Ford UK
Awards
	5
Years
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2006-2007, 2011-2014
Teams	Team LNT, Greaves Motorsport, Starworks Motorsport
Best finish	7th (2012)
Class wins	3 (2006, 2011, 2012)

Thomas Kimber-Smith^[1] (born 1 November 1984 in Ascot, Berkshire) is a British race car driver. He is currently driving the No. 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca FLM09 in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship PC class with Robert Alon.

He has enjoyed success in sportscars, winning both the Le Mans 24 Hours and Le Mans Series LMP2 class for Greaves Motorsport in 2011.^[2] He won the LMP2 class again in the 2012 race, driving for Starworks Motorsport with Ryan Dalziel and Enzo Potolicchio in Starworks Motorsport's HPD ARX-03b. He won the 2015 24 hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring, and Petit Le Mans in the PC class, nearly sweeping the Tequila Patron North American Endurance Cup of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2015.

He is the son of Geoff Kimber-Smith, a former driver in the British Touring Car Championship.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2000	T Cars		20	?	?	?	10	?	1st
2001	Slick 50 Formula Ford Championship	Infocus Racing	6	0	0	0	0	0	31st
2002	British Formula Ford	Panasonic Batteries Racing Team JLR	18	0	0	1	2	226	6th
2002	Formula Ford Festival	Panasonic Batteries Racing Team JLR	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
2003	British Formula Ford	Panasonic Batteries Racing Team JLR	20	5	1	1	10	421	1st
	Formula Ford Festival	Panasonic Batteries Racing Team JLR	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
	Formula Renault UK Winter Series	Team JLR	4	0	0	0	1	14	15th
2004	Formula 3 Euro Series	Team Kolles	20	0	0	0	0	2	20th
2004	Masters of Formula 3	Team Kolles	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	27th
2005	Formula Renault 2.0 UK	Team JLR	20	0	0	1	1	206	12th
2005	Formula Renault 2.0 Netherlands	Team JLR	2	0	0	0	0	15	25th
2006	British GT Championship	Team LNT	11	2	5	?	11	71	2nd
	24 Hours of Le Mans - GT2		1	1	0	?	1	N/A	1st
	American Le Mans Series		1	0	0	0	0	14	35th
2007	Le Mans Series - LMGT2	Team LNT	4	0	0	0	0	5	19th
	Le Mans Series - LMP2		1	0	1	0	1	8	19th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGT2		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
2008	2008 Rolex Sports Car Series - DP	Cheever Racing	5	0	0	0	0	78	32nd
2011	Le Mans Series	Greaves Motorsport	5	3	1	1	4	64	1st
2011	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Greaves Motorsport	1	1	0	0	1	N/A	1st
2012	FIA World Endurance Championship	Starworks Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	21	19th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Starworks Motorsport	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	1st
	European Le Mans Series	Greaves Motorsport	3	0	0	0	1	48	5th
	American Le Mans Series - LMP2	Greaves Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2013	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	Greaves Motorsport	3	0	0	0	0	40	8th
	European Le Mans Series - LMP2		1	0	0	0	0	10	17th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	11th
	American Le Mans Series - GT	CORE Autosport	5	0	0	0	1	32	17th
2014	European Le Mans Series	Greaves Motorsport	3	0	0	0	0	32	9th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Caterham Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	11th
	United SportsCar Championship - PC	8 Star Motorsports	4	0	0	0	1	107	16th
	Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge - GS	Turner Motorsport	12	0	0	0	2	243	7th
2015	United SportsCar Championship - PC	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	10	4	1	0	5	313	2nd
2016	IMSA SportsCar Championship - PC		11	3	0	3	9	355	2nd
2017	IMSA SportsCar Championship - Prototype		3	0	0	0	0	72	21st

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2004	Team Kolles	Dallara F302/076	Mercedes	HOC 1 21	HOC 2 Ret	EST 1 7	EST 2 21	ADR 1 9	ADR 1 Ret	PAU 1 13	PAU 2 10	NOR 1 DSQ	NOR 1 21	MAG 1 Ret	MAG 2 Ret	NÜR 1 DSQ	NÜR 2 DSQ	ZAN 1 14	ZAN 2 Ret	BRN 1 18	BRN 2 23	HOC 1 22	HOC 2 Ret	20th	2

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2006	Team LNT	Lawrence Tomlinson Richard Dean	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	GT2	321	15th	1st
2007	Team LNT	Danny Watts Tommy Milner	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	GT2	60	DNF	DNF
2011	Greaves Motorsport	Karim Ojjeh Olivier Lombard	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	326	8th	1st
2012	Starworks Motorsport	Enzo Potolicchio Ryan Dalziel	HPD ARX-03b	LMP2	354	7th	1st
2013	Greaves Motorsport	Alexander Rossi Eric Lux	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	307	23rd	10th
2014	Caterham Racing	Chris Dyson Matt McMurry	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	329	25th	11th

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2014	8Star Motorsports	PC	Oreca FLM09	Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8	DAY 2	SEB 5	LGA	KAN	WGL 10	IMS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET 7		16th	107
2015	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	PC	Oreca FLM09	Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8	DAY 1	SEB 1	LGA 7	DET 6	WGI 2	MOS 5	LRP 1	ELK 4	AUS 4	ATL 1		2nd	313
2016	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	PC	Oreca FLM09	Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8	DAY 2	SEB 2	LBH 6	LGA 1	DET 3	WGL 5	MOS 3	LIM 2	ELK 1	COA 2	PET 1	2nd	355
2017	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	P	Ligier JS P217	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	DAY 9	SEB 7	LBH 5	COA	DET	WGL	MOS	ELK	LGA	PET		21st	72
Source:^[3]

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2012	Starworks Motorsport	LMP2	HPD ARX-03b	Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6	SEB	SPA	LMS 7	SIL	SÃO	BHR 8	FUJ	SHA	19th	21
2013	Greaves Motorsport	LMP2	Zytek Z11SN	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 5	SPA DNS	LMS 4	SÃO	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	8th	40
Source:^[3]

References

^ "Thomas KIMBER-SMITH". Companies House. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
^ Weeks, James (16 December 2011). "Kimber-Smith sticks with Greaves but loses Le Mans berth". motorstv.com. Motors TV. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Tom Kimber-Smith Results". motorsportstats.com. Retrieved 23 December 2023.

External links

Official website
Tom Kimber-Smith career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Tom Boardman	T Cars Champion 2000	Succeeded by Ben Reeves
Preceded by Westley Barber	British Formula Ford Champion 2003	Succeeded by Valle Mäkelä
Preceded by Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	Le Mans Series LMP2 Champion 2011 with: Karim Ojjeh	Succeeded by Mathias Beche Pierre Thiriet European Le mans Series

[1] "Thomas KIMBER-SMITH". Companies House. Retrieved 8 May 2024.

[2] Weeks, James (16 December 2011). "Kimber-Smith sticks with Greaves but loses Le Mans berth". motorstv.com. Motors TV. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2011.

[:0-3] "Tom Kimber-Smith Results". motorsportstats.com. Retrieved 23 December 2023.

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