Joe Girling | |
Nationality: | United Kingdom |
Birth Date: | 1990 1, df=yes |
Current Series: | British Touring Car Championship |
First Year: | 2013 |
Current Team: | M247 Racing with Tech-Speed Motorsport |
Car Number: | 90 |
Starts: | 27 |
Championships: | 0 |
Wins: | 0 (1 in class) |
Poles: | 1 |
Fastest Laps: | 0 |
Best Finish: | 11th |
Year: | 2013 |
Prev Series: | Renault Clio Cup Trophy |
Prev Series Years: | 2011 |
Updated: | 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.
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]
(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)