Tommy Milner

Tommy Milner

Tommy Milner at 24 Hours of Le Mans 2006 Drivers' Parade
Nationality American
Born January 28, 1986 (1986-01-28) (age 30)
Washington, D.C., United States
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years 2006-2007, 2011-2016
Teams Multimatic Motorsports, Team LNT, Corvette Racing
Best finish 11th overall (2011)
Class wins 2 (2011, 2015)

Tommy Milner (born January 28, 1986),[1] is an American GM factory racing and test driver, currently also employed full-time in Corvette Racing. Tommy started karting at the age of 14 and began his career as a sports car driver in the 2004 and 2005 Grand-Am seasons. He drove for Panoz in 2006 and 2008 and for Rahal Letterman Racing in 2007, 2009 and 2010 in the American Le Mans Series. In 2010 he finished 3rd in the GT Driver's Championship. In 2011, he decided to make the switch to Corvette Racing. Currently he drives the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R with co-driver Oliver Gavin. In addition to driving for Corvette Racing in 2011 he also drove for Team Need for Speed Schubert at the 2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring.[2]

The highlight of Tommy's career so far is a class victory at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans driving a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R with teammates Antonio García and Olivier Beretta.[3] He also won his first American Le Mans Series race at the 2012 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach.[4] In 2013 he took his first class victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2006 Canada Multimatic Motorsport Team Panoz United States Gunnar Jeannette
Canada Scott Maxwell		 Panoz Esperante GT-LM GT2 34 DNF DNF
2007 United Kingdom Team LNT United Kingdom Tom Kimber-Smith
United Kingdom Danny Watts		 Panoz Esperante GT-LM GT2 60 DNF DNF
2011 United States Corvette Racing Monaco Olivier Beretta
Spain Antonio García		 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GTE
Pro		 314 11th 1st
2012 United States Corvette Racing United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United Kingdom Richard Westbrook		 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GTE
Pro		 215 NC NC
2013 United States Corvette Racing United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United Kingdom Richard Westbrook		 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GTE
Pro		 309 22nd 7th
2014 United States Corvette Racing United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United Kingdom Richard Westbrook		 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R GTE
Pro		 333 20th 4th
2015 United States Corvette Racing-GM United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United States Jordan Taylor		 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R GTE
Pro		 337 17th 1st
2016 United States Corvette Racing - GM United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United States Jordan Taylor		 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R GTE
Pro		 219 DNF DNF

References

  1. ↑ "Corvette Racing Driver Profile: Tommy Milner". 2011-05-29.
  2. ↑ "DRIVERS BLOG>> SANDSTROM & MILNER AT THE NÜRBURGRING 24HR PT.I". 2011-07-12.
  3. ↑ "Corvette Racing Wins 24 Hours of Le Mans". 2011-06-11.
  4. ↑ "LONG BEACH GP 2012>>TOMMY MILNER'S FIRST ALMS WIN". 2012-04-19.
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