Timothy Philip Sugden (born 26 April 1964, in Bradford) is a British racing driver. He is both driver and manager for his own racing team, Tim Sugden Motorsport.

Tim Sugden
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years1998, 20032004, 2006, 20082011
TeamsGulf Team Davidoff, DeWalt Racesport Salisbury, Thierry Perrier, Russian Age Racing, Virgo Motorsport, JMW Motorsport
Best finish4th (1998)
Class wins0

Early career

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Sugden started racing in karting, where he became British champion. He soon moved up to Formula Ford 1600, winning the Star of Mallory series in 1987. Despite working on a small budget, he gained top place finishes at senior level FF1600 driving the works Swift "Tredaire" car for Frank Bradley. He also drove in the Honda CRX challenge and British Formula 3000. In 1990 he finished third in the Formula Renault Championship, with one race victory along the way.

BTCC

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His first racing in the British Touring Car Championship came in 1990. He entered selected rounds for the Prodrive ran Junior BMW Team in the 2.0litre class. An impressive performance for the team in 1991 saw him win at Brands Hatch, finishing the year in tenth place, despite only competing in five rounds.[1] This led to a full season in 1992 for the works BMW team, where he ended the year eighth on points. Prodrive's contract with BMW ended but Sugden was retained for 1993 by Prodrive for an abortive Mercedes entry and Sugden then returned to the series again in 1994. He entered selected rounds for the Toyota works team as a third driver alongside 1991 champion Will Hoy and former F1 driver Julian Bailey in a Toyota Carina. The team were not front runners in the championship, and another disappointing season followed in 1995, which was both Toyota's and Sugden's final year racing in the BTCC but he worked as test driver for Vauxhall in 1996 as they developed the Vectra.

GT Racing

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Sugden's sports car racing career began in 1997 with an entry in the British GT Championship.[2] In his first year, he won the GT2 title, alongside Steve O'Rourke in a Porsche 911 GT2. He then went on to win the GT1 titles in both 1998 and 1999, in a McLaren F1 GTR and a Lister Storm GTL, respectively. After already competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race (where he finished fourth overall in 1998 in the EMKA McLaren), he moved to full-time International GT racing in 2000 with the FIA GT Championship where he has 9 wins and was runner-up in the GT2 class in 2005. He was winner of the Porsche Cup in 2005, awarded by Porsche to the driver of any privately entered Porsche car in selected racing or rally championships worldwide where points are scored through the season according to the ranking of the series. He is only the second British driver ever to win that Cup. He has also competed in the American Le Mans Series in a Porsche, finishing second in GT2 in the Sebring 12 hours, the Daytona 24 Hours race, the Le Mans Series, and made a return to the British GT championship. In 2007, he was the Asian Porsche Carrera Cup champion, finished third in 2008 and finished second by 1 point in 2009.[3] In 2011 he finished 2nd in GT in the Daytona 24 hours driving a Porsche for Paul Miller Racing.

BriSCA F2 Stock Cars

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On 9 October 2010 Tim won his debut F2 final in an evening race meeting at Skegness Stadium after working at Brands Hatch earlier that day getting an immediate upgrade to Yellow Top. He is competing in selected F2 Stock car rounds this year(2010) and won the Grand National final at Birmingham in November. In 2011 he entered the Northampton meeting on 13 March again winning the GN final and then the Birmingham meeting on the 19th when he won the Final and so was again upgraded to Blue Top. In his first 6 meetings he has two overall wins and two GN wins but meetings limited due to other commitments. Hednesford on 10 April saw another win in a heat this time.

Racing record

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Complete British Touring Car Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1990 in class) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1990 in class)

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 Overall
Pos
Pts Class
Pos
1990 BMW Team Finance BMW M3 B OUL DON THR SIL
9
OUL
9
SIL BRH
5
SNE
8
BRH BIR DON
8
THR SIL 12th 67 6th
1991 BMW Team Finance BMW M3 SIL SNE
Ret
DON THR SIL
121
BRH
1
SIL DON
1
DON
2
OUL BRH
1
BRH
2
DON
5
THR SIL
Ret
10th 32
1992 M Team Mobil BMW 318is SIL
5
THR
14
OUL
9
SNE
9
BRH
4
DON
1

8
DON
2

7
SIL
11
KNO
1

Ret
KNO
2

DNS
PEM
3
BRH
1

9
BRH
2

13
DON
Ret
SIL
6
8th 43
1994 Toyota Castrol Team Toyota Carina E THR BRH
1

20
BRH
2

12
SNE
Ret
SIL
1

9
SIL
2

7
OUL
12
DON
1

15
DON
2

14
BRH
1
BRH
2
SIL
Ret
KNO
1
KNO
2
OUL BRH
1
BRH
2
SIL
1

9
SIL
2

10
DON
1

19
DON
2

14
19th 9
1995 Team Toyota GB Toyota Carina E DON
1

9
DON
2

Ret
BRH
1

14
BRH
2

10
THR
1

4
THR
2

Ret
SIL
1

Ret
SIL
2

6
OUL
1

Ret
OUL
2

11
BRH
1

Ret
BRH
2

DNS
DON
1

8
DON
2

13
SIL
8
KNO
1

7
KNO
2

10
BRH
1

12
BRH
2

9
SNE
1

6
SNE
2

7
OUL
1

Ret
OUL
2

Ret
SIL
1

13
SIL
2

6
14th 48
  1. ^ – Race was stopped due to heavy rain. No points were awarded.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

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Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1998   Gulf Team Davidoff
  EMKA Racing
  Steve O'Rourke
  Bill Auberlen
McLaren F1 GTR GT1 343 4th 4th
2003   DeWalt Racesports Salisbury   Mike Jordan
  Michael Caine
TVR Tuscan T400R GT 93 DNF DNF
2004   Thierry Perrier
  Perspective Racing
  Ian Khan
  Nigel Smith
Porsche 911 GT3-RS GT 283 23rd 10th
2006   Russian Age Racing
  Cirtek Motorsport
  Nigel Smith
  Christian Vann
Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello GT1 124 DNF DNF
2008   Virgo Motorsport   Rob Bell
  Tim Mullen
Ferrari F430 GT2 GT2 289 DNF DNF
2009   JMW Motorsport   Rob Bell
  Andrew Kirkaldy
Ferrari F430 GT2 GT2 320 23rd 4th
2010   JMW Motorsport   Rob Bell
  Bryce Miller
Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2 GT2 71 DNF DNF
2011   JMW Motorsport   Rob Bell
  Xavier Maassen
Ferrari 458 Italia GTC GTE
Pro
290 24th 9th

Complete Super GT results

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Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DC Pts
2010 ThunderAsia Racing Mosler MT900M GT300 SUZ OKA
Ret
FUJ
Ret
SEP
Ret
SUG
Ret
SUZ FUJ
C
MOT NC 0

Complete 24 Hours of Spa results

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Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1994   Toyota Racing   Philip Verellen
  François Chatriot
Toyota Carina E ST 86/Belt of distribution DNF DNF
1999   Foss-Tech Racing   Mark Lemmer
  Stephen Day
Honda Integra Type R SP 452 12th 12th
2001   EMKA Racing   Steve O'Rourke Porsche 996 GT3-R N-GT N/A Did not arrive Did not arrive
2003   EMKA Racing   Emmanuel Collard
  Chris Goodwin
Porsche 996 GT3-R N-GT 301/Gearbox DNF DNF
2004   Gruppe M   Jonathan Cocker
  Warren Hughes
  Tim Mullen
Porsche 996 GT3-RSR N-GT 268/Gearbox DNF DNF
2005   Gruppe M   Emmanuel Collard
  Stephane Ortelli
Porsche 996 GT3-RSR GT2 477 19th 4th
2006   JMB Racing   Iradj Alexander
  Jean-Michel Martin
  Stephane Daoudi
Ferrari F430 GTC[broken anchor] GT2 133 DNF DNF
2007   Scuderia Ecosse   Andrew Kirkaldy
  Chris Niarchos
Ferrari F430 GTC[broken anchor] GT2 474 15th 6th
2008   Trackspeed Racing   Richard Williams
  David Ashburn
  Xavier Pompidou
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR GT2 382/DNF DNF DNF
2009   Trackspeed Racing   David Ashburn
  Stephane Ortelli
  Jorg Bergmeister
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR GT2 486 18th 7th

References

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  1. ^ "BTCC :: Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2009. Official 1991 BTCC standings.
  2. ^ "GT1 Tales: Tim Sugden, Racing With Steve O'Rourke In The EMKA McLaren | dailysportscar.com". www.dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  3. ^ http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/1620/ Career highlights at driver database.
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Sporting positions
Preceded by
John Morrison
John Greasley
British GT Champion
1998 with:
Steve O'Rourke
Succeeded by
Calum Lockie
Preceded by Porsche Carrera Cup Asia
Champion

2007
Succeeded by