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🇬🇧 Richard Lyons

Racing driver from United Kingdom. Super GT, Audi Team Hitotsuyama. One-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Richard Lyons
Born
8 August 1979(b. 1979)
Nationality
United Kingdom
Current team
Audi Team Hitotsuyama
Series
Super GT
Status
Retired
Championships
12008
Career wins
3
Career podiums
10
Career starts
84
Career DNFs
11
Racer Rating
4,390
Richard Lyons
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
4,390
Rank 2239 of 38,983 indexed, +0 this season
FIA Categorisation
Gold
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Richard Lyons is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Super GT for Audi Team Hitotsuyama. Lyons is a one-time champion (2008), with 3 wins and 10 podiums from 84 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 4,390 ranks Lyons 2239th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2019 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
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Recent results
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2019-11-02Motegi GT300Super GTP27−138
2019-09-21Sugo GT300Super GTP7+75
2019-09-07Autopolis GT300Super GTP13+27
2019-08-03Fuji GT300Super GTP13+37
2019-06-29Buriram GT300Super GTP13−2
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+140Motegi 2016Super GTP1
+139Fuji 2008Super GTP1
+130Fuji 2016Super GTP2
+129TI Aida 2015Super GTP3
+128TI Aida 2010Super GTP2
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
TI Aida10 starts+24
Suzuka14 starts+12
Fuji20 starts+10
Autopolis9 starts+7
Struggles
Buriram6 starts-58
Sepang4 starts-28
Motegi11 starts-2
Sugo10 starts-2
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2019▸Super GTAudi Team Hitotsuyama800000P20+2004,390
2018▸Super GTAudi Team Hitotsuyama800200P18−2364,390
2017▸Super GTAudi Team Hitotsuyama800100P18−2534,174
2016▸Super GTAudi Team Hitotsuyama712100P2+1984,580
2015▸Super GTAudi Team Hitotsuyama801100P11+1854,628
2014▸Super GTAudi Team Hitotsuyama701200P11−2304,235
2013▸Super GTHitotsuyama Racing800100P23−5914,526
2012▸Super GTHitotsuyama Racing500100P18−985,117
2010▸Super GTLexus Team Zent Cerumo701100P9−455,215
2009▸Super GTLexus Team Zent Cerumo912020P11−3105,261
2008▸Super GTZent Toyota Team Cerumo913100P1+4,2215,571
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Lyons finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇯🇵 Yuki Nakayama4,04871373452%
🇯🇵 Tatsuya KataokaFIA Gold5,12267175025%
🇯🇵 Katsuyuki HiranakaFIA Gold3,86967244336%
🇯🇵 Björn Wirdheim5,09965263940%
🇯🇵 Nobuteru TaniguchiFIA Silver5,23659134622%
🇯🇵 Kazuki Hoshino4,79559253442%
🇯🇵 Hideki YamauchiFIA Gold4,47859283147%
🇯🇵 Kouki Saga4,46059273246%
🇯🇵 Shinichi TakagiFIA Silver4,56758154326%
🇯🇵 Hiroki YoshimotoFIA Gold4,45158273147%
🇯🇵 Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 4× champion7,65975271%
🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold, 2× champion6,639110100%
🇯🇵 Sho TsuboiFIA Platinum, 5× champion6,5761521313%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
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2,230🇦🇺 Jamie DayGT World Challenge Europe4,393
2,231🇺🇸 Joey CoulterNASCAR Truck4,393
2,232🇺🇸 Josh PiersonIndy NXT4,393
2,233🇸🇪 Magnus WallinderFIA GT Championship4,392
2,234🇯🇵 Hiroyuki MatsumuraSuper GT4,391
2,235🇯🇵 Yuji IdeSuper GT4,391
2,236🇬🇧 Darren LeungAsian Le Mans Series4,390
2,237🇦🇹 Hannes NeuhauserNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,390
2,238🇺🇸 Justin MarksNASCAR Truck4,390
2,239🇬🇧 Richard LyonsSuper GT4,390
2,240🇩🇪 Patrick AssenheimerNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,389
2,241🇯🇵 Yorikatsu TsujikoAsian Le Mans Series4,389
2,242🇦🇹 Simon ReicherGT World Challenge Europe4,388
2,243🇧🇷 Vitor BaptistaStock Car Pro Series4,387
2,244🇳🇱 Daan PijlGT World Challenge Europe4,386
2,245🇺🇸 Robert IngramNASCAR Xfinity4,386
2,246🇦🇺 Zakkary BestSupercars Championship4,386
2,247🇬🇧 Lewis WilliamsonGT World Challenge Europe4,385
2,248🇩🇪 Paul PietschFormula 14,385
2,249🇨🇿 Reinhard KoflerNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,385
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Richard Lyons was a Gold-graded professional endurance driver who raced in the Japanese Super GT championship's GT300 class for Audi Team Hitotsuyama between 2008 and 2019. He shared a car with co-drivers across 84 starts in a multiclass series that ran amateur and professional entrants together on the same grid. His rating of 4,390 places him at professional level.[1]

Lyons took three wins and ten podiums across his eleven seasons in Super GT, finishing 20th in the championship standings in his final year, 2019. His best results came against internationally graded professionals; he beat Alex Palou, a four-time IndyCar champion and Platinum-graded driver, on four occasions, and Sho Tsuboi, a Platinum-graded professional with multiple Super GT and Super Formula titles, twice. Against his regular rivals in the series, his record split: he ran closely matched with Yuki Nakayama, the 2013 GT300 champion, but typically finished behind Tatsuya Kataoka, a three-time GT300 champion and Gold-graded professional who contested 146 Super GT starts.[2]

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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