Extreme Speed Motorsports

Founded	2010
Folded	2018
Teamprincipal(s)	Ed Brown Scott Sharp
Former series	American Le Mans Series FIA World Endurance Championship WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

Extreme Speed Motorsports (ESM) was an Americanauto racing team based out ofRiviera Beach,Florida. Founded byScott Sharp andPatrón CEOEd Brown, the team competed in theFIA World Endurance Championship,TudorUnited SportsCar Championship, andAmerican Le Mans Series since 2010 until 2018 when the team sold its equipment and race cars and shut down following an exhaustive sponsor search after the withdrawal of Patrón.

TheExtreme Speed Motorsports team first entered theAmerican Le Mans Series with twoFerrari F430 GTCs in 2010. The pair ofScott Sharp andJohannes van Overbeek managed a second-place finish at the season endingPetit Le Mans, finishing tenth in the Drivers' Championship with teammatesEd Brown andGuy Cosmo finishing thirteenth and landing fifth in the GT class Teams' Championship.

The team received two newFerrari 458 GTEs for their second year of ALMS competition. 2011 season would prove to be a difficult season for the team with the #02 car failing to finish at several races. The team's best result came at penultimate race atMazda Raceway Laguna Seca with a third-place finish for the #01 car. Sharp and Van Overbeek would finish the season seventh in the GT Drivers' Championship with the team landing sixth in the Teams' Championship.

2012 would be the most successful season yet for the team and its Ferraris. The #01 car of Sharp and van Overbeek was awarded a victory after a post race technical inspection disqualified the #45Flying Lizard MotorsportsPorsche atMosport and earned another hard-fought win at the season finalePetit Le Mans.Scott Sharp andJohannes van Overbeek finished second in the GT Drivers' Championship withEd Brown andGuy Cosmo fifteen and sixteen respectively. They would finish third in the GT Teams' Championship behind the factory efforts ofBMW andChevrolet.

2013 saw the team move up to the LMP2 class with twoHPD ARX-03bs. 2013 would be the final season before theAmerican Le Mans Series would merge with theRolex Sports Car Series to form theTudorUnited SportsCar Championship. Although 2013 was to be a preparation and development year for the team's new prototype machinery, the team fared well against their main rivalsLevel 5 Motorsports, claiming a win and second-place finish atLong Beach. The team finished the season second in the Teams' Championship withScott Sharp second in the Drivers' Championship.

TheExtreme Speed Motorsports team entered the inaugural season of theTudorUnited SportsCar Championship with a two carLMP2 effort in the premier prototype class.Scott Sharp andRyan Dalziel would pilot the #1HPD withJohannes van Overbeek andEd Brown sharing the #2 car.IMSA's balance of performance left the LMP2 teams with a substantial gap in top speed to the much higher poweredDaytona Prototypes throughout the entirety of the season, preventing the team from consistently competing for overall victories. Brown and Overbeek would claim a win victory atMazda Raceway Laguna Seca,^[1] a track that favored the LMP2 cars' cornering speeds. The team withdrew the #1 car from the eleventh round to compete in theFIA World Endurance Championship race at theCircuit of the Americas,^[2] later deciding to withdraw both cars from the season endingPetit Le Mans to enter the Shanghai FIA WEC race in preparation for a 2015 campaign in the series^[3]

For the 2015 season, the ESM team originally committed to run the North American Endurance Championship rounds as a supplement to their FIA WEC campaign.^[4] However, after unsuccessful results at Daytona and Sebring, the team would not return to complete the rest of the North American season, choosing to focus its resources on the remainder of the WEC season.^[5]

In 2016, Tequila Patron ESM run aLigier JS P2 in four North American Endurance Cup races of the United Sportscar Championship, winning both the2016 24 Hours of Daytona and the2016 12 Hours of Sebring, with the JS P2 becoming the first car to defeat aDaytona Prototype at the 24 hours, as well as the team becoming the first to win the so-called "36 Hours of Florida" since 1998.^[6]

In 2017, Tequila Patron ESM switched to Nissan engines, fielding twoNissan Onroak DPi units for Dalziel/Sharp and Van Overbeek/Brown. The pairing of Dalziel/Sharp would ultimately secure 5th in the drivers championship, while Brown would depart the team mid-season, and be replaced by Pipo Derani. The season was highlighted with 1 Pole Position at Watkins Glen, as well as 2 wins, at Road America, and at the season-ending Petit Le Mans.^[7]

In 2018, Tequila Patron ESM continued to run 2 Nissan-Onroak DPis, for Dalziel/Sharp , as well as Derani/Van Overbeek. The Season would be highlighted by 2 poles at Belle Isle, and at Road Atlanta, as well as winning the 12 Hours Of Sebring, and at Laguna Seca. However, due to the loss of title sponsor Patron, the team sold all its equipment and assets, and would ultimately close in December 2018.^[8]

#	Season	Date	Classes	Track / Race	No.	Winning drivers	Chassis	Engine
1	2014	May 4	Prototype	Laguna Seca	2	Ed Brown /Johannes van Overbeek	HPD ARX-03b	Honda HR28TT 2.8 LV6Turbo
2	2016	January 30–31	Prototype	Daytona	2	Brown /Derani /van Overbeek /Sharp	Ligier JS P2	Honda HR35TT 3.5 LV6Turbo
3		March 19	Prototype	Sebring	2	Brown /Derani /van Overbeek /Sharp	Ligier JS P2	Honda HR35TT 3.5 LV6Turbo
4	2017	August 6	Prototype	Road America	22	Pipo Derani /Johannes van Overbeek	Nissan Onroak DPi	Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 LTurboV6
5		October 7	Prototype	Road Atlanta	2	Ryan Dalziel /Brendon Hartley /Scott Sharp	Nissan Onroak DPi	Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 LTurboV6
6	2018	March 17	Prototype	Sebring	22	Derani /Lapierre /van Overbeek	Nissan Onroak DPi	Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 LTurboV6
7		September 9	Prototype	Laguna Seca	22	Pipo Derani /Johannes van Overbeek	Nissan Onroak DPi	Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 LTurboV6

The team first entered theFIA World Endurance Championship with a single car at the 20146 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, earning a 3rd-place finish. The team then entered two cars in the6 Hours of Shanghai claiming 2nd and 5th-place finishes. The two events would serve as preparation for a full season entry in 2015.

For the 2015 season,Extreme Speed Motorsports would commit to a full season FIA WEC effort.^[9] While originally planning to run the newHPD ARX-04b, testing issues meant HPD would delay the car's debut until the following season. ESM would instead use theirARX-03bs for the opening round atSilverstone, before switching to theLigier JS P2 platform for the rest of the season.^[10]

Year	Car	Engine	No.	SIL	SPA	LMS	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	Points	Pos.
2015	HPD ARX-03b Ligier JS P2	Honda HR28TT 2.8L Turbo V6	30	EX	8	5	6	4	4	Ret	7	62	7th
			31	6	7	4	8	Ret	7	5	8	62	8th

Year	Car	Engine	No.	SIL	SPA	LMS	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	Points	Pos.
2016	Ligier JS P2	Nissan VK45DE 4.5L V8	30	8	5	7	9	8	7	4	2	5	78	5th
			31	2	2	8	3	3	5	5	5	4	116	4th

Year	Entrant	No.	Car	Drivers	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2015	Extreme Speed Motorsports	30	Ligier JS P2-Honda	Ryan Dalziel David Heinemeier Hansson Scott Sharp	LMP2	329	28th	10th
		31		Ed Brown Jon Fogarty Johannes van Overbeek		339	15th	7th
2016	Extreme Speed Motorsports	30	Ligier JS P2-Nissan	Ed Brown Scott Sharp Johannes van Overbeek	LMP2	341	16th	11th
		31		Chris Cumming Ryan Dalziel Pipo Derani		297	42nd	16th

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