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British racing driver (born 1951)

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Geoff Lees
Formula One World Championship career
Lees' Shadow DN11 at the2018 British Grand Prix
Born	Geoffrey Thompson Lees (1951-05-01)1 May 1951 (age 74) Kingsbury,Warwickshire England
Nationality	British
Active years	1978–1980,1982
Teams	Tyrrell,Ensign,Shadow,RAM,Theodore,Lotus
Entries	12 (5 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Careerpoints	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1978 British Grand Prix
Last entry	1982 French Grand Prix

Geoffrey Thompson Lees (born 1 May 1951) is a British formerracing driver from England. He participated in 12Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, making his first appearance on 16 July 1978. He scored no championship points.

Career

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Lees was born nearKingsbury,Warwickshire. His first Grand Prix chance came with a non-worksEnsign ran by Mario Deliotti, the owner of anAlfa Romeo dealership inBirmingham, at his home race in 1978. Lees failed to qualify. The following year he had a one-off drive forTyrrell, before a more regular ride with the strugglingShadow team in 1980. Later that year he also drove for the works Ensign team, and failed to qualify aRAM-enteredWilliams in the US. He participated in theFormula One non-championship race held on 7 February 1981 atKyalami forTheodore where he went into the crash barriers on lap 11 due to a broken front suspension. In the hope of taking one step backward and then two steps forward, he joined Ralt-Honda for the EuropeanFormula Two championship. He won the championship, but his hopes of "re-entering Formula One with more dignity" were quashed when Honda decided to spend another year developing their F1 engine.^[1] Lees, one year ahead of Honda failed to find a good seat at the highest level, and his F1 career petered out in 1982 with single drives forTheodore andLotus.

In his Formula One career, Lees seemed stuck in uncompetitive cars, and when success proved elusive, he moved to Japan in the early 1980s. There he enjoyed a long career in theJapanese Formula Two, winning the 1983 title and collecting eight wins. He also represented various Japanese marques insports car racing championships such as theFuji Grand Champion Series, where he won three titles in 1986, 1988 and 1989, and theAll Japan Sports Prototype Championship, where he got the C-class title in 1992. Lees became a highly paid and highly respected part of the Japanese racing scene. He has also driven atLe Mans numerous times, with his best finish being a sixth place overall in 1990.

Racing record

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Complete British Saloon Car Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Pts	Class
1976	British Leyland	Triumph Dolomite Sprint	C	BRH	SIL	OUL	THR	THR	SIL	BRH	MAL 9†	SNE	BRH Ret	38th	3	10th
Source:^[2]

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

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(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Pts
1978	Polifac BMW Junior Team	March 782	BMW	THR	HOC	NÜR	PAU	MUG	VLL	ROU	DON Ret					14th	4
1978	Raven Racing	Chevron B42	Hart									NOG 6	PER DNQ	MIS 4	HOC Ret	14th	4
1980	Ralt Racing	Ralt RH6/80	Honda	THR	HOC	NÜR	VLL	PAU	SIL	ZOL	MUG	ZAN	PER	MIS	HOC Ret	NC	0
1981	Ralt Racing	Ralt RH6/81	Honda	SIL 7	HOC 5	THR NC	NÜR 5	VLL 5	MUG 2	PAU 1	PER Ret	SPA 1	DON 1	MIS 2	MAN 2	1st	51
Sources:^[3]

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Pts
1978	Mario Deliotti Racing	Ensign N175	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	MON	BEL	ESP	SWE	FRA	GBR DNQ	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN	NC	0
1979	Candy Tyrrell Team	Tyrrell 009	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	BEL	MON	FRA	GBR	GER 7	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA		NC	0
1980	Shadow Cars	Shadow DN11	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0V8	ARG	BRA	RSA 13	USW DNQ													NC	0
	Shadow Cars	Shadow DN12						BEL DNQ
	Theodore Shadow	Shadow DN12							MON DNQ	FRA DNQ	GBR	GER	AUT
	Unipart Racing Team	Ensign N180												NED Ret	ITA DNQ	CAN
	RAM Racing	Williams FW07B															USA DNQ
1982	Theodore Racing Team	Theodore TY02	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0V8	RSA	BRA	USW	SMR	BEL	MON	DET	CAN Ret	NED	GBR							NC	0
1982	John Player Team Lotus	Lotus 91	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0V8											FRA 12	GER	AUT	SUI	ITA	CPL	NC	0
Sources:^[3]^[4]^[5]

Complete Formula One Non-championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1
1980	Theodore Shadow	Shadow DN12	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0V8	ESP Ret
1981	Theodore Racing Team	Theodore TR2	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0V8	RSA Ret

Japanese Formula Two/Formula 3000 Championship results

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Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1981	Ralt Honda	SUZ	SUZ	SUZ	SUZ	SUZ 4							12nd	10
1982	Team LeMans	SUZ	FUJ	SUZ 9	SUZ 4	SUZ	SUZ						10th	12
1983	John Player Special Team Izukawa	SUZ 6	FUJ 4	SUZ 1	SUZ 7	SUZ 1	FUJ 1	SUZ 5	SUZ 1				1st	93
1984	Advan Sports Speed Box Motor Sports	SUZ Ret	FUJ Ret	MIN Ret	SUZ 12	SUZ 8	FUJ 4	SUZ 4	SUZ 6				9th	29
1985	Advan Sports Speed Box Motor Sports	SUZ Ret	FUJ Ret	MIN 3	SUZ 11	SUZ 6	FUJ Ret	SUZ 3	SUZ 3				6th	42
1986	Mooncraft	SUZ Ret	FUJ 1	MIN 3	SUZ 3	SUZ 4	FUJ 4	SUZ 10	SUZ 2				3rd	80
1987	Team Nova	SUZ 10	FUJ 1	MIN 5	SUZ 2	SUZ 3	SUG 2	FUJ 12	SUZ 3	SUZ Ret			3rd	83
1988	Team LeMans	SUZ 4	FUJ 13	MIN 4	SUZ Ret	SUG 1	FUJ Ret	SUZ Ret	SUZ Ret				5th	15
1989	Team LeMans	SUZ 4	FUJ 14	MIN Ret	SUZ 15	SUG 5	FUJ Ret	SUZ 13	SUZ Ret				13th	5
1990	Team Hayashi	SUZ	FUJ	MIN	SUZ	SUG	FUJ	FUJ	SUZ	FUJ	SUZ Ret		NC	0
1991	Team Hayashi	SUZ 14	AUT 18	FUJ 13	MIN 11	SUZ 6	SUG Ret	FUJ DNQ	SUZ 8	FUJ C	SUZ DNQ	FUJ Ret	22nd	2

24 Hours of Le Mans results

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Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1982	Nimrod Racing Automobiles Ltd.	Tiff Needell Bob Evans	Nimrod NRA/C2-Aston Martin	C	55	DNF	DNF
1985	Dome Team	Eje Elgh Toshio Suzuki	Dome 85C-L-Toyota	C1	141	DNF	DNF
1986	Tom's Co. Ltd.	Satoru Nakajima Masanori Sekiya	Tom's (Dome) 86C-L-Toyota	C1	105	DNF	DNF
1987	Toyota TeamTom's	Alan Jones Eje Elgh	Toyota 87C-L	C1	19	DNF	DNF
1988	Toyota TeamTom's	Masanori Sekiya Kaoru Hoshino	Toyota 88C	C1	351	12th	12th
1989	Toyota TeamTom's	Johnny Dumfries John Watson	Toyota 89C-V	C1	58	DNF	DNF
1990	Toyota TeamTom's	Masanori Sekiya Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota 90C-V	C1	347	6th	6th
1992	Toyota TeamTom's	David Brabham Ukyo Katayama	Toyota TS010	C1	192	DNF	DNF
1993	Toyota TeamTom's	Jan Lammers Juan Manuel Fangio II	Toyota TS010	C1	353	8th	5th
1995	Lister Cars Ltd.	Dominic Chappell Rupert Keegan	Lister Storm GTS	GT1	40	DNF	DNF
1996	Newcastle United Lister	Tiff Needell Anthony Reid	Lister Storm GTS	GT1	295	19th	11th
1997	Newcastle United Lister	Tiff Needell George Fouché	Lister Storm GTL	GT1	21	DNF	DNF
1998	Toyota Motorsport Toyota Team Europe	Thierry Boutsen Ralf Kelleners	Toyota GT-One	GT1	330	DNF	DNF
2000	Thomas Bscher Promotion David Price Racing	Dr.Thomas Bscher Jean-Marc Gounon	BMW V12 LM	LMP900	180	DNF	DNF
Sources:^[4]^[6]

Complete JGTC results

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(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Pts
2002	Tsuchiya Engineering	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI	FUJ 13	SUG	SEP	FUJ	MOT	MIN	SUZ	NC	0

Sources

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^Åhman, Michael (30 December 1981). "Han vann och försvann" [He won and disappeared].Teknikens Värld (in Swedish). Vol. 34, no. 1. Stockholm, Sweden: Specialtidningsförlaget AB. pp. 22–23.
^de Jong, Frank."British Saloon Car Championship".History of Touring Car Racing 1952-1993. Retrieved9 October 2022.
^^a ^b"Geoff Lees".Motor Sport. Retrieved7 August 2023.
^^a ^b"Geoff Lees Results". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved7 August 2023.
^Small, Steve (2000). "Lees, Geoff".Grand Prix Who's Who (Third ed.). Reading, Berkshire: Travel Publishing. p. 342.ISBN 978-1-902007-46-5. Retrieved7 August 2023 – via Internet Archive.
^"Geoff Lees".Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved7 August 2023.

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Sporting positions

Preceded by

Richard Morgan

Formula Ford Festival
Winner
1975

Succeeded by

Derek Daly

Preceded by

Riccardo Patrese

Macau Grand Prix
Winner
1979-1980

Succeeded by

Bob Earl

Preceded by

Brian Henton

European Formula Two
Champion
1981

Succeeded by

Corrado Fabi

Preceded by

Satoru Nakajima

Japanese Formula Two
Champion
1983

Succeeded by

Satoru Nakajima

v t e Macau Grand Prix winners
Four-time	John MacDonald
Two-time	Jan Bussell António Félix da Costa Arsenio Laurel Geoff Lees Hon Chio Leong Edoardo Mortara Riccardo Patrese Felix Rosenqvist Vern Schuppan Dan Ticktum
One-time	Ayari Bartlett Bertaggia Bianchi Brabham Browning C.L. Choun W.C. Chang Conway Coulthard Carvalho Couto Di Grassi Donnelly Dumbreck Earl Firman Gommendy Gugelmin Hardwick Heath Jarvis Juncadella Kunimoto Lapierre Lynn Maassen Manning Maw Moreno Müller Naël Nielsen Pateman Poon Prémat Quester Redfern Ritchie Rydell Sato M. Schumacher R. Schumacher Senna Steane Ugochukwu Verschoor Wallace

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	United States

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