- Multimatic Motorsports
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Multimatic Motorsports Inc. 
Type Private Industry Motorsport Founded 1992 Headquarters Markham, Ontario
CanadaKey people Larry Holt, Team Principal
Sean Mason, Team Manager
Brian Jones, Team Engineer
Scott Maxwell, Lead DriverWebsite [1] Multimatic Motorsports is the competition arm of Multimatic's Engineering Services Group. Founded in 1992, the team has competed in the Firestone Firehawk Series, Motorola Cup, IMSA Sports Car Championship, Grand American Road Racing Association, American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am Cup, Rolex Sports Car Series, KONI Sports Car Challenge and the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Multimatic Motorsports Racing Results
1992 - Won the Sports Class of the Canadian Firestone Firehawk Championship in the team's first year of competition. Scott Maxwell joined the team as primary driver of a factory supported Ford Taurus SHO. Maxwell won the Driver's Championship by a 600 point margin.
1993 - Won the Sports Class of the Canadian Endurance Road Racing Championship. Scott Maxwell won a second straight National Driver's Championship.
1995 - Engineered, developed and built an IMSA GTS class Mustang tube frame car which finished on the podium in its first outing at Lime Rock Park. Also won the four door sedan class of the Car & Driver One Lap of America with a Ford Aluminum Intensive Vehicle (AIV).
1999 - Won Ford its first ever Manufacturer's Championship in showroom stock racing while campaigning three Ford Mustang Cobras in the Motorola Cup North American Street Stock Championship.
2000 - Entered the 2000 24 Hours of Le Mans with a Lola B2K/40 using a Multimatic designed and built chassis. Multimatic Motorsports and drivers Scott Maxwell, David Empringham and Greg Wilkins won the LMP675 class. This is the only time a Canadian motorsports organization has won at the French endurance classic.[2]
2002 - Won the Grand Am Cup Championship campaigning two Porsche Supercup cars on behalf of Doncaster Racing. Scott Maxwell won the Driver's Championship.[3]
2003 - Inaugural Daytona Prototype class winner at the 24 Hours of Daytona with the Ford Focus Daytona Prototype race car - designed, engineered and built by Multimatic.
2005 - Won the Grand Am Cup Championship campaigning the Multimatic designed, built and developed Ford Mustang FR500C. Multimatic driver David Empringham won the Driver's Championship.[4]
2006 - GT2 class winner at the 2006 12 Hours of Sebring competing as Multimatic Motorsports Team Panoz with a Panoz Esperante GTLM.[5]
2008 - Won the KONI Sports Car Challenge campaigning two Ford Mustang FR500C cars on behalf of Hyper Sport Racing. Scott Maxwell won the Driver's Championship with Joe Foster. [6]
2010 - Tasked by Ford Racing to engineer and build the new Mustang Boss 302R race car. Campaigned a two-car entry in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge GS class for drivers Scott Maxwell, Joe Foster, Frank Montecalvo and Gunnar Jeannette. The duo of Maxwell and Foster posted three poles during the season (Barber, VIR and Trois-Rivieres). [7] Race results were hampered due to reliability issues with the new car.
2011 - Multimatic Motorsports returned to the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge with the #15 Mustang Boss 302R race car. Off season development by the team and Ford Racing made the car competitive in the GS class - Foster and Maxwell won at Barber and finished second at Daytona. [8]
Drivers
Scott Maxwell, David Empringham, David Brabham, Sébastien Bourdais, Gunnar Jeanette, John Graham, Greg Wilkins, Tom Milner, James Gue, Frank Montecalvo, Joe Foster, Andy Lally, Bruno Junqueira, Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle have all driven for Multimatic Motorsports.
External links
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