Davy Jones (racing driver)

For other people of the same name, see Davy Jones (disambiguation).

Davy Jones (born June 1, 1964 in Chicago) is an American racing driver.

In 1983 he came 3rd in the British Formula Three Championship behind Ayrton Senna and Martin Brundle. He also that year tested the Brabham F1 car at Brands Hatch with Bernie Ecclestone, the then team owner, looking at Jones as the next American hope for F1 competition. In the mid-1980s Jones competed in New Zealand Formula Atlantic during the off season and twice won the New Zealand Grand Prix in 1984 & 1987. In 1986 Jones drove for the Factory BMW McLaren Team in IMSA GTP with teammate John Andretti and earned the only BMW GTP Victory that season at Watkins Glen. Jones won the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans with teammates Manuel Reuter and Alexander Wurz in a TWR-Porsche. He also placed second to Buddy Lazier in the 1996 Indianapolis 500, the first of the Indy Racing League era. He has five total starts in the race as well as 16 starts in CART from 1987 to 1996. Jones also made seven Winston Cup starts in 1995 for Jasper Motorsports with a best finish of 20th at Darlington Raceway and participated in the 1992 and 1993 editions of the International Race of Champions finishing 8th and 9th respectively. Jones won the 1990 24 Hours of Daytona driving a Jaguar XJR-12, along with Jan Lammers and Andy Wallace.^[1]

Jones was seriously injured in a practice crash for the IRL race at Walt Disney World Speedway in January 1997. This was the first race where the IRL used their brand new cars with normally aspirated engines. The accident left him with an injured neck, and led to his brief retirement from racing.^[2] Jones' withdrawal from the Team Joest squad to compete in the 1997 Le Mans 24 Hours allowed Tom Kristensen to take over the vacant seat, and win his first Le Mans enduro.

Jones has since then competed in sports cars, mainly in the GRAND-AM Road Racing Rolex Sports Car Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. He is currently looking to continue his endurance racing career.^{[citation needed]} He currently works as a guest speaker, racing advisor, instructor and specialises in launching new up-market vehicles.

He is not related to fellow racers Parnelli Jones, P. J. Jones, Page Jones, Buckshot Jones or Alan Jones.

Racing Record

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

CART

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
1987	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	LBH	PHX	INDY Ret	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	TOR	MIS 10	POC	ROA	MDO Ret	NAZ 14	LS	MIA 13			35th	3
1989	Euromotorsport	PHX	LBH	INDY 7	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MIS	POC	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LS			22nd	6
1993	Euromotorsport	SRF	PHX	LBH	INDY 15	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MIS	NHM	ROA	VAN	MDO	NAZ	LS		43rd	0
1994	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	SRF Ret	PHX 12	LBH 14															31st	1
	King Racing				INDY Rpl	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MIS	MDO	NHM	VAN	ROA	NAZ	LS
1995	Dick Simon Racing	MIA	SRF	PHX	LBH	NAZ	INDY Ret	MIL	DET	POR	ROA	TOR	CLE	MIS	MDO	NHM	VAN	LS	43rd	0
1996	Galles Racing	MIA	RIO	SRF	LBH	NAZ	500	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MIS 12	MDO 16	ROA Ret	VAN 14	LS 14		31st	1

Indy Racing League

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points
1996	Galles Racing	WDW	PHX	INDY 2								26th	33
1996-1997	Galles Racing	NHM	LVS	WDW DNS	PHX	INDY	TXS	PPIR	CLT	NH2	LV2	NC	-
2000	Team Coulson	WDW	PHX	LVS	INDY DNQ	TXS	PPIR	ATL	KTY	TX2		NC	-

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
1987	March 86C	Ford Cosworth DFX	28	28	A.J. Foyt Enterprises
1989	Lola T88/00	Ford Cosworth DFX	31	7	Euromotorsport
1993	Lola T92/00	Chevrolet 265A	28	15	Euromotorsport
1994	Lola T94/00	Ford XB	Raced by S. Goodyear		King Racing
1995	Lola T95/00	Ford XB	32	23	Dick Simon Racing
1996	Lola T95/00	Mercedes-Benz IC108B	2	2	Galles Racing
2000	G-Force	Oldsmobile	DNQ		Team Coulson

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1988	C1	21	D	Jaguar XJR-9LM Jaguar 7.0L V12	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Danny Sullivan Price Cobb	331	16th	14th
1989	C1	3	D	Jaguar XJR-9LM Jaguar 7.0L V12	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Derek Daly Jeff Kline	85	DNF	DNF
1990	C1	4	G	Jaguar XJR-12 Jaguar 7.0L V12	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Michel Ferté Eliseo Salazar	282	DNF	DNF
1991	C2	35	G	Jaguar XJR-12 Jaguar 7.4L V12	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Raul Boesel Michel Ferté	360	2nd	2nd
1996	LMP1	7	G	TWR Porsche WSC-95 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	Joest Racing	Alexander Wurz Manuel Reuter	354	1st	1st

References

1. ^ 24 Hours of Daytona results
2. ^ Davy Jones Seriously Hurt In Wreck During Practice

Sporting positions
Preceded by Yannick Dalmas J.J. Lehto Masanori Sekiya	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1996 with: Manuel Reuter Alexander Wurz	Succeeded by Michele Alboreto Stefan Johansson Tom Kristensen

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Name	Jones, Davy
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Date of birth	June 1, 1964
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