There are not many people who can claim to be a champion in two different disciplines, but British sporting legend Sir Chris Hoy is one of a very select few who can make that claim.
Chris Hoy is an eleven-time track World Cycling Champion and six-time Olympic Gold medallist, the first British athlete to win three golds at the same Games in over 100 years, before retiring from competitive cycling in 2013.
Chris then turned to another challenge, endurance racing.He set himself the goal of competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016 and after competing in national championships, he joined the European Le Mans Series grid in 2015, driving a Ginetta-Nissan for Team LNT alongside fellow Scot Charlie Robertson in the inaugural season of LMP3.
He quickly found his feet and the team got their championship bid off to a great start by posting a win in the first race on home ground at Silverstone, finishing a lap ahead of their nearest rivals.
Robertson took the first pole position of the season at Imola but a DNF after 108 laps saw the team come away from Italy with that single point.
However, that was the low point of the season and the final three races at the Red Bull Ring, Le Castellet and Estoril saw a clean sweep of pole position and victory for Chris Hoy and Charlie Robertson to be crowned as the first ever ELMS LMP3 Champions.
In 2016 Hoy moved up to LMP2 with Algarve Pro Racing as he prepared to compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.Racing alongside Michael Munemann and Parth Ghorpade at Silverstone the no25 Ligier JS P2-Nissan finished 10that the end of the four-hour race.
Round 2 was at Imola and the location for Chris Hoy’s only DNF the previous season.Unfortunately, history did repeat itself and the team recorded another DNF after completing 90 laps of the 121 that the winners recorded.
The next race for the team was the 84thedition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the culmination of his hard work for Chris Hoy.With 23 LMP2s entered, the grid was highly competitive.Munemann and Hoy were joined in the Ligier-Nissan by Andrea Pizzitola, who would go on to become the ELMS LMP2 Drivers Champion in 2018.
After battling hard twice around the clock, the no25 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier took the chequered flag in 12th place in LMP2 and Chris Hoy had fulfilled his dream of competing at Le Mans. He didn’t compete in the rest of the ELMS that season.
Chris Hoy is an eleven-time track World Cycling Champion and six-time Olympic Gold medallist, the first British athlete to win three golds at the same Games in over 100 years, before retiring from competitive cycling in 2013.
Chris then turned to another challenge, endurance racing.He set himself the goal of competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016 and after competing in national championships, he joined the European Le Mans Series grid in 2015, driving a Ginetta-Nissan for Team LNT alongside fellow Scot Charlie Robertson in the inaugural season of LMP3.
He quickly found his feet and the team got their championship bid off to a great start by posting a win in the first race on home ground at Silverstone, finishing a lap ahead of their nearest rivals.
Robertson took the first pole position of the season at Imola but a DNF after 108 laps saw the team come away from Italy with that single point.
However, that was the low point of the season and the final three races at the Red Bull Ring, Le Castellet and Estoril saw a clean sweep of pole position and victory for Chris Hoy and Charlie Robertson to be crowned as the first ever ELMS LMP3 Champions.
In 2016 Hoy moved up to LMP2 with Algarve Pro Racing as he prepared to compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.Racing alongside Michael Munemann and Parth Ghorpade at Silverstone the no25 Ligier JS P2-Nissan finished 10that the end of the four-hour race.
Round 2 was at Imola and the location for Chris Hoy’s only DNF the previous season.Unfortunately, history did repeat itself and the team recorded another DNF after completing 90 laps of the 121 that the winners recorded.
The next race for the team was the 84thedition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the culmination of his hard work for Chris Hoy.With 23 LMP2s entered, the grid was highly competitive.Munemann and Hoy were joined in the Ligier-Nissan by Andrea Pizzitola, who would go on to become the ELMS LMP2 Drivers Champion in 2018.
After battling hard twice around the clock, the no25 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier took the chequered flag in 12th place in LMP2 and Chris Hoy had fulfilled his dream of competing at Le Mans. He didn’t compete in the rest of the ELMS that season.
