Alex Job Racing
Founded | 1988 |
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Team principal(s) | Alex Job |
Current series | 2013 ) |
Alex Job Racing is a former professional
Early history
Alex Job Racing was established in 1988 by Alex and Holly Job at their home in Florida. Alex Job raced sports cars, beginning with a Porsche 356 in 1969 and in 1976 competed in the 24 Hours of Daytona. After finishing second at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1991, Alex Job moved the team into a commercial shop and then retired from racing the following year.
American Le Mans Series
1999 (Privateer Team)
In 1999, for the inaugural season of
2000–06 (factory support)
For the 2000 season, the team ran the new 996 GT3-R chassis. Claiming victories at
The 2001 season saw even more success for the team. Claiming three straight victories in the first three races, the team finished second to the BMW Motorsport team in the increasingly competitive GT category.[4] Drivers Lucas Luhr and Sascha Maassen finished third and fourth in the Drivers' Championship.[5]
The team’s hard work[
The 2003 season would see record-breaking success from the Alex Job Racing team. With the same driver line-up as the previous season, the team would win all but one race at Road America and claim pole position and set the fastest race lap at every event. The team finished the season first in the GT Teams’ Championship with drivers Maassen and Luhr first and Bernhard and Bergmeister second in the Drivers’ Championship. The team also helped develop Porsche's sequential gearbox that would be used on all cars worldwide the following year.
The 2004 season would see even tougher competition for the team.
2005 saw a shift for the team, running only a single factory-supported car piloted by Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas. The second car was driven by Ian Baas and Darren Law. Having scored no points at the season opening 12 Hours of Sebring, the team won four races in a row at Mid-Ohio, Lime Rock, Infineon, and Portland. By season's end they would finish second in the GT2 Teams' Championship behind the Petersen/White Lightning group.
The Alex Job Racing team ran only a single car, piloted for the majority of the season by
2010-13 (customer program)
In 2010 the team return to competition in the American Le Mans Series with a customer program in the newly formed GT Challenge class. Bill Sweedler and Romeo Kapudija would compete together in a full season effort with Juan González and Butch Leitzinger competing in a second car for the first four races. González and Leitzinger, with the help of Leh Keen would score a victory at the season opening 12 Hours of Sebring followed by a second win at Long Beach. The team would finish the season second in the GTC Teams' Championship with full season drivers Sweedler and Kapudija fifth and sixth, respectively, in the Drivers' Championship.
The team only ran a single car driven by Bill Sweedler and Leh Keen for the 2011 season with Brian Wong and Butch Leitzinger substituting for Keen at certain races. The team faced tough competition[citation needed] from Tim Pappas and the Black Swan Racing Team. With three second-place finishes, the team finished second in the GTC Teams' Championship with Bill Sweedler fourth in the Drivers' Championship.
The 2012 season saw Alex Job Racing compete in both the GTC class with a Cooper MacNeil and
The 2013 season would be the final season of the
Rolex Sports Car Series
In 2006, the Alex Job Racing team competed for the first time in the
In 2007, the team's second full season of competition, drivers
In 2008 would claim two podium finishes as well as three top-five and seven top-ten results. Full season drivers Bill Auberlen and Joey Hand would finish outside the top ten in the Daytona Prototype Drivers' Championship.
United SportsCar Championship
With the merging of the
References
- ^ 1999 ALMS Teams' Championship Results 1999
- ^ 2000 ALMS Teams' Championship Results 2000
- ^ 2000 ALMS Drivers' Championship Results 2000
- ^ 2001 ALMS Teams' Championship Results 2001
- ^ 2001 ALMS Drivers' Championship Results[permanent dead link] 2001
- ^ a b 2012 ALMS Drivers’ Championship Results 2012
- ^ a b 2012 ALMS Teams’ Championship Results 2012
- ^ a b 2013 ALMS Drivers Championship Results[permanent dead link] 2013
- ^ a b 2013 ALMS Teams’ Championship Results 2013
- ^ Dagys, John (November 5, 2013) Seattle, Alex Job Racing to field Porsche GT America
- ^ Dagys, John (November 7, 2013) Job Racing Confirms MacNeil, Keen in GTD Porsche