Multimatic Motorsports
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Motorsport |
Founded | 1992 |
Headquarters | Markham, Ontario Canada |
Key people | Larry Holt, Team Principal Sean Mason, Team Manager |
Website | [1] |
Multimatic Motorsports is the competition arm of
In late 2015, the Markham, Ontario organization set up Multimatic Motorsports Europe in Greatworth Park, UK, as a stand-alone base for its
Having developed the Ford Mustang GT4 with support from its parent division Multimatic Engineering, Multimatic Motorsports currently constructs, sells and provides support for the globally homologated Mustang GT4 for Ford Performance from Multimatic Technical Centre in Markham, Ontario.
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
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
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
2010 – Tasked by
2011 – Multimatic Motorsports returned to the
2012 – Multimatic Motorsports celebrated its 20th anniversary by launching the largest racing program in its history [9]; campaigning four cars in the
Also during 2012, Multimatic Motorsports debuted the turn-key
2013 – Multimatic Motorsports continued its
2014 – Multimatic Motorsports reverted to its previously campaigned Ford Mustang Boss 302Rs for the
2015 – Multimatic Motorsports continued with Ford Mustang Boss 302Rs for the first three rounds of the
2016 – Multimatic Motorsports won the 2016
2017 – Multimatic Motorsports did not contest the 2017 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. Instead, the company focused on homologating and constructing the new-for-2017 Mustang GT4 for use by customer teams in worldwide GT4 competition. Multimatic Motorsports Europe continued to field a two-car Ford GT team under the
2018 – Multimatic Motorsports continued to supply Mustang GT4 cars to teams competing globally in the GT4-class while Multimatic Motorsports Europe again fielded a two-car Ford GT team under the
2019 - Multimatic Motorsports made a double car entry in the GT4 class for the 2019 British GT Championship with Canadian driver Scott Maxwell and Sebastian Priaulx, son of 3-time WTCC Andy.[8] The second car was to be driven by the American duo of NASCAR driver Chad McCumbee and Jade Buford.[9] Maxwell and Priaulx started the first two races by claiming both pole positions and the win in race 2 while McCumbee and Buford finished 4th and 8th respectively. The team later had Harrison Newey, son of Formula One engineer Adrian Newey, Olympic cyclist champion Chris Hoy, Jack Roush, Jr., son of NASCAR team owner and hall of frame inductee Jack Roush and 3-time World Touring Car champion Andy Priaulx.
Maxwell and Priaulx were in contention for the GT4 title, going into the final round at Donington Park, against TF Sport's Tom Canning and Ashley Hand. The sister car of Ashley Davies and Marco Signoretti retired after a collision on the formation lap. The number 15 car managed to get into 2nd place in GT4 but it wasn't enough to seal the title and they finished 2nd 8.5 points behind.[10] Throughout the season, Chris Hoy, Billy Johnson, Chad McCumbee, Jade Buford, Richard Meaden and Jack Roush, Jr. all scored points for the team but Multimatic Motorsports only just clinched 3rd in the teams' standings tied on points with HHC Motorsport.
Past drivers
Greg Biffle, Sébastien Bourdais, David Brabham, Kurt Busch, Patrick Dempsey, Pipo Derani, Milka Duno, David Empringham, John Farano, Joe Foster, Marino Franchitti, John Gaw, John Graham, James Gue, Ian James, Gunnar Jeannette, Billy Johnson, Bruno Junqueira, Tõnis Kasemets, Matt Kenseth, Andy Lally, Nick Mancuso, Michael Marsal, Scott Maxwell, Tommy Milner, Frankie Montecalvo, Stefan Mücke, Anthony Polito, Chris Porritt, Olivier Pla, Andy Priaulx, Sebastian Priaulx, Jason Priestley, Bret Seafuse, Marco Signoretti, Danny Sullivan, Harry Tincknell, Harri Toivonen, Greg Wilkins, Chad McCumbee, Marco Signoretti, Jade Buford, Dirk Mueller, Denis Olsen, Christopher Mies, Joey Hand, Mike Rockenfeller, Austin Cindric, Patrick Gallagher
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship wins
# | Season | Date | Classes | Track / Race | No. | Winning Drivers | Chassis | Engine |
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1 | 2020 | July 4 | (DPi) | Daytona | 55 | Jonathan Bomarito / Harry Tincknell | Mazda RT24-P | I4
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2 | 2020 | November 14 | (DPi) | Sebring | 55 | Jonathan Bomarito / Ryan Hunter-Reay / Harry Tincknell | Mazda RT24-P | I4
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3 | 2021 | June 27 | (DPi) | Watkins Glen | 55 | Jonathan Bomarito / Oliver Jarvis / Harry Tincknell | Mazda RT24-P | I4
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4 | 2021 | November 13 | (DPi) | Road Atlanta | 55 | Jonathan Bomarito / Oliver Jarvis / Harry Tincknell | Mazda RT24-P | I4
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References
- ^ "Multimatic Motorsports Europe - TXM Academy". TXM Academy. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
- ^ "911 GT3 Cup (Type 996) – Racing cars / Racing components – Motorsports – Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG". 2007-11-11. Archived from the original on November 11, 2007. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
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- ^ "GS Grand Sport". IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. INTERNATIONAL MOTOR SPORTS ASSOCIATION, LLC. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ "Multimatic Motorsports Europe – TXM Academy". TXM Academy. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
- ^ "Ford Takes Emphatic 1-2 Victory in Japan". performance.ford.com. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
- ^ "Multimatic Motorsports Mustangs Mustered For 2019 British GT Championship". Dailysportscar. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- ^ "Multimatic confirms Buford and McCumbee for second Mustang". British GT. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ "GT4: Steller take victory but it's Canning and Hand's title at #DoningtonDecider". britishgt.com. 15 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.