Jody Firth
| Jody Firth | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born |
11 July 1981 Wakefield (England) |
| British GT career | |
| Debut season | 2009 |
| Former teams |
Team WFR Century Motorsport |
| Starts | 27 |
| Championships | 1: 2009 (GT4) |
| Wins | 11 |
| Best finish | 1st (GT4) in 2009 |
| Previous series | |
|
2009–2012 2012 2012 2011–2012 2011 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2009 2005 2004 |
ELMS WEC ALMS 24 Hours of Le Mans SPEED EuroSeries FLM SPEED UK Series Ginetta G50 Cup GT4 European Cup MR2 Racing Series Nippon Challenge British Formula Renault Formula Renault UK Winter Series |
| Championship titles | |
| 2011 2010 2009 |
SPEED EuroSeries SPEED UK Series (CN) British GT (GT4) |
| Last updated on: 7 July 2013. | |
Jody Firth (born 11 July 1981) is a British racing driver, who most recently competed in the British GT Championship.
Having raced in a number of lower formulae, Firth has competed in the British GT Championship, the European Le Mans Series, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the FIA World Endurance Championship, the SPEED EuroSeries and the American Le Mans Series. He won the GT4 category of the British GT Championship in 2009, and has since won the SPEED UK Series in 2010, and the SPEED EuroSeries in 2011
Firth, born in Wakefield, England, started his career in karting, finishing sixth in the Lincolnshire Kart Racing Club Rotax Max Senior in 2003, and nineteenth in the Lincolnshire Kart Racing Club Winter Series Rotax Max Senior in 2004. He made his car racing debut in 2004, entering the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series, driving for Embassy Racing, and he finished fourteenth overall. He then competed in twelve rounds of the Formula Renault 2.0 UK in 2005 for Team JLR, without great success; finishing 26th overall. He became team manager of Embassy Racing in mid-2005, and stepped back from driving.
Firth returned to the cockpit in April 2009, partnering Nigel Moore in the British GT Championship, driving for Team WFR in a GT4-class Ginetta G50. However, his first professional race since 2005 actually came in the Ginetta G50 Cup season opener at the Brands Hatch Indy Circuit, driving for Hepworth International, with his best finish of the weekend being a fifth place in the second race. His first race in the British GT was the 2009 season's opening event, held at Oulton Park, where he and Moore finished eighth in race one, and ninth in race two, taking the GT4 class victory in both races. He and Moore were then entered in the Silverstone round of the GT4 European Cup, taking a victory in race one, before retiring in race two. Moore and Firth entered all eight rounds of the British GT Championship in 2009, with their best overall finish being seventh. The pair were GT4 class champions for that year, taking eleven class victories in total. During the season, Firth also entered two rounds of the MR2 Racing Series, driving a first-generation Toyota MR-2 prepared by Dave Hemingway. He qualified on pole, and won one of the two races he entered, taking the fastest lap. He also drove for Team WFR alongside Warren Hughes and Darren Manning in the 1000 km of Silverstone, part of the Le Mans Series, entering an Embassy WF01-Zytek in the LMP2 category, and finished fourth in class.
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