Jonathan Lewis (motorsport)

Jonathan Lewis resides in Attleborough, Norfolk. Well known for his long career in motorsport management where during the 1980s he was the championship winning works Van Diemen FF1600 Formula Ford team boss, Lewis has made regular appearances on television throughout his career including a spot on BBC2 Top Gear motoring programme where he ran presenter Richard Hammond in a Comtec Racing Formula Renault racing car then later a Renault R25 Formula One racing car.

Jonathan’s early career on the Yorkshire grass tracks set him on course to winning the National Mini Se7en Championship at the age of 19, as well as stints with the Monoposto Racing Club. After climbing out of the cockpit and into team management he headed the all-conquering works Van Diemen Formula Ford team before forming Comtec Racing. In 2006 headed by Lewis Comtec Racing won the World Series by Renault Championship, with driver Alx Danielsson. Since the works Van Diemen FF1600 racing team dissolved, as new team owner Lewis took responsibility for the newly christened Comtec Racing operation with partner Pierre Moncheur and had ex Formula One driver Martin Donnelly as Driver Development Manager amongst his other staff.

Lewis also had stints entering single seater racing drivers in Formula Vauxhall Lotus, Vauxhall Junior and in the early 1990s Formula Three with Jim Lee Racing based at the Yorkshire teams then headquarters in Batley near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where the Lewis family made home at the time.

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