Chris Dyson

Chris Dyson
Nationality	American
Born	24 1978 (1978-Template:Pad2digit-Template:Pad2digit)
Related to	Rob Dyson (father)
Curent series	Trans Am Series
Current team	CD Racing
Car number	20
Starts	52
Wins	18
Poles	14
Previous series
Previous series years	FIA World Endurance Championship American Le Mans Series Rolex Sports Car Series Atlantic Championship

Chris Dyson
Years	2004, 2009, 2014
Teams	Racing for Holland, RML, Caterham Racing
Best finish	7th (2004)
Class wins	0

Chris Dyson
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
Total Busch Races	2
Years in Busch	2
Best Busch Pos	67th (2022)
First Busch Race	2019 B&L Transport 170 (Mid-Ohio)
Last Busch Race	2022 Henry 180 (Road America)
Busch Wins	0
Busch Top Tens	0
Busch Poles	0

Christopher Dyson (born February 24, 1978) is an American professional racing driver who competed in the American Le Mans Series for Dyson Racing from 2002 to 2013. He is currently competing in the Trans-Am Series in the TA class where he just clinched his second consecutive TA championship (2021-2022). The son of team owner Rob Dyson, Chris is a two-time ALMS champion, having taken the LMP675 Drivers title in 2003 and earning the LMP1 Championship in 2011. He is the Vice President and Sporting Director of Dyson Racing.

Racing career

Early career

Dyson began his racing career at the age of 17, competing in the Skip Barber Formula Dodge championship at Lime Rock Park.

Dyson drove in seven Atlantic Championship races in 2004 and 2005, earning a best finish of 4th at Long Beach in 2005.

Grand-Am

Dyson made his professional racing debut in the 2001 Grand American Road Racing Championship season, driving a Riley & Scott Mk III in the final two races of the season. In 2002, he finished second in the Grand-Am SRP1 points, winning five races.

He has since made sporadic starts in the Rolex Sports Car Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge.

American Le Mans Series

Dyson with his 2011 LMP1 championship trophy

Having made his American Le Mans Series debut at the 2002 12 Hours of Sebring, Dyson went on to drive full-time in the series one year later, teaming with Andy Wallace in their MG-Lola EX257. Dyson took four wins and the drivers championship in the LMP 675 class.

The 2004 season saw the MG-Lola reclassified into the LMP1 category against the Audi R8s; Dyson and Wallace scored 6 podiums in 8 races together. In 2005, he finished 2nd in the LMP1 drivers' championship, scoring 6 runner-up finishes.

Dyson finished 5th in driver points in 2006, with a best finish of 2nd at Mosport. Dyson also finished 4th at Laguna Seca with James Weaver, in Weaver's final race. 2007 saw Dyson team with Guy Smith in a Porsche RS Spyder; the pair finished 4th in points.

He finished 6th in points in 2008 and 5th in 2009. In 2010, he finished 4th in LMP1 points and won one race with Guy Smith.

In 2011, despite winning only one race, Dyson and Guy Smith won the LMP1 drivers' championship. In 2012, Dyson kicked off the season with a class victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring, debuting the new Lola B12/60 Mazda with Guy Smith and Steven Kane.

24 Hours of Le Mans

Dyson's first start came in the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans for Jan Lammers' Racing for Holland team with Lammers and Katsutomo Kaneishi, finishing 7th overall and 6th in the LMP1 class. Dyson returned to La Sarthe in the Le Mans for Ray Mallock, retiring after 19 hours.

NASCAR

In August 2019, Dyson joined DGM Racing to drive their No. 90 car in the NASCAR Xfinity Series' race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course as a road course ringer. He would start 27th and finish 34th after crashing out of the race. Dyson returned to NASCAR in 2022, driving for Emerling-Gase Motorsports in the Xfinity Series event at Road America.

Motorsports career results

24 Hours of Le Mans

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2004	Racing for Holland	Jan Lammers Katsutomo Kaneishi	Dome S101-Judd	LMP1	341	7th	6th
2009	RML	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	Lola B08/86-Mazda	LMP2	273	DNF	DNF
2014	Caterham Racing	Tom Kimber-Smith Matt McMurry	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	329	25th	11th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2013	Greaves Motorsport	LMP2	Zytek Z11SN	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 5	SPA DNS	LMS	SÃO	COA 5	FUJ	SHA	BHR	18th	20
2019–20	Team LNT	LMP1	Ginetta G60-LT-P1	AER P60C 2.4 L Turbo V6	SIL	FUJ	SHA	BHR Ret	COA	SPA	LMS	BHR	25th	0

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	NXSC	Pts	Ref
2019	DGM Racing	90	Chevy	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	IOW	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA	IOW	GLN	MOH 34	BRI	ROA	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH	CLT	DOV	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM	104th	01
2022	Emerling-Gase Motorsports	35	Toyota	DAY	CAL	LVS	PHO	ATL	COA	RCH	MAR	TAL	DOV	DAR	TEX	CLT	PIR	NSH	ROA 28	ATL	NHA	POC	IND	MCH	GLN	DAY	DAR	KAN	BRI	TEX	TAL	CLT	LVS	HOM	MAR	PHO	67th	9

¹ Ineligible for series points

External links

• Dyson Racing bio
• Chris Dyson driver statistics at Racing-Reference

Sporting positions Preceded by: Jon Field American Le Mans Series LMP675 champion 2003 Succeeded by: Ian James (LMP2) Preceded by: David Brabham Simon Pagenaud American Le Mans Series LMP1 champion 2011 with Guy Smith Succeeded by: Klaus Graf Lucas Luhr (P1) Template:DGM Racing This page uses some content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Chris Dyson. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Autopedia, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.