Team Jota
Sportscar Team
Jota Sport has been formed as a new division of highly established and successful British sportscar racing outfit, Team Jota.
The Kent-based squad adds to its Le Mans programme this year to contest a full season of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB as well as selected rounds of the Mobil 1 Porsche Supercup, ahead of a full-season graduation to the Formula One-support series in 2009.
Jota was created in 2000 by materials engineer and racing driver Sam Hignett and successful businessman John Stack and has enjoyed a period of rapid growth and expansion throughout the past eight years.
The team have built an impressive record in sportscars, running works' programmes for Zytek in both the American and European-based Le Mans Series' and at the Le Mans 24 Hours. They boast podiums in the LMP1 and LMP2 divisions of both championships and will again race at La Sarthe and in the LMS in 2008, alongside its Carrera Cup GB campaign.
They have worked with drivers of the calibre of ex-Formula One racers Stefan Johansson, Jan Lammers and Alex Yoong and sportscar stars Stefan Mucke, Sam Hancock, John Nielsen and Casper Elgaard.
Team Jota Timeline. From 2000 to date...
| 2008 |
Charouz Lola LMP1 Le Mans Endurance Series, Monza Le Mans 24 Hours Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain - 2 Cars |
| 2007 |
Charouz Lola LMP1 Le Mans Endurance Series, 2nd Valencia, Fastest Qualifying Petrol Car (Nurburgring, Spa, Silverstone) Le Mans 24 Hours, 8th Overall 5th in LMP1 Zytek Factory Programme ALMS Petit Le Mans 3rd LMP2, 4th Overall |
| 2006 |
Employed to run the Zytek Factory programme Le Mans Endurance Series, Zytek 06S, 3rd Spa 1000kms Le Mans 24 Hours American Le Mans Series, 2nd Petit Le Mans, Pole Laguna Seca |
| 2005 |
Le Mans Endurance Series, Zytek 04S. 6th in LMP1 2nd Overall Monza 1000kms Le Mans 24 Hours, 5th overall at 22 hours before gearbox retirement |
| 2004 |
Le Mans Endurance Series, Zytek 04S. 6th in LMP1 |
| 2003 |
FIA Sportscar Championship, Pilbeam SR2. 3rd in Championship |
| 2002 |
FIA Sportscar Championship, Pilbeam SR2. 2nd in Championship |
| 2001 |
Renault V6 Clio Trophy, most successful British Team ever to compete in this championship Nurburgring 24 Hours, Honda Integra |
| 2000 |
Spa 24 Hours & Nurburgring 24 Hours, Honda Integra |
