Tommy Milner

Tommy Milner at 24 Hours of Le Mans 2006 Drivers' Parade

Nationality

American

Born

January 28, 1986 (age 30)
Washington, D.C., United States

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2006-2007, 2011-2016
Teams	Multimatic Motorsports, Team LNT, Corvette Racing
Best finish	11th overall (2011)
Class wins	2 (2011, 2015)

Tommy Milner (born January 28, 1986),^[1] is an American GM factory racing and test driver, currently also employed full-time in Corvette Racing. Tommy started karting at the age of 14 and began his career as a sports car driver in the 2004 and 2005 Grand-Am seasons. He drove for Panoz in 2006 and 2008 and for Rahal Letterman Racing in 2007, 2009 and 2010 in the American Le Mans Series. In 2010 he finished 3rd in the GT Driver's Championship. In 2011, he decided to make the switch to Corvette Racing. Currently he drives the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R with co-driver Oliver Gavin. In addition to driving for Corvette Racing in 2011 he also drove for Team Need for Speed Schubert at the 2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring.^[2]

The highlight of Tommy's career so far is a class victory at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans driving a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R with teammates Antonio García and Olivier Beretta.^[3] He also won his first American Le Mans Series race at the 2012 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach.^[4] In 2013 he took his first class victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2006	Multimatic Motorsport Team Panoz	Gunnar Jeannette Scott Maxwell	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	GT2	34	DNF	DNF
2007	Team LNT	Tom Kimber-Smith Danny Watts	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	GT2	60	DNF	DNF
2011	Corvette Racing	Olivier Beretta Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GTE Pro	314	11th	1st
2012	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Richard Westbrook	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GTE Pro	215	NC	NC
2013	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Richard Westbrook	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GTE Pro	309	22nd	7th
2014	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Richard Westbrook	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Pro	333	20th	4th
2015	Corvette Racing-GM	Oliver Gavin Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Pro	337	17th	1st
2016	Corvette Racing - GM	Oliver Gavin Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Pro	219	DNF	DNF

References

↑ "Corvette Racing Driver Profile: Tommy Milner". 2011-05-29.
↑ "DRIVERS BLOG>> SANDSTROM & MILNER AT THE NÜRBURGRING 24HR PT.I". 2011-07-12.
↑ "Corvette Racing Wins 24 Hours of Le Mans". 2011-06-11.
↑ "LONG BEACH GP 2012>>TOMMY MILNER'S FIRST ALMS WIN". 2012-04-19.

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