Multimatic Motorsports
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Multimatic Motorsports is the competition arm of Multimatic
's Engineering Services Group. Founded in 1992, the team has competed in the Firestone Firehawk Series, Motorola Cup, IMSA Sports Car Championship, Grand American Road Racing Association
, American Le Mans Series
, Grand-Am Cup, Rolex Sports Car Series
, KONI Sports Car Challenge and the 24 Hours of Le Mans
1993 - Won the Sports Class of the Canadian Endurance Road Racing Championship. Scott Maxwell won a second straight National Driver's Championship.
1995 - Engineered, developed and built an IMSA GTS class Mustang tube frame car which finished on the podium in its first outing at Lime Rock Park. Also won the four door sedan class of the Car & Driver One Lap of America
with a Ford Aluminum Intensive Vehicle (AIV).
1999 - Won Ford its first ever Manufacturer's Championship in showroom stock racing while campaigning three Ford Mustang Cobras in the Motorola Cup North American Street Stock Championship.
2000 - Entered the 2000 24 Hours of Le Mans
with a Lola B2K/40
using a Multimatic
designed and built chassis. Multimatic Motorsports and drivers Scott Maxwell, David Empringham and Greg Wilkins won the LMP675 class. This is the only time a Canadian motorsports organization has won at the French endurance classic.http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans/pages/historique_gb.html
2002 - Won the Grand Am Cup Championship campaigning two Porsche Supercup
cars on behalf of Doncaster Racing. Scott Maxwell won the Driver's Championship.http://admin.grand-am.com/assets/KONI%20Team%20Points2002.pdf
2003 - Inaugural Daytona Prototype class winner at the 24 Hours of Daytona
with the Ford Focus Daytona Prototype race car - designed, engineered and built by Multimatic.
2005 - Won the Grand Am Cup Championship campaigning the Multimatic designed, built and developed Ford Mustang FR500C. Multimatic driver David Empringham
won the Driver's Championship.http://admin.grand-am.com/assets/KONI%20Driver%20Points2005.pdf
2006 - GT2 class winner at the 2006 12 Hours of Sebring
competing as Multimatic Motorsports Team Panoz with a Panoz Esperante
GTLM.http://www.americanlemans.com/results/2006/2006_01ALMS_SebringRaceOfficialRace.pdf
2008 - Won the KONI Sports Car Challenge campaigning two Ford Mustang FR500C cars on behalf of Hyper Sport Racing. Scott Maxwell won the Driver's Championship with Joe Foster. http://admin.grand-am.com/assets/KONI%20Driver%20Points2008.pdf
2010 - Tasked by Ford Racing
to engineer and build the new Mustang Boss 302R race car. Campaigned a two-car entry in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge GS class for drivers Scott Maxwell, Joe Foster, Frank Montecalvo and Gunnar Jeannette. The duo of Maxwell and Foster posted three poles during the season (Barber, VIR and Trois-Rivieres). http://www.grand-am.com/schedule/index.cfm?series=k&cat_id=91 Race results were hampered due to reliability issues with the new car.
2011 - Multimatic Motorsports returned to the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge with the #15 Mustang Boss 302R race car. Off season development by the team and Ford Racing
made the car competitive in the GS class - Foster and Maxwell won at Barber and finished second at Daytona. http://www.grand-am.com/schedule/index.cfm?series=k&cat_id=148
, David Empringham
, David Brabham
, Sébastien Bourdais
, Gunnar Jeanette, John Graham, Greg Wilkins, Tom Milner, James Gue, Frank Montecalvo, Joe Foster, Andy Lally
, Bruno Junqueira
, Kurt Busch
, Matt Kenseth
and Greg Biffle
have all driven for Multimatic Motorsports.
Multimatic
Multimatic Inc is a privately held Canadian corporation supplying components, systems and services to the global automotive industry.The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada, and has operating divisions in North America and Europe with partners in Asia, South...
's Engineering Services Group. Founded in 1992, the team has competed in the Firestone Firehawk Series, Motorola Cup, IMSA Sports Car Championship, Grand American Road Racing Association
Grand American Road Racing Association
GRAND-AM Road Racing or GRAND-AM is an auto racing sanctioning body that was established in 1999 to organize road racing competitions in North America...
, American Le Mans Series
American Le Mans Series
The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón is a sports car racing series based in the United States and Canada. It consists of a series of endurance and sprint races, and was created in the spirit of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Teams compete in one of five classes: LMP1, LMP2 and LMPC...
, Grand-Am Cup, Rolex Sports Car Series
Rolex Sports Car Series
The Rolex Sports Car Series is the premier series run by the Grand American Road Racing Association. It is a North American-based sports car series that was founded in 2000 under the name Grand American Road Racing Championship to replace the failed United States Road Racing Championship...
, KONI Sports Car Challenge and the 24 Hours of Le Mans
24 Hours of Le Mans
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is the world's oldest sports car race in endurance racing, held annually since near the town of Le Mans, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency, race teams have to balance speed against the cars' ability to run for 24 hours without sustaining...
Multimatic Motorsports Racing Results
1992 - Won the Sports Class of the Canadian Firestone Firehawk Championship in the team's first year of competition. Scott Maxwell joined the team as primary driver of a factory supported Ford Taurus SHO. Maxwell won the Driver's Championship by a 600 point margin.1993 - Won the Sports Class of the Canadian Endurance Road Racing Championship. Scott Maxwell won a second straight National Driver's Championship.
1995 - Engineered, developed and built an IMSA GTS class Mustang tube frame car which finished on the podium in its first outing at Lime Rock Park. Also won the four door sedan class of the Car & Driver One Lap of America
One Lap of America
The One Lap of America is a motorsports event in the United States that has been held since 1984. It is the successor to the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an underground auto race of the 1970s...
with a Ford Aluminum Intensive Vehicle (AIV).
1999 - Won Ford its first ever Manufacturer's Championship in showroom stock racing while campaigning three Ford Mustang Cobras in the Motorola Cup North American Street Stock Championship.
2000 - Entered the 2000 24 Hours of Le Mans
2000 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 2000 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 68th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on June 17 and 18 2000.-Pre-race:After the 1999 race, most of the manufacturers in the top classes went in different directions. BMW and Toyota went into Formula One, while Mercedes-Benz left sportscars after the CLR...
with a Lola B2K/40
Lola B2K/40
The Lola B2K/40 was a Le Mans Prototype developed in 2000 by Lola Cars International as a cheaper, smaller, and lighter alternative to the similar Lola B2K/10...
using a Multimatic
Multimatic
Multimatic Inc is a privately held Canadian corporation supplying components, systems and services to the global automotive industry.The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada, and has operating divisions in North America and Europe with partners in Asia, South...
designed and built chassis. Multimatic Motorsports and drivers Scott Maxwell, David Empringham and Greg Wilkins won the LMP675 class. This is the only time a Canadian motorsports organization has won at the French endurance classic.http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans/pages/historique_gb.html
2002 - Won the Grand Am Cup Championship campaigning two Porsche Supercup
Porsche Supercup
The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup is the international motor racing series supporting the FIA Formula One World Championship organized by Porsche AG....
cars on behalf of Doncaster Racing. Scott Maxwell won the Driver's Championship.http://admin.grand-am.com/assets/KONI%20Team%20Points2002.pdf
2003 - Inaugural Daytona Prototype class winner at the 24 Hours of Daytona
24 Hours of Daytona
The 24 Hours of Daytona, currently known as the Rolex 24 Daytona for sponsorship reasons, is a 24-hour sports car endurance race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is run on a combined road course, utilizing portions of the NASCAR tri-oval and an infield...
with the Ford Focus Daytona Prototype race car - designed, engineered and built by Multimatic.
2005 - Won the Grand Am Cup Championship campaigning the Multimatic designed, built and developed Ford Mustang FR500C. Multimatic driver David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...
won the Driver's Championship.http://admin.grand-am.com/assets/KONI%20Driver%20Points2005.pdf
2006 - GT2 class winner at the 2006 12 Hours of Sebring
2006 12 Hours of Sebring
The 2006 12 Hours of Sebring was the 54th running of this event, and took place on March 18, 2006. The race was sponsored by Mobil 1 and was the opening race of the 2006 American Le Mans Series season run by IMSA....
competing as Multimatic Motorsports Team Panoz with a Panoz Esperante
Panoz Esperante
The Esperante is a sports car made by Panoz, an American car manufacturer.There are several models of the Esperante: the base model, the GT, the GTLM, the GTS, and the JRD . Additionally, Panoz is more than willing to work with the buyer to make special modifications to any of the stock models...
GTLM.http://www.americanlemans.com/results/2006/2006_01ALMS_SebringRaceOfficialRace.pdf
2008 - Won the KONI Sports Car Challenge campaigning two Ford Mustang FR500C cars on behalf of Hyper Sport Racing. Scott Maxwell won the Driver's Championship with Joe Foster. http://admin.grand-am.com/assets/KONI%20Driver%20Points2008.pdf
2010 - Tasked by Ford Racing
Ford Racing
Ford Racing is the Ford Motor Company's racing division and the multinational name used for its motorsport activity.-History:* 1896 - Henry Ford reached a top speed of 20 mph in his first car, Quadricycle....
to engineer and build the new Mustang Boss 302R race car. Campaigned a two-car entry in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge GS class for drivers Scott Maxwell, Joe Foster, Frank Montecalvo and Gunnar Jeannette. The duo of Maxwell and Foster posted three poles during the season (Barber, VIR and Trois-Rivieres). http://www.grand-am.com/schedule/index.cfm?series=k&cat_id=91 Race results were hampered due to reliability issues with the new car.
2011 - Multimatic Motorsports returned to the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge with the #15 Mustang Boss 302R race car. Off season development by the team and Ford Racing
Ford Racing
Ford Racing is the Ford Motor Company's racing division and the multinational name used for its motorsport activity.-History:* 1896 - Henry Ford reached a top speed of 20 mph in his first car, Quadricycle....
made the car competitive in the GS class - Foster and Maxwell won at Barber and finished second at Daytona. http://www.grand-am.com/schedule/index.cfm?series=k&cat_id=148
Drivers
Scott MaxwellScott Maxwell
Scott Maxwell , is a Canadian auto racing driver.Scott has competed and won titles in Formula Vee , Formula Ford 1600 , Canadian National Showroom Stock and Grand-Am . He also contested the Canadian GM Challenge, Porsche Cup and Pro Formula Ford 2000 series from 1986 through 1990...
, David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...
, David Brabham
David Brabham
David Brabham is an Australian racing driver and one of the most successful and experienced specialists in sports car racing. He has won three international Sports Car series and is one of four Australians to have won the Le Mans 24 Hour sports car race, winning the event in...
, Sébastien Bourdais
Sébastien Bourdais
Sébastien Olivier Bourdais is a French race car driver. He is one of the most successful drivers in the history of the Champ Car World Series, having won four successive championships from 2004 to 2007....
, Gunnar Jeanette, John Graham, Greg Wilkins, Tom Milner, James Gue, Frank Montecalvo, Joe Foster, Andy Lally
Andy Lally
Andrew Lally is an American race car driver and Street Luge racer. Although Lally has driven partial schedules in all three of NASCAR's premier series he is best known for his road racing expertise in the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series as well as the American Le Mans Series...
, Bruno Junqueira
Bruno Junqueira
Bruno Junqueira is a Brazilian race car driver that most recently competed in the IRL IndyCar Series. He is a former Formula 3000 champion and three-time runner-up in the Champ Car World Series.-Early career:...
, Kurt Busch
Kurt Busch
Kurt Thomas Busch is an American NASCAR and NHRA driver. He drives the No. 22 Shell Oil Company/Pennzoil Dodge Charger in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and will race on an "opportunity permitting" basis in the Pro Stock division of NHRA...
, Matt Kenseth
Matt Kenseth
Matthew Roy "Matt" Kenseth is an American stock car driver. Kenseth currently drives the No. 17 Crown Royal Ford Fusion in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for Roush Fenway Racing...
and Greg Biffle
Greg Biffle
Gregory Jack "Greg" Biffle is a NASCAR driver who drives the #16 3M Ford Fusion for Roush Fenway Racing in the Sprint Cup Series. After racing in the NASCAR Winter Heat Series in the mid-90s, he was recommended to Jack Roush by former announcer Benny Parsons...
have all driven for Multimatic Motorsports.