Kevin McGarrity

Kevin McGarrity (born 3 August 1973) is a Northern Irish racing driver from Belfast.

McGarrity won the Formula Ford Festival in 1995 after finishing second in the British Formula Ford series. He was nominated for the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award but it went to fellow Northern Ireland driver Jonny Kane. In 1996 he drove in Formula Opel and the following year he drove in the British Formula Three Championship where he finished 10th. In 1998 he moved up to Formula 3000 where he competed in the first five races for Raceprep Motorsport and rounds 7 through 9 for Nordic Racing. He competed full-time in 1999 for Nordic Racing and finished 10th in points despite only finishing in the points once, finishing on the podium in second in the season opener at Imola. He returned to the team and series in 2000, this time with teammate Justin Wilson. He finished 20th in points with a best finish of 4th at Monaco. In 2001 he left formula cars for sports car racing and drove in the 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans for the MG factory team, but the car failed to finish. He drove the same car in 2002 but the result was the same. He returned to the race in 2004 driving a Bioethanol powered Reynard-Judd for Team Nasamax, finishing the race 17th overall. He drove part-time in the Le Mans Series in 2006. He then joined McLaren Automotive as full-time test driver for the new McLaren car project the MP4-12C from the start of the project.[1]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2001	MG Sport & Racing Ltd.	Julian Bailey Mark Blundell	MG-Lola EX257	LMP675	92	DNF	DNF
2002	MG Sport & Racing Ltd.	Julian Bailey Mark Blundell	MG-Lola EX257	LMP675	219	DNF	DNF
2004	Team Nasamax McNeil Engineering	Robbie Stirling Werner Lupberger	Nasamax DM139-Judd	LMP1	316	17th	7th

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
1998	Raceprep Motorsport	OSC DNQ	IMO 14	CAT 27	SIL Ret	MON DNQ	PAU							16th	3
	Nordic Racing							A1R	HOC 4	HUN Ret	SPA	PER	NÜR
1999	Nordic Racing	IMO 2	MON DNQ	CAT 9	MAG Ret	SIL 23	A1R DNQ	HOC 15	HUN 10	SPA Ret	NÜR 7			11th	6
2000	Nordic Racing	IMO 15	SIL Ret	CAT Ret	NÜR Ret	MON 4	MAG 15	A1R DNQ	HOC 11	HUN Ret	SPA DNQ			21st	3

References

1. Kevin McGarrity - career detail, Driver Database, Retrieved 2010-07-01