John Martin (Australian racing driver)

John Martin is an Australian professional racing driver. Martin has had wide experience racing in European based open-wheel series since 2006. In that time Martin has had a wide experience of open-wheel racing having driven in various national and international series driving Formula Ford, Formula 3, A1 Grand Prix and Formula Renault 3.5. For the past two season Martin has raced for several teams in the football inspired series Superleague Formula. Martin has long been associated with the British Alan Docking Racing team having raced with them in a variety of formulae for four of the five years he has been racing in Europe. In 2012 Martin will again race with ADR, racing an Oreca 03 sports car in the LMP2 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Career

2004: Pole and 2nd at Australian Resa nationals ; 2nd in Queensland, Australian Rotax light ; 2nd in Queensland, Australian clubman heavy and 4th in senior national heavy
2003: Geelong Ford Kartstars championships, Australia
2002: 1st in Resa Queensland state championship
2001: 5th in Resa nationals

Martin finished 28th in the 2007 Masters of Formula 3. He joined A1 Team Australia and drove in the A1 Grand Prix series during the 2007–08 season, and continued to race for the team in 2008–09. Martin drove the Rangers F.C. car in the 2009 Superleague Formula season for one win from thirteen races. In 2010, he started the Superleague Formula season with Atlético Madrid before ending the season with Beijing Guoan, starting twenty nine races for six wins and twenty top-tens.

† - Guest driver, ineligible for points.
‡ - Team standings.

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Points
2009	Comtec Racing	CAT SPR	CAT FEA	SPA SPR	SPA FEA	MON FEA 12	HUN SPR 20	HUN FEA 13	SIL SPR 21	SIL FEA 20	BUG SPR	BUG FEA	ALG SPR	ALG FEA	NÜR SPR 7	NÜR FEA 8	ALC SPR	ALC FEA	22nd	8