Dyson Racing

Team founder Rob Dyson started his racing career in the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) in 1974 with a Datsun 510 sedan with a pit crew of one: his wife Emilie.

The team took home three more IMSA GTP wins in both 1986 and 1987 with Price Cobb placing second in the championship both years.

Rob Dyson and John Paul Jr. drove the IMSA GTP race at their home track of Lime Rock, CT in their Porsche 962.

Talks with Mazda about a partnership in GTP for 1992 did not bear fruit and the team sat out the entire 1992 IMSA season – the first since 1974 that did not see Rob Dyson behind the wheel.

The team resurrected their Porsche 962C-148 for Rob Dyson, James Weaver, Price Cobb and Elliott Forbes-Robinson for the final GTP-era Daytona 24 Hours in February 1993, finishing fifth overall and second in GTP.

For that season, the team ran a Spice chassis with a production-based Ferrari 348 V8 engine in nine races, with a highlight being a third at Indianapolis Raceway Park.

The car had a great sound but was down on power compared to the thoroughbred Ferrari 333P machines and the team made the decision to be the first to commit to the new Riley & Scott MkIII in 1995.

Using Ford V8 power with engines provided by Lozano Brothers Porting, the team won with the car's third time out at Road Atlanta.

Chris Dyson, who had made his team debut at the 2001 Watkins Glen International 250, finished second in the 2002 Driver's championship with five wins and claimed Rookie of the Year honors.

All told the team's Riley and Scott MkIII cars claimed thirty-eight victories, with two overall and two class wins at the Daytona 24 Hours, between 1995 and 2002.

A strong drive by James Weaver, Butch Leitzinger and Elliott Forbes-Robinson saw the Dyson Riley and Scott Lincoln finish third overall and ahead of three other Audi R8s at Sebring.

Leitzinger, Weaver, and EFR had another strong run at Sebring, finishing 4th in a design entering its 8th season of service.

Mid-season in 2002, the team introduced the Lola EX257/MG, in preparation for a full-season assault on the LMP675 title in 2003 and once again to win overall IMSA series victories.

The "giant-killing" package immediately showed promise and ran in contention for the overall lead with the Audis at the Petit Le Mans.

The 2003 season saw Weaver and Leitzinger scored a triumphant overall win at Sonoma against the larger Audi R8s running in the LMP900 class.

In total, there were five class wins for the year including the team's first honors at 12 Hours of Sebring for Chris Dyson, Chad Block and Didier de Radigues.

[7] James Weaver finished second in the championship[8] and retired from active competition driving after the season's last race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

Butch Leitzinger and Andy Wallace finished third in the hotly contested 2007 LMP2 drivers championship, four points ahead of teammates, Chris Dyson and Guy Smith's fourth place.

This move rekindled the team's long standing relationship with Lola and Advanced Engine Research, who was responsible for the Mazda LMP2 MZR-R powerplant.

The team claimed two class victories at Lime Rock Park and at the season ending Petit Le Mans race.

It was the first overall ALMS victory for Dyson, Mazda, Guy Smith, biofuel IsoButanol, Dunlop tires and Castrol.

[23] For the 2012 season, the team, with drivers Dyson and Smith, would return to continue their rivalry with Muscle Milk Pickett Racing.

1985 Lime Rock
Dyson Racing at Road Atlanta.
Dyson Racing's RS Spyder competing at Laguna Seca.
The team's Lola Mazda at 2011 Petit Le Mans .