Jonny Reid

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Jonny Reid
Reid at Brands Hatch in 2008
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	(1983-10-18) 18 October 1983 Auckland (New Zealand)
V8 Supercars career
Debut season	2003
Former teams	Robert Smith Racing Tekno Autosports Dick Johnson Racing Tony D'Alberto Racing
Starts	16
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Previous series
2012 2010 2008 2005–2008 2005–2006 2004 2003 2002–2003	V8SuperTourer Auto GP Indy Lights A1 GP Japanese Formula 3 Euroseries 3000 Australian Drivers' Champ. New Zealand Formula Ford
Championship titles
2003 2003	New Zealand Formula Ford New Zealand Grand Prix
Awards
2008	Jim Clark Trophy

Jonathan Ross Reid, more commonly known as Jonny Reid, (born 18 October 1983, in Auckland) is a New Zealand racing driver.

Career

Early career

Reid started his career in karting at the age of 8. In 1996, Reid won his first title, the New Zealand North Island Championship in the rookie class. In 1997, he went on to win the North Island Championship in the Junior Class. In 1998, he won the North Island Championship again, this time in the Junior Intercontinental Class. In 1999, Reid won his first New Zealand Championship in Junior Stock which was preceded by wins in the Pro series.

In 2002, Reid won the New Zealand Formula Ford Festival for the second year in a row, the New Zealand Championship and the New Zealand Grand Prix. In 2003, Reid was awarded Motorsport New Zealand's Steel Memorial Trophy, given annually to an under-21 New Zealand racing driver who "displays dedication, skill and a level of professionalism in their driving aiming to progress to the upper echelons of the sport".

Reid drove for Graham Watson's Ralt Australia team in the 2003 Australian Drivers' Championship. He achieved second in the championship, amassing four pole positions, five race wins and three round victories. Reid finished the season with pole position and wins in both races in Round 6 at Eastern Creek.

V8 Supercars

Reid made his V8 Supercars debut in the 2003 Bathurst 1000 with Alan Gurr for Robert Smith Racing. However, he did not drive in the race itself, as Gurr was forced to retire the car after four laps due to a mechanical failure.

A1 Grand Prix

In the 2005-06 season, Reid was twice called up by New Zealand to race in the A1 Grand Prix. Together with Matt Halliday, who competed in the rest of the rounds for the team, the pair won 77 points, placing the team in fourth position overall.

Reid was called up for seven of the eleven rounds in 2006-07, with Halliday once again completing the remaining rounds. The car was dubbed 'Black Beauty' by both the team and New Zealand media. In his first round of the season at Brno Circuit, Reid qualified on pole, A1 Team New Zealand's first pole position. However, before the first corner of the sprint race, Reid collided with Nico Hülkenberg of Team Germany, leading to both drivers retiring from the race.

In the fourth round of the A1GP in Malaysia in Sepang International Circuit, Reid and Hülkenberg collided in the sprint race once again. However, Reid continued racing despite a damaged suspension and came 3rd, Team New Zealand's first podium. After doubling Team New Zealand's points in Malaysia, Reid was selected to drive in the fifth round in Indonesia. Reid qualified on pole and won in both the sprint and feature races. This performance led to him being selected for the following event in his home country in January 2007.

“Taupo is in the back of my mind..."

“But this is a hot seat and you have to be performing the whole time if you want to keep it. I’m just looking to better my game every time I get in that car, so I’ll be pushing myself to qualify on pole and win races. That’s my focus.”

Reid finished both races in New Zealand in third place. After three more rounds, including one victory in China, he and Halliday finished second in the championship, only behind Team Germany.

In 2007-08, Reid competed in all rounds of the A1GP season. He won four races, and once again finished second in the championship, this time behind Team Switzerland's Neel Jani.

As a promotion for the New Zealand round, Reid raced his A1GP car against an Air New Zealand Boeing 777-200ER passenger jet at Auckland International Airport. The first try saw the Boeing race past Reid and lift into the sky, while the second attempt saw him beat the 777 just as it was about to lift off. The car reached its top speed of 285 km/h, while the Boeing 777, with little fuel and no passengers or cargo, reached about 280 km/h before it was forced to lift into the sky.

Indy Lights

Reid making his Indy Lights debut in the Freedom 100

Reid passed his Firestone Indy Lights rookie test on 19 May 2008 at Iowa Speedway and made his debut for Integra Motorsports in the 2008 Firestone Freedom 100 on 23 May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Reid had a career-best start of third and finish of fourth in Race One, and the grid reversal gave him pole for Race Two. In wet conditions amidst many Safety Car periods, Reid led most of the race, which was run to time rather than laps due to the delays. Reid took the white flag in second place behind Mitch Cunningham, but Cunningham then crashed at turn one, before a three-car incident further back involving points leader Richard Antinucci brought out the yellow flag. This effectively gave Reid the race win, but, with his radio having failed earlier, he was unclear on the situation, and pitted at the end of the lap. He crossed the line in ninth place, giving the win to James Davison. Reid left Integra Motorsports and missed the next race on the schedule. He returned one round later at Infineon Raceway driving a fourth car for Sam Schmidt Motorsports.

Porsche Cup

In the 2009/10 New Zealand Season he raced in the New Zealand Porsche GT3 Cup, winning three races and finishing second to Craig Baird. He raced again in the 2010/11 season, this time only winning one race and finishing third in the Championship. He joined the revamped Australian Carrera Cup Championship in 2011. He finished second again to Craig Baird driving for McElrea Racing and winning three races. He won the Tudor Fastest Lap award for the most fastest laps in the championship. He also raced in the 2011 Australian GT Championship in the GT Challenge class with John Modystach winning both races they entered.

Return to V8 Supercars

In 2010, Reid returned to the V8 Supercars series, testing with four other drivers for Kelly Racing in a session designed to evaluate potential co-drivers for the endurance rounds. This was followed up by drives in practice sessions reserved for rookies and co-drivers at the Ipswich and Winton rounds, before another test for the team in June. However, this did not lead to an endurance drive.

Reid tested again in 2011, this time for Tekno Autosports. This led to him being selected by Tekno as the co-driver for Michael Patrizi in the endurance races in 2012.

In February 2013, it was announced that Reid would race full-time for Dick Johnson Racing in the 2013 season. However, he was replaced by Chaz Mostert on 19 April 2013, as Ford Performance Racing (the team for which Mostert was signed to in the Development Series) and Dick Johnson Racing expanded their partnership.

V8 Super Tourer

He competed in the first New Zealand V8SuperTourer season in 2012 finishing second to John McIntyre after not finishing in the second race in the final round at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park.

Personal life

Both his grandfather and his father were known New Zealand racers. His father, Clayton Reid, was a New Zealand champion in karting. {citation needed|date=May 2020}

Racing record

Complete Euro Formula 3000 results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Points
2004	John Village Automotive	BRN 7	EST Ret	JER 3	MOZ Ret	SPA 6	DON 1	DIJ 2	ZOL 2	NÜR1 2	NÜR2 5	4th	35

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Pts
2005–06	A1 Team New Zealand	GBR SPR	GBR FEA	GER SPR 4	GER FEA 4	POR SPR	POR FEA	AUS SPR 18	AUS FEA 8	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	UAE SPR	UAE FEA	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	IDN SPR	IDN FEA	MEX SPR	MEX FEA	USA SPR	USA FEA	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	4th	77
2006–07		NED SPR	NED FEA	CZE SPR Ret	CZE FEA 7	BEI SPR	BEI FEA	MYS SPR 3	MYS FEA 8	IDN SPR 1	IDN FEA 1	NZL SPR 3	NZL FEA 3	AUS SPR 2	AUS FEA 2	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	MEX SPR 16	MEX FEA 6	SHA SPR 2	SHA FEA 1	GBR SPR	GBR SPR	2nd	93
2007–08		NED SPR 9	NED FEA 7	CZE SPR 1	CZE FEA 1	MYS SPR 5	MYS FEA 8	CHN SPR 10	CHN FEA 2	NZL SPR 1	NZL FEA 4	AUS SPR 2	AUS FEA 9	RSA SPR 20	RSA FEA 10	MEX SPR 1	MEX FEA 12	CHN SPR Ret	CHN FEA 4	GBR SPR 8	GBR FEA 8			2nd	127

Complete Indy Lights results

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Rank	Points
2008	Chip Ganassi Racing	HMS	STP1	STP2	KAN	INDY 20	MIL 15	IOW 19	WGL1 10	WGL2 21	NSH 17	MDO1 4	MDO2 9	KTY				18th	186
	Sam Schmidt Motorsports														SNM1 9	SNM2 19	CHI 11

Complete Auto GP results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2010	Super Nova Racing	BRN1 13	BRN2 7	IMO1 5	IMO2 Ret	SPA1 4	SPA2 7	MAG1 10	MAG2 6	NAV1 5	NAV2 6	MON1 Ret	MON1 14	10th	16

Complete V8 Supercar results

V8 Supercar results
Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	Final Pos	Points
2003	Robert Smith Racing	Holden VX Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	PHI R3	EAS R4	WIN R5	BAR R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	HDV R9	HDV R10	HDV R11	QLD R12	ORA R13	SAN R14	BAT R15 Ret	SUR R16	SUR R17	PUK R18	PUK R19	PUK R20	EAS R21	EAS R22																NC	0
2010	Jack Daniels Racing	Holden VE Commodore	YMC R1	YMC R2	BHR R3	BHR R4	ADE R5	ADE R6	HAM R7	HAM R8	QLD R9 PO	QLD R10 PO	WIN R11 PO	WIN R12 PO	HDV R13	HDV R14	TOW R15	TOW R16	PHI Q	PHI R17	BAT R18	SUR R19	SUR R20	SYM R21	SYM R22	SAN R23	SAN R24	SYD R25	SYD R26											NC	0
2012	Tekno Autosports	Holden VE Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	PER R7	PER R8	PER R9	PHI R10 PO	PHI R11 PO	HDV R12	HDV R13	TOW R14 PO	TOW R15 PO	QLD R16 PO	QLD R17 PO	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN Q 25	SAN R20 Ret	BAT R21 Ret	SUR R22	SUR R23	YMC R24	YMC R25	WIN R26	WIN R27	SYD R28	SYD R29								58th	21
2013	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford FG Falcon	ADE R1 Ret	ADE R2 Ret	SYM R3 24	SYM R4 25	SYM R5 20	PUK R6 23	PUK R7 22	PUK R8 18	PUK R9 25	BAR R10	BAR R11	BAR R12	COTA R13	COTA R14	COTA R15	COTA R16	HID R17	HID R18	HID R19	TOW R20	TOW R21																	37th	449
	Tony D'Alberto Racing	Holden VF Commodore																						QLD R22 PO	QLD R23 PO	QLD R24 PO	WIN R25 PO	WIN R26 PO	WIN R27 PO	SAN Q Ret	SAN R28 23	BAT R29 24	SUR R30 4	SUR R31 21	PHI R32	PHI R33	PHI R34	SYD R35	SYD R36

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Year	Team	Car	Co-driver	Position	Laps
2003	Robert Smith Racing	Holden VX Commodore	Alan Gurr	DNF	4
2012	Tekno Autosports	Holden VE Commodore	Michael Patrizi	DNF	19
2013	Tony D'Alberto Racing	Holden VF Commodore	Tony D'Alberto	24th	149

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2013	Hunter Sports Group	Steven Johnson Drew Russell	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	B	257	9th	1st
2018	International Motorsport	Andrew Bagnall Matt Halliday	Audi R8 LMS	APA	41	DNF	DNF

Other career results

Season	Series	Position	Car	Team
2002-03	New Zealand Formula Ford Championship	1st	Stealth Van Diemen RF94 - Ford
2003	Australian Drivers' Championship	2nd	Reynard 96D Holden	Ralt Australia
2005	Japanese Formula Three Championship	8th	Dome F107 - Toyota	Inging
2006	Japanese Formula Three Championship	8th	Dallara F306 - Toyota	Inging
2009-10	New Zealand Porsche GT3 Championship	2nd	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	International Motorsport
2010-11	New Zealand Porsche GT3 Championship	3rd	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	International Motorsport
2011	Australian Carrera Cup Championship	2nd	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	McElrea Racing
2012	V8 SuperTourers Championship	5th	Ford FG Falcon	International Motorsport
	Australian Carrera Cup Championship	2nd	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	Hunter Sports Group
2013	V8 SuperTourers Championship	30th	Holden VE Commodore	Team 4

External links

• Jonny Reid Homepage
• Driver Database stats
• Racing Reference - US Stats
• Official Motorsport News Portal
• Official A1 Grand Prix News Portal (dead link)
• Official A1GP Team New Zealand Page (dead link)