Gavin Thomas

Gavin Thomas

Nationality	Welsh
Superleague Career
Active Years	2009-2012 (banned)
Team(s)	Red 5 Racing Computrac Motorsports Oz Racing Synergetic Motorsports Maximum Racing Gear F1
Grand Prix	34
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First Grand Prix	2009 Bahrain Grand Prix
Supercup Career
Active Years	2010-2011
Team(s)	Red 5 Racing
Grand Prix	24
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First Grand Prix	2010 Supercup Australian Grand Prix

Gavin Thomas is a Welsh sim-racing driver who has taken part in the Superleague and Supercup and Masters championships. He was banned from the GPVWC in July 2012 for abusing members of the league.

Gavin made his début in the GPVWC at Bahrain in 2009 driving for Gear F1 alongside serial nemesis Wayne Mullins. Later that season he moved to Maximum Racing and in his first race beat his former team mate in qualifying. 2010 saw Thomas co-found Red 5 Racing with Mullins, only for the pair to have a dispute about the ability of the car. Mullins moved to arch nemesis Draig Racing, while Thomas found a drive with the competitive Synergetic scoring his first point in Japan. Later in the season however, he found the Cosworth power-plant too unreliable and moved to Oz Racing scoring his best ever result in Turkey of 8th place, again beating his nemesis Mullins as a bonus. In 2011, Thomas signed for the Computrac Motorsports team headed by Marco Vandenbroeck. He took over control of the Belgian outfit and has transformed the teams fortunes, with other welshman Ben Morgan scoring twice this season the pressure has been on Thomas to substantiate his role as driver, he has answered some critics with a showing of 10th in the Canadian GP after adding major upgrades to the car. He is currently aiming to join Computrac Motorsports with his own team Red 5 Racing. In 2012 Computrac Motorsports will become Red 5 Racing, with major sponsorship from Red 5 Designs.(A welsh based graphics company run by long time friend Wayne Mullins).

Supercup

Gavin Thomas fully took over management of Red 5 Racing in 2010 turning them into a force in the Supercup competition, despite Draig Racing poaching Christoph Lichtenstein. They are back on the grid in 2011 in Supercup, Thomas gaining a respectable 4th in Melbourne along with a 10th in Japan. He took a sabbatical for five Races, but made a dramatic return in the British Supercup race taking 7th after being hit on the warm up lap and starting in the pitlane. Thomas' fortunes since have waned, however he is still comitted as ever to the Supercup campaign and will renew his vigour in Brazil.

He aims to make Red 5 Racing into a succesful Supercup and Superleague force.

Racing Career Results

Superleague

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

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	WDC	Points
2009	Gear F1	?	Ferrari	AUS -	CHN -	JAP -	FRA -	IRL -	MON -	GBR -	CZE -	BAH Ret	RSA Ret	CAN -	MEX Ret	BRA Ret	ITA -							NC	0
	Maximum Racing	?	Mercedes															ESP Ret	BEL -	NED 11	SIN Ret
2010	Synergetic Motorsports	?	Cosworth	AUS Ret	CHN -Ret	JAP 10	UAE Ret	HUN Ret	MON Ret															31st	4
	Oz Racing	?	BMW							GBR Ret	POR Ret	BAH Ret	TUR 8	CAN Ret	MEX -	BRA Ret	ARG -	ESP -	ITA -	BEL -	NED -	SIN -
2011	Computrac Motorsports	?	BMW	AUS Ret	UAE Ret	JAP 14	CHN -	RSA -	AUT -	FRA -	MON -	GBR 12	BAH 14	SMR Ret	TUR Ret	MEX 15	CAN 10	BRA Ret	ITA Ret	ESP Ret	BEL Ret	NED 11	SIN 11	26th	1
2012	Red 5 Racing	R5R-005	Ferrari	AUS -	CHN -	UAE -	HUN -	ESP -	MON -	CAN -	KOR -	TUR -	GBR -	ITA -	BEL -	NED -	IND -	USA -	BRA -	JAP -	SIN -

^† Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Supercup

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

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	WDC	Points
2010	Red 5 Racing	?	Toyota	AUS Ret	CHN Ret	JAP Ret	UAE Ret	HUN 3	MON -	GBR Ret	POR Ret	BAH -	TUR Ret	CAN -	MEX -	BRA 8	ARG 3	ESP -	ITA -	BEL -	NED -	SIN -		13th	23
2011	Red 5 Racing	?	Renault	AUS 4	UAE Ret	JAP 10	CHN -	RSA -	AUT -	FRA -	MON -	GBR 7	BAH 12	SMR 12	TUR -15	MEX Ret	CAN Ret	BRA 11	ITA 15	ESP 13	BEL 10	NED 11	SIN -	21st	14

^† Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.