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Tony Dron (born 1946) is a British racing driver as well as being a motoring author and journalist. ==Racing history== Dron is best known for racing Touring Cars in the 1970s (Triumph Dolomites for the works BL/Broadspeed team) and for competing in Porsches at the Le Mans 24 Hours in the early 1980s, including a class win at Le Mans in 1982 in a Porsche 934, and driving a Group C (Kremer CK-5) in 1983. He was a full-time professional race driver from 1974–79, for teams that included British Leyland, Unipart and Alfa UK, but his career as a racer first began in May 1968 and continued for a full 43 years. Dron has achieved a remarkable range of victories, ''winning'' events in 24 makes and 41 models of car. (These are actual wins, not all the makes and models in which he has competed.) The total number of wins is not known but is well into the hundreds. Race ''wins'' have been recorded in: Alfa Romeo: 1600GT Junior, TZ1 Allard: JR Aston Martin: DB4 Austin: Metro Austin-Healey: 3000, 100/4 Bentley: 3-litre BMW: Counties 3-Series, M3 Caterham: Seven (two types) Chevrolet: Camaro Datsun: 240Z Ferrari: 330LMB, 246S Fiat: 128 1300GT Coupé Ford: Escort Mexico, Falcon, Zephyr Mk II, fwd RS2000 Jaguar: Mk 1, Mk 2, D-type Lister: Jaguar 'Knobbly' Lotus: Mk 9 Lola: Mk6GT Mazda: 323 MG: Maestro, MGB Morgan: Plus 8 Porsche: 924, 924GTR, 911RSL, 928S2, 928S4, 930, 934, '935', 911 Carrera 2 Renault: 5 Triumph: TR4, Dolomite Sprint TVR: Tuscan In recent years, he has also been seen racing (and winning in) an enormous variety of historic cars, including the Le Mans-winning 1959 Aston Martin DBR1 and the 1960 Ferrari 246S Dino. In the Ferrari, Dron won the Sussex Trophy at the Goodwood Revival for three consecutive years. Having competed numerous times in the modern Nürburgring 24 Hours, he is known to be a highly experienced competitor on the old Nordschleife, where historic racing victories include an outright win in the 1996 Eifel Klassik in a 1963 Ferrari 330LMB, from pole position in a field of 180 cars. Dron retired from race driving in 2011, although he still works as a motoring journalist and test driver for Octane magazine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tony Dron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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