Matt McMurry

Matthew Merrill McMurry (born November 24, 1997) is an American racing driver from Phoenix, Arizona, United States. In 2014 he became the first junior development driver for Dyson Racing[1] and a few months later at the age of 16 years and 202 days old became the youngest driver to participate in and finish the 24 Hours of Le Mans.[2] He is a second generation driver and son of Chris McMurry, LMP2 class winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2005. Matthew is an alumnus of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at University of California, Irvine.[3]

Career

McMurry has been racing cars since age 14, competing in Formula Skip Barber, U.S. F2000 Championship, Formula Bondurant, Prototype Lites and the European Le Mans Series. Through age 16 he has total 71 car races with an 8% winning, 21% podium position and 10% fastest lap rate.[4] Prior to racing cars, he raced in karting from age 5-12, mostly locally in Arizona.

24 Hours of Le Mans (2014)

After back-to-back fourth-place finishes in the 2014 European Le Mans Series at Silverstone and Imola, McMurry was asked to join American Chris Dyson and Englishman Tom Kimber-Smith for the 82nd 24 Hours of Le Mans in the No. 42 LMP2 class entry by Greaves Motorsport from Peterborough, England.

The entry qualified 19th overall and 10th in class. When McMurry was handed the car by Kimber-Smith at about the 43 minute mark in the race, he became the youngest driver to ever participate in the race, breaking the record held by Mexican Ricardo Rodriguez and set 55 years earlier in 1959. Rodriguez was 17 years and 126 days old at the time.

After a 60+ minute pit stop during the 20th hour, the team finished the race 25th overall and 11th in class, having run over 2,600 miles. McMurry broke the record for youngest to finish the race, a mark previously set by American Gunnar Jeannette in 2000 at the age of 18 years and 44 days old.[5]

Racing Record

IMSA Cooper Tires Prototype Lites

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2013	Performance Tech	SEB	SEB	LGA	LGA	MOH	MOH	MOS	MOS	ROA 6	ROA 5	COA 5	COA 18	ATL 6	ATL 12	14th	48
2014	JDC MotorSports	SEB 23	SEB 5	KAN 13	KAN 9	WGL 6	WGL 13	MOS 17	MOS 8	ROA 19	ROA 2	VIR 3	VIR 2	ATL 1	ATL 12	6th	121
2015	JDC MotorSports	SEB 11	SEB 4	NOL 3	NOL 2	WGL 5	WGL 12	MOS 10	MOS 3	ROA 2	ROA Ret	VIR 3	VIR 2	ATL 2	ATL 2	3rd	179

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2014	Caterham Racing	Tom Kimber-Smith Chris Dyson	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	329	25th	11th
2017	Algarve Pro Racing	Mark Patterson Vincent Capillaire	Ligier JS P217-Gibson	LMP2	330	32nd	15th
2020	Algarve Pro Racing	John Falb Simon Trummer	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	365	11th	7th

European Le Mans Series

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2014	Greaves Motorsport	SIL 4	IMO 4	RBR 6	LEC 10	EST 7		7th	38
2017	Algarve Pro Racing	SIL 12	MNZ 12	RBR 13	LEC 8	SPA 12	ALG 11	20th	4.5

IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2015	Michael Shank Racing w/ Curb Agajanian	P	Ligier JS P2	Honda HR28TT 2.8 L V6 Turbo	DAY 5	SEB	LBH	LGA							ATL 9		18th	50
	BAR1 Motorsports	PC	Oreca FLM09	Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8					BEL 3				ELK 5				11th	116
	JDC-Miller MotorSports									WGL 3	MOS	VIR		AUS 5
2016	Park Place Motorsports	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	DAY 17	SEB 17				WGL 8				VIR		ATL 12	21st	74
	BAR1 Motorsports	PC	Oreca FLM09	Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8			LBH	LGA 6	BEL	WGL 7	MOS 6	LIM 4	ELK 5		AUS 4		10th	138
2017	Park Place Motorsports	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	DAY 24	SEB 6	LBH	AUS	BEL	WGL 8	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA	ATL 3	30th	85
2018	Spirit of Daytona Racing	P	Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac 5.5 L V8	DAY 20	SEB 12	LBH	MOH	BEL 13	WGL 11	MOS	ELK	LGA	ATL			30th	68
2019	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	DAY 4	SEB 2	MOH 1	WGL 1	MOS 1	ELK 1	LGA 1	ATL 1					1st	270
2020	Michael Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian	GTD	Acura NSX GT3 Evo	Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6	DAY 10	DAY 3	SEB	ELK 2	VIR 2	ATL 1	MDO 5	CLT 7	PET 10	LGA 1	SEB 3		1st	288

Asian Le Mans Series

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	Rank	Points
2016-17	Algarve Pro Racing	LMP2	Ligier JS P2	Judd HK 3.6 L V8	ZHU 2	FUJ	CHA 2	SEP	9th	36

Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	Rank	Points
2019	Jenson Team Rocket RJN	Honda NSX GT3	Silver	MNZ 5	SIL 6	LEC 9	SPA 4	CAT 12	8th	44

References

1. New Junior Development Program Archived 2014-09-01 at Archive.today, Dyson Racing, March 10, 2014
2. American Teen Sets Record for Youngest at Le Mans, June 15, 2014
3. "I am UCI | Special Reports | UCI". specialreports.news.uci.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
4. Matt McMurry on DriverDB.com, Accessed September 20, 2014
5. Video of Youngest Participant, June 14, 2014

External links

• Matt McMurry website