Jody Firth was born on 11 July 1981 and is a British racing driver, who most recently competed in the British GT Championship.
18 Facts About Jody Firth
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Jody Firth won the GT4 category of the British GT Championship in 2009, and has since won the SPEED UK Series in 2010 and the SPEED EuroSeries in 2011.
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Jody Firth, born in Wakefield, England, started his career in karting, finishing sixth in the Lincolnshire Kart Racing Club Rotax Max Senior in 2003, and nineteenth in the Lincolnshire Kart Racing Club Winter Series Rotax Max Senior in 2004.
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Jody Firth made his car racing debut in 2004, entering the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series, driving for Embassy Racing, and he finished fourteenth overall.
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Jody Firth then competed in twelve rounds of the Formula Renault 2.0 UK in 2005 for Team JLR, without great success; finishing 26th overall.
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Jody Firth became team manager of Embassy Racing in mid-2005, and stepped back from driving.
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Jody Firth returned to the cockpit in April 2009, partnering Nigel Moore in the British GT Championship, driving for Team WFR in a GT4-class Ginetta G50.
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Moore and Jody Firth entered all eight rounds of the British GT Championship in 2009, with their best overall finish being seventh.
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Jody Firth drove for Team WFR alongside Warren Hughes and Darren Manning in the 1000 km of Silverstone, part of the Le Mans Series, entering an Embassy WF01-Zytek in the LMP2 category, and finished fourth in class.
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The partnership proved to be a successful one, with Hughes and Jody Firth taking the title in the final round of the season.
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Jody Firth entered three rounds of the Formula Le Mans, driving for DAMS alongside Hughes, and they won the 1000 km of Algarve and 1000 km of Silverstone.
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Jody Firth entered all five rounds of the Le Mans Series in 2011, driving for TDS Racing and partnering Mathias Beche and Pierre Thiriet in a LMP2 class Oreca 03.
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Jody Firth partnered Stefan Hodgetts in a Century Motorsport-entered Ginetta G55 at the Rockingham round of the British GT Championship, finishing fourth in race one, but retiring in race two.
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Jody Firth drove for Team WFR in the British GT Championship, partnering Riki Christodoulou and driving a Ginetta G55.
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Jody Firth's ELMS season was a little more successful, with a third place during the 6 Hours of Donington being the team's best result in the series.
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Jody Firth eventually finished tenth in class in the ELMS LMP2 championship, with fifteen points.
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Jody Firth finished joint-26th in the GT3 driver's standings, level with David and Godfrey Jones.
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Jody Firth was jailed by Leeds Combined Court for money laundering in July 2018.