Joseph Tandy was a British racing driver and team owner.
22 Facts About Joe Tandy
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Joe Tandy won the 2005 Formula Palmer Audi championship and was awarded a BRDC Rising Star in the same year.
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Joe Tandy later founded his own team, JTR, which he ran until his death in a car accident.
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Joe Tandy started his racing career unusually in short oval Ministox machinery in 1994.
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However, by the end of 1998, Joe Tandy had won 45 races, with 60 other podium placings as he became both British and World Ministox champion, as well as being a three-time East Anglian Ministox champion.
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Joe Tandy continued in this level of motorsport in 1999, winning another 28 races to become British champion for the second time.
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Joe Tandy competed in four seasons in the championship, picking up ten podiums, including three wins, all coming in 2004.
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Joe Tandy won the Walter Hayes Memorial Trophy towards the end of the season.
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Joe Tandy took part in the Oulton Park round of the 2004 TVR Tuscan Challenge.
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Joe Tandy had an impressive season in the championship, eventually winning the title on countback ahead of David Epton.
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At the time, Joe Tandy was looking to move into the Atlantic Championship Series in the United States.
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Joe Tandy later tested for Walker Racing ahead of the 2007 season.
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Tandy's racing career somewhat stalled after that, before founding Joe Tandy Racing in mid-2006.
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Brother Nick had been struggling with his Ray car lacking upgrades, but Joe Tandy decided to buy a similar chassis and run Nick for the rest of the campaign.
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Joe Tandy moved his Formula Ford team onto the French company's chassis.
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Joe Tandy managed to turn the Mygale into a regular frontrunner, railing against the established Dallara hordes with a small operation and a meagre budget.
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At the time of his death, Joe Tandy was engaged to be married to Sophie Temple.
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Joe Tandy was travelling with his fiancee Sophie Temple's brother, Luke Temple, in his BMW 5 Series towards Bedford, when a collision between the BMW and a DAF box van occurred at around 12:25 local time, at the junction of the A428 and the Box End Road just outside Bromham.
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Joe Tandy died at the scene, while Temple was airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, where he later died due to serious head injuries sustained in the crash.
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The van driver was cleared of all charges at court, and it was found that Joe Tandy had been driving a car with a faulty braking system at speeds of around 117mph, while nearly two times over the drink drive limit.
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Tributes to Joe Tandy were paid by former boss Jonathan Palmer, Sam Roach the director of the British Formula Ford Championship the SRO Motorsports Group and the Mini Se7en Racing Club.
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Joe Tandy's funeral took place on June 1,2009, at St Peters Parish Church in Pavenham.