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NAME: James Kaye AGE: 46 years NATIONALITY: British EXPERIENCE: Uniroyal production saloon car championships, BTCC Independent Cup, FIA World GT Championships, BTCC Honda, BTCC Toyota, BTCC Renault and BTCC Honda CRX Championships to name but a few. |
Jap Peformance is proud to annouce its sponsorhip of James Kaye in the BTCC. This is the first time JPP has been involved in BTCC and is working closely with James in his come back to BTCC after four years. The car has been rebuilt and had its debut at Donnington in September 2010, taking 9th place and scoring points in its first outing. We look forward to brands Hatch in October and the 2011 season.
"This is a great opportunity to work with James, I am really excitied to have JPP involved in BTCC and it gives us a good foundation for launching 'Jap Performance Carbon' a joint venture between JPP and WRC Developments. We will support James and the DC5 for the remaining season and look forward to a new car in 2011. Hopefully he won't need a lot of spares! " - Sajid Moghal
"2010 is all about understanding what we have to do to be a front runner in 2011! With the enthusiasm and support of our major sponsor Jap Performance Parts this task will be a lot easier! " - James Kaye
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James Kaye is a British auto racing driver. He has been a stalwart competitor of Hondas in various championships since 1995, and has had 2 lengthy spells in the BTCC. After racing in the British National Production Saloon Championship with several championship in the late 80s and early 90s, he entered the BTCC as an independent in 1992, winning the independent title in his Toyota, and again in 1994. In 1993 he raced a semi-works Toyota for the Park Lane team, ineligible for the Total Cup for Independents. In 1995 he was hired by Honda for their BTCC programme, racing there for 2 seasons.
He had an assortment of sports car drives for Honda from 1997-1999, returning to touring cars in the National Saloon Championship in 2000. The same cars were eligible for the newly-created Class B of the BTCC that year, and James was runner up in a Honda Accord. This was renamed the Production Class for 2001, and James again finished 2nd, before winning the Production Class title in 2002 for Synchro Motorsport, a team of Honda employees working in their spare time at the Honda factory in Swindon.
The team moved up to the Touring class of the BTCC for 2003, defined as an Independent team as they had no financial or technical backing, James classified as Indendent runner-up and 14th overall. Remaining with Synchro, James was 11th overall in 2004 and 2005. He took his first series podium at Oulton Park in 2006 after 14 years of trying. For 2007 the team pulled out, leaving James without a drive.
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