Background
The son of team owner Rob Dyson, Chris is a two-time ALMS champion, having taken the LMP675 Drivers title in 2003 and earning the LMP1 Championship in 2011.
The son of team owner Rob Dyson, Chris is a two-time ALMS champion, having taken the LMP675 Drivers title in 2003 and earning the LMP1 Championship in 2011.
In 2002, he finished second in the SRP1 points, winning five races.
He is the Vice President and Sporting Director of Dyson Racing. Dyson began his racing career at the age of 17, competing in the Skip Barber Formula Dodge championship at Lime Rock Park. Dyson drove in seven Atlantic Championship races in 2004 and 2005, earning a best finish of 4th at Long Beach in 2005.
Dyson made his professional racing debut in the 2001 Grand American Road Racing Championship season, driving a Riley & Scott Mk III in the final two races of the season.
He has since made sporadic starts in the Rolex Sports Carolina Series and Continental Tire Sports Carolina Challenge. Having made his debut at the 2002 12 Hours of Sebring, Dyson went on to drive full-time in the series one year later, teaming with Andy Wallace in their MG-Lola EX257.
Dyson took four wins and the drivers championship in the LMP 675 class. The 2004 season saw the MG-Lola reclassified into the LMP1 category against the Audi R8s.
Dyson and Wallace scored 6 podiums in 8 races together.
In 2005, he finished 2nd in the LMP1 drivers" championship, scoring 6 runner-up finishes. Dyson finished 5th in driver points in 2006, with a best finish of 2nd at Mosport. Dyson also finished 4th at Laguna Seca with James Weaver, in Weaver"s final race.
2007 saw Dyson team with Guy Smith in a Porsche RS Spyder.
The pair finished 4th in points. He finished 6th in points in 2008 and 5th in 2009.
In 2012, Dyson kicked off the season with a class victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring, debuting the new Lola B12/60 Mazda with Guy Smith and Steven Kane. Dyson"s first start came in the 2004 for January Lammers" Racing for Holland team with Lammers and Katsutomo Kaneishi, finishing 7th overall and 6th in the LMP1 class.
Dyson returned to Louisiana Sarthe in the Le Mans for Ray Mallock, retiring after 19 hours.