Antonio Green at an Autocross in Ashburton
Antonio Marcel Green, better known as Tony Green
NationalityNew Zealand
Known forRallying and drifting

Antonio Marcel (Tony) Green is a drift and rally sport driver from New Zealand.[1]

Biography

Green migrated to the United Kingdom in May 1999. There he worked as a professional motorsport driver coach with the Ford Rallye Academy, Drive and Survive Rally School, and PalmerSport. He has coached private and corporate clients, training rally, drift and race drivers all over the world.[2] In 2001 he drove into 8th place in the Safari Rally of Kenya with Kenyan, Taylor Orson, as his co-driver.

From 2002 to 2004 Green competed in various competitions throughout the UK, placing 3rd in the Autocar sideways challenge and driving in the British Trial & Rally Drivers Association Red Dragon Rally B10 class in his privately built and entered AE86 Toyota Corolla.[3]

In 2005 Green competed in 6 rounds of the British Rally Championship with the Bourne 2 Rally Team. After obtaining his international rally licence, he competed in the World Rally Championship round in Wales that year but did not finish crashing out in special stage 7.[4][5]

In 2006 Green obtained his D1 drifting licence and drove in the D1GB drift series. He was invited a demonstration round at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in the first drift demonstration in Europe. Green was also given the opportunity to demonstrates Prodrive's Group N12 Subaru Legacy in the final round of the China Rally Championship that year.

In 2007 he competed in European Drift Championship finishing 6th overall at the end of the season. In 2008 Green secured a contract with the Chinese rally team FCACA with Australian John Allen as his co-driver. Also in 2008 he entered the Rally of New Zealand driving an Autotek Subaru WRX STi with Allen.[6] He had won the last round of the China Rally championship that year.

Green competed in the 2009 Asia Pacific Rally Championship again with Allen as co-driver. They drove a N4 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9.

Competition history

Year Event Location Car Placing Comment
2000 Thurlby Motors Wolds Rally United Kingdom - 27th Rally run by the Mablethorpe Motor Club
2001 Safari Rally of Kenya Kenya Subaru Impreza 6th in class A8 and 8th overall[7]
2003 BTRDA - Red Dragon Rally United Kingdom Toyota Corolla AE86 DNF Oil pump failure on stage 3
2004 Autocar Magazine, Sideways Challenge Brands Hatch Circuit - 3rd
2005 Wold Construction North Humberside Forest Rally United Kingdom Toyota Corolla AE86 9th in B10 class[8]
2005 Somerset Stages Rally United Kingdom Toyota Corolla AE86 DNF crashed in SS3[9]
2005 ANWCC Forest Rally Championship - round 5 - Gwynedd Rally[10] United Kingdom Subaru Impreza 1996T 2nd B10 class and 17th overall Bourne 2 Rally Team[11]
2005 BTRDA Championship - Red Dragon Rally United Kingdom Subaru Impreza 1996T 8th Group N4[12]
2005 BTRDA Championship - Dukeries Rally United Kingdom Subaru Impreza 1996T 5th Group N4 and 14th overall[13]
2005 BTRDA Championship - Quinton Stages Rally United Kingdom Subaru Impreza 1996T DNF 3 broken axles - retired SS4[14]
2005 World Rally Championship - Wales Rally of Great Britain United Kingdom Subaru Impreza 1996T DNF gearbox and diff failure, and accident
2006 D1 Great Britain - round 4 Silverstone Circuit Toyota Soarer (MotorPoint) 10th[15] Green reached the Top 16 round
2006 D1 Great Britain - round 5 Silverstone Circuit Toyota Soarer (MotorPoint) 7th having reached the Top 8[16]
2007 European Drift Championship Silverstone Circuit - 4th
2007 Eurodrift Championship Teesside Circuit Mazda RX7 (Whifbitz) 2nd
2007 European Drift Championship - round 3 Knock Hill Circuit, Scotland - 4th[17]
2008 China Rally Championship - Shanghai round China Subaru Impreza 2nd in class N4
2008 Rally of New Zealand New Zealand Subaru WRX STi DNF
2008 Rally Mohe China Subaru WRX STi 3rd in class N4
2008 Changbai Mountain Rally China Subaru WRX STi 5th in class N4
2008 Rally China Longyou China Subaru WRX STi DNF
2008 China Rally China Subaru WRX STi 2nd in class N4
2008 Rally Shaowu China Subaru WRX STi 2nd in class N4
2009 Jiangning Rally China Subaru WRX STi DNF Retired SS1
2009 Beijing Huairou Rally China Subaru WRX STi 4th in class N4
2009 Rally China Longyou China Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX DNF
2009 APRC - Red Devil Rally Queensland, Australia Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX

Non-Competitive events

Year Event Location Car Comment
2005 RallyDay Castle Combe Circuit -
2006 Drifting demonstration Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya -
2006 Prodrive Group N12 demonstration Longyou, China Subaru Impreza
2007 Autosport International Motorsport show United Kingdom -
2007 Drifting demonstration at Japfest Castle Combe - vehicle caught on fire

References

  1. ↑ Harrold, Chris (November 12, 2009). "2009 China Rally Longyou – Entry List – Final round of the APRC preview". RallyBuzz. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  2. ↑ "Who is Tony Green?". Tony Green / John Allen. 6 January 2009.
  3. ↑ "PROSPORT RED DRAGON RALLY". btrdarally.com.
  4. ↑ "juwra.com  -  Rallies - Great Britain 2005 final results". juwra.com.
  5. ↑ Thomas Nicholson Designs. "The final countdown is on… - Motorsport News for New Zealand". nzmotorsport.co.nz.
  6. ↑ "Motorsport: Hirvonen threat to Loeb at Repco". The New Zealand Herald.
  7. ↑ "Tony Green". ewrc-results.com.
  8. ↑ "Wold Construction North Humberside Forest Rally 2005". djames.org.uk.
  9. ↑ "WRCSales.com Somerset Stages Rally 2005". djames.org.uk.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2015-02-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ↑ Crash Media Group Ltd. "Rally UK News - Red Dragon for Green and Robertson this weekend". crash.net.
  12. ↑ "Swansea Model Centre Red Dragon Rally". btrdarally.com.
  13. ↑ "Rainworth Skoda Forest Rally - Archive". dukeries-rally.co.uk.
  14. ↑ "Quinton Stages Rally". btrdarally.com.
  15. ↑ Andy Cooper. "D1GB Round 4, Silverstone, England, August 2006 RMS Report". reallymeansounds.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25.
  16. ↑ "D1GB Results from Final at Trax - Skyline Owners Forum". skylineowners.com.
  17. ↑ Andy Cooper (28 July 2007). "EDC Drifting and Time Attack at Knockhill". RMS.
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