He is best known for competing in the British Touring Car Championship. In 1989 he finished third in class and twelfth overall, despite only competing for half the season. Armes drove a PG Tips-sponsored class D Honda Civic Si, built by Trakstar Motorsport. In 1990, he continued with the Civic, running in the new super touring class, but could not repeat his form of the previous year, and he departed the series at the end of the season.[1]
He has also competed in the Rover GTi Championship, National Saloon Car Cup, Volkswagen Vento VR6 Challenge, the Porsche Cup, and the MGF Cup. In 1997 he competed in the opening three rounds of the British GT Championship for Lucent Millennium with a Marcos LM600 alongside Nick Carr.[2]
He was chairman of marketing agency Vibrandt, famously revamping the classic Heinz Tomato Ketchup label[3] before later leaving the company to establish and become CEO of advertising consultancy Touch of Mojo, whose clients include Unilever and Clark's shoes.[4] The company sponsored the Volkswagen Golf championship in 2013.[5]
Racing recordedit
Complete British Touring Car Championship resultsedit
(key) Races in bold indicate pole position. Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded – 1987–1989 in class)
armes, raymond, leslie, armes, born, december, 1951, british, former, auto, racing, driver, businessman, contents, career, racing, record, complete, british, touring, championship, results, references, external, linkscareer, edithe, best, known, competing, bri. Raymond Leslie Armes born 27 December 1951 is a British former auto racing driver and businessman Contents 1 Career 2 Racing record 2 1 Complete British Touring Car Championship results 3 References 4 External linksCareer editHe is best known for competing in the British Touring Car Championship In 1989 he finished third in class and twelfth overall despite only competing for half the season Armes drove a PG Tips sponsored class D Honda Civic Si built by Trakstar Motorsport In 1990 he continued with the Civic running in the new super touring class but could not repeat his form of the previous year and he departed the series at the end of the season 1 He has also competed in the Rover GTi Championship National Saloon Car Cup Volkswagen Vento VR6 Challenge the Porsche Cup and the MGF Cup In 1997 he competed in the opening three rounds of the British GT Championship for Lucent Millennium with a Marcos LM600 alongside Nick Carr 2 He was chairman of marketing agency Vibrandt famously revamping the classic Heinz Tomato Ketchup label 3 before later leaving the company to establish and become CEO of advertising consultancy Touch of Mojo whose clients include Unilever and Clark s shoes 4 The company sponsored the Volkswagen Golf championship in 2013 5 Racing record editComplete British Touring Car Championship results edit key Races in bold indicate pole position Races in italics indicate fastest lap 1 point awarded 1987 1989 in class Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 DC Pts Class1989 PG Tags Racing Honda Civic Si D OUL SIL THR DON THR SIL SIL25 BRH17 SNE19 BRHRet BIRRet DON21 SIL21 13th 31 3rd1990 PG Tags Racing Honda Civic B OULRet DON12 THR16 SILRet OULRet SILRet BRHRet SNE BRH18 BIR16 DON17 THR14 SILRet 31st 7 19thSource 6 References edit BTCC Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship Archived from the original on 30 October 2013 Retrieved 30 June 2013 Official 1989 BTCC standings Driver database dead link Eye Magazine Feature Natural fantasy Home touchofmojo com MSVR News MK2 Golf GTI Championship joins forces with Touch of Mojo www msvracing co uk Archived from the original on 25 April 2016 de Jong Frank British Saloon Car Championship History of Touring Car Racing 1952 1993 Retrieved 28 January 2023 External links editRay Armes career summary at DriverDB com Touch of Mojo marketing agency nbsp This biographical article related to English motor racing is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ray Armes amp oldid 1179866918, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
