Theo Thomas

**Theo \*Jody\* Thomas Sr** (Born March 17th 1970 in Atlanta) is an American Born driver who currently drives the number 1 car for the Dusk Racing Team. He was a quite successful driver who had won 7 Theo Formula One World Drivers Championships in 1996, 1997, 2001, 2001, 2004, 2009 and 2021.

## Theo Formula One Career

### Before Theo Formula One

Theo maidenly began his career in karting at the age of 7. He took a total of 3 world titles, 26 wins, 36 Podiums and 39 pole positions.

He later graduated to car racing at the age of 15 in 1985 joining the Theo Formula Four Series, taking one championship at the age of 18 in 1988. This graduated him to Theo Formula Three in 1989.

He had an excellent career taking a total of 36 poles, 29 wins, 36 Podiums and thus 1 championship in 1991.

This graduated him to Theo Formula 2 in 1992 taking a total of 13 career wins, 6 poles, and 24 podiums. In 1993, a season battle between Kevin Mann caused Theo to win all 12 races in 1993. This lead him winning the championship and graduated to Theo Formula One in 1994.

### 1994

Theo joined the Dusk Racing Team driving the number 17 partnered with Japan's Sofie Sander's, Jr. Driving the 29 car.

At the season opener race, he qualified 35th after he ran out of fuel 10 seconds before hitting the finish line, he moved from 35th to 6th in 10 minutes and finished in 6th place in the opener.

At the Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji, he qualified in 2nd but stall his engine at the start and was dropped to 10th place. He struggled to move up over 10th place and finished 10th. At his home Grand Prix, he qualified for Pole Position, but was immediately dropped to 15th after a gearbox problem on lap 43 which was the final lap.

At the Swedish Grand Prix, he dominated by starting from 14th in the grid, moving up to 1st in 14 seconds. He stayed in first for the entire race and even won aswell. He started 16th at the Australian Grand Prix where at the start, he moved up to 6th after a multi car crash that happened seconds after the race started

At the British Grand Prix in brands hatch, He qualified for pole position and led for most of the race before being overtaken on lap 17th, but then he regained the lead after a 6 car crash happened on lap 26, he stayed in the lead for the rest of the race and won his Sixth Grand Prix At the Russian Grand Prix, he qualified in 44th dead last and was in that position for about the rest of the race before a massive crashed involved 43 cars, he avoided it and won the race.

In the Canadian Grand Prix he was injured in practice and was replaced by Donnie Sheldon in which he qualified 26th, Theo recovered before race day so Donnie was unable to attend but the entry still started 26th on the grid. His race ended with a 20th place after a pit stop confusion that put him 1 lap down. At the German Grand Prix, He qualified 19th and finished 7th with a blinding start from 19th to 7th in 25 seconds.

At the Argentine Grand Prix, Theo Thomas crashed heavily during Free Practice sesssions, so he ended up using the Previous Dusk G193 for qualifying, because the G194 was repaired before race day, he had to start 44th where as his original qualifying position was 8th, He finished 19th. At the Italian Grand Prix, he started 19th on the grid and finished 7th. In the New Rearendian Grand Prix, Theo started in 35th place shortly after a tire failure during qualifying. He finished 21st and that would he his first non top 20 finish race.

In the Austrian Grand Prix, he took his next pole position but dropped to 7th when he was too slow to start the race, he finished 7th as well. At the Randal P Grand Prix, Theo qualified 2nd place and finished in 13th due to a crash at the start of the race, At the San Marino Grand Prix, Theo qualified in 15th and he finished in 9th place after a side by side battle with Teammate Sofie who finished 1st. Theo Thomas Sr was dominating the Monaco Grand Prix leading for the entire race after qualifying for pole position, he won the Grand Prix and said that it was his best Grand Prix ever. Theo qualified 16th at the Miami Grand Prix (the 17th and final race of the season) and finished 15th. His rookie season ended with 745 Points and was awarded rookie of the year award.