Early career Tappy began his racing career in karting, finishing runner-up in the 2004
UK Formula Ford championship winter series. In 2005, he took part in the full UK Formula Ford season with Jamun Racing, taking ten victories to finish second in the standings. During this year he also won the end-of-season Formula Ford Festival and was selected as a finalist for the prestigious
McLaren Autosport BRDC award. In 2006, Tappy stepped up to the
British Formula Renault 2.0 Championship with Jamun Racing, finishing his debut year eighteenth in the standings. He was also awarded 'Rising Star' status by the
British Racing Drivers Club. He transferred to
Fortec Motorsport for the 2007 season, taking sixteen podium finishes, including nine race wins, to end the year as series champion at the annual
Autosport Awards and once again nominated for the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award.
Single seater racing Following his Formula Renault championship season, Tappy raced in a number of single-seater championships between 2008 and 2011, most notably
Superleague Formula where he competed in each of the four seasons and was part of the Japan team that finished runner-up in the truncated
final season. In 2010 he won the
Auto GP teams title with
DAMS and finished third in the driver standings and
Shanghai.
Sports cars In April 2008, Tappy made his
sportscar debut when he took part in the
Monza 1000km Le Mans Series event. Driving a
Pescarolo Judd for Rollcentre Racing, he finished the race in seventh position. Tappy returned to sports car racing in 2012, competing in the
Blancpain Endurance Series for
ART Grand Prix alongside
Grégoire Demoustier. The pair finished fifth in the Pro-Am Cup with a win in
Navarre. From 2012 to 2017 he raced in a number of different GT3 championships, including further
Blancpain Endurance Series campaigns, the
British GT Championship,
GT Asia and
International GT Open and finished fourth in the
2021 Asian Le Mans Series. He last competed in 2022. ==Stunt driver career==