Joey Hand
Joey Hand | |||||||||||
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Nationality | American | ||||||||||
Born |
Sacramento, California, United States | February 10, 1979||||||||||
DTM career | |||||||||||
Debut season | 2012 | ||||||||||
Current team | BMW Team RBM | ||||||||||
Car no. | 4 | ||||||||||
Former teams | BMW Team RMG | ||||||||||
Starts | 27 | ||||||||||
Championships | 0 | ||||||||||
Wins | 0 | ||||||||||
Poles | 0 | ||||||||||
Fastest laps | 1 | ||||||||||
Best finish | 12th in 2013 | ||||||||||
Finished last season | 12th (32 pts) | ||||||||||
Previous series | |||||||||||
2006-2013 2004 2001-2004 2000 1998-1999 2004-2013 |
American LeMans Series Formula BMW USA Toyota Atlantic Formula Palmer Audi Star Mazda Grand-Am | ||||||||||
Championship titles | |||||||||||
1999 2011 |
Star Mazda Series American Le Mans Series GT | ||||||||||
Awards | |||||||||||
2011 2011 2012 2001 1998 |
24 Hours of Daytona DP winner 12 Hours of Sebring GT winner 12 Hours of Sebring GT winner Toyota Atlantic Rookie of the Year Star Mazda Rookie of the Year | ||||||||||
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Joey Hand (born February 10, 1979) is an American professional racing driver, and is currently a BMW factory driver. A former champion of the Star Mazda Series, Hand is best known as a sports car driver, and is co-winner of the 2011 24 Hours of Daytona driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, the 2012 12 Hours of Sebring GT class for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, and the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans LMGTE Pro class for Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA driving the Ford GT.
Personal life
Born in Sacramento, California,[1] Hand is married to Natalie and has two children.[2]
Career
Early career
Hand began his career in kart racing, starting at the age of 12. Moving up to the Star Mazda Series in 1998, Hand won nine races in the series, winning the rookie of the year award in 1998 and the series championship in 1999.[2]
Following an injury that sidelined him for most of the 1999 season, Hand moved up to the Toyota Atlantic series in 2001, scoring two wins in three years spent in the series, with a best championship finish of third in 2001.[2]
Grand-Am, ALMS and IMSA
Beginning with the 2004 season, Hand has raced in the Grand American Road Racing Association's Rolex Sports Car Series, racing in both the Grand Touring and Daytona Prototype classes, winning five times in the GT category while driving BMWs.[2] Hand has also raced sporadically in the American LeMans Series; in 2006, Hand was involved in a spectacular end-over-end crash at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course,[3] while in 2009, he won the first pole position for a BMW in eight years in the ALMS at Road America.[4]
Driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, Hand, along with co-drivers Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas and Graham Rahal, won the 2011 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race at Daytona International Speedway, driving the #01 Riley-BMW Daytona Prototype. The team was set back by a pit road penalty while Hand was driving, however he was able to recover from the penalty for co-driver Pruett to take the car to victory.[5] The following month the BMW Motorsport team he drove for won the GT class of the 2011 12 Hours of Sebring.[6] Later he joined the BMW Motorsport factory team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he finished third in the GTE-Pro class driving again a BMW M3. Also in 2011, Hand competed full-time at the Grand-Am Sports Car Challenge for Turner, resulting runner-up with Michael Marsal as teammate.
Hand returned to BMW Rahal for the 2012 American Le mans Series season. He again won the GT class at the 12 Hours of Sebring and took three podiums out of seven appearances. Meanwhile, he resulted sixth ovarall at the 24 Hours of Daytona driving a Ganassi BMW.
In the 2013 ALMS season, the driver got a second place class finish and two fourths out of six appearances for BMW Rahal with a BMW Z4 de Rahal. Again he raced for Ganassi at the 24 Hours of Daytona and later the Brickyard Grand Prix at Indianapolis.
At the new United SportsCar Championship launched in 2014, Hand resulted second in the GTLM class at the 24 Hours of Daytona and third at the 12 Hours of Sebring for BMW Rahal.
For 2016, Hand joined the Ford factory program for the IMSA 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was reunited with teammate Dirk Müller, while Sébastien Bourdais joined the team for the endurance races including Le Mans. Hand, Müller, and Bourdais went on to win the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMGTE Pro category while driving the 2017 Ford GT LME GTE-Pro.
Other racing
On October 22, 2011, Hand made his debut in the International V8 Supercars Championship, driving for Dick Johnson Racing in the Gold Coast 600.[7] finishing 4th with co-driver James Moffat In November, he drove a DTM car for the first time, testing for BMW at Circuito Monteblanco in Spain.[8]
DTM
On December 15, 2011, Hand was announced as one of BMW's factory drivers for the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, which saw him compete in the entire 2012 championship, alongside a limited-season American Le Mans Series campaign with BMW Team RLL.[9] He was the first American to have a full-season factory contract in the series since its inception in 1984.[10] In three seasons he had a best race result of 5th at Brand Hatch and a best season result of 12th, both in 2013.
Motorsports career results
American open–wheel racing results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Barber Dodge Pro Series
Barber Dodge Pro Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Rank | Points | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000 | SEB |
MIA |
NAZ |
LRP |
DET |
CLE |
MDO 12 |
ROA |
VAN |
LS |
RAT |
HMS |
25th | 4 |
Atlantic Championship
Formula Atlantic results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Rank | Points | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2001 | DSTP Motorsports | LBH 3 |
NAZ 9 |
MIL 12 |
MTL Ret |
CLE 2 |
TOR 5 |
CHI 10 |
TRR 3 |
ROA 3 |
VAN 1 |
HOU 1 |
LS 2 |
3rd | 129 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002 | DSTP Motorsports | MTY 3 |
LBH Ret |
MIL |
LS |
POR |
CHI |
TOR |
CLE |
TRR 9 |
ROA 5 |
MTL 4 |
DEN Ret |
12th | 45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003 | DSTP Motorsports | MTY Ret |
LBH 7 |
MIL 9 |
LS 10 |
POR 2 |
CLE 10 |
TOR 6 |
TRR 4 |
MDO 4 |
MTL 5 |
DEN 9 |
MIA 6 |
7th | 108 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004 | Polestar Motor Racing | LBH |
MTY |
MIL |
POR1 |
POR2 |
CLE |
TOR |
VAN |
ROA |
DEN |
MTL |
LS 9 |
20th | 13 |
24 Hours of Le Mans results
24 Hours of Le Mans results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011 | BMW Motorsport | Andy Priaulx Dirk Müller |
BMW M3 GT2 | GTE Pro |
313 | 15th | 3rd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA | Sébastien Bourdais Dirk Müller |
Ford GT | GTE Pro |
340 | 18th | 1st |
V8 Supercar results
V8 Supercars results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Final Pos | Points | |||||||||||||
2011 | Dick Johnson Racing | YMC R1 |
YMC R2 |
ADE R3 |
ADE R4 |
HAM R5 |
HAM R6 |
PER R7 |
PER R8 |
PER R9 |
WIN R10 |
WIN R11 |
HDV R12 |
HDV R13 |
TOW R14 |
TOW R15 |
QLD R16 |
QLD R17 |
QLD R18 |
PHI R19 |
BAT R20 |
SUR R21 4 |
SUR R22 Ret |
SYM R23 |
SYM R24 |
SAN R25 |
SAN R26 |
SYD R27 |
SYD R28 |
68th | 120 |
Complete DTM results
(key)
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Pos. | Pts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | BMW Team RMG | BMW M3 DTM | HOC 13 |
LAU 14 |
BRH 13 |
SPL 9 |
NOR 14 |
NÜR 18 |
ZAN 14 |
OSC 11 |
VAL 15† |
HOC 8 |
20th | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | BMW Team RBM | BMW M3 DTM | HOC 7 |
BRH 5 |
SPL Ret |
LAU 15 |
NOR 8 |
MSC 7 |
NÜR Ret |
OSC 16 |
ZAN 7 |
HOC 20 |
12th | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014 | BMW Team RBM | BMW M4 DTM | HOC 10 |
OSC 15 |
HUN 15 |
NOR 7 |
MSC 17 |
SPL 12 |
NÜR 14 |
LAU 11 |
ZAN 10 |
HOC 15 |
20th | 8 |
* Season still in progress.
References
- ↑ "Joey Hand". Grand American Road Racing. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
- 1 2 3 4 "Joey Hand Racing official website". Retrieved 2011-01-31.
- ↑ McCurdy, Rob (August 6, 2010). "ALMS driver recalls crash". The Bucyrus Telegraph. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
- ↑ ALMS Communications (August 15, 2009). "ALMS: De Ferran Acura Claims Road America Pole". SPEED Channel. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
- ↑ Dagys, John (January 30, 2011). "ROLEX 24: Ganassi Goes Big With Rolex 1-2". SPEED Channel. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
- ↑ Priaulx enjoys winning start, Press Association, March 20, 2011, Retrieved 2011-03-21
- ↑ "V8: BMW's Joey Hand, Dirk Muller, Andy Priaulx In For GC600". SPEED Channel. 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
- ↑ Weeks, James (18 November 2011). "ALMS star Hand gets maiden DTM run". motorstv.com. Motors TV. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
- ↑ "Hand Joins DTM". Web. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- ↑ "Hand Across The Water". Road & Track. 64 (5): 13. January 2013.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joey Hand. |
- Official website
- Joey Hand driver statistics at Racing-Reference
- Joey Hand at Driver Database
- Video of the 2006 crash at "And they walked away..."
Sporting positions | ||
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Preceded by Ian Lacy |
Star Mazda Championship Champion 1999 |
Succeeded by Bernardo Martinez |