“This thing had come up so last minute, and then I’ve not done a sports car race before … then winning and I’m like, ‘Wow, that was quite the weekend!’ It was an amazing weekend and really good memories from it, and the way it worked out long run has kind of been amazing as well.”Īfter his full-time Ind圜ar run ended in 2016, Hawksworth joined Gentilozzi’s team in the brand-new Lexus program in the GT Daytona class. “I remember it being a bit mad, to be honest,” Hawksworth told the IMSA Wire Service this week. IMSA’s premier prototype division raced on the IMS road course from 2012-14 in conjunction with NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 weekend, and there are at least four winners from that stretch in the field for Sunday’s Battle on the Bricks: Sebastien Bourdais (who also is a nine-time Indy 500 starter), Joao Barbosa, Ryan Dalziel and Jack Hawksworth, who made his IMSA debut at IMS in 2014.ĭuring his rookie Ind圜ar season in 2014, Hawksworth was offered a Prototype Challenge ride a few months after qualifying second, leading 31 laps and finishing seventh in the first Ind圜ar race on the IMS road course.īehind the wheel of a prototype for the first time on the same track, the Englishman charged to a victory in the Prototype Challenge, taking the lead with a few minutes left for Paul Gentilozzi’s team. The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will return to Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend for the first time in nearly a decade with many in the 48-car field feeling back home again.
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