I got to know his brother Nicholas and father Reggie as well. “He had a Formula Ford, I had a FF2000 and we hung out, working on the cars. “We were good friends back in the day, racing against each other and cooking out together in the evenings,” said Creech.
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That turned Creech toward sports cars, though he still keeps in touch with many in the open-wheel industry such as Dominic Cape, whose Cape Motorsports is the winningest team in USF2000 series history (and now races Indy NXT).
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After starting his career as a driver and mechanic in Ind圜ar feeder series, Creech was on a path to race Formula Atlantic in 1994 when his transporter was stolen (with the race car inside).
33 SCM Focal One Ligier JS P320 with co-driver Lance Willsey in LMP3 for Sean Creech Motorsport, whose team owner also has a connection to Indy. This weekend at IMS, Barbosa will race the No. I didn’t know it at the time, but that was the start of my kind of journey with Lexus as well.”īarbosa won in 2014 with Christian Fittipaldi on the way to the prototype championship. “It’s like the butterfly effect, like one thing happens, and then that can lead you to a completely different destination to maybe the one you thought you were on at the time but an equally good one. “I always look back and think it’s amazing where one race and one moment can lead you,” he said. 14 Lexus RC F GT3 as IMSA returns to the track where a sports car career all started for Hawksworth.
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He and co-driver Ben Barnicoat lead GTD Pro by 144 points in the No. Hawksworth has become a Lexus mainstay since, moving to the Vasser Sullivan team in 2019 and racking up 10 GTD and GTD Pro victories. “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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