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the legend of joey hand

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2011 Grand Am Rolex Sportscar Series - 1st Place Rolex 24 Hours, Daytona Prototypes co-driving for Team Ganassi with Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas and Graham Rahal. 2011 American LeMans Series GT - 1st Place Sebring 12 Hours, Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan Racing, Dirk Muller and Andy Priaulx Co-Drivers. 1st Place Long Beach Grand Prix. 3rd Place Le Mans 24, 1st Place Lime Rock, 3rd Place Road America, 2nd Place Baltimore GP, 2nd Place Laguna Seca, Eight Consecutive Pole Positions. 2011 GT Driver Co-Champion. 2010 American LeMans Series GT - Rahal-Letterman Racing, Dirk Muller Co-Driver, four podium finishes including 1st at Road America & 3rd at Sebring. Turner Motorsports Continental Tire Challenge Series resulting in six podium trips, 1st at Limerock and VIR. Turner Motor-sports Grand-Am GT win at Mid-Ohio and 2nd at Daytona. 2009 American LeMans Series GT - Rahal-Letterman Racing, Bill Auberlen Co-Driver, two podium finishes and one pole including 1st at Road America & 3rd at Limerock Park. Also drove for Turner Motorsports in the Koni Challenge Series resulting in four podium trips, 1st at Limerock, 2nd at New Jersey, 3rd at The Glen. 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sportscar Series DP - Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing / Alex Job Racing, Bill Auberlen co-driver. Seven top-ten finishes including 2nd in Miami, 3rd in New Jersey and 4th at historic Watkins Glen. 2007 American LeMans Series GT - One podium with Panoz Team PTG; Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series DP - three races with Luggage Express Team Sigalsport; KONI Challenge Series GS - two wins (VIR, Miller Motorsports Park) with Turner Motorsports; SPEED World Challenge Touring Car - one win (Mid-Ohio) with BimmerWorld. 2006 American Le Mans Series GT - three podiums with BMW Team PTG 2005 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series GT - four wins (Fontana, Mont-Tremblant, Daytona, and Barber), eight podiums with BMW Team PTG 2004 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series GT - one win (Watkins Glen), six podiums with BMW Team PTG. 2001-03 CART Toyota Atlantic Championship - two wins, eight podiums, two poles with DSTP Motorsports; Jovy Marscelo Sportsmanship Award (2003); seventh in Drivers' Championship(2003); Gilles Villenueve Award(2002); 12th place in Drivers' Championship (2002) - missed half the season with an injury; Rookie of the Year (2001); third place in Drivers' Championship (2001); candidate for Red Bull F1 driver search. 1999-2000 Valvoline Team USA - One of six chosen from USA to travel to England and compete in the Formula Palmer Audi series; One of two awarded to run the Formula Palmer Audi Winter Series. 1999 Formula Mazda Pro Series - West Coast Series Champion; Best Western Series Champion; eight wins; eight poles. 1998 Formula Mazda Pro Series - fourth in Drivers' Championship; one win; Rookie of the Year 1997 Team Green Academy - one of 150 candidates chosen; one of 25 selected and tested; one of the "Final Five" chosen to return for a week of further testing; 1995-98 Karting - three U.S. Championships; seven National Championships; three National Poles (Screaming Eagles); five California State Championships; 10 Nor- Cal Championships; eight Pro-Money race Championships.

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BMW Motorsport

With a new year comes a new challenge for Joey Hand Racing, for 2012 Joey will be joining the new BMW M3 DTM team for an eleven race European tour including the legendary Brands Hatch, the Hocken-heimring and the world famous Nürburgring.

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rahal letterman lanigan racing

For 2012 Joey will be returning to the ALMS Series and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing to defend his 2011 title. Joey will once again be paired with co-champion Dirk Mueller in the #56 BMW M3. The season begins with the 60th running of the 12 hours of Sebring.

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The legend of Joey Hand - cont.

In 1996 and 1997, while racing karts nonstop, Joey was able to drive a sprint car and midget. He ran a few races, and decided not to pursue sprint car racing, because his heart was in formula cars. Joey has devoted all of his time and effort towards obtaining a ride in the direction of Formula One.

In 1998, he and his dad, with the help of some friends, ran a Formula Mazda in the Star Mazda Series. They won one race and finished fourth in the championship. In 1999, he was fortunate to find a ride with the number one team in Formula Mazda at the time, Kent Stacy’s Stacy Suspension Systems team. Joey went on to win eight races, with eight poles and two different championships.

At the end of 1999, Joey broke his elbow very badly in a karting accident. It took three months recovery before he could drive again, in which he lost all chances of finding a full-time ride for the 2000 season. He did, though, run in the Team USA scholarship in England , which he won. At the end of 2000, Joey received a phone call from the DSTP Toyota Atlantic team owned by Dede Rogers, asking for his presence at a six-man shoot-out the team was having at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in California . He went to the test, and they picked him to drive for their Toyota Atlantic team in 2001, where they had two wins, six podium finishes, and a pole position, on their way to taking third in the championship (only two points out of second), and the Rookie-of-the-Year title.

The 2002 season got off to a great start with DSTP. He earned a podium finish and a pole position after the first two races, but in testing for the third race, he had a very big testing accident on the Milwaukee Mile. He broke three vertebras, his left knee, tailbone and rib. He missed six races while recovering. In the first three races back, he had run top-five in all events. In the past two years he had also driven and tested for Tom Milner’s, PTG BMW Motorsports team doing testing one race.

For 2004, Joey ran for PTG Racing in the Rolex Grand-Am Road Racing Series, GT class in their BMW M3. A different form of racing entirely, Joey had a blast driving the BMW M3s prepared by Tom Milners PTG Team and enjoyed the challenges of learning how to drive a completely different style of car in a completely different type of racing. He was teammates with the infamous Boris Said and Bill Auberlen. Justin Marks and Joey teamed up in the beginning of the year, and the driver line ups changed a bit, as Joey and Boris were teammates the last few races. He and Boris took first place at The Glen.

For 2005, Joey was signed by BMW North America to continue driving the BMW Team PTG BMW M3 GT’s in the Rolex Grand-Am series. 2005 would prove to be one of Joey’s most successful seasons since running Star Formula Mazda with Kent Stacy (S3) in 1999. With a team leading 8 podiums and 4 wins, Joey went on to finish the Championship in 4 th Place without going to the last race in Mexico City . Joey had many different teammates and drove multiple team cars to victory. He drove the #21, #22, and #16 cars to victory lane. He shared the podium with the famous BMW and GT car ace Bill Auberlen, one of his best friends and teammates Justin Marks , Ian James and the veteran of the group, Chris Gleason.

In 2006, Joey has again been signed by BMW NA to drive their BMW M3 GTR machine. There will be a change this year, as BMW and PTG will be making the move to the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). PTG and their world-class team of drivers and crew will look to keep up there winning ways in the GT2 class of ALMS.

2007 was a change of manufacture for Joey, but still with PTG. Panoz was the new car, but he was back with the same teammate, Bill Auberlen. It was a tough year for the new program. 1 podium was the highlight of the year for the duo.