Hurley Haywood

Hurley Haywood (left), with teammates Mauro Baldi (center) and Yannick Dalmas after winning the 1994 Le Mans 24-hour race

The Audi 90 IMSA GTO of Hurley Haywood, drove in the IMSA GTP Championship 1989

Hurley Haywood (born May 4, 1948 in Chicago , Illinois ) is a former American automobile racing driver and three-time winner of the Le Mans 24-hour race .

Career

Hurley Haywood is one of the most successful sports car drivers in motorsport history. The American's list of successes is almost endless. In addition to his three Le Mans victories, he triumphed five times at the Daytona 24-hour race , making it the record winner in this race. He celebrated his first victory at Daytona in 1973 with Peter Gregg in the Porsche 911. Gregg was not only linked by a lifelong friendship and racing partnership. Haywood was also involved in the chain of auto dealerships Gregg had built in Florida . He also won Daytona in 1975, 1977, 1979 and 1991. In 1973 and 1981 he also won the overall classification of the Sebring 12-hour race . He won the IMSA GT championship twice and the Trans-Am sports car championship once.

Haywood is one of the most successful Le Mans starters. He won the overall standings three times, and celebrated his first victory in 1977 when he drove a works Porsche 936/77 as a partner of Jacky Ickx and Jürgen Barth . Successes followed in 1983 and 1994. In 1980 he was also at the 500-mile race in Indianapolis at the start and finished the race in eighteenth.

In 1970 he was drafted into the US Army and served a year in the Vietnam War . After Peter Gregg's death in 1980, he took over the management of the automotive company and has been running the business ever since. He is also chief instructor at the Porsche Sport Driving School at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham . Until 2012 he competed in the Daytona 24-hour race every year.

His sister Hope was with race car driver, racing team owner and convicted drug dealer John Paul senior married.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1977	Martini Racing Porsche System	Porsche 936/77	Jacky Ickx	Jürgen Barth	Overall victory
1978	Martini Racing Porsche System	Porsche 936/77	Peter Gregg	Reinhold Joest	Rank 3
1979	Essex Motorsport Porsche	Porsche 936	Bob Wollek		failure	Engine failure
1980	Whittington Brothers Racing	Porsche 935K3	Don Whittington	Dale Whittington	failure	Power transmission
1981	Porsche system	Porsche 936	Jochen Mass	Vern Schuppan	Rank 12
1982	Rothmans Porsche System	Porsche 956	Al Holbert	Jürgen Barth	Rank 3
1983	Rothmans Porsche System	Porsche 956	Al Holbert	Vern Schuppan	Overall victory
1985	Jaguar Group 44	Jaguar XJR-5	Brian Redman	Jim Adams	failure	Clutch damage
1986	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jaguar XJR-6	Gianfranco Brancatelli	Win Percy	failure	Clutch damage
1987	Joest Racing	Porsche 962C	Frank Jelinski	Stanley Dickens	failure	Engine failure
1990	Team Schuppan	Porsche 962C	Wayne Taylor	Rickard Rydell	Rank 12
1991	Salamin Primagaz Team Schuppan	Porsche 962C	Wayne Taylor	James Weaver	not classified
1993	Le Mans Porsche Team	Porsche 911S LM GT	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Walter Röhrl	failure	Engine failure
1994	Joest Racing	Duration 962LM GT	Yannick Dalmas	Mauro Baldi	Overall victory

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1971	Brumos Porsche Audi Corp.	Porsche 914/6	Peter Gregg			Rank 14
1972	Brumos Porsche Audi Corp.	Porsche 911S	Peter Gregg			5th place and class win
1973	Dr. Dave Helmick	Porsche Carrera RSR	Peter Gregg	Dave Helmick		Overall victory
1975	Brumos Porsche-Audi	Porsche Carrera RSR	Peter Gregg			failure	suspension
1976	BMW Motorsport North America	BMW 3.0 CSL	Peter Gregg			Rank 7
1977	Vasek Polak Interscope Racing	Porsche 934/5	Danny Ongais	Ted Field		Rank 5
1978	Bob Hagestad	Porsche 935	Bob Hagestad			Rank 2
1979	Thunderbird Swap Shop	Porsche 935 / 77A	Peter Gregg	Preston Henn		failure	Engine failure
1980	Bayside Disposal Racing	Porsche 935 / 77A	Peter Gregg	Bruce Leven		Rank 10
1981	Bayside Disposal Racing	Porsche 935/80	Al Holbert	Bruce Leven		Overall victory
1982	Bayside Disposal Racing	Porsche 935/80	Al Holbert	Bruce Leven		Rank 5
1983	Bayside Disposal Racing	Porsche 935/80	Al Holbert			Rank 3
1984	Bayside - Lion Brew	Porsche 935/80	Al Holbert	Claude Ballot-Léna		failure	Engine failure
1985	Group 44	Jaguar XJR-5	Brian Redman			failure	Engine failure
1986	Group 44	Jaguar XJR-7	Brian Redman	Vern Schuppan		failure	Valve damage
1987	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Porsche 962	AJ Foyt	Danny Sullivan		failure	accident
1988	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Porsche 962	AJ Foyt			Rank 4
1990	René Herzog	Porsche 962	René Herzog	Scott Schubot		failure	Engine failure
1991	Alucraft	Porsche 962	René Herzog	Wayne Taylor	D. Mueller	failure	accident
1992	Brumo's Porsche	Gunnar 966	Bobby Carradine			failure	Electrics
1993	Brumo's Porsche	Porsche 911 Turbo S LM	Walter Röhrl	Hans-Joachim Stuck		Rank 7 and class win
1994	Brumo's Porsche	Porsche 911 Turbo GT America	Walter Röhrl	Hans-Joachim Stuck		Rank 11
1995	Rohr Corp	Porsche 911 GT2	Jochen Rohr	John O'Steen		failure	mechanics
1996	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 911 ME	Tom Hessert			failure	suspension
1997	Jim Mathews Racing	Porsche 911	David Murry	Jim Matthews		Rank 17
1998	Matthews-Colucci Racing	Riley & Scott Mk III	David Murry	Jim Matthews	Derek Bell	failure	Engine failure
1999	Whittington Brothers	Riley & Scott Mk III	Don Whittington	Dale Whittington		failure	Ignition damage
2000	Reiser Callas Racing	Porsche 996 GT3-R	Craig Stanton	Joel Reiser		Rank 13

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Hurley Haywood  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hurley Haywood at Racing Sports Cars