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2000
Highlights
GM
Corvette Racing C5-R - # 4 car
ALMS - 2nd (DQ)
Portland Int'l Raceway
GM
Corvette Racing C5-R - # 4 car ALMS - WIN at
Petit Le Mans, Road Atlanta
GM
Corvette Racing C5-R - # 3 car ALMS - WIN
at Texas and 2nd at Mosport & Laguna Seca
GM Corvette Racing C5-R - #64 car 24 Hours of Le Mans 3rd.
GTS (10th. Overall).
GM Corvette Racing C5-R - # 4 car ALMS - 5th in
GTS at the12 Hours of Sebring.
GM Corvette Racing C5-R - # 4 car Grand-Am
10th in GTO at Grand-Am 24 Hours of Daytona
Grand-Am GTU BMW-M3 - WIN at Trois Rivieres, 2nd. at
Road America, 4th. at Daytona, 5th. at Mid-Ohio.
Grand-Am Motorola Cup SGS Corvette - 3rd. at Homestead, 4th.
at Phoenix.
Summary: 16 races - 3 wins, 9 top 5 & 2 Top 10 finishes.
1999
Highlights
GM
Corvette Racing C5-R at Daytona 24-Hour, Sebring 12 hour, and 4th at
Road Atlanta - Petit Le Mans.
Champion Porsche 911-GT1 Evo in ALMS P class and Porsche 911's in
ALMS GTS Class.
Corvette and BMW M3 in FIA GT.
BMW M3 in Motorola Cup.
Lamborghini Diablo in European Lamborghini Trophy series.
Summary: 13 races (plus the Lamborghini series).
4 Top Five & 7 Top Ten finishes.
1998
Highlights
Champion Porsche 911-GT1 in GT1.
Roock Porsche 911 Turbo in GT2
Massari-Muller BMW M3 in Speedvision
Cup. Massari-Muller BMW M3 in GT2.
Massari-Muller BMW M3 in Motorola Cup. Schumacher Porsche 911
Turbo in GT2.
PTG BMW M3 in GT2. Mosler Raptor in GT1.
Summary: 22 races. 7 Wins & 15 Top Five finishes.
SpeedVision Cup CHAMPION
1997
Highlights
Debuted Rohr's Porsche 911 GT1 with 4 straight wins at Mosport, Las
Vegas, Pikes Peak and Sebring.
24 Hours of Le Mans - Roock Porsche GT2. Highest-placed American
Driver - Pole position / 2nd.
Rohr Motorsports Porsche 911 Turbo EVO GT1 win at Daytona, 2nd at
Sebring.
Pikes Peak Hill Climb - 2nd in Legends Class.
Summary: 21 races. 6 Wins, 10 Top Five & 2 Top Ten finishes.
Professional SportsCar GT-1 CHAMPION
1996 Highlights
Competed
in an unprecedented 28
professional races in U.S., Canada, England, France, China, and Brazil.
Roock Racing Porsche 911 in BPR Endurance series.
New Hardware Porsche 911 at 24 Hours of Le Mans - Result 4th.
Schumacher Porsche 993 in Professional SportsCar GTS-2
Wheel to Wheel Pontiac in Speedvision Cup GS - to win manufacturer's
championship for Pontiac.
Porsche 911's in SCCA World Challenge S1
Pikes Peak Hill Climb - 2nd in Legends class.
Summary: 28 races. 6 Wins, 14 Top Five & 5 Top Ten finishes.
Brazilian GT-2 CHAMPION
Biographical
Information
Versatile
Corporate Spokesperson
With five professional championships to his
credit, Andy is widely acknowledged as both an accomplished professional
racing driver and a motorsports authority. His corporate work and
non-racing activity is extensive and includes:
- SpeedVision Network host and Sportscar expert commentator
of the weekly "On Track" Television show;
- Porsche host and narrator for the 1998 911 customer glove-box
and dealer sales videos;
- BMW seminar presenter, technical expert and sales motivational
facilitator;
- Ride & Drive Instructor for Lexus, Cadillac and Acura;
- Test Driver for Goodyear, A.C. Delco, and Kelsey-Hayes.
A
"Corvette
Expert"
What
does it take to be considered an "expert" Corvette driver?
In
Andy’s case, the answer is racing a variety of production-based and
made-for-racing Corvettes in over 90 professional races in nine
different series, back-to-back Petit Le Mans race wins in the C5-R,
three podium finishes at Le Mans, 11 race wins in North American
championships, factory test driver, press day driver, and if you can
believe – a Smithsonian exhibit - not to mention owning several street
Corvettes over the years.
That brings us all the way to 2007 when Andy drove the C6-R to a podium
finish at Mosport and on to 2008 where Andy has tested the baddest
production Corvette ever built in the 620+hp ZR-1.
“I
still remember,” he says, with a wicked grin, “my personal ‘Cannonball
Run,’ a record-breaking time in late April 1988, between Detroit and
Dallas in the #18 Corvette Challenge car, fully-stickered for the race
track, to make it in time for a PR photo shoot before the first-ever
race in that great series.”
C5-R 1999-2002
Andy was Team Captain of the GTS class podium-finishing #64 Corvette
C5-R at Le Mans in 2000. He raced the #3 and #4 Corvette C5-R in the
American Le Mans Series – with back-to-back wins at Texas and at the
Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.
Andy's third place podium finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in June
2000, followed by the close 2nd place finish at Mosport that
August - driving the most high-tech, expensively-developed and most
highly-publicized factory Corvette in the history of the marque -
are further milestones in his remarkable racing career and his on-going
involvement with the Corvette.
His 2000 win - in the last lap - of the Petit Le Mans is still known as
the greatest pass in ALMS history. In early 2001, his season started
with a second place finish in the Grand-Am Rolex 24 At Daytona with Andy
and regular co-driver Kelly Collins working alongside Dale Earnhardt Sr.
and Jr.
In
2002, Andy and Kelly won the ALMS street races at Trois-Rivieres and
Elkhart Lake, and scored their third-straight podium finish at Le Mans.
C5-R 1999
Andy was a regular driver for the Team Corvette C5-R since the inception
of its racing program.
C5
- 2000
Andy raced a production-based Corvette C5 in the former Motorola Cup
series.
Production-Based
Corvette Race Cars -
Prior to joining
GM Racing’s Team Corvette factory team in 1999, Andy had already raced
C4 Corvettes in several North America professional series which gave him
more experience from track time, and exposure from his frequent visits
to the Winners’ Circle. He was a regular participant in the
tightly-contested SCCA Playboy, Escort Endurance and World Challenge
series, as well as two years in the SCCA Corvette Challenge sprint races
- the short-lived series that became a launch pad for many of today's
world class drivers.
Corvette
Challenge -
1988/89
Andy was one of a handful of race winners in the million-dollar Corvette
Challenge - a series that showcased driver talent in identical showroom
stock C4 Corvettes with a performance option package spec’ed
specifically for this series. In 22 starts, Andy won Corvette Challenge
races at Brainerd, Minn., Road Atlanta, and his favorite track – Road
America, beating many seasoned, top-level drivers on his way to the top
rung of the winners’ podium.
GT
Corvettes -
In
the mid-90's, Andy raced the GTS class Corvettes for team owner Tommy
Morrison in IMSA Camel GT races at Daytona, Sebring and Watkins Glen -
co-driving with some of the world's most acclaimed Corvette drivers at
the time, John Heinricy, R.K. Smith and Stu Hayner.
Street Corvettes – When the 1997 C5 Corvette production car was
in its development process, Andy became the only non-GM employee ever
hired as a test driver. He was one of the GM factory drivers on hand at
Mid-Ohio for the press launch of the revolutionary Corvette C5-ZO6 in
2000. He remained on the test driving team through the C6 model
development process in 2004.
Smithsonian
Exhibit -
The #92 Morrison Racing GTS Corvette, with Andy's name still on the
roof, is in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. - assuring Andy's
place in the country's automotive history.
Andy's
third place podium finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in June 2000,
followed by the close 2nd. place finish at Mosport in August - driving the most high tech, expensively developed and
most highly publicized factory Corvette in the history of the marque
-
are further milestones in his remarkable racing career and Andy's on-going
involvement with the Corvette.
Personal car?
What else - it has to be a Cadillac CTS-V
Spare Time!
In whatever time he has between racing and business endeavors, Andy
tunes up with high-performance motor-cycles, the present stable consisting
of a Triumph Speed Triple, a Suzuki 400 enduro and his venerable 70's
Laverda Jota. He also likes karting and mountain biking. His personal
fitness regimen has resulted in an ability to regularly do double
stints in the C5-R - at temperatures of up to 160 degrees! Andy's
community service includes teaching safe driving to High School students
in South Florida, (watch for Andy's new "Heads Up Driving
& Riding" products coming soon).
Racing Helmets -
His Simpson racing helmets, custom painted by Bullseye Visuals of
Indianapolis, are synonymous with Andy's love of cartoons - this year,
his helmets feature Ren & Stimpy, Southpark and Warner Bros. characters.
Personal
Born: Nottingham, England Residence:
Boca Raton ,Florida
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Factory driver for GM Racing; races Cadillac CTS-V
in SCCA Speed World Challenge GT series
Owner, ECS www.ecsjobs.com,
Aventura, FL. (Began work as a contract computer programmer at GM in Detroit; created ECS in 1989 in Miami, Florida)
Native of: Nottingham, England
- emigrated to U.S. in 1982; became U.S. citizen in 1998.
Away From The Track: Andy has long worked with high school students in
Florida's Broward and Dade County Schools, teaching them survival skills for early years of highway driving.
In 2005, Andy introduced a
safe-driving DVD, “The Driving Zone. Essential Techniques For New
Drivers,” with Dale Earnhardt Jr., presented by The Dale Earnhardt
Foundation
Corvette
Milestones
First
GM Corvette C5-R race win (Grand Prix of Texas, Ft.Worth, Sep. 2000)
First
GM Corvette C5-R back to back wins (Petit Le Mans - Road Atlanta,
Sep. 2000)
Selected to co-drive with Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. at
2001 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.
Smithsonian
Exhibit
The
Morrison Motorsport’s IMSA GTO Corvette bearing Andy’s name is in
the prestigious Smithsonian Museum at Washington, D.C.
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