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Bellevue, WA –
Kimberly Hiskey will compete in the 2001 Rolex 24 at Daytona in a White
Lightning 2000 Porsche 911 GT3R to earn valuable driver-championship points
in the Grand Am GTU class. Only 3 or 4 women drivers expected out of the 300
drivers that will compete in the 2001 Rolex 24 at Daytona, and Hiskey is the
only woman car owner and driver expected to compete for the 2001 Grand
Am GTU championship.
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Teaming up with White Lightning
for the Rolex 24 gives Hiskey her first start in the prestigious endurance
race, after a number of successful finishes in Grand Am events during the
2000 season. Awaiting the arrival of a 2001 Porsche 911 GT3 RS in the next
few weeks, Hiskey and Greg Fordahl hope to have the Fordahl Motorsports /
Crazy Redhead Racing GT3RS ready for the Nextel 250 at Homestead on March 3,
2001.
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For the remainder of the 2001
Grand Am season, Hiskey will team with veteran Porsche driver Randy Pobst in
the Fordahl Motorsports/Crazy Redhead Racing GT3RS, with Fordahl as race
engineer and crew chief. Pobst
will also compete in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in the White Lightning 2001
Porsche GT3RS, with Fordahl joining the White Lightning team for this event.
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First
Rolex 24 at Daytona
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“I am very excited to drive with
White Lightning in my first start in the Rolex 24 at Daytona, because it
gives me a real opportunity to finish well in the race and to earn valuable
points toward the 2001 Grand Am GTU driver’s championship,” Hiskey
explained.
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“This year, with a brand new 911
GT3RS and the experience that Greg, Randy, and I have with Porsche, we are
looking for a great season in the Fordahl Motorsports / Crazy Redhead Racing
Porsche 911 GT3RS, beginning with the Nextel 250 at Homestead.”
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Hiskey teamed with Pobst and
Fordahl to contest a limited Grand Am schedule in 2000, earning third place
finishes in GTU at both Mid-Ohio and Phoenix, driving a 911 RSR against the
latest 911GT3 Rs of other competitors, and actually leading more than half
the race distance at Mid-Ohio.
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Hiskey and Pobst also finished
fourth in GTU in the qualifying race for the 6-Hour endurance race at
Watkins Glen, coming in eighth in class in the 6-Hour event.
Hiskey finished 11th in the Grand Am GTU driver’s championship.
In addition to the Grand Am schedule, Hiskey finished the 2000 season
second in the GT1 class for Oregon Region SCCA.
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An accomplished Porsche driver,
Hiskey placed second in Super Production at the Pacific Coast Road Racing
Championship in 1999 and was the Overall Winner of the NASA Timex 12 Hours
of Thunderhill that year. She also won four championships in 1999, in both
Super Production and Porsche Club classes for Oregon Region SCCA and
Northwest Region SCCA. Hiskey was named Most Improved Driver by Northwest
Region SCCA for 1999 and Novice of the Year for 1998.
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Veteran
Porsche Race Engineer
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Greg Fordahl brings 22 years of
racecar preparation experience to the Fordahl Motorsports / Crazy Redhead
Racing 911 GT3RS effort. In 1998, Fordahl became the race engineer for the
Alex Job Racing (AJR) 911 3.8 RSRs, helping the team to several podium
finishes against the dominant competitors in the American Le Mans Series.
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AJR won both the Rolex 24 at
Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1999 with Fordahl as race engineer.
That year, Porsche chose AJR to be the first team to race the new 911 GT3R,
and Fordahl continued to engineer the development of the car. AJR won every
race they entered in 1999 except one, capturing both the ALMS team and
driver championships.
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Fordahl continued as race engineer
with AJR for the 2000 season, while fielding his own team with Hiskey and
Pobst in selected Grand Am events.
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Veteran
Porsche Driver
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Randy Pobst will partner
Hiskey in the Fordahl Motorsports / Crazy Redhead Racing 911 GT3RS for the
2001 Grand Am effort. Pobst is coming off an outstanding 2000 season with
AJR in ALMS, where he scored two pole positions, two fastest race laps, and
had two wins. Finishing second in the ALMS GT driver’s championship, Pobst
was in contention for the championship up to the last hour of the last race
of the season.
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A testament to his ability in a
Porsche, Pobst was invited by Porsche to drive a guest car in the Porsche
Supercup races during the Formula One weekend at Indianapolis. Pobst finished an impressive fifth in both races, competing
against the European drivers who regularly race in each round of the series.
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During the 1999 season, Pobst
earned the GT class pole at the 12 Hours of Sebring and finished second, to
go with a fifth-in-class finish in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Pobst added a
third at Las Vegas and a fifth at Sears Point during the season.
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The Fordahl Motorsports / Crazy
Redhead Racing Porsche 911 GT3RS will be prepared at the Fordahl Motorsports
facilities in Bellevue, WA. Crazy Redhead Racing is also based in Bellevue,
while White Lightning is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Contact:
Fordahl Motorsports 425-644-6020
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