Davey Hamilton Jr.

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Davey Hamilton Jr.
NationalityAmerican
BornDavey Jay Hamilton Jr.
(1997-03-15) March 15, 1997 (age 26)
Related to Davey Hamilton (father)
Ken Hamilton (grandfather)
Stadium Super Trucks
Years active 2017–2018, 2022
Former teams Always Evolving, Go Fast Take Chances
Starts12
Best finish14th in 2017
Finished last season16th (2018)
Previous series
2017
2016 		NASCAR K&N Pro Series West
Indy Lights
Championship titles
2016King of the Wing
Last updated on: November 14, 2022.

Davey Jay Hamilton Jr. (born March 15, 1997) is an American racing driver from Idaho who competes in pavement sprint car racing. He is the son of former Indianapolis 500 competitor Davey Hamilton.

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Hamilton has raced mainly midgets, sprint cars, and in the Stadium Super Trucks. He made his Indy Lights debut in 2016.

Racing career

Hamilton started his racing career in karting at his local karttrack near Star, Idaho. The third generation racing driver made his debut in the USAC Midgets. In 2011 Hamilton finished eleventh in the Ford Focus Midwestern Pavement division. [1] For 2012, Hamilton improved to a sixth place in the series. [2]

In 2015, Hamilton won the King of the Wing's Western Sprintcar Series. Hamilton began testing an Indy Lights car with McCormack Racing in 2015. It was initially announced that he would compete in the full 2016 Indy Lights season with the team but the entry did not materialize until the season finale at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca where Hamilton finally made his series debut. He won the King of the Wing championship in 2016.

In 2017, Hamilton joined the Stadium Super Trucks, racing Always Evolving's No. 75 at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. [3] At the Beijing National Stadium round, Hamilton won the race, but did not take the joker lane and was disqualified. [4] He also drove in one NASCAR K&N Pro Series West late that year.

On April 30, 2018, after a rookie test at Kentucky Speedway, Team Pelfrey announced that Hamilton would be competing in that year's Freedom 100 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and that they were working to add more appearance in 2018 and 2019. [5]

His career was put on hold from 2019 to much of 2021 following his assault arrest. [6] He returned to racing in October 2021 in the USAC Silver Crown Series and won in his second race with Kirk Morgan's Morgan Motorsports team. The performance promoted him to a full season with the team in 2022. [7] He also planned to race for that year's SST championship, but a ramp landing in the season opener at the Grand Prix of Long Beach caused him to reaggravate a T4 spinal fracture that he suffered in a sprint car crash in 2017. Although the SST schedule was dropped, he continued his oval racing. [8]

In 2023, Hamilton promoted the inaugural Open Wheel Showdown at the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway [9] The $50,000 to win Winged Sprint Car race was the highest paying of all-time for the discipline and also included Midgets and Super Modifieds competing. [10]

Personal life

In February 2019, Hamilton was arrested in Florida on charges of false imprisonment and aggravated assault after breaking into his ex-girlfriend's hotel room and holding her at knife-point. [11] He had been struggling with concussions for months prior to the incident that he sustained in race crashes. Hamilton was sentenced to five years of probation. While his driving career was on hiatus, he started a series of businesses and became an ambassador for the Brian Hamilton Foundation, which helps those with criminal records become entrepreneurs. [6]

Racing record

American Open-Wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest race lap)

Indy Lights

YearTeam123456789101112131415161718RankPoints
2016 McCormack Racing STP STP PHX ALA ALA IMS IMS INDY RDA RDA IOW TOR TOR MDO MDO WGL LAG
14		 LAG
14		21st14
2018 Team Pelfrey STP STP ALA
ALA
IMS IMS INDY
7		 ROA ROA IOW TOR TOR MDO MDO GTW POR POR 12th21

Stadium Super Trucks

(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.)

Stadium Super Trucks results
Year12345678910111213141516171819202122SSTCPtsRef
2017 ADE ADE ADE STP
6		 STP
10		 LBH
8		 LBH
7		 PER PER PER DET
7		 DET TEX TEX HID HID HID BEI
121		 GLN GLN ELS ELS 14th76 [12]
2018 ELS ADE ADE ADE LBH
5		 LBH
7		 PER PER DET DET TEX TEX ROA ROA SMP SMP HLN HLN MXC
9		 MXC
8		16th58 [13]
2022 LBH
8		 LBH
8		 MOH MOH NSH NSH BRI BRI 16th26 [14]

1 Although Hamilton led the most laps, his disqualification resulted in the bonus points being awarded to Bill Hynes.

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

K&N Pro Series West

NASCAR K&N Pro Series West results
YearTeamNo.Make1234567891011121314NKNPSWCPts
2017 Patriot Motorsports Group 38 Chevy TUS KCR IRW IRW SPO OSS CNS SON IOW EVG DCS MER AAS KCR
15		52nd29

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  2. ↑ "MIDWEST - IGNITE MIDGET SERIES POINTS". USAC Racing. Archived from the original on November 13, 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Stadium Super Trucks St. Pete". Always Evolving . 27 March 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Round 18 – Beijing, China – 7/29/17". Stadium Super Trucks . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Hamilton Jr. Returns to Indy Lights with Team Pelfrey for Freedom 100".
  6. 1 2 Hunsinger Benbow, Dana (January 28, 2022). "Davey Hamilton Jr. transforming his life: 'I made a mistake. I am not that person anymore'". The Indianapolis Star . Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Busy Season Ahead For Davey Hamilton Jr". Speed Sport . January 5, 2022. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  8. ↑ Hoffman, David (June 30, 2022). "Injury Not Slowing Down Hamilton Jr". Speed Sport . Retrieved July 5, 2022.
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  10. ↑ "Dominant Willison Banks $50,000". December 3, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
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