| Andy Pilgrim |
Career Highlights: 1995 IMSA Grand Sport Endurance Champion. 1997 and 1998 PSCR GT1 Champion. 2004 Rolex 24 At Daytona overall winner. 2005 SPEED GT Drivers Champion.
2007: Finished second in the SPEED GT Championship with Team Cadillac. Finished only one race outside the top-10 and collected wins at Lowes Motor Speedway and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Reset the Watkins qualifying lap record in his Cadillac CTS-V and helped the marque earn its second SPEED GT Manufacturers title.
Previously: From 1978-1980, competed in open-class and modified production motorcycles in England. Captured 71 wins and five Divisional and National Championships during that time. Moved to the United States in the early 1980s and began racing professionally in 1984. Driving a Pontiac Firebird, grabbed his first professional win in the IMSA Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship at Sears Point in 1986. Won 20 Firehawk series races in 106 starts over the next decade. His record of 116 consecutive race finishes in IMSA/PSCR events is unprecedented. Made 23 World Challenge starts from 1990-1994 and 1996. In those starts, Pilgrim recorded four wins, 11 top-fives, and 22 top 10 finishes. In 1994, won one race in the IMSA Supercar Series driving a Lotus. Captured six wins en route to winning the IMSA Grand Sport Endurance Championship in 1995. In 1996, won the GTS-2 12 Hours of Sebring and won two World Challenge races (Road America, Reno) in three starts. In 1997, had four race wins en route to winning the PSCR GT1 Championhsip driving a Porsche 911 GT1 with Alan McNish. Won the PSCR GT1 Championship in 1998 and had two PSCR GT2 wins that same year. From 1999-2003, Pilgrim recorded seven GTS wins, driving a Corvette, in the American Le Mans Series. Class win in the Rolex 24 At Daytona in 2002. In 2003, drove a Daytona Prototype to victory circle at the Rolex 24 in Grand-Am. Made immediate impact in 2004 as one of General Motors Cadillac CTS-V program pilots, earning a podium (2nd place at Sebring) in his debut while recording the fastest race lap in a charge from the back of the field. Finished the season with six top-5 finishes and eight top-10 marks overall. Earned first GT Drivers Championship in 2005 without winning a single race, using eight top-five finishes and 11 top-10s. Best finish came at Road Atlanta, where he finished second in a podium sweep by Team Cadillac. His efforts also helped propel Cadillac to the SPEED GT Manufacturers Championship. In 2006, finished all but one race in the top-10, with five top-five finishes and four podiums. Finished season third in the Drivers Championship. Broke a 10-year (29-race) series winless streak with a victory at Road Atlanta.
