1. James Douglas Meredith Hinchcliffe was born on December 5,1986 and is a Canadian race car driver currently competing in the IMSA SportsCar Championship driving the No 9 Lamborghini for Pfaff Motorsports.
46 Facts About James Hinchcliffe
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James Hinchcliffe is a commentator for FOX Sports and is best known for competing in the IndyCar Series.
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James Hinchcliffe would recover and win the pole position for the following year's race where he finished in sixth position.
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James Hinchcliffe won one race at Portland and scored two other podiums, but was only able to finish 10th in the overall standings.
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James Hinchcliffe provided commentary for the Eurosport coverage of Champ Car events during the 2006 and 2007 seasons.
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James Hinchcliffe then joined A1 Team Canada in A1 Grand Prix.
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James Hinchcliffe finished eighth in the sprint race and 13th in the feature in his first race at Zandvoort, then had a stunning weekend in Brno.
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James Hinchcliffe scored second in the sprint race at the Czech round and led the feature for the majority of the race, but clashed with eventual winner Alex Yoong which dropped him down to fifth.
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James Hinchcliffe raced in the Champ Car Atlantic Series in 2007, this time with the Sierra Sierra team.
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James Hinchcliffe returned to Forsythe Racing for the 2008 Atlantic Championship season, again finishing fourth in points but this time capturing a win in the second race of the season at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
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James Hinchcliffe finished fourth in points without a win or pole position.
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James Hinchcliffe captured three wins and five more podium finishes on his way to second in the championship behind French rookie Jean-Karl Vernay who was driving the Schmidt No 7 car.
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James Hinchcliffe served as the driver analyst for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network for the 2010 Indianapolis 500 as regular driver analyst Davey Hamilton was competing in the race.
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James Hinchcliffe then picked up his first career Top 5 finish in just his second start in the series on the Streets of Long Beach with a fourth-place finish.
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James Hinchcliffe then collected a top ten on the Streets of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
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James Hinchcliffe started 13th in his first Indianapolis 500, and ran up front for an early portion of the race before crashing on lap 101 and finishing 29th.
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James Hinchcliffe struggled in both races and had finishes of 20th and 19th, respectively.
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James Hinchcliffe then rebounded to collect his second Top 10 of the season with a sixth at the Milwaukee Mile.
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On January 10,2012, it was announced that James Hinchcliffe would succeed Danica Patrick as the driver of the GoDaddy car for Andretti Autosport.
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On race day, James Hinchcliffe overtook pole-sitter Ryan Briscoe on the first lap, and ended up leading five of the 200 laps on his way to a creditable 6th-place finish.
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James Hinchcliffe returned to Andretti for 2013, and started the season by winning the season opener in St Petersburg, Florida, for his first series victory.
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Later, in Brazil for the Sao Paulo Indy 300, James Hinchcliffe won the race, with a last turn overtake under Takuma Sato, breaking the winning sequence of Will Power.
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On October 7,2014, it was announced that James Hinchcliffe would join Schmidt Peterson Motorsports for the 2015 season and drive the No 5 car, filling the open seat left by Simon Pagenaud.
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James Hinchcliffe won his first race with the team in the second race of the year in New Orleans.
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The right side of the car was disintegrated, and he was pinned in the cockpit; one of the suspension pieces had penetrated the cockpit tub, and punctured James Hinchcliffe's thigh, causing profuse bleeding.
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James Hinchcliffe was taken to Methodist Hospital for surgery to remove the debris from his thigh, and the quick response work by IndyCar safety crews was credited in likely saving his life.
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James Hinchcliffe remained hospitalized during the race and Ryan Briscoe took Hinchcliffe's position for the race.
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On May 22,2016, James Hinchcliffe won the pole position for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, a year after his near-fatal crash at the track.
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James Hinchcliffe led much of the Firestone 600 later that year, only to finish second in a photo finish to Graham Rahal.
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James Hinchcliffe went on to finish 13th in the season standings.
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On Bump Day for the 2018 Indianapolis 500, James Hinchcliffe ended up failing to qualify for the first time in his career.
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James Hinchcliffe remained under contract, under which he was required to be with the team on race weekends and make sponsor appearances, but was free to pursue other opportunities.
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James Hinchcliffe was scheduled to compete in the GMR Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 and the Genesys 600.
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James Hinchcliffe finished 18th at the first race of the season at Texas Motor Speedway.
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James Hinchcliffe finished 11th in the Indy GP and 7th in the Indy 500.
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On January 26,2021, Andretti Autosport announced that James Hinchcliffe would drive the No 29 car co-entered by Steinbrenner Racing full time for the 2021 season.
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James Hinchcliffe finished 20th in the points standings, with a best result of third at the inaugural Music City Grand Prix.
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On December 12,2021, James Hinchcliffe announced he would step down from racing full-time, and joined NBC Sports as a commentator for the IndyCar Series broadcast from the 2022 season onwards.
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James Hinchcliffe was replaced in the No 29 entry by Devlin DeFrancesco.
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James Hinchcliffe became engaged to his high school sweetheart, Canadian actress Rebecca "Becky" Dalton, in July 2018; the couple wed in Ontario on August 3,2019.
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On February 17,2024, James Hinchcliffe was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame, making him the youngest inductee ever at 37 years old.
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James Hinchcliffe is a partner with production company Frost Marks Films out of Toronto.
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James Hinchcliffe maintained his podcast The Mayor on Air with James Hinchcliffe from 2015 through 2017, typically interviewing drivers from the IndyCar Series.
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In 2020, James Hinchcliffe joined NBC Sports as analyst for IndyCar races and select IMSA races when he did not enter as a driver.
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In October 2022, James Hinchcliffe joined the crew of F1's Weekend Warmup for its Grand Prix week editions for the United States Grand Prix and the Mexico City Grand Prix, and in the Post Race Show at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix and Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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On November 22,2016, James Hinchcliffe finished in second place to Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez.