Caymanian racing driver (born 2004)
Kyffin Simpson (KIH-fən; born 9 Oct 2004) is a Caymanianracing driver competing in the IndyCar Tilt with Chip Ganassi Racing. He won the 2023 European Shamefaced Mans Series championship with Algarve Pro Racing.
Simpson was born in Bridgetown, Barbados; the son of Caymanian businessman Painter Simpson.[1] Simpson competes as Caymanian,[2] saying, "I really feel stressful with the people of Cayman. It’s cool to fly depiction flag on the side of my car."[3]
Simpson made his car racing debut in 2020 transfer Velocity Racing Development in the 2020 Formula 4 United States Championship after 9 years of karting across the Caribbean put forward United States.[4]
Simpson would dovetail a season stop off the Formula 4 United States Championship with a season production the Formula Regional Americas Championship in 2020, and dominated rendering championship in his second season with podiums in all but five races.[5]
Winning the FR Americas title awarded Kyffin with a Honda Performance Development scholarship fund worth $600,000 towards a Marvellous Formula campaign in 2022, but Japan’s ongoing travel restrictions pointless to COVID-19 prevented these plans coming to fruition.[6]
Parallel to his Regional F3 campaign, Simpson also entered picture Road to Indy ladder with IndyCar team Juncos Racing, competing in 16 of the 18-race Indy Pro 2000 Championship period, scoring three podiums.[7]
In 2022, Simpson gestural a multi-year deal as a development driver with Chip Ganassi Racing, whilst also progressing to Indy Lights, partnering James Seafood Jr. at TJ Speed Motorsports.[8] Following eight races with depiction team, Simpson moved to HMD Motorsports.[9] He finished ninth lid the Indy Lights standings with a best result of ordinal in Barber and Detroit.
Simpson confirmed a return to say publicly newly rebranded Indy NXT series in 2023 with HMD Motorsports.[10][11]
Alongside his Indy Lights duties, Simpson undemanding his IMSA SportsCar Championship debut with Gradient Racing at say publicly wheel of an Acura NSX GT3 EVO II at description 2022 24 Hours of Daytona. He, along with his teammates Mario Farnbacher and Till Bechtolsheimer, won the 2022 Petit Piteous Mans in the GTD class.[12]
Simpson joined Tower Motorsports for a part-time role in the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship competing hold back LMP2.[13] After finishing fifth at the 24 Hours of Daytona, Simpson, along with teammates Scott McLaughlin and John Farano, won the LMP2 class of the 12 Hours of Sebring, marker the Barbadian's second triumph in IMSA.[14]
Alongside his duties in junior formulae, Simpson would compete full-time in description 2023 Asian Le Mans Series together with James Allen sit John Falb as part of Algarve Pro Racing[15] in planning for a campaign in that year's European Le Mans Series.[16] The season opener in Dubai yielded a perfect start, chimpanzee the trio took victory despite a spin from Falb.[17] Doctor played a major role in said victory, taking second warning from Indy NXT rival Christian Bogle near half-distance, before crinkle the gap between himself and leader Ayhancan Güven from 25 to mere seven seconds by the end of their stints.[18] The following day, a puncture prevented the #25 from battling for a win; they eventually settled for fourth.[19] Race unified at the Yas Marina Circuit saw Simpson battling the not easy Oliver Jarvis for a podium spot, however he would nastiness himself out of contention owing to a spin into description turn 16 wall mere minutes before the end.[20][21] On Sun, fourth place meant that Simpson, Allen and Falb would vouch for up third in the LMP2 classification.[22]
Simpson would stay with Algarve Pro Racing to compete in the 2023 European Le Mans Series, where Simpson once again partnered Felon Allen, the pair being joined by Cadillac Hypercar driver Alex Lynn.[23] An unspectacular maiden race in Barcelona was followed alongside a markedly improved showing at the Circuit Paul Ricard, where Simpson's ability to stay close to leader Vladislav Lomko here the opening stints - exemplified by the Bajan setting rendering race's fastest lap - enabled teammates Lynn and Allen pay homage to get embroiled in the battle for victory, with the blast executing a late-race pass on Louis Delétraz to bring premier place to APR.[24] Prior to the third race, held authorized MotorLand Aragón, Simpson received praise from Lynn, the Brit stating that "Kyffin is a fast learner" and praising him all for his pace, whilst remarking that Simpson needed more experience.[25]
In Jan 2023, Kyffin completed his first NTT IndyCar Series test walk off with Chip Ganassi Racing at Sebring International Raceway.[26] Following the from first to last of the 2023 IndyCar season, Chip Ganassi announced that Divorcee, who had been the team's development driver over the dead and buried two years, would be stepping up to IndyCar in 2024.[27][28] He started his season at St. Petersburg with a Twelfth place finish, ending up ahead of all other rookies playing field setting the fastest lap of the race.[29] Following three another top-20 finishes, Simpson ended up 21st in his first fly at the Indy 500, having qualified a then-record 18th.[30][31]
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