Jack Baldwin (racing driver, born 1948)
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Jack Baldwin (racing driver, born 1948)

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Jack Baldwin (born May 31, 1948) is an American race car driver with five professional Championships and over 30 major pro race victories. He won the 24 Hour Race at Daytona in 1984, driving a Mazda in the GTU Class, and the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1984 and 1997. He has driven all types of race cars over the decades and has competed in 25 straight Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona races, including one victory.

Early Career & Trans-Am

Baldwin began his Trans-Am driving career in 1990 and achieved the Rookie of The Year Award. In 1992, he won the Trans-Am Championship, driving the Mattel Hot Wheels No. 25 and No. 1 Chevy Camaro for American Equipment Racing. He was the first driver of the modern era to complete every lap of every race that season, earning him the Chevy Proud Motorsports Achievement Award for outstanding performance.

IMSA & Grand-Am

Baldwin won the 1984 and 1985 Camel GTU Championships driving the Malibu Grand Prix Mazda RX 7. Following his back-to-back championship seasons, he drove the Peerless Levi Garrett GTO Division Camaro. From 1999 to 2004, Baldwin drove the number 74 Riley and Scott MkIII B and C for Robinson Racing in the Grand-Am series, winning at Mid-Ohio and Phoenix.

IROC & NASCAR

Baldwin was invited to the International Race of Champions (IROC) in 1993 and 1994, achieving two second-place finishes in photo finishes at Talladega Superspeedway and Darlington Speedway, beating Dale Earnhardt in both instances and finishing between Mark Martin and Earnhardt. He made his NASCAR debut in 1994 at a Busch Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, driving the No. 95 Royal Oak Charcoal Chevrolet for Buz McCall's American Equipment Racing, qualifying 26th and finishing 23rd. He ran another race two weeks later at Darlington Raceway, finishing 24th. In 1998, he returned to the Busch Series to run the Lysol 200 in the No. 59 Kingsford Chevy for ST Motorsports, finishing 20th. He ran the Lysol 200 the next year for Jimmy Spencer in the No. 12 Zippo car, finishing fourth.

Pirelli World Challenge

Baldwin is the most successful Porsche Cayman S driver in the world. He currently drives the #73 GTSport Racing Porsche Cayman S in the Pirelli World Challenge Series. His results in the series include: 2012 Winner Long Beach Grand Prix, 2012 Second Place Laguna Seca, 2012 Second Place Detroit Grand Prix, 2012 Second Place Mosport, 2012 Third Place Overall Drivers Championship; 2013 Winner St. Pete Grand Prix (Rounds 1&2), 2013 Third Place Long Beach Grand Prix (Round 3), 2013 Third Place COTA (Rounds 4&5), 2013 Third Place Detroit Grand Prix (Round 6), 2013 Third Place Lime Rock Grand Prix (Round 8), 2013 Winner Lime Rock Grand prix (Round 9), 2013 Third Place Streets of Toronto (Round 10), 2013 Second Place Overall Drivers Championship; 2014 Third Place Streets of St. Petersburg (Round 1), 2014 Third Place Barber Motorsports Park (Round 3), 2014 First Place Barber Motorsports Park (Round 4), 2014 Second Place Detroit Grand Prix (Round 5), 2014 Winner Sonoma Grand Prix, 2014 Second Place Sonoma Grand Prix, 2014 Second Place Miller Motorsports Park, 2014 Winner Miller Motorsports Park, 2014 Second Place Overall Drivers Championship; 2015 Third Place Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (Round 7), 2015 Winner Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (Round 8).

The corpus source is a Wikipedia article on Jack Baldwin. Primary archives, autobiographies, period programmes, and specialist publications were not consulted.

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