| Hal Prewitt | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harold Dean Prewitt, Jr. October 1, 1954 |
| Occupation | Money manager, Businessman and Farmer |
| Known for | Race car driver, Politician and Businessman |
| Spouse | Corinne Loria, Wife Florine Andrews, Ex |
| Children | Calvin, Tim, Alex Brody |
| Website | |
| http://www.prewitt.net | |
Hal Prewitt (born October 1, 1954) is a Race car driver and American businessman born in Hutchinson, Kansas, U.S. and resides in South Beach (Miami Beach, Florida) and Park City, Utah.[1]
He competes in professional and occasionally in amateur events and has driven in more than 150 Endurance racing (motorsport) or sprint races worldwide. Prewitt is a regular competitor in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and at major international FIA road races. These include the 24 Hours of Daytona, 24 Hours Nürburgring, Dubai 24 Hour, 24 Hours of Barcelona and major races held at road course race tracks all over the world. He has driven for Marcos Racing International, Synergy Racing, Autometrics Motorsports, Matt Connolly Motorsports, Playboy Racing and others. In race cars from Porsche, BMW, Pontiac, Ferrari, Nissan, Mazda and Volkswagen. Prewitt has been a driver in events of SCCA, HSR, National Auto Sport Association (NASA), IMSA, PBOC and PCA.
Prewitt is the Managing Member of Prewitt Enterprises, LLC, a Florida-based Agricultural and investment business. The agricultural part of the business grows oranges and at its peak produced more than 1.5 million half gallon cartons of orange juice. Also skilled in computer programming and engineering, Prewitt has built and managed a number of technology firms. Until 1993 when the company was sold[2] to Sony, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Core International, Inc, a leading technology firm which he founded in 1979 and was well known as a industry leading developer of disk array and Personal Computer products.
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Auto racing results.[1][3][4] As of January 2010, has qualified for a career total 152 races (100 Sprint and 52 Endurance) held at 25 tracks. Won numerous pole positions and podium finishes: 72 firsts, 20 seconds and 4 third places for 52% wins in 139 starts and for 69% podium finishes.
1st in class in the 2010 Dubai 24 Hour, 2nd in class 2009 24 Hours of Barcelona and 6th in class at the 2009 24 Hours of Nürburgring while driving for Marcos Racing International in a BMW 120d turbo diesel. Finished the 2007 Grand-Am season in driver points 27th (29th out of 187) in GT Rolex Sports Car Series and 71st (84th out of 172) in GS KONI Challenge Series. Raced in 10 of 13 Rolex Sports Car Series and 1 of 12 KONI Challenge Series season races. Best (Top Ten) class finishes in Rolex Sports Car Series were 6th at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve - Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 7th at Iowa Speedway - Newton, Iowa and 9th in the 24 hours of Daytona. Finished 4th in the KONI Challenge Series at Daytona International Speedway.
In 2006 and 2007, Prewitt won numerous 1st place and class wins while racing in Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) ROLEX Endurance Series and the Historic GT Series. He won the 2006 National Auto Sport Association (NASA) National Championship at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course while driving the historic Porsche 911 GT3 RS that won 2nd place in class for the 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 2004 to 2006, captured numerous lap records in SCCA, PBOC and National Auto Sport Association (NASA) classes and was overall Winner in the PBOC 2005 & 2006 Race Series season.
Served on the Board of Directors and as Trustee until 2003 of The Billfish Foundation(TBF). Founded in 1986 by Prewitt's late and longtime friend Winthrop P. Rockefeller, TBF is the world's leading non-profit organization dedicated to conserving billfish and associated species worldwide which helps insure healthy oceans and strong coastal economies. TBF's signature research project is the traditional tag and release program that uses the efforts of anglers to provide data and research to scientists and fisheries managers.
Beginning in the mid 90s, Prewitt served as a Commissioner on the Architectural and Code Enforcement Boards prior to his 2001 unopposed election to the Town Commission of Manalapan, Florida where he held office until the town was reapportioned.