Andy Pilgrim

Andrew Pilgrim (born 18 August 1956 in Nottingham)[1] is a British-born racing driver, who became a United States citizen in 1998. He is a Cadillac factory driver at the SCCA World Challenge, where he resulted GT class champion in 2005, runner-up in 2007, 2008 and 2012, third in 2006 and 2013. He also resulted fourth in 2009 and 2010 with a K-Pax Volvo. Pilgrim was also a Corvette Racing factory driver from 1999 to 2003.

Andy Pilgrim
Born (1956-08-18) 18 August 1956
Nottingham, England
NASCAR Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish47th (2011)
First race2011 Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Infineon)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
2 races run over 1 year
Best finish97th (2007)
First race2007 NAPA Auto Parts 200 (Montreal)
Last race2007 Zippo 200 at the Glen (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years1996–1997, 2000–2003
TeamsNew Hardware Racing, Parr Motorsport, Roock Racing, Corvette Racing

Racing career

He began racing an IMSA Renault Cup (a semi-pro entry level series) Renault Alliance in the 1980s. He raced the professional IMSA Bridgestone Supercar Championship in 1992-1995 in a Lotus Esprit X180R.

His professional racing began in 1996 when he made his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut. He joined the Chevrolet Corvette factory team in 1999. In 2001 he was selected as teammate for Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Kelly Collins in the 24 Hours of Daytona and the team finished second in class. After the 24 Hours of Daytona, Dale Earnhardt Sr. promised to someday put Pilgrim in a NASCAR stock-car, a promise he was unable to fulfill due to his death a few weeks later during the 2001 Daytona 500.

He left the Corvette program in 2004, but stayed with General Motors, driving for the winning team at the Daytona 24 in a Doran-Pontiac and spending the rest of the season driving for the new Cadillac CTS-V factory team in the SPEED World Challenge GT Series. The following year Pilgrim won the driver's championship in that series in his CTS-V. Staying with the team, he finished third-place and second-place in the series in 2006 and 2007.

In 2007 he also made his NASCAR Busch Series debut, driving two road course races for Earnhardt, Jr.'s JR Motorsports team. The purpose of the ride was to fulfill Dale Earnhardt's promise to Pilgrim. One of them was at Montreal in the inaugural NAPA 200 in which he almost won, but had run out of gas on a restart, losing the race and barely avoiding Marcos Ambrose, who was crashing as a result of being tapped by Robby Gordon. Pilgrim's best finish in the Busch series is 15th in both races.

In 2008 he continued to drive the SPEED World Challenge CTS-V, although it is now a privateer team, rather than a factory program, sponsored by Remington.

In 2009, Pilgrim joined Randy Pobst as part of the K-Pax team, campaigning the Volvo S60 in the SPEED World Challenge. He resulted fourth in the drivers standings in 2009 and 2010

For 2011 Pilgrim rejoined GM in World Challenge, driving the factory Cadillac CTS-V Coupe alongside Johnny O'Connell. He was fifth in 2011, runner-up in 2012, third in 2013 and fourth in 2014.

Pilgrim made his Sprint Cup debut in 2011 at Infineon driving the 46 Car for Whitney Motorsports, where he finished 26th.

Motorsports career results

SCCA National Championship Runoffs
SCCA National Championship Runoffs
YearTrackCarEngineClassFinishStartStatus
1985Road AtlantaFord MustangSSGT69Running

24 Hours of Le Mans results
Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1996 New Hardware Racing
Parr Motorsport		 Stéphane Ortelli
Andrew Bagnall		 Porsche 911 GT2 GT2 299 17th 4th
1997 Roock Racing André Ahrlé
Bruno Eichmann		 Porsche 911 GT2 GT2 306 10th 2nd
2000 Corvette Racing Franck Fréon
Kelly Collins		 Chevrolet Corvette C5-R GTS 327 10th 3rd
2001 Corvette Racing Franck Fréon
Kelly Collins		 Chevrolet Corvette C5-R GTS 271 14th 2nd
2002 Corvette Racing Franck Fréon
Kelly Collins		 Chevrolet Corvette C5-R GTS 331 13th 2nd
2003 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin
Kelly Collins		 Chevrolet Corvette C5-R GTS 326 11th 2nd

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Sprint Cup Series
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 NSCC Pts
2011 Whitney Motorsports 46 Chevy DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT KAN POC MCH SON
26		 DAY KEN NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH CHI NHA DOV KAN CLT TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 47th 18

Busch Series
NASCAR Busch Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 NBSC Pts
2007 JR Motorsports 88 Chevy DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL BRI NSH TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP CGV
15		 GLN
15		 MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 97th 236

References
  1. "Andy Pilgrim – Racing – 2012 Corvette Hall of Fame – National Corvette Museum". www.corvettemuseum.org. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
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