David Empringham

David Empringham (born December 28, 1963) is a

Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge

GS class driver's title with co-driver John Farano.

Born in

IMSA

Firestone Firehawk series, the Porsche Turbo Cup and Formula Toyota Atlantic.

In 1992, Empringham began competing full-time in the

Toyota Atlantic Championship, where he won back-to-back championships in 1993 and 1994. In 1993 David won the Championship with "underdog" CANASKA racing and Canadian Tire sponsorship, based out of Toronto, Ontario. 1994 saw Empringham move to the BDJS racing team, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, taking the Canadian Tire sponsorship with him. 1995 saw Empringham narrowly miss winning a third championship, being beat out by Richie Hearn

for the title.

1996 saw Empringham make the move to Indy Lights, replacing Greg Moore, who had moved up to the team's

CART

operation, in the Player's/Forsythe racing Lola. 1996 saw many wins including a thrilling victory in the fastest Indy Lights race ever run on the high banks of Michigan International Speedway during the Inaugural US 500 weekend in May, and ultimately another Championship for "Emp's" mantle, taking the 1996 Indy Lights Title. 1997 saw some successes, but no championship.

In 2001, after several years out of the spotlight, David began competing Part-time in Grand-Am Cup and Grand-Am Motorola series races. During the 2005 season, he managed 2 victories and 8 top-ten finishes on his way to the GS series title with co-driver Scott Maxwell driving for Multimatic Motorsports.

Since then, Empringham has competed in a

Time Attack events for the Sierra Sierra Enterprises (USA) team. Empringham is a two-time runner up at the World Time Attack Challenge in Sydney, Australia (2010, 2011), both times losing out to Tarzan Yamada

, who drives for the Japanese Cyber Evo team in a similar Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.

In 2012 Empringham returned to full-time racing in the

Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge with co-driver John Farano in the #83 BGB Motorsports Porsche Carrera. After a consistent season of points finished (however no wins), Empringham and John won the 2012 driver's title. In 2013, Dave returned to Multimatic Motorsports

with Farano to compete in the CTSCC series in the #15 Aston Martin Vantage V8 Grand-Am race car.

Racing record

American open–wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Atlantic Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Rank	Points
1991	Canaska Racing	LBH	PHX	LIM	MTL 23	WGL	DMO	TOR 6	TRR DNS	VAN 11	MDO	NAZ	LAG1	LAG2			29th	15
1992	Canaska Racing	MIA	PHX	LBH	LIM	MTL 24	WGL	TOR 1	TRR 2	VAN 18	MDO 2	MOS 1	NAZ	LAG1 2	LAG2 9		5th	96
1993	Canaska Racing	PHX 7	LBH 3	ATL 3	MIL 3	MTL 2	MOS 3	HAL 2	TOR 2	NHA DNS	TRR 1	VAN 3	MDO 4	NAZ 7	LAG1 3	LAG2 4	1st	195
1994	BDJS Racing	PHX 9	LBH 10	MOS 4	MIL 2	MTL 2	TOR 2	TRR 1	MDO 5	VAN 1	NAZ 2	LAG 4					1st	162
1995	BDJS Racing	MIA 4	PHX 1	LBH 1	NAZ 3	MIL 1	MTL 1	TOR 2	TRR1 1	TRR2 13	MDO 4	VAN 1	LAG 3				2nd	197

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Rank	Points	Ref
1996	Forsythe Racing	HMS 1	LBH 1	NAZ 2	MIS 1	MIL 3	DET 21	POR 3	CLE 21	TOR 6	TRO 4	VAN 5	LAG 6		1st	148	^[1]
1997	Forsythe Racing	HMS 1	LBH 10	NAZ 9	SAV 14	STL 4	MIL 2	DET 4	POR 7	TOR 3	TRO 5	VAN 5	LAG 26	FON 13	4th	107	^[2]

References

^ "Dave Empringham – 1996 Firestone / Dayton Indy Lights Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
^ "Dave Empringham – 1997 Firestone / Dayton Indy Lights Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved January 7, 2024.

External links

David Empringham career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Chris Smith	Toyota Atlantic Champion 1993–1994	Succeeded by Richie Hearn
Preceded by Greg Moore	Indy Lights Champion 1996	Succeeded by Tony Kanaan

[1] "Dave Empringham – 1996 Firestone / Dayton Indy Lights Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved January 7, 2024.

[2] "Dave Empringham – 1997 Firestone / Dayton Indy Lights Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved January 7, 2024.

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