ARCA prospect Sean Hingorani is about to make his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection début on 27 August on the Milwaukee Mile. He’ll drive the #61 Toyota Tundra TRD Professional for Hattori Racing Enterprises.
After racing legends vehicles, Hingorani started competing within the ARCA Menards Collection West in 2022 on a part-time foundation earlier than elevating to a full schedule in each the West and East championships with Venturini Motorsports. After seven West races, he’s the one driver with a number of wins as a three-time victor and sits second within the standings, seven factors again of Landen Lewis. Within the East collection, he has high tens in all of his begins and is seventh in factors with a finest end of third in his final three races.
His victory at Irwindale in April, made him the second driver of Indian blood to win a NASCAR-sanctioned race after Advait Deodhar gained the NASCAR Whelen Euro Collection’ EuroNASCAR 2 class at Manufacturers Hatch in 2021. In contrast to the Mumbai-born Deodhar, Hingorani is an Indian-American from California whose grandparents are from the nation. Hingorani additionally joins System One alumnus Narain Karthikeyan as the one Indian drivers to race within the Truck Collection.
“The #61 ran nicely at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and we’re going to try to construct on that success,” stated Hingorani. “The HRE workforce places a top quality truck on monitor and are actually trying to get each vehicles within the combine on the entrance. I’m wanting ahead to getting a full observe session beneath my belt forward of my début.”
Regardless of his success, the 16-year-old will even arrive with a little bit of a repute. Within the nationwide ARCA Menards Collection race at Mid-Ohio in July, Hingorani deliberately tried to impede team-mate Dean Thompson on the ultimate lap whereas the latter was operating second, inflicting the 2 to spin out. The transfer was payback for an earlier incident when contact between the 2 as they fought for the lead led to Hingorani going round.
Hingorani was positioned on probation for the remainder of the season and suspended for the subsequent race at Iowa, which was a joint occasion with the East Collection and consequently eradicated him from title rivalry.
After HRE introduced Hingorani’s experience, Thompson tweeted “Prayers up for” Tyler Ankrum, who pilots HRE’s #16 truck.
The HRE #61 was opened in 2022 for Chase Purdy, who left the workforce after one yr through which he completed sixteenth in factors. The truck has solely seen two begins since with Cup Collection driver Christopher Bell, who completed sixteenth at North Wilkesboro and fourth at Pocono.
“Sean has proven a variety of potential in his quick profession and we’re joyful to have a driver of his calibre be part of HRE,” commented workforce proprietor Shigeaki Hattori. “He has gained in lots of various kinds of race vehicles, which is able to show to be helpful. I believe he has the power to achieve success with our workforce.”
