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Andrew Miles Hillenburg (born April 30, 1963) is an American former professionalstock car racing driver and current team owner and track owner. His race team,Fast Track Racing, fields multiple cars in theARCA Menards Series and formerly fielded entries in theNASCAR Cup Series andNASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He is credited with reviving the North Carolina Speedway, now known asRockingham Speedway, after the track lost its NASCAR dates starting in 2005.

Hillenburg was born inIndianapolis, Indiana. He began his racing career at age eleven when he competed in the Indianapolissoap box derby.

He won the statequarter midget championships in 1975–1979. Hillenburg won theARCASuper Car Series Championship in 1995, with three time ARCA ChampionBob Dotter as crew chief. He won the 1995 and 1997Daytona ARCA 200, the premiere event in the series.

He served as a test driver for theInternational Race of Champions andTeam Racing Auto Circuit series.^[1] He competed in the2000 Indianapolis 500, finishing 28th, and has sixteenWinston Cup starts nineBusch Series starts and four in theCraftsman Truck Series. His best finish in NASCAR was a third-place finish at the1999NAPA Auto Parts 300, where he drove the No. 18MBNAPontiac Grand Prix forJoe Gibbs Racing.

Hillenburg operates the Fast Track High Performance Driving School and owns a team that competesARCA Menards Series, Fast Track High Performance Racing (usually just known asFast Track Racing or Fast Track Racing Enterprises). They currently field multiple entries with the Nos. 01, 9, 10, 11, and 12 cars.

Fast Track also formerly fielded entries in NASCAR's top three series. Most notably, they fielded the No. 47 and 48 teams in theNASCAR Truck Series between2007 and2010. He previously had fielded a No. 10 truck in two races in2003 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

In theNASCAR Busch Series (now Xfinity), Hillenburg entered one race in both 1992 and 1993 in his car, the No. 42, before running a part-time schedule of six races in 1994, although he only qualified for one of those six races. His team did not return until 1997, where he entered his own No. 25 car atDover. This was his last attempt as a car owner in that series.

Besides two races in 1992, Fast Track's only Cup Series attempt came in the2007 Daytona 500, with them entering the No. 71 Ford driven byFrank Kimmel in the2007 Daytona 500, but the entry did not make the field.

On October 2, 2007, Hillenburg purchasedNorth Carolina Speedway inRockingham, North Carolina for $4.4 million (USD). The track was put up for auction bySpeedway Motorsports Inc. and chairmanBruton Smith. Rockingham had not hosted a NASCAR event since2004, but Hillenburg hopes to bring lower-tier NASCAR series back to the track. On May 4, 2008, theARCA RE/MAX Series raced at Rockingham in theCarolina 500 and again in 2009. Also in 2008, theUSAR Hooters Procup Series had their final race of the season at the Rockingham Speedway, in a race called theAmerican 200 (named in honor of the name for the first race run at the Rock in 1965, the American 500) on November 1, 2008. The track hosted its first NASCAR sanctioned race (aCamping World Truck Series race) since its 2004 closure on April 15, 2012. Rockingham became part of the regular schedule for that series, and they returned in 2013. However, Rockingham was removed from the series' 2014 schedule.^[2]

He has also acted in a few movies, including3: The Dale Earnhardt Story onESPN,Herbie: Fully Loaded, andTalladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Hillenburg also was a technical advisor and provided equipment for the filming of the Bollywood filmTa Ra Rum Pum, which was filmed atRockingham and also at the ARCA race at theMilwaukee Mile.

Hillenburg has been married since 1991 and is the father of four children.^{[citation needed]}

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• Andy Hillenburg atIMDb
• Andy Hillenburg driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Andy Hillenburg owner statistics at Racing-Reference
• Andy Hillenburg crew chief statistics at Racing-Reference
• Andy Hillenburg at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
• Rockingham Speedway
• Fast Track Racing website

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