Andy Lally
Lally atIndianapolis Motor Speedway in 2023
Born	(1975-02-11)February 11, 1975 (age 50) Northport, New York, U.S.
Achievements	1994WKA Gold Cup Champion 1996 NESCCA RoadRally Series Champion 2001Grand-AmRolex Sports Car Series SRPII class Champion 2004 Grand Am SGS class Champion 2006 Grand Am GT class Champion Five-timeRolex 24 at Daytona class winner
Awards	1997US F2000 Rookie of the Year 2011NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rookie of the Year
NASCARCup Series career
45 races run over 6 years
2022 position	62nd
Best finish	33rd (2011)
First race	2009Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen (Watkins Glen)
Last race	2023Bank of America Roval 400 (Charlotte Roval)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARXfinity Series career
23 races run over 10 years
2022 position	45th
Best finish	35th (2021)
First race	2007NAPA Auto Parts 200 (Montreal)
Last race	2022Drive for the Cure 250 (Charlotte Roval)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 9 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
14 races run over 4 years
2010 position	96th
Best finish	32nd (2008)
First race	2007Silverado 350K (Texas)
Last race	2010Mountain Dew 250 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Rolex Sports Car Series
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Former teams	The Racer's Group
Starts	130
Wins	26
Poles	13
Championship titles
SRPII class SGS class GT class	2001 2004 2006
Last updated on: June 24, 2023.

Andrew Joseph Lally^[1] (born February 11, 1975) is an American former professionalauto racing driver and currentTrans Am Series President.^[2] He competed full-time in theWeatherTech SportsCar Championship, driving theAudi R8 forMagnus Racing and part-time in theMichelin Pilot Challenge, driving theHyundai ElantraTCR Touring Car forStarCom Racing.

He began his career inkarting, culminating with 2WKA National Gold Cup Championships.^[3] Lally first got intosports car racing in 1993 with his first sponsor Tyrolean Motors with car owner Walter Simendinger runningSCCA regional events. In 1997 Lally won theUS F2000 Rookie of the Year in his first full year in a professional series.

Although Lally won the 2011Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year, he is best known for his road racing expertise in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series (NowIMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) as well as the American Le Mans Series. In May 2010 Andy became only the second driver in the history of the Grand-Am Rolex Series to make 100 starts, winning atVirginia International Raceway on April 24, 2010. In January 2012 Andy extended and broke records in the Grand-Am Rolex Series by winning his fourthRolex 24 Hours of Daytona in the GT class. Lally won his fifth class victory atDaytona International Speedway on January 31, 2016, tying him for fourth on the all-time win list at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, after 5 years of being withMagnus Racing, Lally signed withAcura andMichael Shank Racing to debut the brand new 2017Acura NSX. Lally teamed withKatherine Legge and together they scored the first and second win worldwide for the brand at theDetroit Grand Prix andWatkins Glen International. Lally also scored the first pole position for the car worldwide at Watkins Glen for the6 Hours of Watkins Glen.

For 2018 Lally, re-joined Magnus Racing in an Audi R8 LMS and started the season at The Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Lally has scored three top 10 finishes in his last four starts in theNASCAR Xfinity Series with a 5th-place finish at the 2017Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course race being a career-best.

Lally owns Grand Am records for most GT wins, most podiums, and most top-five finishes in Rolex Series history.^{[citation needed]}

On December 4, 2024, Lally announced that after the 2025Rolex 24 at Daytona he would retire from professional driving.^[4] Lally competed in his last race with Magnus Racing in anAston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo. His final race was ultimately cut short as the car was retired within 6 hours of the green flag.^[5] Immediately following his retirement in 2025, Lally took over as President of theTrans Am Series but still intends to participate in theRolex 24 annually.^[6]

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Lally is a three-time Grand-Am Rolex Series Champion. He holds series records for most all-time top 3 and top 5 finishes and leads the all-time GT class win list with 26 victories. In January 2011 Lally won the 24 Hours of Daytona in the GT class, giving him the record for most consecutive Grand-Am Rolex seasons with at least one victory (8), spanning from 2004 to 2011.^{[citation needed]} In January 2011 Lally finished first place in the GT class in the 24 Hours of Daytona giving him the most podium finishes of any driver at the famed 24 race (7) since the Grand-Am Rolex series started in 2000. His victory at Daytona International Speedway on January 29, 2011, made him the all-time winningest GT driver in the Grand-Am Series.^{[citation needed]}

On May 13, 2012, racing with the Magnus Racing team in the No. 44, Lally yet again made history in sports car racing as he became the first driver in Grand-Am history to achieve his 100th podium finish at New Jersey Motorsports Park as he and his teammate John Potter finished the race in 3rd place. Lally scored podium 101 when he and Potter went on to win the first-ever endurance sports car race at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 7, 2012, which also locked up the 2012 North American Endurance Championship. His prototype results include a 1st in class at the Rolex24 Hours of Daytona, 2nd in class at thePetit Le Mans, 3rd in Class at the24 Hours of Le Mans and a 2nd overall and in class at the2008 12 Hours of Sebring.^{[citation needed]}

In2007, Lally made hisNASCAR debut in both theBusch Series (nowNASCAR Xfinity Series) and theNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (nowNASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series). Lally had one top ten finish in two starts with the No. 47Wood Brothers/JTG RacingFord Fusion and made three starts in the Truck Series withTRG Motorsports, driving the No. 00Toyota Tundra.^[7]

Lally raced in the InauguralARCA Racing SeriesLoud Energy Drink 150 atNew Jersey Motorsports Park in September2008. He was fastest in every practice session, started on the pole, and led the most laps, but lost the race on pit strategy when the race was called due to weather with eventual series championJustin Allgaier winning the race. In2009, he started 15th driving the No. 71Chevrolet for TRG in theNASCAR Sprint Cup Series atWatkins Glen International. He ran as a teammate toDavid Gilliland, the usual driver of the No. 71, who unsuccessfully attempted to qualify in the No. 70. Lally finished a respectable 27th in his first Cup start after being involved in a crash withSam Hornish Jr.,Jeff Gordon andJeff Burton.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, Lally ran seven races for TRG, finishing 18th at Watkins Glen. On February 17, 2011, he filed paperwork to run the full Sprint Cup season and campaign for series Rookie of the Year honors (A driver may maintain his rookie eligibility provided he runs seven or fewer races in a season before declaring).^[8]

Running the full2011 season for TRG in the No. 71 and No. 77 cars, Lally clinched the 2011Rookie of the Year honor in early September, his competitors for the honor,Brian Keselowski andT. J. Bell, having failed to make the minimum number of starts in the series to be eligible for the award.^[9]

In 2014, Lally made a return to the Nationwide Series atRoad America to race the No. 55 forBobby Dotter. Lally qualified 10th and finished 7th.

2015 saw Lally run a partial schedule in the Xfinity Series in the No. 90 forKing Autosport^[10] while maintaining his full-time ride with Magnus Racing in the No. 44 Porsche in the IMSA Series. In 2016 Lally would return to the Xfinity Series at Mid Ohio driving the No. 90 in place ofMario Gosselin. It was a wet and rainy race where cars were sliding all over the place, going off the track, and spinning out. Lally was running well and then was hit from behind and spun in a multi-car accident withBrendan Gaughan andErik Jones. Lally would recover and finish 7th, getting his third top ten in the Xfinity series. His fourth top ten finish would come in August 2017, again at Mid Ohio in his only start of the season and placing 5th. This was the best result of any driver only making one race start in 2017. Lally plans on running at least 3 races for 2018 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

After not running any of the Xfinity Series road course races in2019, Lally returned to the series for2020, driving the No. 02 forOur Motorsports.^[11] Full-time Truck Series driverBrett Moffitt, the usual driver of that car, could not participate in both races as he was atMichigan for the Truck Series race on the same weekend as Road America, and due to NASCAR's rule only allowing drivers to compete in one race at the Daytona Road Course, Moffitt could not run that race either.

Lally returned to Our Motorsports in2021 to run some of the Xfinity Series road course races beginning at the Daytona Road Course, now in February the week after theDaytona 300 as the second race of the season. That year, Moffitt joined the team full-time in the No. 02, and the team added a second full-time car, the No. 23, which Lally made his starts in.^[12] Lally was initially going to drive the No. 03 for Our for theSuper Start Batteries 188, but the car failed to qualify due to lack of qualifying and not being high enough in owner points, after not showing up for the inaugural race of the season, theDaytona 300. He would then transfer over to the No. 99B. J. McLeod Motorsports ride, finishing 31st a lap down. He attempted the next seven races in the 03 but it was no use as the car was not high enough in owner points to make the field. In thePit Boss 250, Lally would race Our's No. 23, as the 23 was locked into the field on owners points. Lally started 13th and finished 18th. Lally also attempted the next road course race, theB&L Transport 170, in the 23. He was running 4th on the closing lap when right in front of him,Riley Herbst wreckedMiguel Paludo down the straightaway. As Herbst had made contact with Lally coming to the white flag, Lally likely retaliated by wrecking Herbst. As he wrecked the 98,Brandon Jones passed him, leading him to finish 5th, tying his best career finish which he also scored at:Henry 180 in 2020,UNOH 188 in 2020, and theMid-Ohio Challenge in 2017. In the 2021 edition of theHenry 180 atRoad America,Natalie Decker was in the No. 23, and Lally returned to B. J. McLeod Motorsports. except this time driving the No. 5 withAlpha Prime sponsorship. Lally dodged chaos at the end of the race to finish 13th. After not attempting theSkrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey 200 at the Glen, the first road course race he did not attempt this year, Lally returned at thePennzoil 150 again driving for McLeod, this time returning to the No. 78. Lally, partially due to strategy at the end of stage 2, finished fifth in that stage. Lally ended up finishing tenth, his best finish this year with McLeod. Lally then unexpectedly replacedKyle Tilley in theCup race there, who was also driving the No. 78 for McLeod. This was his first race in the NASCAR Cup Series since 2011.

In 2021, Lally was initially announced to drive all 6 road course races forAlpha Prime Racing in their number 44 car for the 2022 Xfinity Series Season. However, in January 2022, the team announced they had mutually parted ways with Lally.

Lally returned to the Cup Series to race multiple races for the first time since he won Rookie of the Year. He drove bothRick Ware Racing cars. The 15 atSonoma,Watkins Glen, andthe Charlotte Roval & the 51 car at theChicago Street Course andthe Indy Road Course.

After winning SunocoRookie of the Year in theSprint Cup Series, Lally returned to sports car racing for the 2012 season with 30 races planned across three series. He drove in theGrand-Am Road RacingRolex Sports Car Series forMagnus Racing in the GT class, as well as a partial schedule in the ALMS and full schedule in the Continental Tire Series.^[13]

Lally won the2012 24 Hours of Daytona GT division in aMagnus Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with co-driversRichard Lietz,René Rast and team owner John Potter. It marked Lally's fourth Rolex 24 class win and second consecutive. He won the 2016 24 Hours of Daytona in the GTD division once again with Magnus Racing for his 5th class win.

He joinedMichael Shank Racing for the 2017IMSA SportsCar Championship to drive anAcura NSX GT3.

Outside of auto racing, Lally is a World Championship street luge racer. After being No. 1 qualifier in two classes Lally ended up winning the 2012 IGSA World Championships in both Street Luge and Classic Luge that took place in Calgary, Canada. In 2009 he was again No. 1 qualifier for both luge classes at the IGSA World Championships inBathurst, Australia, and went on to his winning the World Championship in Classic luge and finish 2nd in Street Luge. Lally is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Paul Creighton and an avid mountain biker who competes in cross-country mountain bike racing. In 2009 he was part of a four-man team that won the 24 Hours of Big Bear in the Men's Sport division.

He is avegan. During a visit toFarm Sanctuary in August 2011, he was quoted as saying: "I do it for ethical reasons. By this point in human evolution, we should be smart enough and kind enough to live without torturing other living beings just so we can enjoy lunch, especially when there are so many other great tasting options available."^[14]

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^† Points only counted towards the WeatherTech Sprint Cup and not the overall GTD Championship.* Season still in progress

Notes

¹ Disqualified for minimum ride height violation.

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24 Hours of Le Mans results
Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2005	Miracle Motorsports	John Macaluso Ian James	Courage C65-AER	LMP2	115	DNF	DNF
2006	Miracle Motorsports	John Macaluso Ian James	Courage C65-AER	LMP2	324	14th	3rd

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

^* Season still in progress

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

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