Shigeaki "Shige" Hattori (服部茂章, November 3, 1963) is a Japanese professional race car driver and team owner based in the

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. As a driver, he competed in the

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and

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, and the

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(now the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series). He is not related to

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, whom he briefly raced against in CART. As an owner, Hattori owns

Hattori Racing Enterprises Hattori Racing Enterprises (HRE) is a Japanese-American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Owned by former NASCAR and open-wheel driver Shigeaki Hattori they compete with the No. 1 ...

, which currently competes full-time in the

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and the

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. HRE also has competed part-time in the

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and the

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in the past. The team has fielded cars for

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, David Garbo Jr., Lee Pulliam,

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, Sergio Pena,

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, and

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. His race team won the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship with Brett Moffitt.

Racing career

Prior to moving to the United States, Hattori won the Formula Toyota championship in 1994.

Indy Lights

Hattori moved to the

in 1995, and began competing in the

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series in 1996 at the age of 32. After finishing 13th and 25th in points in his first two seasons, he scored his first career win in the series in 1996 at the season-opener at

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. He would win two races that season and finish 14th in points.

CART

Hattori raced for Bettenhausen in CART in 1999, but after he spun the car 18 times in 7 races, he had his CART competition license revoked at

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by chief steward

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He started 7 races, with a best finish of 15th at

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IRL

Hattori raced in the

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from 2000 to 2003. His best IRL finish was a 6th at

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in 2002 and he finished 13th in IRL points in 2001 for Treadway-Vertex Cunningham Racing. He led a total of 28 laps in his 26 series starts.

NASCAR

Hattori attempted his first race in the

at the season-finale at

in 2004, with sponsorship from

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. He failed to qualify his No. 01

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. Hattori was signed to drive the No. 9 Tundra for

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(then Germain- Arnold Racing) for 2005, his rookie season in the Truck Series, with sponsorship from Aisin AW. He failed to qualify in several races, and was released at the end of the season after competing in 10 events and finishing 35th in series points.

Team ownership

Beginning in 2008, Hattori has fielded entries in NASCAR and ARCA competition under the Hattori Racing Enterprises banner. On August 18, 2013, he made his debut as a

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team owner, fielding the No. 16 Goodyear of Japan Toyota at

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in the National Guard 200. The team finished 17th with driver

. Hattori's team returned in 2014, fielding the 80 in several Nationwide series events. In 2015, the team fielded the No. 18 for

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at Michigan, but he failed to qualify after the rain interrupted. Later on, the team hosted

's first Truck start in the No. 18 at the fall Martinsville event. In 2016,

took over Hattori's Truck ride (renumbered from the No. 18 to the No. 81 due to

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re-taking that number). After the team gave Truex that chance, he nearly won the season-opening race at

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, where he finished second. After that strong run, the team and Truex said they would try to run the full season, which ended up not happening due to sponsorship issues. However, Truex drove part-time for the team in select races for the remainder of the season. The two parties ran the full 2017 season in the renumbered No. 16, but Truex was released prior to the 2018 season. Moffitt returned to HRE in 2018. Despite sponsorship concerns that threatened to cut their season short, Moffitt and HRE went on to win that year's championship. Nevertheless, troubles with funding resulted in Moffitt's release.

would take over the No. 16 in 2019. The team expanded to two trucks in 2022 with

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and

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. In 2022, Hattori formed Hattori Motorsports to compete in the

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with Seth Lucas and

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Racing record

American open-wheel racing results

(

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) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Indy Lights

CART

IndyCar Series

Indianapolis 500

NASCAR

(

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

Craftsman Truck Series

References

External links

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