Shigeaki Hattori | |||||||
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Nationality | Japanese | ||||||
Born | Okayama, Okayama | November 3, 1963||||||
Retired | 2005 | ||||||
Indy Racing League IndyCar Series | |||||||
Years active | 2000–2003 | ||||||
Teams | Treadway-Vertex Cunningham Racing Bradley Motorsports A. J. Foyt Enterprises | ||||||
Starts | 26 | ||||||
Wins | 0 | ||||||
Poles | 0 | ||||||
Best finish | 13th in 2001 | ||||||
Previous series | |||||||
1999 1996–1998 1993–1994 | CART World Series Indy Lights All-Japan Formula Three Championship | ||||||
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
10 races run over 1 year | |||||||
Best finish | 35th (2005) | ||||||
First race | 2005 Florida Dodge Dealers 250 (Daytona) | ||||||
Last race | 2005 Toyota Tundra 200 (Nashville) | ||||||
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Shigeaki "Shige" Hattori (服部 茂章, November 3, 1963) is a Japanese professional race car driver and team owner based in the United States. As a driver, he competed in the CART and IndyCar Series, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He is not related to Naoki Hattori, whom he briefly raced against in CART.
As an owner, Hattori owns Hattori Racing Enterprises, which currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, and ARCA Menards Series West. HRE also has competed part-time in the Xfinity Series in the past. The team has fielded cars for Johnny Sauter, Alex Bowman, Austin Hill, Max McLaughlin, David Garbo Jr., Lee Pulliam, Brett Moffitt, Sergio Pena, Ross Kenseth, Jesse Little,[1] and Ryan Truex. His race team won the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship with Brett Moffitt.