About David Hodge Jr

Quantify EVERYTHING.

Feel something. Measure it. Change it. Verify it.

I work across GT and endurance racing as a professional driver, coach and race engineer. The common thread is understanding what the car, driver and race are doing, then finding where performance is being left on the table.

As a driver, I've competed in IMSA and other GT and endurance programs in Porsche Cayman GT4, Toyota Supra GT4, Lamborghini Super Trofeo and other machinery. My background is in motocross and karting.

My results include two AER Class 4 race wins at VIR in 2023 in a BMW M240i, the Trans Am XGT win at Watkins Glen in 2024 in a Lamborghini Super Trofeo, IMSA Pilot Challenge Bronze Cup wins at Daytona and Mid-Ohio in 2025, and a Porsche Endurance Challenge win at Road Atlanta in 2026.

My work outside the driver's seat is closely connected to what I do in it. I coach and engineer drivers across race weekends and simulator programs, working with telemetry, video, setup, strategy, run planning and post-session analysis. That work has put me on both sides of the data, giving feedback from the car and helping make sense of it from the pit wall.

I also build software for problems I encounter in racing. That includes telemetry analysis, live timing and scoring, simulator data, biometrics, and tools that help turn subjective driver feedback into measurable evidence.

My philosophy is Quantify EVERYTHING. The method is simple. Feel something. Measure it. Change it. Verify it.

That applies whether I'm looking at steering behavior in a race car, working through a corner with a driver, analyzing a stint, or trying to understand something in the simulator before a race weekend.

I'm interested in repeatable performance more than a single quick lap. A fast lap matters. Understanding why it was fast, what changed, and whether it can be reproduced over a stint matters more.

The overlap between driving, coaching, engineering and software has become a large part of how I approach racing. The more I understand the whole program, the more places I find to become a better driver.