Ryan Hampton

Experience

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  Willow Springs International Driving School

  Nov 1994 - Sept 1996

  Racing Instructor

  Racing Instructor - Road Racing and Car Control

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  Tatuus Cars Italy

  Jan 1998 - Nov 1998

  Professional Driver - USF2000, Formula Renault

  Factory Driver - 2nd In ProUSF2000 Championship - Testing and Development for both factory and customer cars.

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  Panoz Raing School

  Mar 1998 - Aug 1998

  Racing Instructor

  Racing Instructor - Road Racing and Car Control

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  Archangel Motorsports

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Professional Driver - Grand Am

  Professional Driver - Grand Am Champion SRPII - 6 victories - Phoenix, Homestead, Lime Rock, Three Rivers, Mid Ohio, Daytona

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  Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving

  Sept 2000 - Aug 2005

  Racing Instructor

  Road racing and advanced road racing instruction.

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  Team Spencer Motorsports

  Jan 2001 - Oct 2002

  Professional Driver - Grand Am / ALMS

  Professional Driver - Grand Am and ALMS in SRPII and LMP 675 - (2nd) Daytona 24 Hours - 2001, (3rd) Daytona 24 Hours - 2002, (1st) Watkins Glen 6 Hour - 2001

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  CGF Racing

  Feb 2002 - Nov 2002

  Professional Driver - Indy Racing League

  1 race win, 2 Indy Racing League Records, 1 3rd Place in 5 races.

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  Precision Dynamics International

  Oct 2003 - May 2009

  Professional Driver, Product Testing and Evaluation

  Professional Driver for both product launches and consumer events. Product testing and evaluation to provide data (both subjective and objective) to engineers for the purpose of calibration, benchmarking and instructional purposes.

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  Falken Tire Corporation

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Driver - Professional Drifting - Formula Drift and D1 Grand Prix
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  Cooper Tire & Rubber Company

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2022

  Sr. Tire Evaluator and Product Specialist

  Senior Product Evaluator - Responsible for carrying out testing of new designs and benchmarking, pioneering the implementation of data acquisition in a testing environment while interpreting data in an easily digestible manner, precision driving for Cooper Tire media and T.V. spots, and conducting ride and drives for distributors, dealers and media.

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  The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

  Jun 2022 - now

  Performance Test Driver

  Performance Test Driver - Objective and Subjective Testing