Evening With A Legend: Butch Leitzinger

We’ve scheduled more of the popular “Evening with a legend” events next year. Meet driver Butch Leitzinger on Wednesday 26 March at 4PM PT / 7 PM ET. Register for the event today.

Butch Leitzinger, best known as an ALMS driver with Dyson Racing, but has also driven for a variety of other teams and race series. He is a three time winner of the Daytona 24 hours race in 1994, 1997 and 1999. He won two IMSA driver’s championship titles in both 1997 and 1998 while driving for Dyson Racing, and was named 2002 Rookie of the Year in the Trans-Am Series; and has raced in both the NEXTEL and Busch NASCAR series.

Butch has attempted to conquer the 24 hours of Le Mans 6 times in his career, driving for Panoz in 1999, team Cadillac in 2000, clinching a podium with Bentley in 2001, then returning to Bentley in 2002 and then a final run with Risi Competizione in 2003.