About us
Esses Racing delivers professional level racing support that caters to amateur and professional drivers, giving them the opportunity to simply arrive and drive. Our team is backed by 80 years of combined experience with some of the most respected names in the industry, Dave O’Neill, Phil Spano, and Gareth Rees.
RACE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
- Red Bull Racing Formula One
- Mitsubishi Ralliart WRC
- G&W Motorsports
- TMR Racing Engineering
- TB Racing
- Synergy Racing
- Cobb Brothers Racing
- Tom Walkenshaw Racing
- Patrick Racing
- High Bridge Racing
- Contemporary and Historic Formula One
- Indy Lights
- IndyCar
- Contemporary and Historic GT Cars
- Single Seater Formula Cars
- Radical Sports Cars
- Ferrari
- Porsche
- Mercedes
- Corvette
- BMW
- McLaren
- Saleen
- BAC Sportscars
- Grand Turismo (GT) Prototype
- Formula Atlantic
- Super Modified
- TransAm
- FIA Formula One
- International Motor Sports Assosiation (IMSA)
- IndyCar
- Porsche Cup
- Mitsubishi Ralliant WRC
- World Racing League
- Blue Marble Radical Cup North America
- Formula BMW
- Grand-Am Road Racing
- Historic Sportcar Racing (HSR)
- World Rally Championship
- Trans-Am
- Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA)
- British Hill Climb Championship
- HPDE – High Performance Driver Education
- Endurance Racing
- Track Days
- Open Wheel Racing
- Vintage Racing
- GT Racing
- Rally Racing
- Oval Track
- Open Test Days
- FIA
- NASA
- SCCA
- SCCA PRO
- SVRA
- PCA
- IMSA
- HSR
- Grand-Am
“We started as teammates, became friends, then partnered to create Esses Racing.”
Gareth Rees was a key race team and pit crew member on the Red Bull Formula One teams for six years, winning four world championships with Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel.
Phil Spano has more than 30 years of IndyCar mechanic experience. He owned his own racing team, High Bridge Services, Inc., in the 90s.
While Judd and Kristina Miller came up with the partnership concept, Phil Spano and Gareth Rees came up with the name, Esses Racing. Judd’s inspiration came as a result of being tired of dragging his own race car around on weekends in his trailer, doing all of the pit crew work and traveling back from the racetrack exhausted, trying to work on Monday.
“I think the reason I started winning races is because I handed the work over to this great team, so I could just show up and race, and make it back to my day job with some snap left,” said Judd. “Then I said, I bet there are a lot of people out there who wish they could do the same thing.”
