Race Academy

Born into a racing family, speed has always been in Kyle Hayner’s blood. Through his career as a performance driver on tracks all over the world, he discovered his passion for instructing. Since 2008, his experience at schools such as Redline Time Attack and the BMW Performance Driving School inspired him to build a driver development program to give racers, new and experienced, a clear step-by-step process to becoming a driver capable of competing and beating the best. Having worked for some of the biggest names in the United States karting industry, Hayner created HRT Driver Development to teach passionate racers how to become champions.

Since HRT Driver Development’s inaugural campaign in 2018 they have had 26 different winners, 15 first-time winners, and a whole lot of hardware.

Phil Giebler, has an outstanding list of achievements in international competition and it all began with karting, auto racing’s primary launching pad worldwide. Giebler progressed through the ranks to race formula cars all over the world against some of the top International Series & competition  (F3, F3000 [F2], A1GP World Cup, IndyCar). He was the 2007 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year and the top scoring driver for A1 Team USA from 2005-2007. 

In karting he was a threat at every event. Giebler won four U.S. Grand National Karting, five California State Karting and three IKF Series championships between 1990 and 1995. He was second in the North American Formula-A Karting Championship in 1996 and it led to a factory sponsorship deal with the prestigious Tony Kart team in Europe. In 1998 Giebler broke a 30 year drought for Americans in international karting when he won the CIK/FIA North American Championship events in Charlotte, NC. An event in which he was competing against the likes of F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso and other international stars. After a 6 year pause in karting to pursue Formula Car aspirations, Giebler returned to karting in 2005 to take the Stars of Karting National Championship (ICA) and backed it up in 2006 with claiming the ICC -Shifter Eastern Championship & National Vice Champion.