DDI Motorsports was formed in 2021 by Dalton Geyer and Zach Panzarella as a collection of clean, talented, and passionate drivers who race in various sim racing and auto racing leagues around the United States. Since the formation of DDI Motorsports, our roster has collected numerous iRacing Crown Jewel Wins such as the 2023 iRacing Daytona 500, 2026 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, and 2026 12 Hours of Bathurst. As well as prestigious Sim Racing Championships like the 2024 S2 PRL Truck Series Driver Championship, 2025 MRL Truck Series Championship, 2025 DDIRL Truck & ARCA Series Championships, 2024 S3 PRL Truck Series Team Championship, and Top 5’s in the main event of the Arizona BKA Open Division Karting Championship. DDI Motorsports has also proven to be a dominant force in iRacing Official racing, combining to collect over 100 iRacing Official Wins and over 150 iRacing Official Pole Positions.

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driver Championships

2024 PRL Truck Series (Zach Panzarella)
2025 PRL Truck Series (Patrick Cowgill)
2025 MRL Truck Series (Zach Panzarella)
2025 DDIRL Truck Series (Zach Panzarella)
2025-26 DDIRL ARCA Series (Zach Panzarella)
Special events

2024 Daytona 500 (Dalton Geyer)
2025 World 600 (Alex Hillman)
2026 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona (Hillman, Parsons, Panzarella)
2026 Bathurst 12 Hours (Hillman, Parsons, Panzarella)
Team championships

2024 PRL Truck Series (Panzarella, Cowgill, Schmitt)
2025 MRL Truck Series (Panzarella, Novella, Geyer)
2025 DDIRL Truck Series (Panzarella, Cowgill, Geyer)
2025-26 DDIRL ARCA Series (Panzarella, Cowgill)

meet the team

dalton Geyer

2023 NiS Daytona 500 Winner
3 MRL Truck Trucks Poles
2022 PRL Truck Series Playoffs - 12th place
2023 PRL Truck Series Championship 4 Appearance - 2nd place
9 iRacing Oval Official Wins
16 iRacing Oval Official Poles

Dalton Geyer was born and raised in sunny Huntington Beach, CA. The racing bug bit early as he started to spend his Sundays watching NASCAR with his dad and rooting for Dale Earnhardt as young as 4 years old. He started playing the EA Sports NASCAR Thunder video games at six years old and continued doing so for much of his childhood. While his focus on racing faded in and out, Dalton reignited that passion in 2019 and started on iRacing in early 2020. When he entered in the 2021 Carnomaly 500 heat races, he knew he had to find a broadcasted league to run in, as his family had so enjoyed rooting for him in that one off attempt. This would gradually bring cousin Zach Panzarella into the fold, from sponsor and fan, to paint scheme artist, and finally to fellow racer, teammate, and co-founder of DDI Motorsports.

He currently races out of Long Beach, CA and competes in the Precision Racing League Grand National Series on Wednesday nights and the open setup NASCAR iRacing Series, both of which are uploaded to his YouTube account below.

Off track, you can find him playing any of the myriad of sports simulation games out there or making music with his band, Drollet.

https://www.youtube.com/@DrugstoreCowboyRacing

https://linktr.ee/drollet

https://twitter.com/DaltonGSG

Zach panzarella

2026 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona Winner
2026 Bathurst 12 Hours Winner
2024 S2 PRL Truck Series Champion
2025 MRL Truck Series Champion
2025 DDIRL Truck Series Champion
2025-26 DDIRL ARCA Series Champion
5 PRL Truck Series Wins
1 PRL Truck Series Pole
12 MRL Truck Series Wins
21 MRL Truck Series Poles
4 DDIRL Truck Series Wins
4 DDIRL ARCA Series Wins
2 WRC Truck Series Wins
64 iRacing Official Race Wins (32 Oval, 32 Road)
57 iRacing Official Poles (38 Oval, 19 Road)
2024 MRL Truck Series Regular Season Champion
4th in 2024 NiS Daytona 500. 6th in 2023 NiS Daytona 500
2024 S3 PRL Truck Series Team Champion

Zach Panzarella was born and raised in Southern California, where he still resides. Zach got into racing as a young child, as his dad was a diehard CART fan. He quickly developed a passion for stock car racing that has never gone away. Like many others on the platform, Zach started his iRacing journey during the pandemic and has been a passionate sim racer since.

Since co-founding DDI Motorsports with Dalton Geyer, Zach has worked diligently on his craft and improved from a back-marker in leagues like the Precision Racing League, to a championship contending race-winner. Panzarella earned DDI Motorsports their first wins in both the Moonlight Racing League Truck Series and the Precision Racing League Truck Series at the Milwaukee Mile and Texas Motor Speedway, respectively. In May of 2024, Zach won the first championship for DDI Motorsports when he captured the 2024 S2 Precision Racing League Truck Series Championship with 2 wins, 8 top 5s, 9 top 10s, and an average finish of 3rd over a 9 race season.

Since then, Zach has captured 3 more Championships, winning the 2025 MRL Truck Series Championship, and the Championship for first season of both the DDIRL Truck Series, and the ARCA Series. Panzarella kicked off his 2026 by joining forces with Alex Hillman and Jeff Parsons to make his Endurance Racing debut. Team DDI won both the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Bathurst on Panzarella’s rookie attempt, marking the first two Endurance Special Events wins for Daily Drivers Inc.

Off the track, he enjoys hosting and attending car shows with his heavily modified Corvette, dirt biking, and spending time with his fiancée and two corgis.

www.instagram.com/ddizach

PATRICK COWGILL

2021 SWM NASCAR Cup Series Champion
2024/S1 PRL Truck Series Champion
2024 PRL Truck Series Playoff Champion
21 SWM Wins
20 SWM Poles
7 Wins in PRL Truck Series
7 Poles in PRL Truck Series
2nd in the NASCAR iRacing Class C Fixed Setup Time Trial Championship in 2020/S3 for Division 2.

Born and raised in Southwest Michigan, where he still lives only 2 miles from his childhood home, Patrick Cowgill got into racing because his dad watched the NASCAR races every Sunday. He started out as a Richard Petty fan because he liked the blue and red paint scheme. Then after Petty retired, he started rooting for Dale Earnhardt.

Patrick partially lost interest in racing for a bit after the Daytona 500 in 2001. In 2011, his brother told him about this group of guys he raced with on NR2003 for PC. He decided to join Sim World Motorsports and was hooked. He started iRacing in 2014 but was still set on NR2003 because that is the platform that SWM was using. Then moved entirely to iRacing in 2018 when SWM decided to move from NR2003 to iRacing.

Patrick joined PRL in 2019, but could not race until the following year due to some back and neck pain issues. Currently he only races in PRL, where he will be competing in the Sunday IndyCar Series, Wednesday Truck Series, and Thursday IMSA series (GT3).

Off track, he spends most of his free time with his wife and 3 kids when he is not working as the CAD Technical Support Manager for a local Engineering, Survey and Architecture firm. His hobbies include woodworking, model building and Lego, but he doesn’t get a lot of time to do those things since his oldest child requires a little extra care. She was born with CTNNB1 Syndrome, which is why he tries to raise awareness of this syndrome on his iRacing paint schemes by sporting CTNNB1 Connect & Cure as his primary sponsor.

Dylan schmitt

30 iRacing Official Oval Wins

14 i Racing Official Oval Poles
2023 PRL Playoffs Appearance
3rd in 2024 NiS Daytona 500

Dylan Schmitt grew up in the suburbs of the twin cities where he still resides. Growing up we was focused on football and basketball, but after having the opportunity to attend a nascar NASCAR and camp in the infield in 2005 where he watched Dale Jr win, he was instantly hooked. He went on to playing several NASCAR games on XBOX, especially NASCAR 09’ where he ran in a league. Once EA Sports ended its NASCAR video game he was left unable to virtually race until years later during the pandemic when he watched all the NASCAR stars sim race on iRacing on national television. He instantly got on the platform, bought gaming pc, and that’s where he went onto meet CM Pennington which led him to DDI Motorsports.

Away from sim racing, Dylan loves to cheer on Minnesota sports even though his heart is consistently been broken into very small pieces by them. You can also catch Dylan ripping around on his 22Fxlrst, or in the winter ripping the trails on his sled.

Kris hohn

11 iRacing Official Wins
2nd in 2014 NiS Daytona 500
2017 Division 4 iRacing USAC 360 Sprint Car Champion
1 Eclipse Auto Racing League Win
1 MRL Truck Series Pole

Kris Hohn is a rare Arizona native, born in Payson and raised in Peoria. Kris was born into a racing family, with his uncle, father, and brother having raced before him.

Kris’ love of racing began when him and his father would go to the famed Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix, in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This spawned an immense love for racing which never faded, and eventually led to iRacing as well as real-life dirt kart racing. Away from the track, Kris enjoys music, calling it his second love and passion, as well as football, quad riding, and Daily Driving.

Twitch.com/krishohn85

Graham mcgivern

2 iRacing Official Wins
1 iRacing Official Pole
6th Place in 2024 NiS Daytona 500
9th Place in 2023 NiS Daytona 500
Bonfire Racing League Season 7 Round of 8 in Playoffs

Graham McGivern hails from the racing-rich roots of England but was molded on the tracks of Michigan. His love affair with stock car racing began at the age of 9 when the engines roared to life at Michigan International Speedway, sparking a lifelong devotion. The annual tradition of watching the Indy 500 with his stepfather became a cherished bonding experience.

During the pandemic, his interest shifted to the virtual tracks of sim racing, where he began racing Cup, Trucks, and Indy cars. He is also a dedicated spectator, attending NASCAR and Indy car races annually. When not burning rubber in the virtual realm, you'll find him cheering on the Detroit Lions and Tigers, spending time with family or enjoying a nice glass of bourbon. Cheers racing fans.

ALEX HILLMAN

2026 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona Winner
2026 Bathurst 12 Hours Winner
2025 World 600 Winner
1 PRL Cup Series Win
1 MRL Cup Series Win
3 MRL ARCA Wins
1 MRL Truck Series Win
4 iRacing Official Oval Wins
6 iRacing Road Wins
3 Top 5’s in iRacing Special Event Endurance Races

Born and raised in Hoover Alabama, Alex Hillman grew up racing dirt ovals and karting. Alex started iRacing in 2021 as an avid endurance racer with p3 in 2023 Spa 24 Hour. He also races trucks in PRL and cup in MRL, where he started out as back marker happy to get top 20s to now regularly competitive for top 5s.

Hillman races in real life when he has the chance in MX-5 or when his buddies do the 24 Hour of Lemons at Barber.

In 2026, Alex Hillman formed the Daily Drivers Inc Endurance Racing Team, recruiting Zach Panzarella and Jeff Parsons. The team went on to win their first two races, the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Bathurst.

hunter halL

Moonlight Racing League Cup Series

3rd in Street Stocks 2024 Division

Hunter Hall is a dedicated sim racing driver with a primary focus on NASCAR but an appreciation for all forms of motorsport. Despite being only one year into his sim racing journey, Hunter has already achieved notable success, finishing 3rd in his division on Street Stocks in 2024.

Known for his patient and calculated driving style, Hunter prefers to let the race come to him, consistently demonstrating a strategic approach behind the wheel.

Off the virtual track, Hunter is a proud father of three daughters and a devoted husband. A diehard Tennessee Volunteers fan, he brings the same passion for his team into every race. Hunter lives by his favorite quote: “Nobody cares, work harder,” which fuels his drive to improve and compete at the highest level.

Jeff Parsons
Matt Novella
Juan Delgado
Johnathan Casebere

cm pennington

Precision Racing League Truck Series

28 iRacing Official Oval Wins
74 iRacing Official Poles
PRL Playoff Appearance in 2022 & 2023
229 iRacing Official Top 5’s
1992 iRacing Official Laps Led

Anyone who knew CM Pennington or had the pleasure of racing with him knows how incredible, selfless, hilarious, fun, and pure he was. CM stood for everything that makes sim racing so special, and the amazing communities that can be found and developed within it.

CM consistently stood out as a source of positivity and strength. His incredible life story - which includes becoming homeless due to injury, and completely rebuilding his life from scratch - will continue to inspire anyone who was lucky enough to know him. His legacy will live on forever in PRL and on DDI Motorsports. The world tragically lost CM Pennington due to cancer in 2023.

DDI Motorsports will forever brandish the 44EVER decal on every car we race. We love you CM. 44EVER