Hal Prewitt

Harold D. Prewitt Jr. (born October 1, 1954, in Hutchinson, Kansas) is an American businessman, inventor, artist, and race car driver. During the 1970s and 1980s, he worked on the development of personal computer software and hardware for IBM microcomputer systems.

Prewitt founded and managed several technology companies, including Core International, which developed disk array, data storage, and backup products. The company produced hot-swappable disk drives, controllers, host adapters, and power supplies. Prewitt served as chairman and chief executive officer until 1993, when the company was acquired by Aiwa.

Early life Youth Prewitt was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. His father was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, who later worked as a mailman for the United States Postal Service and was honored as a Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky. His mother was a nurse. Prewitt grew up in the Daytona Beach, Florida, area from 1963 to 1976. Here, he had his first exposure to auto racing, volunteering at Daytona International Speedway. In 1967, at the age of 13, he built his first computer, which performed simple math and operated his phonograph.

Sporting career Racing

Prewitt first became active in racing while growing up in Daytona Beach, Florida in the 1970s and driving in SCCA events. He became serious in 2004 after attending Skip Barber Racing School.

Prewitt was a professional level driver for various teams in international and North American endurance road race events. From 2004 to 2006, he set numerous lap records in Sports Car Club of America, PBOC Motorsports Club and National Auto Sport Association (NASA) classes, and was the overall winner in the PBOC 2005 and 2006 Race Series season. In 2006 and 2007, Prewitt won numerous first place and class wins in Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), Rolex Endurance Series and the Historic GT Series. He won the 2006 National Auto Sport Association National Championship at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, driving the Porsche 911 GT3 RS that won second place in class for the 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans. 2010 Win at 24 hours of Dubai. Drivers Hal Prewitt, Cor Euser, Toto Lassally and Jim Briody

Prewitt retired in 2015 after driving in more than 200 events. In his final year (2015), he finished as the No. 1 American and fourth out of 819 international drivers from 58 countries in the 2015 International Endurance Series Championship.

Fishing

Prewitt is a sport fisherman. Over the years, he has caught and released more than one thousand Billfish with many of them tagged for science research. Most of these were captured "stand up", not using a fishing chair and on light tackle. Prewitt was selected as Atlantic Ocean Angler of the Year 1992, recognized and awarded by International Game Fish Association (IGFA) as the angler who Tagged & Released the most Sailfish in 1990, 1991 and 1992 and White Marlin in 1992. In 1989, Power and Motor-yacht Magazine named him one of America's Top Ten Anglers of 1988. Megabyte in the USVI Open. Angler Hal Prewitt catching a Blue Marlin on "stand up" tackle. In 1988, Prewitt won the Bahamas Billfish Championship (BBC). where he held office until the town was reapportioned in 2002. Prewitt served on the Florida Atlantic University Executive Advisory Board and Palm Beach Countywide Beaches & Shores Council.

Personal life Prewitt married his first wife, Florine Andrews, in August 1980. They divorced in 2004. They have two sons. He married Corinne Brody, an assistant county manager for Miami-Dade County, in October 2007.