Art Haynie

Art Haynie spent more than twenty years behind the camera as a commercial and television director and producer, with credits that range from record-setting Super Bowl commercials to a staff director role on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Then he fell in love with driving, and never looked back.

It started on the set of a Super Bowl commercial, where he worked closely with racing star Danica Patrick. She invited him to hang out with her and her engineers at the races, and the self-described science geek was hooked: the technology, the cars, the sounds, and the speed. He started asking questions, including the big one, would someone teach him to drive. From there it became a second career.

Since then Art has won awards and earned national certifications, and he keeps chasing anything that moves. He has flown planes and helicopters, driven trains, ambulances, and boats, and managed and raced an electric superbike team to an undefeated season with wins at Le Mans and Laguna Seca and two World Land Speed Records. His biggest coup came at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, where he recruited two-time defending motorcycle champion Carlin Dunne away from Ducati and won the overall motorcycle title, making history as the first electric motorcycle to beat combustion-engine competitors head to head and generating headlines around the world.

Today Art is a high-performance driving and racing instructor, a test driver for Porsche, and a precision and stunt driver for film and production. He is Class A licensed, motorcycle licensed, and holds a full competition auto racing license, and he will happily tell you he can drive virtually anything with wheels. At FastLane he brings that same curiosity and craft to private one-on-one coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, meeting every driver where they are and making the day about real skill.