Actor Patrick Dempsey got a taste of big-time sports car racing a decade ago when he helped bring a GT team to the podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a driver a co-owner of a Porsche-powered ...

Dempsey/Del Piero Racing announced today that factory Porsche driver Patrick Long will join team drivers Patrick Dempsey and Joe Foster at the wheel o ...

When he's not acting, Patrick Dempsey seeks a different kind of thrill -- racing cars. Discover more about his passion.

Patrick "McDreamy" Dempsey credits his acting career for helping him prepare for his return to racing. Fans can follow that journey in a new documentary.

The actor's return to race car driving is the subject of Destined to Drive: Patrick Dempsey's Return to Racing, a new documentary by Fox Sports and NASCAR Studios airing March 16, and PEOPLE has ...

A podium at Virginia International Raceway, Dempsey sharing with co-driver Andrew Davis, was the high point. “He really helped turn our program around,” Dempsey said of Wright.

In 1992, while his dad, Larry, was racing at Mid-Ohio, Patrick's mom, who was pregnant at the time with Patrick, started going into contractions. Patrick wanted to race.

And yes, there are crashes. For 18 years, up through and including his retirement from full-time racing in 2021, Patrick Long was the lone American on Porsche’s global team of factory drivers.

That’s the dream for an old car dork like Patrick Dempsey (on par with a car dork who writes pop culture news stories finally having an excuse to say “scuderia”).

What’s Patrick Dempsey been up to? New films and a return to racing. The Buckfield native took up racing again this year after an eight-year hiatus.