With just days remaining before the inaugural RallyX Americas season starts at Crandon International Raceway, fans at “The Big House” will get their first taste of how a rallycross event differs from the off-road truck and UTV racing they’re used to. But that doesn’t mean that they’ll be short on familiar names to root for.

Jimmy Henderson was the first driver to confirm his seat in the Hypercar class, committing to the 2026 season with Team OMSE in a First Corner FC1 back in April. Having found plenty of success at the track over the years, including last year’s Crandon Pro 4 World Championship win, it’s safe to say he’s very excited to get the season started at a familiar track.

“I dream of Crandon at night,” Henderson says. “It is just one of the best facilities I’ve ever been to, and it’s run by a great family. I’m friends with the fans and the Flannerys, and I love the facility. I love the racetrack, the flow of it, the banking in the turns. If I had to call a home track, that’s what I’d call mine—my first win was at Crandon, so it means a lot to me.

“I just think that the fans are going to love it. And being in the seat for a new class coming to Crandon, where I have so many fans, I’m just excited to put on a show for them and trying to win that first one.”

While many drivers competing in RallyX have run on similar courses before, few have as much experience at Crandon itself as Henderson. He feels like that familiarity will give him an advantage out of the gate.

“I do think it’ll give me an advantage because I understand the track and the dirt,” he continues. “The dirt in off-road means a lot—how dry it is, what it does as it dries out, where you get holes. I understand that track very well, but then they prep it a little bit different for us to run also, so that may go out the window.”

That said, a double duty weekend isn’t without its challenges. Unlike most of the other drivers who will be managing two short course classes, Henderson will have to switch between two different track layouts and two completely different vehicles when he goes between the FC1 and his Pro 4 truck. Still, he feels well prepared for the challenge of going between the two.

“I’m very serious about physical fitness, so I work out a lot,” he explains. “(And) we run the simulator every day—I might be in Legends, one day it might be NASCAR, it might be Super Late Models. I change it up a lot. So many things over the years, to me, are just getting in the car and once I know how it works, it kind of comes after that.

“We were testing Pro 4s this (spring) in two completely different trucks with different motors, and I ran almost identical laps. So I’ve got experience jumping in different vehicles at different times, and I’ve had a pretty good success doing that. I’m just going to have to remember to take the Joker!”

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