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More success followed, as Guy was crowned 2005’s Despite just signing earlier this year with GT
Rookie of the Year at the conclusion of his first full World Challenge’s K-PAX Racing—best known for
season in the American Le Mans Series. campaigning their dark green Bentley Continental
GT3 race cars—Guy only competed once before
It was around this time that Guy also became a the coronavirus sidelined his season. Rather than
Braman Motorcars customer, and discovered an pine over potential setback, Guy has used the
immediate kindred spirit in Freddy. Given his vast downtime to thoroughly enjoy the extra time with
experience wielding some of the fastest and most his beautiful family, and reassess his professional
precise cars across the world, it’s no surprise that goals. While he still dreams of competing in— and
off the track Guy prefers The Ultimate Driving winning—the 12 Hours of Sebring, and the 24
Machine. When he and his wife welcomed their hours of Le Mans and Daytona, Guy’s current focus
son into their family a little over four years ago, is on starting his own LMP2 team, and is actively
Guy knew the only family-friendly sedan with seeking partners and investors.
the perfect combination of style, performance,
and interior quality he needed, was this 2015 He is also expanding his focus beyond the race
Mineral Grey Metallic M3. His wife’s 2016 M track, intent on organizing and hosting vehicle
Sport-packaged X5 quickly followed, replacing the
adjacent events and lending his digital platform’s
This Guy As charmed a life as it may seem, even a human trafficking. Their current project includes
couples’ previous X5M.
reach to Unitas, a non-profit fighting against
a curriculum that will be introduced to school
systems throughout the country.
professional hotshoe couldn’t outrun the effects of
Can Drive For some, a name can be a burden. In Guy’s case,
the COIVD-19 pandemic.

it became a standard to live up to and surpass.
To learn more about Guy’s racing career and
collaborations, visit GuyCosmo.com, Cosmo-Sport.
com, and Unitas.ngo.
WITH THE NAME GUY COSMO, one’s career soon had the two traveling and further honing the
choices are somewhat limited; action movie star, younger’s skills. By the time Guy was a senior in
astronaut, traveling lion tamer, or race car driver high school, he’d earned a spot at the karting world
are the only real options available. Fortunately for championships in France.
racing fans the world over, the latter was a natural
choice for professional wheelman Guy Cosmo. As the level of competition increased, so did Guy’s
With a father who was a mechanical engineer by accolades. He won championships in several
trade and amateur racer in his own right, Guy’s open wheel racing series—including Formula
childhood garage was nearly always occupied by a Ford, a league quite familiar to Freddy Rhemrev,
motorized project of some sort. The elder Cosmo’s Braman Motorcars’ own former racing driver and
passion soon led to an adolescent Guy racing go current instructor. While Guy harbored dreams
karts against the former and his adult friends of remaining stateside and clawing his way into
around a Long Island parking lot. the IndyCar Series, he encountered every racer’s
one true foe: limited funding. The resulting pivot
What began as a fun hobby however, ended up toward Grand-Am sports car racing turned out to
being the first step toward a dramatic destiny, be an unexpected leap forward however, and by
as Guy continuously bested his more mature 2003 Guy suddenly found himself making a living
competition. Recognizing his promise, Guy’s father as a bonafide race car driver.

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