David Maher

Nationality United States
Born 1975
Rank Master Pilot
Garage 1996 Porsche 911 Turbo
1992 GMC Pickup
2000 Harley Davidson
Home New York City
Alias Big D, The Machine
Kontakt david@teampolizei.com


(David Maher at the helm of the Polizei M5 on the 2003 Gumball 3000. April 22nd, 2003.)

Master Pilot David Maher - banker, skier, hockey fan, car enthusiast and Ivy League-educated bon vivant of the American school - was Team Polizei’s first co-pilot, having been the only interviewee to pass Alex Roy’s draconian interview process prior to the 2003 Gumball 3000. Maher - a farm boy raised in Bedminster, New Jersey - began racing in his youth, graduating from tractors to karts and motorcycles before saving up for a car best left unpurchased by any sane man: A Porsche 930. Two years of accident and injury-free ownership came to a sad (but not - by his friends - unforseen) end, when, by the grace of the God that all 930 owners forsake upon purchase, he walked away from an accident in which his was mercifully destroyed.


(Clockwise from above left, Maher checks the M5’s tire pressure after yet another of the 2003 Gumball 3000 "Tire Defect" warnings, October 19th, 2003; Maher at the pre-departure staging on Cooper Square, mere hours prior to the Zero Hour of our final assault on the 32 hour, 7 minute cross-country record, October 7th, 2006; Maher and Alex Roy exchange one final handshake mere minutes prior to the Zero Hour, October 7th, 2006.)

Maher’s cold, persistent aggression behind the wheel rounded out Team Polizei’s 2003 Gumball 3000 original Pranck und Machinationen strategy, helping us win the vaunted Spirit of the Gumball Trophy on our first endeaor. Maher then returned to the Banc of America, purchased a 1996 Porsche 996 Turbo, and focused on SCCA Porsche Club events. Following the outcome of the April 2006 Record Run attempt, Roy contacted Maher in September of that year…and asked the fateful question.

And Maher’s answer was more compelling than Roy could have hoped.

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