---
title: "IndyCar’s James Hinchcliffe Gets Engaged to High School Sweetheart Becky Dalton"
description: "Sorry ladies, the charismatic Canadian racing driver is officially off the market."
date: "2018-07-24"
modified: "2018-07-24"
authors:
  - name: "Jerry Perez"
    job_title: "Deputy Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/jerry-perez"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/22367/indycars-james-hinchcliffe-gets-engaged-to-high-school-sweetheart-becky-dalton"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Racing"
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  - "Hollywood"
  - "indycar"
  - "James Hinchcliffe"
  - "News"
  - "racing"
  - "Racing News"
---

# IndyCar’s James Hinchcliffe Gets Engaged to High School Sweetheart Becky Dalton

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IndyCar driver [James Hinchcliffe](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/20315/indycars-james-hinchcliffe-admits-to-peeing-himself-amidst-race-delay>) and actress Becky Dalton are officially tying the knot. The Canadian couple announced their engagement via social media, with Dalton claiming "she's been served a life sentence," and Hinchcliffe tweeting "Until debt do us part."

The couple has become a regular item at all IndyCar races throughout the year, something which always led us to believe the relationship was on the up. Dalton, who spends most of her time between Indianapolis, Canada, and wherever [IndyCar](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/3664/indycar-crash-survivor-james-hinchcliffe-thinks-indycar-is-safe>) is racing on a given weekend, rekindled with Hinchcliffe following his life-threatening crash in 2015. While the relationship may appear somewhat new to most outsiders, Dalton and Hinchcliffe have known each other since high school when the two attended their senior prom together in 2004.

https://twitter.com/_/status/1021425997726601218

At the time of his [crash at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/20972/thrilling-indy-500-qualifying-overjoys-castroneves-heartbreaks-hinchcliffe-mann>), Hinchcliffe was dating Australian model Kirsten Dee, whom he had been with for a long period of time and appeared to have settled with. However, not long after the May crash, the couple split up and Dee moved back to Australia, where she currently dates Virgin Australia Supercar Championship star Shane van Gisbergen.

Details on when or where the couple will choose to tie the knot have been made public, but we certainly wish them well in their future as a couple.

## Author
Jerry is responsible for upholding The Drive's ethos as an audience-first, enthusiast-driven car blog that serves up industry-leading news, reviews, culture, and motorsport coverage. Overseeing a staff of writers and editors from his home base in Indianapolis, he helps curate the site's daily rundown, as well as its medium- and long-term content strategies. Jerry joined The Drive in 2018 as a writer and worked as news editor and managing editor before becoming the deputy in 2023. As a lifelong car enthusiast and racing fan, Jerry believes that all cars are cool, but the people behind the machines are even cooler. This belief often gives The Drive a slightly different focus from most other car sites, where we explore the humanity behind the machines. When he's not obsessing over the day's biggest stories or hanging out at a race track, Jerry can be found behind the wheel of a car, most likely sharing a laugh with his teenage son or daughter.

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