- Paul Tracy
Paul Tracy (born December 17, 1968 in Scarborough (now part of Toronto), Ontario) is a professional automobile racer in the Champ Car World Series. He also goes by the nickname "The Thrill from West Hill".
- Justin Wilson
Justin Wilson (born 31 July, 1978, Sheffield, England) is a British racing driver from England. In 2006 he competed in the Champ Car series. He competed in Formula One in the 2003 season and was the winner of the 2001 Formula 3000 championship.
- Will Power
Will Power (born March 1, 1981) is a motorsport driver from Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia. He won the 2002 Australian Formula Holden (Formula 4000) championship by winning 7 times and achieving 3 pole positions. He tested a Minardi Formula One car in 2004 with fellow Australian Will Davison in Italy. During 2005 he competed in the World Series by Renault for the Carlin Motorsport team, where he proved very competitive.
- Alex Tagliani
Alexandre Tagliani (born October 18 1972) is a Canadian auto racing driver from Montreal, Quebec. He has raced in the Champ Car series since 2000, when it was still known officially as CART. In 2005 he joined Team Australia, which was essentially a rebranding of Derrick Walker's long-running team with the support of Australian businessman Craig Gore, and his currently 7th in the championship despite lacking a race engineer.
- Graham Rahal
Graham Rahal (born January 4, 1989) is an American race car driver. He currently drives in the Champ Car World Series. He is the son of Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal and was born in Columbus, Ohio. He has stated that his ultimate goal is to race in Formula One.
- Patrick Carpentier
Patrick 'Pat' Carpentier (born on August 13, 1971 in Ville Lasalle, Quebec) is a Canadian racing driver from Quebec. He has spent 2005 driving for the Red Bull-sponsored team ran by Eddie Cheever in the Indy Racing League. Before this he spent nearly a decade in the rival Champ Car series, with Bettenhausen as a rookie but subsequently always in the team ran by Gerry Forsythe. In his early years he was prone to missing races through injuries, …
- Bruno Junqueira
Bruno Junqueira (born November 4, 1976) is a Brazilian racecar driver and veteran of the Champ Car World Series. Junqueira started racing go-karts in Brazil and dominated Formula Three Sudamericana before moving to Formula 3000. He tested for the Williams Formula 1 team for many years, and came close to landing a race drive in 2000, losing out to Jenson Button. He rebounded from this setback, winning that year's International Formula 3000 Championship.
- A. J. Allmendinger
A.J. Allmendinger (born December 16, 1981, in Los Gatos, California) is an American racecar driver. He currently drives the #84 for Team Red Bull in NASCAR.
- Cristiano da Matta
Cristiano Monteiro da Matta (born September 19, 1973) is a Brazilian auto racing driver, winner of the American CART Championship in 2002, and former Toyota Formula One driver.
- Dario Franchitti
Dario Franchitti (b. 19 May, 1973 in Bathgate, West Lothian) is a Scottish racing driver of Italian descent. He currently competes in the IndyCar Series, formerly drove in the CART series, and won the rain shortened 2007 Indianapolis 500. He also competes in the American Le Mans Series for Andretti Green Racing with his brother Marino and former Indy Racing Leagur teammate Bryan Herta.
- Scott Dixon
Scott Ronald Dixon (born July 22, 1980) is a New Zealand motor racing driver who won the Indy Racing League (IRL) championship in 2003 at his first attempt.
- Bobby Rahal
Robert "Bobby" Woodward Rahal (born January 10, 1953 in Medina, Ohio) is an American auto racing team owner and former driver, spending most of his driving career in the CART open-wheel series, winning three championships there. He has won the Indianapolis 500 as both a driver and an owner. As a driver, Rahal raced in Formula 1 and CART, including owning the team he drove for during most of his career. That team is now known as Rahal Letterman Racing.
- Tony Kanaan
But it was Kanaan's accomplishments in 2004 that were quite spectacular. He became the first driver in major auto racing history to complete every lap of every race for an entire season on his way to winning the 2004 IndyCar Series title. "I never thought about it, but at the end of the year everyone was talking about it," Kanaan said. "It was pretty amazing. It was something unexpected. We did it, it's in the books, and I'm happy to have a record like that."
- Jimmy Vasser
Jimmy Vasser (born November 20 1965 in Canoga Park, California) is an American racing driver. Vasser was the 1996 Champ Car champion, driving for Chip Ganassi, and has scored ten victories in the category. He won 4 of the first 5 races in 1996 and did enough to maintain a lead in the standings, although rookie team-mate Alex Zanardi outperformed him in the second half of the season, and over the next 2 years. He had a poor 1999 season teamed with Juan Pablo Montoya, …
- Robert Doornbos
Robert Michael Doornbos (born September 23 1981) is a Dutch racing driver. He was the third driver for the Red Bull Racing Formula One team until the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix, when he was promoted to second driver alongside David Coulthard. However, the arrival of Mark Webber at the team for 2007 has forced him to once again step down to the third driver role. Doornbos is currently driving in the 2007 Champ Car World Series season for Minardi Team USA.
- Ryan Briscoe
Ryan Briscoe (born September 24, 1981 in Sydney) is an Australian auto racing driver who has raced open wheel and sports cars in Europe and America. </small>
- Katherine Legge
Katherine Legge (pronounced 'leg') (born 12 July, 1980 in Guildford, Surrey, UK) is a British auto racing driver, currently racing in the Champ Car World Series. In 2005, Legge competed in the Toyota Atlantic Championship. She won the series opener at Long Beach in her first career Toyota Atlantic start. In doing so, she became the first woman to win a major open-wheel race in North America.
- Juan Pablo Montoya
Juan Pablo Montoya Roldán is a race car driver in NASCAR for Chip Ganassi Racing. He is a former Formula One driver. He was born in Bogotá where he was taught the techniques of karting from an early age by his father Pablo, an architect and motorsport enthusiast. He has enjoyed great success, most famously in top open wheel racing series. The highlights of his career include winning the International F3000 championship in 1998, and the CART Championship Series in 1999, …
- Ryan Hunter-Reay
Ryan Hunter-Reay (born December 17, 1980 in Dallas, Texas) is an American auto racing driver, best known for spending three years (2003-2005) in the Champ Car World Series. He drove for three different teams and won two races, but did not compete in the series in 2006. He now drives for A1 Team USA.
- Dale Coyne
Dale Coyne (born 1954 in Minooka, Illinois) is a Champ Car auto racing team owner and former driver. Following four unsuccessful seasons as a Champ Car driver, he retired from competition to start Payton Coyne Racing in 1988 with Walter Payton. In his early years of team ownership, Coyne launched some impressive careers, including that of Paul Tracy (1991) and Michel Jourdain Jr. (1997).
- Michael Andretti
Michael Mario Andretti (born October 5, 1962 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is a American retired CART and Formula One driver. He now co-owns the Andretti Green Racing team in the Indy Racing League. He qualified eleventh for the 2007 Indianapolis 500 after finishing third in the 2006 Indianapolis 500. He is the son of Mario Andretti who is one of the most successful auto racing drivers of all time.
- Mario Andretti
Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940 in Montona d'Istria, Italy, now Motovun, Croatia) is an Italian American racecar driver, and one of the most successful Americans in the history of auto racing. He has competed and won in many different types of auto racing, including stock cars, midget cars, sprint cars, IndyCars, drag racing cars, sports cars, and single-seater Formula One cars. During his career, Andretti won four IndyCar titles, …
- Nelson Philippe
Nelson Philippe is a driver who raced in the Champ Car World Series. Philippe raced go-karts from 1998-2002. In 2003, he raced in the Barber Dodge Pro Series, finishing the season with one podium, and four top five finishes. With just one year of experience in cars, Philippe tested with two Champ Car teams, before signing with Paul Gentilozzi's Rocketsports Racing team. At 17, he became the youngest driver to ever race in Champ Car.
- Andrew Ranger
Andrew Ranger (born November 20, 1986 in Roxton Pond, Quebec) is a Canadian racing driver. The 2002 Canadian Formula A Karting Champion and 2003 North American Fran-Am Pro Champion raced in the Toyota Atlantic series in 2004, scoring six podiums (top 3 finishes) and winning rookie of the year. Ranger made his debut in the Champ Car World Series in 2005 and became the youngest driver in the series' history to finish on the podium.
- Jacques Villeneuve
Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve (born April 9, 1971 in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec) is a Canadian automobile racing driver, he is the son of Gilles Villeneuve - another racing driver. Villeneuve is notable for winning the 1995 CART Championship, the 1995 Indianapolis 500 and the 1997 Formula One Championship. Alongside Mario Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi, the Canadian is one of the only drivers to achieve all three.
- Dan Clarke
Dan Clarke is a British auto racing driver born October 4, 1983 in Mexborough. A veteran of British Formula Ford where he won the prestigious Formula Ford Festival, he moved up the British Formula Three Championship in 2005 in a team part owned by Kimi Räikkönen, Räikkönen Robertson Racing, and finished 5th overall, taking one win at Castle Combe.With a series of impressive tests he was signed to drive in the Champ Car World Series for CTE Racing - HVM, …
- Al Unser
Alfred Unser (born May 29, 1939 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a former American automobile racing driver, the younger brother of Bobby Unser and father of Al Unser, Jr.. He is the second of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times, the fourth of five to have won the race in consecutive years, and is the only person to have both a sibling (Bobby) and child (Al Jr.) as fellow winners.
- Alex Figge
Alex Figge (born January 29, 1983) is an American race car driver born in Boulder, Colorado. He started racing professionally in the Star Mazda Championship, capturing one victory at Portland International Raceway in 2000 while drivng for World Speed Motorsports. He competed in the US Formula Ford 2000 championship in 2001, running with Lightspeed Motorsports and Cape Motorsports, then moved up to the Toyota Atlantic series where he finished 18th, 9th, …
- Max Papis
Massimiliano "Max" Papis (born October 3, 1969) is a racing driver from Italy who has competed in several top-level motorsports series such as Formula One and Champ Car. He currently drives the #36 car in the NASCAR Busch Series for McGill Motorsports following the release of Tim Sauter from the ride.
- Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell (born December 21, 1984 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American racing driver. He won the 2004 Star Mazda championship, leading to a potential open-wheel career. He made two Champ Car starts for Rocketsports Racing at the end of 2005 but was not retained for the following season. He competed in Grand-Am Rolex Series for two seasons, co-piloting the No. 19 Daytona Prototype with Memo Gidley, …
- Andreas Wirth
Andreas Wirth (born November 19, 1984 in Heidelberg) is a German racing driver. Wirth won the Formula BMW USA championship in 2004 after coming stateside and advanced to Champ Car Atlantics in 2005. He has raced in that series for two years, winning three races and finishing 6th and 3rd in the championship. He was named to drive Dale Coyne Racing's #19 Sonny's BBQ entry for the Champ Car round at Surfer's Paradise, finishing 9th.
- Buddy Rice
Buddy Rice (born January 31, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an auto racing driver best known for winning the 2004 Indianapolis 500 as part of Rahal Letterman Racing.
- Michel Jourdain Jr.
Michel Jourdain Jr. (born September 2, 1976, Mexico City, Mexico) is a NASCAR driver. Jourdain Jr. started racing cars in the Mexican Formula Junior series at the age of 12. He then moved to the Mexican Formula K and Formula 2 series. In 1996, Jourdain ran several races in the Indy Racing League (IRL) and the CART (now Champ Car) series, including the Indy 500. At the age of 19, he became one of the youngest drivers to race in both Champ Car and the Indy 500.
- Alex Zanardi
Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi, (born October 23, 1966), is an Italian racing driver. He won two CART championship titles in North America during the late 1990s. He also had a less successful career as a Formula One driver. More recently he has attracted widespread praise for his racing comeback in the aftermath of a crash in 2001 which resulted in him losing both legs. As of 2007 he competes in the World Touring Car Championship.
- Roberto Moreno
Roberto Pupo Moreno (born February 11 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) is a racing driver from Brazil. He participated in 75 Formula One Grands Prix, achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 15 championship points. He raced in CART in 1986, and was Formula 3000 champion (in 1988) before joining Formula One full-time in 1989. He returned to CART in 1996 and raced full-time until 2003. He currently drives as a temporary substitute and test driver in both Champ Car and IndyCar.
- Neel Jani
Neel Jani (born December 8, 1983) is a Swiss race car driver.
- Gil de Ferran
Gil de Ferran (born November 11, 1967) in Paris, France to Brazilian parents, is a former racing driver. De Ferran was the 2000 and 2001 Champ Car champion driving for the Penske Honda Team and the winner of the 2003 Indianapolis 500. Inspired by the success of fellow Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi, de Ferran began his career in kart racing in the early 1980s. He graduated to Formula Ford level in 1987 and Formula Three in 1991.
- Darren Manning
Darren Manning (born April 30, 1975) is a motor racing driver from Yorkshire, England. He currently races in the Indy Racing League series for A.J. Foyt Enterprises.
- Al Unser Jr.
Alfred Unser, Jr. (born April 19, 1962 in Albuquerque, New Mexico), nicknamed "Little Al" or "Al Junior" is an American race car driver and two-time Indianapolis 500 winner.
- Bryan Herta
Bryan Herta (b. May 23 1970, Warren, Michigan) is an American race car driver in the Indy Racing League's IndyCar Series. He currently drives for Andretti Green Racing, which is co-owned by former CART and IRL driver Michael Andretti. He also drives for A1 Team USA. At the event in Australia, Herta scored a 10th place finish.