- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Chip Ganassi
Floyd "Chip" Ganassi (born May 24, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and educated at local Duquesne University) is a former American racecar driver and current racecar owner. He is currently the owner and president of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates which operates teams on both the IndyCar and NASCAR circuit. Ganassi began his CART (Champ Car) racing career in 1981 and competed in the Indianapolis 500 five times, with a best finish of 8th in 1983.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Sam Hornish Jr.
Sam Hornish, Jr. (born July 2, 1979 in Bryan, Ohio) is an American race car driver and Indianapolis 500 champion, currently driving in the Indy Racing League and the NASCAR Busch Series for Penske Racing. He also competes in the invitation-only International Race of Champions. He first raced in the IRL in 2000 with the PDM Racing team, with a best finish of third.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Robby Gordon
Robby Gordon (born in Bellflower, California, on January 2, 1969) is an American racing driver who currently competes in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, owning his #7 Ford Fusion, sponsored by Jim Beam, and also owning his #55 Verizon Wireless/Motorola ride which competes part-time in the Busch Series, although he has also raced in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Champ Car, the IRL, Trans-Am, IMSA, IROC and Dakar Rally.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Sébastien Bourdais
Sébastien Bourdais is a race car driver and three-time defending Champ Car World Series champion.
- Simon Pagenaud
Simon Pagenaud (born May 18, 1984) is a French race car driver born in Poitiers. In 2002 and 2003 he competed in French Formula Renault and in 2002 and 2004 competed in Formula Renault Eurocup. He then moved up to the World Series by Renault in 2005 where he finished 15th. In 2006 he came to the United States and won the Champ Car Atlantic Championship with Team Australia in his rookie season by just a few points over Graham Rahal.
- Kevin Kalkhoven
Kevin Kalkhoven, born Kevin Oscar Newton Kalkoven, former CEO of JDS Uniphase, is an Australian venture capitalist and auto racing magnate based in Menlo Park, California. He is a partner in the Kalkhoven, Pettit, Levin and Johnson Venture capital firm (KPLJ llc) based in Menlo Park. He is currently one of three men (with Gerald Forsythe and Paul Gentilozzi) who own the Champ Car World Series.
- Scott Pruett
Donald Scott Pruett (born March 24, 1960 in Sacramento, California) is an American race car driver who has competed in NASCAR, Champ Car, IMSA, Trans-Am and Grand-Am. He and his wife Judy are children's book authors. Pruett started racing go karts at the age of eight and went on to win ten professional karting championships. In the 80's, he established himself as a top American sports car racer, eventually winning two IMSA GTO Championships and three Trans Am Championships.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ryan Dalziel
Ryan Dalziel is a British race car driver born April 12, 1982 in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He spent three years in the Toyota Atlantic championship, finishing runner-up twice, before moving to the American Le Mans series in 2005. He also contested one Champ Car race for Dale Coyne Racing at Toronto, finishing 9th. In 2006, he drove a Daytona Prototype in the Grand-Am Series.
- Giorgio Pantano
Giorgio Pantano (born February 4, 1979 in Padua, Italy) is an Italian racing driver who drove for the Jordan Formula One team for much of the 2004 season before being replaced by Timo Glock, and who raced in the 2005 and 2006 GP2 Series seasons for the Super Nova and FMS International team. He is currently signed to race in the 2007 GP2 Series for the Campos Grand Prix team. Pantano is the holder of one of the best records ever in karting, where he started at age nine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Christian Fittipaldi
Christian Fittipaldi (born January 18, 1971, São Paulo, Brazil) is a racing driver, who has competed in various forms of motorsport including Formula One, Champ Car and NASCAR. Named after less known Brazilian driver Christian "Bino" Heinz (killed at LeMans in 1963), he was a highly rated young racing driver in the early 1990s, and participated in 43 Formula One Grand Prix for Minardi and Footwork between 1992 and 1994.
- Jan Heylen
Jan Heylen (born May 1, 1980 in Geel) is a race car driver in the Champ Car World Series. He began karting in 1992 and was the 2005 Renault Megane Eurocup champion. He also won the 2002 Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch and has competed in the Formula Three Euroseries and Formula 3000. He beat out Nicky Pastorelli for the 2006 season at Dale Coyne racing by bringing sponsorship from the Muermans Group and BergHOFF Worldwide.
- Tristan Gommendy
Tristan Gommendy (born 4 January, 1979, Le Chesnay, France) is a race car driver. He won the prestigious Macau Grand Prix in 2002. In 2006 Gommendy drove briefly in the GP2 Series for the iSport International team. On March 8, 2007, it was announced that Gommendy had been signed to drive for PKV Racing in the 2007 Champ Car season as a teammate to Neel Jani. At Houston he led several laps due to an elongated pitstop strategy, before breaking down with 8 laps to go.
- Robin Miller
Robin Miller (born 1950 in Indianapolis) is an American motorsports journalist. He was an IndyCar pit crew member and drove in the USAC midget series in the 1970s. Miller has written for Autoweek, The Indianapolis Star, and Car and Driver among others and is currently a regular correspondent on open wheel racing for the Speed Channel. He was also paid to produce content for Champ Car's website, …
- 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, …
- Townsend Bell
Townsend Bell is a motor racing driver. He won the last Indy Lights championship in 2001 and was given two starts in a Champ Car in a joint effort between Patrick Racing and Dale Coyne as a test for a full-time seat in 2002. He earned Roberto Moreno's seat at Patrick that year and while much was expected, he underachieved scoring a best finish of 4th before he was dropped midseason for Oriol Servia.
- Rick Mears
Rick Ravon Mears (born December 3, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American race car driver. He is the third of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991), and the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six (1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991). Mears is also a three-time Indy Car national champion (1979, 1981 and 1982). Mears was raised in Bakersfield, California, and began his racing career in off-road racing.