- 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, … - 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. - 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. - Jacques Villeneuve
Jacques Villeneuve - also known as Jacquo or Uncle Jacques (in French L'oncle Jacques) - is the brother of Gilles Villeneuve, and uncle to Jacques Villeneuve (former F1 world champion). He was born on November 4, 1953 in the small town of Berthierville, Quebec, Canada. He is now frequently known as "Uncle Jacques" because of the rise of his nephew. He had a varied motorsport career, taking in Formula Atlantic, CART, Can-Am, … - 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. - Jeff Wood
Jeff Wood (born January 20, 1957) is an American former race car driver born in Wichita, Kansas. He drove in the CanAm series for Carl Haas in 1981 and 1982, then made his CART debut in 1983 at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. He then drove in the Formula Atlantic West Series where he won the 1985 championship. He returned to CART in 1987 and made 4 starts for Dick Simon. He was away from the series in 1988, then returned in 1989 to make 5 starts for Gohr Racing. - Davy Jones
Davy Jones (born June 1, 1964 in Chicago) won the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans together with Manuel Reuter and Alexander Wurz on a TWR-Porsche. He also placed second to Buddy Lazier in the 1996 Indianapolis 500, the first of the Indy Racing League era. He also made 16 starts in CART from 1987 to 1996 including 4 other Indy 500's. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Danny Sullivan
Daniel John (Danny) Sullivan III (Born March 9, 1950 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a former racing driver from the United States. He is best known for winning the 1985 Indianapolis 500. Sullivan participated in 15 Formula One grands prix, all during 1983, debuting on March 13. He scored two championship points. The following year Sullivan returned to America, where he competed in the CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) open-wheel series winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1985. - Nigel Mansell
Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE (born August 8, 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire) is a British racing driver from England who won world championships in both Formula One (1992) and CART (1993). He is the only person in history to hold both titles simultaneously, and was the first person to win the CART title in his debut season. His career in Formula One spanned 15 seasons, with his final two full seasons of top-level racing being spent in the American CART series. - John Martin
John Martin (born March 30, 1939, Long Beach, California), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1970-1977 and 1979-1980 seasons, with 52 career starts, including the 1972-1976 Indianapolis 500. He finished in the top ten 17 times, with his best finish in 5th position at Ontario in both 1973 and 1975. - Mark Smith
Mark Smith (born April 10, 1967) is an American former race car driver born in McMinnville, Oregon. The son of Evergreen International Aviation founder Del Smith, Mark raced in Indy Lights from 1990 to 1992, finishing 3rd in series points his rookie year and 2nd in 1991, capturing 3 wins along the way. He then moved up to the CART series and finished 22nd in series points in 1993 for Arciero Racing and 19th in 1994 for Walker Racing. - 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. - Greg Moore
Greg Moore (April 22, 1975-October 31, 1999) was a Canadian racecar driver who competed in the Indy Lights and CART World Series, where he had great success with several wins in both series and a championship in the 1995 Indy Lights series. However, his promising career and his life came to an end on October 31, 1999, when he was fatally injured in a violent crash on the 10th lap of the CART season finale, the Marlboro 500, at California Speedway in Fontana, California. - Emerson Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi (born December 12, 1946, São Paulo, Brazil) is a highly successful open-wheel racing series driver, winning world championships in both Formula One and CART, and the Indianapolis 500 twice - John Jones
John Jones (born October 19, 1965, Thunder Bay, Ontario), is a former driver in the CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1988, 1989, 1991, and 1992 seasons with 41 career starts, including the 1989 Indianapolis 500. He finished in the top ten 11 times, including 4 in 7th position in 1988, when he finished the season in 11th position and was named Rookie of the Year. John's brother Hunter Jones was also an active driver in the CART Indy Lights championship. - 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. - Parnelli Jones
Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones (born August 12, 1933 in Texarkana, Arkansas), is a retired American racing driver and racecar owner. He is most remembered for his 1963 Indianapolis 500 win, and almost winning the 1967 Indy 500 in a turbine car. He is also remembered for bringing the stock block engine to USAC Sprint car racing as one of the "Chevy Twins" with Jim Hurtubise. In his career, Parnelli Jones won races in many types of vehicles: sports cars, IndyCars, … - 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. - Scott Sharp
Scott Sharp (born February 14, 1968 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American race car driver in the Indy Racing League. He is the son of SCCA multiple champion Bob Sharp. Early in his career he was 1991 Trans-Am champion, also taking 7 poles the next season. Sharp then competed in one NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now Nextel Cup) event, coming in 1992 at Watkins Glen. Starting 22nd in the thirty-nine car field, Sharp completed all 51 laps in route to a solid 19th place effort. - Eddie Cheever
Edward "Eddie" McKay Cheever, Jr. (born January 10, 1958) is an American racing driver who raced for almost thirty years in Formula One, Sports cars, CART and the Indy Racing League, and now owns an IRL team. Cheever participated in 143 World Championship Formula One races and started 132, more than any other American, driving for nine different teams from 1978 through 1989. - Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson is a semi-retired F1 designer. In F1 he started at Brabham as a mechanic. In 1975 he also raced (as a driver) in Formule Libre in a car designed by himself and Bob Simpson (the Anson SA1). Later he designed cars for Jordan (1991-1998), Stewart/Jaguar (1998-2000), and Jordan again (2002 and 2003). He also worked in the USA, at Reynard in 2001 in CART. He now works as a consultant to Dallara, … - Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio was a race car driver from Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing. He won five World Championship titles — a record which stood for 46 years — with four different teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati), a feat that has not been repeated since. For these achievements, and because of the time they were accomplished, he is considered by many as the "greatest driver of all time". - Buddy Lazier
Robert Buddy Lazier is an American open-wheel racecar driver born in Vail, Colorado on 31 October, 1967. He won the 1996 Indianapolis 500 and has finished in the Top Ten in that race six times. Both his father Bob Lazier and brother Jaques Lazier are veterans of the Indy 500 as well. Lazier first appeared in CART beginning in 1989 driving for Gary Trout Motorsports and also participated in The Indy 500 as a rookie. - Alex Barron
Alex Barron (born June 11, 1970) in Menifee, California) is a race car driver. He began racing in CART in 1998 and made his first Indy Racing League start in 2001. In December of 2006, Barron married a local native of Cincinnati, OH, Kate Kerns, an Indiana University swimmer and co-chair of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament. They currently reside in San Vejo, California. Barron succeeded in the American Toyota Atlantic series, … - Mark Blundell
Mark Blundell (born Barnet, Hertfordshire, April 8, 1966) is a former Formula One, sports car, and CART racing driver. He is currently a Formula One commentator for the British broadcaster ITV. Blundell is married and father of two children. - Greg Ray
Greg Ray (born August 3, 1966 Dallas, Texas) is a former IRL IndyCar Series driver. After winning the SCCA national Formula Atlantic championship in 1993, he moved up to the CART-sanctioned Toyota Atlantic series in 1994. In 1997 he made his Indy Racing League debut driving for Thomas Knapp in an unsponsored black #97 car. He made his mark on the series a year later during qualifying for the Indianapolis 500. - Jim Hickman
Jim Hickman (May 9, 1943 - August 1, 1982), was an American racecar driver. Born in Panama, Oklahoma, Hickman died in a qualifying accident at the second Milwaukee Mile race of the 1982 season. Published reports indicated that CART observers and technical personnel determined that a stuck throttle was the cause of the accident. Driving a 1982 March-Cosworth for Hoffman racing and sponsored by Stroh's Beer, … - Stefan Johansson
Stefan Nils Edwin Johansson (born September 8, 1956) is a former Formula One driver from Sweden. Since leaving Formula One he has raced in a number of categories, including CART, various kinds of Sports car racing, and Grand Prix Masters. - Gonzalo Rodriguez
Gonzalo Rodríguez was a racing driver. He showed promise in Formula 3000 for three seasons, taking his first win in 1998 at Spa-Francorchamps and winning the following season at the Monaco Grand Prix. Following a rotation of drivers as team mates to Al Unser Jr. in CART Roger Penske's second car, he was given his opportunity at the Detroit street circuit in 1999 and scored a point his first race. - Nicolas Minassian
Nicolas Minassian (born February 28, 1973 in Marseille) is a race driver. After finishing second in the 2000 Formula 3000 season, he drove in 2001 for Target Chip Ganassi Racing in CART and the Indianapolis 500 before being released by the team. In 2002 Minassian won the ASCAR oval racing series for RML (Ray Mallock Ltd) before returning to endurance racing including the 24 Hours of Le Mans for such teams as Creation Autosportif and Pescarolo Sport. - Raul Boesel
Raul de Mesquita Boesel (born December 4 1957 in Curitiba, Brazil) is a former racing driver who raced for the March and Ligier Formula One teams and later raced in Champ Car and the Indy Racing League. Although an outstanding participant in equestrian show jumping, he studied engineering, gave up his degree and went on to motor racing. He moved to Britain in 1980 to race in Formula Ford 1600 and in 1981 entered Formula 3 and finished third in the championship. - David Grace
David Grace (born 1949 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England) is a British racing driver and businessman. He was the CEO at Rockingham Motor Speedway between 2000 and 2002, and oversaw the opening of the track and the return, after many years, of CART racing to Britain. As a driver his greatest successes came in hillclimbing, where he was five times British Hillclimb Champion (1993-94-98-99-2000), … - Gordon Johncock
Gordon Johncock (born 5 August 1937, Coldwater, Michigan) is a former racing driver, best known as a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 and 1976 USAC Marlboro Championship Trail champion. Johncock's first USAC Champ car victory was scored at Milwaukee, Wisconsin in August 1965. He won six further races before winning the Indy 500 in 1973. The 1973 Indianapolis 500 win was a bitter-sweet victory. At the time, Johncock was racing for the STP/Pat Patrick team. - Mike Mosley
Mike Mosley (December 13, 1946 - March 3, 1984), was an American racecar driver. Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Mosley died in a highway accident near Riverside, California. He was a driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series. He raced in 17 consecutive seasons from 1967 through 1983, with 166 combined career starts, including every Indianapolis 500 in that span except 1967 and 1982. He finished in the top ten 80 times and had 5 victories, … - Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles (born September 28, 1970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing League in 1999. He now drives stock cars in his native Brazil. - Craig Pollock
Craig Pollock (born February 20, 1956 in Falkirk, Scotland), is a businessman and manager of the Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve. Pollock worked as a teacher in the late 1970s eventually becoming director of sport at the College Beausoleil in Villars, Switzerland. Here he met a young Jacques Villeneuve who had been sent to the school following the death of his Formula One driver father Gilles.
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