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Paul Tracy
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Tracy at the 2018 ABC Supply 500
Nationality Canada Canadian / United States American
Born Paul Anthony Tracy
(1968-12-17) December 17, 1968 (age 55)
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
IndyCar Series
Years active 2002, 2008–2011
Teams Team Green
Vision Racing
A. J. Foyt Enterprises
KV Racing Technology
Dragon Racing
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
Starts 20
Best finish 22nd in 2009
Previous series
1986
1988–90
1991–2003
2004–07
2006–07, 12
2013–14, 16
Can-Am Series
American Racing Series
CART
Champ Car World Series
Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
Stadium Super Trucks
Championship titles
1990
2003
American Racing Series
CART/Champ Car World Series
Awards
1990
1993
1999
2000
Bruce McLaren Trophy
Most Improved Driver
All-Star Team
All-Star Team
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
6 races run over 1 year
Best finish 76th (2006)
First race 2006 Hershey's Kissables 300 (Daytona)
Last race 2006 Ameriquest 300 (Fontana)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish 84th (2008)
First race 2008 Chevy Silverado 350K (Texas)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0

Paul Anthony Tracy (born December 17, 1968) is a Canadian-American professional auto racing driver who participated in Champ Car World Series, the IndyCar Series, and the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). He started kart racing at age five and quickly became successful and began car racing at sixteen, finishing third in the 1985 Formula Ford 1600 championship with one win and Rookie of the Year honors. Tracy became the youngest Canadian Formula Ford champion in the 1985 CASC Formula 1600 Challenge Series and was the youngest Can-Am race winner the following year. He raced in the American Racing Series for three years between 1988 and 1990, winning the series title with nine wins from fourteen races in 1990.

Tracy's CART career began in the 1991 season with Dale Coyne Racing. However, following one race, he drove three races for Penske Racing. He competed with Penske in eleven races during the 1992 season, finishing on the podium three times. In the 1993 season, Tracy finished third in the drivers' standings after winning five races. The following year, Tracy won three more races. He moved to Newman/Haas Racing for the 1995 season, winning two races before returning to Penske for the 1996 championship. Tracy won another three races in the 1997 season before being fired for criticizing the car and joined Team Green the following year. He was third in the 1999 championship with two victories but fell to fifth in 2000 season despite three more wins. Tracy's form declined over the next two seasons but won one race in 2002. He joined Forsythe Racing in the 2003 championship, winning his first (and only) series title with seven victories.

In the renamed Champ Car World Series (CCWS) in 2004 and 2005, he won two races for fourth overall in both seasons. Tracy's performance declined during a 2006 season in which he took three podium finishes. His final Champ Car victory came in the 2007 championship. Following the unification of the CCWS and the IndyCar Series, he raced part-time for the KV Racing Technology, Vision Racing, A. J. Foyt Enterprises, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing and Dragon Racing teams over the following three years. Tracy entered NASCAR-sanctioned stock car races in its Busch Series and the Camping World Truck Series, sports car racing through the Rolex Sports Car Series as well as the Stadium Super Trucks and the Superstar Racing Experience.

Nicknamed "The Thrill from West Hill for him driving aggressively and his "Bad Boy" image, he is outspoken and speaks his mind, which saw him put on probation and fined several times by CART. He analysed IndyCar races for the Canadian broadcaster Sportsnet in the 2013 season and then for NBCSN between the 2014 and 2021 seasons. Tracy is an inductee of the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame and the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame.

Early life

Tracy was born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada on December 17, 1968, and grew up in the working-class bedroom suburb east of Toronto. He is the son of Northern Ireland-born house painter Tony Tracy, who was the president of Trabur Painting, and his English wife Vivienne Tracy. Tony rode a Velocette in England and Ireland before injuring himself in an accident and emigrating to Canada with his two brothers in the 1960s. Tracy has two older half-sisters from his father's first marriage and a younger sister. He attended Jack Miner Public High School and continued attending while karting, graduating after passing all of his subjects.

Junior racing career

Tracy got his first miniature motorized mini-bike when he was four, and received his first small motorized children's go-kart from his father aged five. His father's painting company provided enough funds for his son to compete in karts and, later, cars. He drove every weekend on tracks in Central and Eastern Canada as well as the Northern United States; Tracy had to prepare and maintain his kart because his father worked long hours. He was inspired by four-time Indianapolis 500 winner A. J. Foyt, and learnt go-karting from driver Scott Goodyear, before he progressed from the junior class to the senior category when he was 12 years old. Tracy won the Canadian Senior Karting Championship twice and 91 of 94 races in his first full senior season. He entered the North American Race of Champions and finished in the top ten of the Karting World Championship twice.

Tracy stopped racing karts upon turning 15, and his father had Goodyear teach him how to drive and handle race cars, as well as car setup. Aged 16, he progressed to car racing and his father wanted him to enter several European and North American events and race series as possible. Tracy finished third in the Formula Ford 1600 Championship with one victory, winning one race, and was named Rookie of the Year. He raced in the 1985 CASC Formula 1600 Challenge Series with Colin Hines Racing in a small Van Diemen RF85-Ford formula open-wheel car. Tracy was Formula Ford's youngest Canadian champion following a season-long battle with Scott Maxwell. He retired from the CASC Formula Ford 2000 Canadian Run-Off in a Van Diemen RF86 and won the CASC Formula Ford 1600 Canadian Run-Off from pole position at Circuit Mont-Tremblant. Tracy also failed to start the FAQ Challenge Labatt 50 Formula 1600 round at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

In 1986, he moved to the higher-tier Formula 2000 and raced a Rothmans-entered Van Diemen RF86 single-seater open wheel car in the Canadian Formula 2000 Championship. Tracy was fourth overall, with one win at Sanair Super Speedway and three podium finishes for 164 points. He also raced four rounds of that year's Championnat Formule Ford 1600 du Quebec [fr], winning the third Sanair round and did three races in the British Formula 2000 Championship with two podium finishes. Tracy raced a Porsche 944 for Mark Motors in the seven-round Porsche Challenge Series, finishing 17th overall with 40 points. He finished 12th in the Rothmans Porsche Canadian Run-Off and 5th in the Formula 2000 Canadian Run-Off in the Buick Grand National 1986 at Mont-Tremblant. Tracy accepted an offer from Canadian driver Horst Kroll to drive Kroll's third Frissbee KR4-Chevrolet car at the final round of the 1986 Can-Am Series—the Budweiser 650 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park—after impressing Kroll with his abilities at Sanair. He took his first (and only) Can-Am victory from pole position and became its youngest ever winner at age 17. Tracy finished fifth in the Ford Race of Champions at Brands Hatch in England.

He returned to the United Kingdom in late 1986 to race in the BBC Winter Grandstand Series for Formula Ford 2000 cars, finishing fourth overall, and worked for Van Diemen owner Ralph Firman Sr. Tracy won the season-opening Mosport Park round of the 1987 Canadian Formula 2000 Championship in a Trabur Painting-run Reynard 87SF the following year, finishing 15th overall with 59 points. He drove a Ralt RT4 car in three rounds of the HFC Formula Atlantic Challenge, finishing 30th in points with nine scored, and had an accident in the SCCA SPI International Formula Atlantic Championship round at Memphis International Raceway. Tracy also competed in four Porsche Challenge Series rounds, finishing third in Mosport and Montreal. He completed his Canadian racing season early in August 1987 since he had nothing to gain by finishing the season.

Tracy competed in the ten-round New Zealand International Formula Pacific championship in early 1988, finishing third with David Brabham, with two wins at Timaru International Motor Raceway, four podium finishes, and one pole in a Ralt RT4-Ford for Graeme Lawrence Autosport. He switched to the Hemelgarn Racing team and progressed to the higher-tier American Racing Series (ARS)—Championship Auto Racing Teams' (CART) developmental series—for the 1988 season with sponsorship funding acquired by his father. Driving the outdated, standard March 86A-Buick V6 Wildcat car raced by all ARS participants, Tracy won the season-opening round at Phoenix Raceway but unreliability and accidents affected the rest of his season with four more top-tens. He finished tenth in the final standings with 58 points and was voted ARS Rookie of the Year.

Tracy's father formed the Maple Leaf Racing team for his son to race in the 1989 ARS season after Tracy was reportedly one of three drivers considered to drive for Footwork's Japanese Formula 3000 squad. He finished in the top ten five times in eleven races, with best finishes of second place at Phoenix and Portland International Raceway due to his retirement from most races, and finished eighth in the drivers' championship with 65 points. Tracy also finished fifth in the 1989 Corvette Challenge round at Toronto with Jumbo Racing. In November 1989, he tested a Reynard Formula 3000 car for Eddie Jordan Racing at Silverstone Circuit to evaluate him as a full-time driver for the 1990 International Formula 3000 Championship but declined team owner Eddie Jordan's offer of a race seat due to the trouble of attracting Canadian sponsors.

Tracy joined team owner Brian Stewart and his Landford Racing team for the 1990 ARS season, acquiring sponsorship but on the condition he would be withdrawn from a race if his father attended an event outside of Toronto and the final round at Laguna Seca. He and his crew spent two weeks in Arizona, testing and preparing his car for the races. Tracy dominated the season with consistency, winning nine of fourteen races and setting records for most pole positions in a season (seven) and consecutive victories (four). He also led the most laps, despite CART forcing drivers mid-season rule requiring drivers to be alongside each other during a race restart following a yellow flag caution period. Tracy finished the season with a season-record 214 points and secured the series title with three races remaining. He finished second in the Canadian Formula 2000 Championship race at Mosport Park in a Van Diemen 90RF car.

American-open wheel racing career

1991–1996

Steve Horne, Truesports manager-owner, gave Tracy a test session in a Lola-Judd car at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in September 1990 and was signed on the option of a three-month retainer testing contract for 1991 in October 1990 after lapping faster than regular driver Raul Boesel. Truesports offered him a three-year contract to partner Scott Pruett, but sponsor Budweiser refused since he was 21 and too young for them to promote him. Tracy rejected an offer to drive four races for the team. Tracy received no other CART offers, so his father rented a year-old No. 39 Lola T90/00-Chevrolet car from Dale Coyne Racing (DCR) owner Dale Coyne for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach after he could not obtain sponsorship from Canadian companies and had to refinance the family home. Making his CART debut in the second round of the 1991 season, he qualified 14th but his engine overheated due to a broken water pipe, leaving him 22nd. Tracy did not race again with DCR that year.

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Tracy driving for Penske at the 1991 Monterey Grand Prix

Following the race, Tracy impressed Penske Racing owner Roger Penske, who asked to meet him in Detroit. Tracy replaced Danny Sullivan on a five-year testing contract with no guarantees of competitive driving and had to relocate to Pennsylvania. He tested and developed racing cars for CART champions Emerson Fittipaldi and Rick Mears, and began a training program to increase muscle and lose weight on Penske's orders. Tracy completed a 500 mi (800 km) engine endurance test at Michigan International Speedway before proceeding to Mid-Ohio, where he outpaced regular driver Fittipaldi. After being pleased by Tracy's performance and preparing him for driving on a superspeedway before the Indianapolis 500, Penske put Tracy in his third car in the Michigan 500 in August. Starting eighth in the year-old No. 17 Penske PC-19-Chevrolet, he lost control as he got too close to driver Scott Brayton and crashed, breaking the fibula and tibula in his lower left leg. Tracy was allowed to enter the season's final two races at Nazareth Speedway and Laguna Seca after going on a therapy program on Fittipaldi's advice, and he finished seventh in the former. He was third in the Rookie of the Year standings.

He raced eleven times for Penske in the 1992 season and tested the team's new Chevrolet V8B engine for Fittipaldi and Mears. Tracy lost more weight in the off-season by hiring a trainer and starting a fitness program. He drove a year-old PC-19-Chevrolet vehicle before switching to the PC-20-Chevrolet car from Detroit. Tracy qualified sixth for the season's second round, the Valvoline 200 in Phoenix, and finished fourth two laps down. Tracy debuted in the Indianapolis 500 that year, starting 19th and finishing 20th due to a gearbox failure. He filled in for the injured Mears at Detroit and again for the rest of the season starting from the Molson Indy Toronto. Tracy finished a season-high second in both Detroit and Mid-Ohio and took his first CART pole at Road America. He ended the season 12th in the Drivers' Championship with 59 points.

Tracy stayed with Penske for the 1993 championship and drove full-time after Mears retired, and was trained by the latter. He expected to be sacked after Penske tested McLaren's Formula One (F1) driver Ayrton Senna at Phoenix, but continued racing for Penske. Tracy's No. 12 Penske PC-22-Chevrolet retired from five of the first six rounds due to either mechanical failure or accidents. He started second at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the season's third race, and led 81 of 105 laps for his maiden CART victory. Tracy won consecutive races, the Grand Prix of Cleveland at Burke Lakefront Airport after leading 69 laps from pole position, and the Molson Indy Toronto a week later. He started the New England 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway fourth and led 130 laps before being passed by Nigel Mansell with four laps left for the win. Tracy won his final two races of the season by leading all 50 laps of the Texaco/Havoline 200 at Road America and 81 laps of the Toyota Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca. He was third in the drivers' standings with 157 points after a late-season duel with Bobby Rahal and Boesel.

Before the 1994 season, Tracy was assigned Dave Stevenson as his manager by Penske to relieve him of most personal and sponsorship functions. He raced in the new No. 3 PC-23 chassis, a rebuild of the previous year's car powered by an improved Ilmor V8 engine. Tracy was unreliable in three of the first four races, and was involved in a multi-car crash in Phoenix after qualifying on pole there and in Long Beach. He finished in the top ten for the first time in 1994 in the Milwaukee Mile before winning the Detroit Grand Prix after colliding with teammate Al Unser Jr. on the 55th lap, which sent Unser into a tire wall. Tracy had five more top fives with podiums in Portland, Cleveland, Mid-Ohio and New Hampshire and took pole position in Elkhart Lake before an engine failure left him 18th. He ended 1994 with wins in the Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazareth, when he led 192 of 200 laps, and the Bank of America 300 at Laguna Seca, where he started from pole position three weeks later. Tracy was third overall with 152 points.

Following Penske's return to a two-car team, Tracy's father discovered a provision prohibiting him from driving one-year old cars for either the small, underfunded Bettenhausen Motorsport or Hogan Racing squads and Tracy did not want to race for underachieving teams. He signed a three-year contract with team owners Carl Haas and Paul Newman in October 1994 to replace the retired Mario Andretti at Newman/Haas Racing, but Penske could resign him for the 1996 season if Fittipaldi left after the 1995 championship. Tracy drove the underpowered No. 3 Lola T95/00-Ford. In the season's second round, the Australian Indy Car Grand Prix at Surfers Paradise, he won his first race of the season, passing teammate Michael Andretti with eight laps left. Tracy took the championship lead after finishing fourth at Phoenix, before winning the Miller Genuine Draft 200 at Milwaukee by holding off Unser in the final laps. The rest of the season yielded six top tens with three second places at Road America, Mid-Ohio and Laguna Seca. Tracy's left ankle was injured in a karting accident, requiring him to deflate the clutch pedal with a specially built carbon fibre shield over his left racing boot. Tracy was sixth in the drivers' standings with 115 points.

His relationship with co-owner Haas worsened when he informed him that he would return to Penske on a four-year contract in 1996. Tracy took over for Fittipaldi, driving the new Penske PC-25 with an updated Mercedes-Benz engine. He underwent radial keratotomy to improve his vision, meaning he no longer required glasses. During practice for the Marlboro 500 at Michigan, Tracy broke the sixth vertebra, sustained a soft tissue injury and bruised his knees in a major accident. He was replaced by Jan Magnussen for the round at Mid-Ohio. Tracy finished the season with three pole positions (Homestead-Miami, Nazareth, and Milwaukee) in 14 races marred by accidents and a noncompetitive car that forced him to push its tyres beyond their capability, six top-ten finishes, including a third-place finish at Milwaukee, and on-track rivalries with Robby Gordon and Michael Andretti. He finished 13th in the drivers' championship with 60 points, his worst finish since the 1992 season.

1997–2003

Tracy remained at Penske for the 1997 season, driving the Penske PC-26-Mercedes-Ilmor car, which was aerodynamically inefficient and lacked grip. Penske shifted his focus on letting Tracy use his testing abilities to develop the car that he did not switch to the more competitive Reynard. He started the season second at Homestead-Miami before colliding with Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Zanardi at Surfers Paradise and finishing eighth in Long Beach following collisions with Greg Moore and Paul Jasper, respectively. Tracy qualified on pole for the Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazareth and led for 186 of the 225 laps to claim his first victory in 27 races. He won the following Rio 400 to move into the lead of the points standings and the Motorola 300 at Gateway International Raceway in his third successive victory two weeks later. Tracy qualified on pole in Milwaukee, missed the race in Detroit due to a diagnosis of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, which made him dizzy and clouded his vision, and had four top-ten finishes that were followed by crashes in four of the final five rounds. He was fifth in the final points standings with 121.

Tracy's public criticism of the car's performance, the team, and his lobbying them to move to a Reynard-Honda and Firestone tires caused Penske to release him from his contract two years early before the 1998 season. After Forsythe Racing owner Gerald Forsythe committed to drivers Patrick Carpentier and Moore, he signed a one-year contract to drive the No. 26 Reynard 98I-Honda for Barry Green's two-car Team Green operation with finance from Brown & Williamson cigarette company in less than a week. In the 19 races he entered that season, Tracy was involved in several accidents and achieved seven top-tens with a best finish of fifth in three races (Motegi, Nazareth and Mid-Ohio) for 13th overall with 61 points. He and team owner Green were involved in a pit lane alteration at Houston following Tracy's rear-end collision with teammate Dario Franchitti. Tracy was suspended from the first race of the following season because of Michael Andretti crashing into the back of his car when Tracy blocked him at Surfers Paradise and ten other incidents of car contact involving Tracy that year.

He stayed with Team Green for the 1999 season, having signed a contract extension through the 2001 season as a result of the attention for his sponsor following his alteration in Houston. Tracy was assigned the retired Tony Cicale as an engineering consultant to work with and make the driver calmer by moderating his expectations of attempting to win every race, and the two had a cordial relationship. His one-race suspension saw him replaced in the No. 26 Reynard 99I-Honda car by Indy Racing League (IRL) driver Boesel for the season-opening round at Homestead–Miami. Tracy achieved one podium finish at Nazareth in the season's first six races. Following the Gateway round, in which he and Franchitti collided, Green told them that whomever was ahead in the remaining races would win, and the other driver was ordered not to attempt an overtake and risk a race-ending crash. Tracy's first victory of the season came at the Miller Lite 225 in Milwaukee, when Jimmy Vasser made a late race pit stop and Tracy saved fuel in the final five laps. He took four more podiums and won his second (and final) race of the season at the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston after leading 85 laps. Tracy finished third in the championship standings with 161 points.

He drove Team Green's Reynard 2KI-Honda car for the 2000 season. Tracy started the season third at Homestead-Miami and won the following Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach to take the lead in the points standings. He held the championship lead for the next five races until he was disqualified from the Detroit round for running over refueller Jeff Simon's foot and fracturing four of his toes during a pit stop, and then retired from the Portland race due to an accident. Tracy had two top-ten finishes and qualified on pole at Michigan amid three more retirements in the next five races. He won successive races in the Motorola 220 at Road America and the following Molson Indy Vancouver after teammate Franchitti stalled during a pit stop to return to championship contention. Tracy finished fourth in Houston and crashed twice more in Gateway and Surfers Paradise in the following four races. Going into the season-ending Marlboro 500 at California Speedway, he was one of six drivers mathematically eligible to win the championship; however, Tracy's engine failed after 23 of 200 laps, leaving him fifth in the final drivers' standings with 134 points.

Tracy stayed with Team Green for the 2001 season and drove a Reynard 01I-Honda; in August 2000, he accepted the option of signing a four-year contract extension with the team through the 2005 season after rejecting a three-year contract offer from Team Forsythe to replace Carpentier when Green was willing to match Forsythe's offer. Tracy looked forward to sharing information with new technical partner Michael Andretti, but he was separated in pit lane owing to his slow qualifying pace, which made sharing information difficult. He finished no worse than fourth in the first three races and was tied for the championship lead with Cristiano da Matta following the Nazareth event. The rest of Tracy's season saw him finish in the top ten four more times, despite an unreliable car, accidents with other drivers, and pit lane blunders that dropped him down the points standings. He finished 14th in the championship standings with 73 points, his first winless season since 1998.

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Tracy competing in the 2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500

Tracy went on a weight loss/fitness program before the 2002 season and lost 30 kg (66 lb) for improved performance. He drove the Reynard 02I-Honda for the first two rounds before Green switched to the more compact Lola B02/00 chassis for the remaining races when Reynard entered receivership. Tracy discovered that the Lola car handled better, but it may oversteer slightly while entering corners. He had two top-ten finishes in the season's first three races. He took the lead at the start of the Miller Lite 250 in Milwaukee and led 184 of the 250 laps to claim his first (and only) win of the season. Tracy earned three more podium finishes and three other top-ten finishes in the final 14 races for 11th overall and 101 points.

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Tracy finished second in the 2002 Indianapolis 500, a result he disputes.

In May, he made his IRL debut in the 2002 Indianapolis 500 driving Team Green's No. 26 Dallara IR-02-Chevorlet entry after Green wanted to enter the event. Starting from 29th, he was running in second with one-and-a-half laps to go when he overtook Penske driver Hélio Castroneves just as the yellow caution flag light came on for a two-car accident between Buddy Lazier and Laurent Redon. IRL officials' rejected an appeal from Tracy's team, and awarded the victory to Castroneves. Tracy has since maintained that he won the race.

When Team Green was renamed Andretti Green Racing and transferred to the rival IRL series for the 2003 season, he signed a two-year contract to drive for Forsythe Racing to remain in CART from the 2003 CART championship in August 2002 since he was guaranteed to race for the team in 2004. Tracy had negotiated with Newman/Haas Racing and Team Green before joining Forsythe. He took up cycling to lose weight and improve his fitness before the season began. Tracy won the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg after leading 71 of 105 laps. He led 69 of the 85 laps in the next Tecate/Telmex Grand Prix and won the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach to become the first Champ Car driver since Al Unser in 1971 to start the season with three consecutive victories. Despite qualifying on pole for the London Champ Car Trophy, three poor performances cost Tracy the championship lead at the Milwaukee Mile Centennial 250 to Bruno Junqueira. Tracy reclaimed the points lead with three straight podium finishes and pole position in Portland. He led the whole Molson Indy Toronto from pole position and a race-high 77 laps of the following Molson Indy Vancouver from another pole to become the first Canadian driver win two Canadian races in the same year. Tracy lost the championship lead to Junqueira again after crashing out in the Mario Andretti Grand Prix at Road America, which Junqueira won, but led 69 laps of the Champ Car Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio to win and reclaim the lead when Junqueira crashed. Following two top-ten finishes, he won the Gran Premio Telmex-Gigante from pole position after leading a race-high 64 laps. Tracy won his first CART championship and the Vanderbilt Cup by finishing 13th in the wet-weather Lexmark Indy 300, while Junqueira crashed with 10 laps remaining.

2004–2012

When CART went bankrupt and was renamed the Champ Car World Series (CCWS), he returned to drive Forsythe's renumbered No. 1 car for his championship defence in 2004, declaring his wish to not drive IRL cars he characterized as "crapwagons". Tracy was loyal to the CCWS, considering their cars better and found street circuits more of a challenge. He started third in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the season's first race, and won after leading 78 laps. He finished in the top ten in three of the next five races and took pole in Cleveland. Tracy traded verbal jabs with driver with driver Alex Tagliani, accusing him of impeding him for 12 laps in Portland and blaming him for causing a first-lap accident he was involved in Cleveland. His second victory of the season came at the Molson Indy Vancouver, where he led 81 of the 85 laps from pole position. The rest of the season saw a best finish of second at Denver, and four other top-tens for fourth in the drivers' standings with 254 points.

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Tracy driving in the 2005 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

He returned to Forsythe for the 2005 season to drive the No. 3 car. Tracy started on pole position at the season-opening Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and finished second. Two races later, in the Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225 at Milwaukee, he qualified fifth and led 192 of 225 laps to earn his fourth victory at the track. Tracy then won the Grand Prix of Cleveland from pole position, leading 46 of 91 laps and taking the championship lead from Sébastien Bourdais. He lost the points lead to Bourdais when his car ran out of fuel in the following Molson Indy Toronto after the two were involved in an unrelated collision at the pit lane exit. In the last seven races, he finished on the podium three times and took pole in Denver, where he led 59 laps before crashing. Tracy led a race-high 107 laps in the Hurricane Relief 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway before being hit in the rear by Bourdais, ending his race early. He placed fourth in the championship standings with 246 points.

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Sébastien Bourdais and Tracy were involved in a physical alteration after colliding on the final lap of the 2006 Grand Prix of Denver.

Tracy stayed with Forsythe for the 2006 season. His best finish of the season were three second places in each of the rounds held in Houston, Toronto and Montréal and achieved six more top-ten finishes in the 13 races he entered in 2006. At the Grand Prix of San Jose, a collision between him and Tagliani caused by Tracy in third position reversing out of the turn six run-off area and into Tagliani's path led to a physical altercation on pit road. Tracy's sixth-place finish in the Grand Prix of Denver was overshadowed by another physical altercation, this time with Bourdais following a final-lap collision. Before the season-ending Gran Premio Telmex in Mexico City, he fractured his right shoulder blade in an ATV accident in Las Vegas and was replaced by Atlantic Championship driver David Martínez. Tracy was seventh in the drivers' standings with 209 points.

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Tracy during pre-season testing for the 2007 Champ Car season

For the 2007 season, he drove the new Panoz DP01-Cosworth car with Forsythe, but the team had trouble setting it up, trying to make it drive like a Lola, and Tracy found it difficult to acquaint himself with the Panoz. Tracy approached Gerald Forsythe about extending his contract in April 2006, emboldened by rumours of an IRL-CCWS merger, and signed a five-year extension the following month because he preferred open-wheel cars after pondering full-time stock car racing. After placing third in the season-opener in Las Vegas, he crashed backwards at low speed into a concrete barrier during practice for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, suffering a compression fracture to his first lumbar vertebrae and mild internal chest bleeding. Tracy was replaced by Servia for the next two races, and his preparation was limited before resuming competition in Portland. Tracy overcame separate crashes with Graham Rahal and Junqueira in the Grand Prix of Cleveland to win by leading the final 26 laps without stopping. The rest of the season yielded four top-ten finishes, including two fifth-place finishes for 11th in the championship rankings with 171 points.

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Tracy competed in the final Champ Car race, the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

Tracy had to renegotiate his contract with Forsythe for the 2008 season or be fired. He agreed to stay with Forsythe after speaking with IRL chief Tony George about joining the IRL since he feared his CCWS seat was at risk. Following the unification of CCWS and the IRL in February 2008, Forsythe concentrated on the lower-tier Atlantic Championship following the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach due to Gerald Forsythe's animosity towards George, while Tracy sought George's help in signing with a competitive IndyCar team. Tracy and Forsythe agreed for him to race in Long Beach despite a contract dispute over a stipulation that it field a car for him or let him race for another squad, finishing 11th. Following that, he made a one-time IRL entry at the Rexall Edmonton indy driving Vision Racing's third car, the No. 22 Dallara-Honda run by Walker Racing after he was unable to run IndyCar's four road course races with the team. Tracy qualified 16th and finished fourth despite a pit-to-car radio issue. He made no more appearances with Vision Racing due to George's sponsorship problems.

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Tracy driving for KV Racing Technology at the 2009 Honda 200 at Mid-Ohio

With the Great Recession hurting IndyCar, he entered six races in the 2009 season, five of which he drove KV Racing Technology's No. 15 Dallara-Honda (the Indianapolis 500, Watkins Glen, Toronto, and Edmonton) and later No. 5 car (Mid-Ohio), after discussions with the team with assistance from industry friend Doug Barnett to get him sponsorship to race for the team. Tracy also drove A. J. Foyt Racing's No. 14 car at Milwaukee in place of the injured Vítor Meira after talking to team director Larry Foyt but left the team following the race because it provided him with sub-par equipment. He finished in the top ten in three races, including a season-best sixth place in Edmonton.

Tracy continued to race part-time in IndyCar in the 2010 season. He entered three races (the Indianapolis 500, Toronto and Edmonton) with KV Racing Technology in its No. 15 car with sponsorship funding, and another three events (Watkins Glen, Kentucky and Motegi) for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing as a substitute driver for the injured Mike Conway in its No. 24 entry. Tracy lost 35 lb (16 kg) in eight weeks by cycling and embarked on a diet for two months after seeing footage of himself recording a television program to get more physically fit for the season. He did not qualify for the Indianapolis 500 because his car was slow and race strategist Barry Green deleted the time in vain, expecting Tracy to drive faster. Tracy's best finish of the season was sixth place at Edmonton.

He signed a five-year sponsorship deal and was due to drive full-time with KV Racing Technology-Lotus in the 2011 championship, but sponsorship funding from driver Tony Kanaan shortly before the season began in St. Petersburg meant he was dropped from the team. Tracy instead accepted a five-race deal with Dragon Racing after being sought out by team owner Jay Penske when the team lost Kanaan due to sponsorship issues, and he also joined Dreyer & Reinbold for the Indianapolis 500. He finished each of the six races held outside of the top ten places. Tracy was involved in a 15-car accident that killed Dan Wheldon at the season-ending IZOD IndyCar World Championship in Las Vegas.

He started talking to some racing teams since he wanted to drive full-time in IndyCar for the 2012 season, not part-time, otherwise he would not compete. Tracy was close to signing a contract to drive a Dallara DW12 car for Michael Shank Racing (MSR) but the team could not get enough financial backing to enter the season-opening Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, preventing him from participating in his final planned season. He chose to stop racing following Wheldon's death.

Other racing ventures

Tracy tested the Benetton Formula team's B194 F1 car at the Circuito do Estoril in September 1994, at the invitation of F1 commercial rights owner Bernie Ecclestone, who sought to bring a CART driver to F1 as other F1 drivers had transferred to the highly popular CART championship. He did well in the test but declined Benetton's three-year testing contract because there was no guarantee of racing or adequate pay..

In 2005, Tracy made his Rolex Sports Car Series debut in the 24 Hours of Daytona with Kodak-Bell Motorsports. Sharing the No. 54 Doran JE4-Pontiac Daytona Prototype (DP) car with Forest Barber, Terry Borcheller, Christian Fittipaldi and Ralf Kelleners, their car started 15th and finished 49th overall after retiring with an oil leak. TThe following year, he returned to participate in the season-opening 24 Hours of Daytona for MSR in the No. 6 Riley MkXI-Lexus with Mike Borkowski, Paul Mears Jr., and Ken Wilden. They were classified 54th after overheating problems. Tracy and Borkowski finished third in the following Mexico City 400km and was sixth with Borkowski and Tommy Constantine in the Brumos Porsche 250. In 2007, Tracy shared MSR's No. 6 Riley-Lexus]with A. J. Allmendinger, Ian James and Henri Zogaib in the 24 Hours of Daytona Their car had mechanical issues and finished 16th in class and 26th overall.

He began competing in NASCAR's Busch Series in the No. 34 Chevrolet Monte Carlo for five races in the 2006 season with Frank Cicci Racing and Jim Kelly Racing that were not on the same weekend as any CCWS rounds. This was done in the hope he would compete full-time in either the Busch or Nextel Cup Series in 2007. Tracy exhibited an interest in NASCAR as early as 1999, and Barnett helped him secure finance. Funding was raised for Tracy to enter ten races but Forsythe wanted him to do five. He also drove Biagi Brothers Racing's No. 34 Dodge Charger in the Telcel-Motorola 200 at Mexico City. Tracy had his season-best finish of 24th at the season-opening Hershey's Kissables 300 at Daytona International Speedway, after starting 40th. He planned to race for Riley-D'Hondt Motorsports in six races of the 2007 Busch Series with the possibility of driving the Car of Tomorrow in the Nextel Cup Series but instead focused on his CCWS career.

Tracy drove one Craftsman Truck Series race in Germain Racing's No. 9 Toyota Tundra late in the 2008 season (the Chevy Silverado 350K at Texas). He impressed team owner Bob Germain enough at Chicagoland Speedway in Todd Bodine's truck to sign a one-race contract, and raced in Texas rather than Las Vegas as intended, due to a Texas-based sponsor's intervention. Tracy started 22nd and finished 20th.. In the 2012 Rolex Sports Car Series, Tracy drove four races for Doran Racing in its No. 77 Dallara DP01-Ford with Brian Frisselle, Burt Frisselle, Jim Lowe and Billy Johnson and two for Action Express Racing in its No. 5 Chevrolet Corvette DP alongside David Donohue. His best finish of the season was third place in the Montreal 200. Tracy partnered Jon Bennett, Colin Braun and Lowe in Doran's No. 77 Dallara-Ford car in the 2013 24 Hours of Daytona, finishing 48th overall after he collided with Simon Pagenaud in the tenth hour.

Between 2013 and 2016, he raced five rounds of the Stadium Super Trucks short course off road racing series in Toronto. Tracy finished in the top ten in four of the five races, with his best series performance of fourth in the second 2014 Toronto event. In 2016, he and co-driver Gary Moore won the B category of the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association's Indy Legends Charity Pro–Am race at Indianapolis in a 1965 Ford Mustang GT350. He drove two rounds of the Trans-Am Series at Road Atlanta and Indianapolis in Coleman Motorsports's No. 87 Chevrolet Camaro after being invited to enter an race during the 2018 season. Tracy finished seventh at Road Atlanta and 20th at Indianapolis. He contested the Bathurst 12 Hour for the first – and only – time in 2019 on the recommendation of NBC Sports commentator Leigh Diffey as a replacement for the injured Boris Said. Tracy shared the MARC Cars Australia's No. 91 MARC Ford Mustang II with Keith Kassulke, Paul Morris and Anton de Pasquale in the Invitational category and retired after 189 laps with engine failure.

He replaced Eric Curran as William Hubbell's co-driver in a Prestige Performance/Wayne Taylor Racing-entered Pro-Am category Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America round at Watkins Glen. Tracy finished 14th in the first race and 15th in the second. He returned to the Trans-Am Series in the TA2 category for the 2020 season, driving the No. 81 3-Dimensional Services Group Ford Mustang at the Circuit of the Americas round, replacing Doug Peterson. Tracy was disqualified from the race by the stewards for two illegal manoeuvres. He was invited to drive in the Mercedes-Benz category of the season-ending round of the SC Súper Copa at the Autódromo Miguel E. Abed in Pubela. Tracy was twelfth in the first race and ninth in the second.

In 2021, he began competing in the Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) short track racing series, and was involved in numerous accidents and alterations with other drivers. Tracy finished in the top ten in four out of six races with a best finish of fifth at both Eldora Speedway and Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway for seventh in the drivers' standings with 121 points. During the 2022 season, he took his first podium finish in SRX finishing third at Stafford Motor Speedway. Tracy was sixth in the final championship standings with 118 points. He was suspended from SRX competition on July 28, 2023 following a five-car accident he started in the 2023 season's third round at Pulaski County Motorsports Park. Tracy did not return to SRX for the rest of the season.

Driving style

Tracy has had an aggressive driving style from childhood, which he carried over into CART and was noted for his car control. By the 1999 season, he had learned to moderate his aggressiveness by learning when to make moves and so had fewer accidents. Sports car driver Ron Fellows observed that Tracy had learnt some of his technique in Europe and likened his karting style to Fittipaldi and Senna. He has a propensity for sliding a car into a turn with the rear-end out, which he has desired since he started kart racing. Tracy was known by fans for driving his car in places that most drivers did not consider, and he frequently crashed as a result. From 1994 until 2002, he employed a traction control device, an illegal electronic driver aid, to reduce tyre wear for greater drive-ability, but he was not allowed to reveal this knowledge for fear of repercussions from his team owner and engine manufacturer.

Personal life

Tracy has been married three times: he married nursing student and high school sweetheart Tara Cormier on February 13, 1993, Liisa Hunter in mid-April 1998, and finally Patty Faraci in April 2005. He has two children from his first marriage. Tracy is a dual Canadian-American citizen. He maintains a collection of power boats, classic cars and motorcycles.

Motorsports results

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

American Racing Series

American Racing Series results
Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Rank Points Ref
1988 Hemelgarn Racing PHX
1
MIL
15
POR
4
CLE
11
TOR
14
MEA
13
POC MDO
5
ROA
14
NAZ
6
LAG
8
MIA
14
9th 58
1989 Maple Leaf Racing PHX
2
LBH
13
MIL
14
DET
11
POR
2
MEA
4
TOR
16
POC
12
MDO
3
ROA
10
NAZ
15
LAG 8th 65
1990 Landford Racing PHX
1
LBH
1
MIL
1
DET
8
POR
1
CLE
1
MEA
1
TOR
1
DEN
15
VAN
5
MDO
1
ROA
1
NAZ
10
LAG
12
1st 214

CART/Champ Car

CART / Champ Car Series results
Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Rank Points Ref
1991 Dale Coyne Racing Lola T90/00 Cosworth DFS V8t SRF LBH
22
PHX INDY MIL DET POR CLE MDW TOR 21st 6
Penske Racing Penske PC-19 Chevrolet 265A V8t MCH
21
DEN VAN MDO ROA NAZ
7
LAG
25
1992 Penske Racing Penske PC-20 Chevrolet 265A V8t SRF PHX
4
LBH INDY
20
12th 59
Penske PC-21 Chevrolet 265B V8t DET
16
POR MIL NHA TOR
21
MCH
2
CLE
19
ROA
17
VAN
23
MDO
2
NAZ
3
LAG
16
1993 Penske Racing Penske PC-22 Chevrolet 265C V8t SRF
21
PHX
16
LBH
1
INDY
30
MIL
20
DET
9
POR
3
CLE
1
TOR
1
MCH
19
NHA
2
ROA
1
VAN
13
MDO
25
NAZ
3
LAG
1
3rd 157
1994 Penske Racing Penske PC-23 Ilmor 265D V8t SRF
16
PHX
23
LBH
20
MIL
3
DET
1
POR
3
CLE
3
TOR
5
MCH
16
MDO
2
NHA
2
VAN
20
ROA
18
NAZ
1
LAG
1
3rd 152
Mercedes-Benz 500I V8t INDY
23
1995 Newman/Haas Racing Lola T95/00 Ford XB V8t MIA
27
SRF
1
PHX
4
LBH
28
NAZ
26
INDY
24
MIL
1
DET
8
POR
18
ROA
2
TOR
8
CLE
26
MCH
23
MDO
2
NHA
23
VAN
8
LAG
2
6th 115
1996 Penske Racing Penske PC-25 Mercedes-Benz IC108C V8t MIA
23
RIO
19
SRF
22
LBH
4
NAZ
5
U.S.
7
MIL
3
DET
17
POR
27
CLE
9
TOR
5
MCH
Wth
MDO ROA
12
VAN
18
LAG
29
13th 60
1997 Penske Racing Penske PC-26 Mercedes-Benz IC108D V8t MIA
2
SRF
19
LBH
7
NAZ
1
RIO
1
GAT
1
MIL
6
DET
DNS
POR
7
CLE
7
TOR
10
MCH
4
MDO
27
ROA
28
VAN
28
LAG
26
FON
26
5th 121
1998 Team KOOL Green Reynard 98i Honda HRK V8t MIA
27
MOT
5
LBH
25
NAZ
5
RIO
25
GAT
26
MIL
7
DET
7
POR
28
CLE
19
TOR
14
MCH
9
MDO
5
ROA
6
VAN
11
LAG
8
HOU
20
SRF
23
FON
14
13th 61
1999 Team KOOL Green Reynard 99i Honda HRS V8t MIA MOT
11
LBH
21
NAZ
3
RIO
15
GAT
19
MIL
1
POR
5
CLE
4
ROA
11
TOR
2
MCH
3
DET
2
MDO
2
CHI
23
VAN
18
LAG
4
HOU
1
SRF
7
FON
18
3rd 161
2000 Team KOOL Green Reynard 2Ki Honda HR-0 V8t MIA
3
LBH
1
RIO
3
MOT
6
NAZ
10
MIL
15
DET
20
POR
18
CLE
19
TOR
3
MCH
7
CHI
19
MDO
16
ROA
1
VAN
1
LAG
11
GAT
18
HOU
4
SRF
17
FON
24
5th 134
2001 Team KOOL Green Reynard 01i Honda HR-1 V8t MTY
3
LBH
4
TXS
NH
NAZ
3
MOT
18
MIL
24
DET
14
POR
21
CLE
24
TOR
6
MCH
7
CHI
12
MDO
4
ROA
26
VAN
26
LAU
10
ROC
6
HOU
24
LAG
18
SRF
14
FON
24
14th 73
2002 Team KOOL Green Reynard 02i Honda HR-2 V8t MTY
8
LBH
7
11th 101
Lola B02/00 MOT
19
MIL
1*
LAG
17
POR
17
CHI
9
TOR
16
CLE
3
VAN
2*
MDO
18
ROA
13*
MTL
4
DEN
8
ROC
19
MIA
12
SRF
3
FON
17
MXC
16
2003 Player's Forsythe Racing Lola B02/00 Ford XFE V8t STP
1*
MTY
1*
LBH
1
BRH
17
LAU
12
MIL
12
LAG
3
POR
2*
CLE
2*
TOR
1*
VAN
1*
ROA
15
MDO
1*
MTL
6
DEN
4
MIA
16
MXC
1*
SRF
13
FON
NH
1st 226
2004 Forsythe Championship Racing Lola B02/00 Ford XFE V8t LBH
1*
MTY
7
MIL
17
POR
3
CLE
17
TOR
5
VAN
1*
ROA
12
DEN
2*
MTL
4
LAG
10
LAS
18
SRF
4*
MXC
10
4th 254
2005 Forsythe Championship Racing Lola B02/00 Ford XFE V8t LBH
2
MTY
15
MIL
1
POR
3
CLE
1
TOR
16
EDM
3
SJO
2
DEN
16
MTL
8
LSV
17
SRF
17
MXC
3
4th 246
2006 Forsythe Championship Racing Lola B02/00 Ford XFE V8t LBH
17
HOU
2
MTY
4
MIL
16
POR
7
CLE
16
TOR
2
EDM
5
SJO
15
DEN
6
MTL
2
ROA
10
SRF
4
MXC 7th 209
2007 Forsythe Championship Racing Panoz DP01 Cosworth XFE V8t LSV
3
LBH
Wth
HOU POR
10
CLE
1
MTT
15
TOR
14
EDM
5
SJO
11
ROA
12
ZOL
10
ASN
17
SRF
9
MXC
5
11th 171

IndyCar Series

IndyCar Series results
Year Team Chassis No. Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Rank Points Ref
2002 Team Green Dallara IR-02 26 Chevrolet Indy V8 HMS PHX FON NAZ INDY
2
TXS PPIR RIR KAN NSH MCH KTY GAT CHI TX2 34th 40
2008 Forsythe/Pettit Racing Panoz DP01 3 Cosworth XFE V8t HMS
STP
MOT1
DNP
LBH1
11
KAN
INDY
MIL
TXS
IOW
RIR
WGL
NSH
MDO
33rd 51
Vision Racing Dallara IR-05 22 Honda HI7R V8 EDM
4
KTY
SNM
DET
CHI
SRF2
2009 KV Racing Technology Dallara IR-05 15 STP
LBH
KAN
INDY
9
WGL
20
TOR
19
EDM
6
KTY
23rd 113
5 MDO
7
SNM
CHI
MOT
HMS
A. J. Foyt Enterprises 14 MIL
17
TXS
IOW
RIR
2010 KV Racing Technology Dallara IR-05 15 SAO
STP
ALA
LBH
KAN
INDY
DNQ
TXS
IOW
TOR
13
EDM
6
MDO
SNM
CHI
27th 91
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 24 WGL
14
KTY
12
MOT
22
HMS
2011 Dragon Racing Dallara IR-05 8 STP ALA LBH
16
SAO TXS1
12
TXS2
13
MIL IOW TOR
16
EDM
26
MDO NHM SNM BAL MOT KTY LVS3
C
29th 68
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 23 INDY
25
1 Run on same day.
2 Non-points-paying, exhibition race.
3 The Las Vegas Indy 300 was abandoned after Dan Wheldon died from injuries sustained in a 15-car crash on lap 11.

Indianapolis 500

Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team
1992 Penske PC-21 Chevrolet B 19 20 Penske Racing
1993 Penske PC-22 Chevrolet C 7 30 Penske Racing
1994 Penske PC-23 Ilmor-Mercedes 25 23 Penske Racing
1995 Lola T9500 Ford-Cosworth XB 16 24 Newman/Haas Racing
2002 Dallara Chevrolet 29 2 Team Green
2009 Dallara Honda 13 9 KV Racing Technology
2010 Dallara Honda DNQ KV Racing Technology
2011 Dallara Honda 25 25 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
Sources:

Sports car racing

Can-Am

Can-Am Series results
Year Team 1 2 3 4 Rank Points Ref
1986 Horst Kroll Racing MOS1
SUM
GAT
MOS2
1
8th 20

Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series results
Year Team Make Engine Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Rank Points Ref
2005 Kodak-Bell Motorsports Doran Pontiac DP DAY
49/23
HOM CAL LAG CMT WAT DAY BAR WAT MDO PHX WAT VIR MEX 133rd 8
2006 Michael Shank Racing Riley Lexus DP DAY
54/27
MEX
3/3
HOM LBH VIR LAG PHX LRP WAT1 DAY2
4/4
BAR WAT2 INF MIL 63rd 59
2007 Michael Shank Racing Riley Lexus DP DAY
26/16
MEX HOM VIR LAG LRP WAT1 MDO DAY2 IOWA CGV BAR WAT2 INF MIL 71st 15
2012 Doran Racing Dallara Ford DP DAY
7/7
BAR HOM NJ
21/8
BIP MDO RA WAT1
10/10
IMS
16/6
WAT2 15th 145
Action Express Racing Chevrolet Corvette CGV
3/3
LAG
9/9
LRP
2013 Doran Racing Dallara Riley DP DAY
48/17
COA BAR ATL DET MDO WAT IMS ELK KAN LAG LRP 79th 16

24 Hours of Daytona

Year Class No. Team Car Engine Co-drivers Laps Position Class Pos. Ref
2005 DP 54 United States Kodak-Bell Motorsports Doran Pontiac United States Terry Borcheller
Brazil Christian Fittipaldi
United States Forest Barber
Germany Ralf Kelleners
328 49 DNF 27 DNF
2006 DP 6 United States Michael Shank Racing Riley Lexus United States Paul Mears Jr.
United States Mike Borkowski
Canada Ken Wilden
168 54 DNF 23 DNF
2007 DP 6 United States Michael Shank Racing Riley Lexus United States A. J. Allmendinger
United States Henri Zogaib
United States Ian James
595 26 16
2012 DP 77 United States Doran Racing Dallara DP01 Ford 5.0L V8 United States Jim Lowe
United States Burt Frisselle
United States Brian Frisselle
United States Billy Johnson
748 7 7
2013 DP 77 United States Doran Racing Dallara Riley United States Jon Bennett
United States Colin Braun
United States Jim Lowe
286 48 DNF 17 DNF

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Busch Series

NASCAR Busch Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 NBGNC Pts Ref
2006 Frank Cicci Racing 34 Chevy DAY
24
CAL LVS
36
ATL BRI TEX NSH PHO TAL
35
RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY
28
CHI NHA MAR GTY IRP GLN MCH BRI CAL
42
RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 76th 372
Biagi Brothers Racing 4 Dodge MXC
37

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NCTSC Pts Ref
2008 Germain Racing 9 Toyota DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN CLT MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI GTW NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX
20
PHO HOM 84th 103

Stadium Super Trucks

(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.)

Stadium Super Trucks results
Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 SSTC Pts Ref
2013 PHO LBH LAN SDG SDG STL TOR TOR
7
CRA CRA OCF OCF OCF CPL 26th 14
2014 STP STP LBH IMS IMS DET DET DET AUS TOR
6
TOR
4
OCF OCF CSS LVV LVV 20th 33
2016 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH LBH DET DET DET TOW TOW TOW TOR
9*
TOR
12
CLT CLT OCF OCF SRF SRF SRF 33rd 24

Superstar Racing Experience

(key* – Most laps led. 1 – Heat 1 winner. 2 – Heat 2 winner.

Superstar Racing Experience results
Year No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 SRXC Pts Ref
2021 13 STA
9
KNX
12
ELD
5*
IRP
8
SLG
11
NSV
5
7th 121
2022 3 FIF
12
SBO
12
STA
3
NSV
4
I55
8
SHA
10
6th 118
2023 STA
4
STA II
11
MMS
10
BER ELD LOS 13th 0

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