Current Champ Car World Series Drivers (2007 season)

• Sébastien Bourdais
  Sébastien Bourdais
  Sébastien Olivier Bourdais is a French race car driver. He is one of the most successful drivers in the history of the Champ Car World Series, having won four successive championships from 2004 to 2007....
  
  
• Dan Clarke
  Dan Clarke
  Dan Clarke is a British auto racing driver born 4 October 1983 in Mexborough, most recently competing in the Firestone Indy Lights series with Walker Racing, having previously competed in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport and the Champ Car World Series...
  
  
• Ryan Dalziel
  Ryan Dalziel
  Ryan Dalziel , is a Scottish race car driver. 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...
  
  
• Mario Dominguez
  Mario Domínguez
  Mario Domínguez is a Mexican racing driver. He has competed in the CART and CCWS Champ Car series and later the IndyCar Series.-Early career:Domínguez first began racing in 1987 driving go-karts...
  
  
• Robert Doornbos
  Robert Doornbos
  Robert Michael Doornbos is a Dutch racing driver. He has been test and third driver for the Jordan and Red Bull Racing Formula One teams, as well as driving for Minardi and Red Bull Racing in 2005 and 2006. Doornbos then drove for Minardi Team USA in the 2007 and final season of the Champ Car...
  
  
• Alex Figge
  Alex Figge
  Alex Figge 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 driving for World Speed Motorsports.He competed in the US Formula Ford 2000 championship in...
  
  
• Tristan Gommendy
  Tristan Gommendy
  Tristan Gommendy 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....
  
  
• Matt Halliday
  Matt Halliday
  Matthew Halliday is a motor racing driver from New Zealand.-Formula Racing:His formula racing career has involved various single seater series in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the United States...
  
  
• Neel Jani
  Neel Jani
  Neel Jani is a Swiss race car driver of Indian origin. He has achieved his greatest success driving for A1 Team Switzerland in A1 Grand Prix, helping them win the 2007-2008 title and finishing runner-up in 2005-06 and 2008-09. He has been also a GP2 Series race-winner and Formula One tester...
  
  
• Bruno Junqueira
  Bruno Junqueira
  Bruno Junqueira is a Brazilian race car driver that most recently competed in the IRL IndyCar Series. He is a former Formula 3000 champion and three-time runner-up in the Champ Car World Series.-Early career:...
  
  
• Katherine Legge
  Katherine Legge
  Katherine Legge is a British auto racing driver, formerly racing in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.-Early racing and Atlantics:Prior to joining the Toyota Atlantic series, she raced in several developmental open-wheel series in Britain, including Formula Three, Formula Renault and Formula Ford....
  
  
• Simon Pagenaud
  Simon Pagenaud
  Simon Pagenaud is a French race car driver born in Poitiers. He currently races in the IZOD IndyCar Series with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.-Career:...
  
  
• Will Power
  Will Power
  William Steven Power is an Australian motorsport driver, who currently competes in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series, driving for Team Penske.-Australian Racing:...
  
  
• Graham Rahal
  Graham Rahal
  Graham Rahal is an American race car driver. He currently participates in the IZOD IndyCar Series. He is the son of 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal.-Early racing:...
  
  
• Oriol Servia
  Oriol Servia
  Oriol Servià i Imbers is a race car driver in the IndyCar Series, originally from Catalonia, Spain. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.-Early career:...
  
  
• Alex Tagliani
  Alex Tagliani
  Alexandre Tagliani is a Canadian auto racing driver from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He currently competes in the IZOD IndyCar Series, driving the #77 entry for Sam Schmidt Motorsports.-Champ Car career:...
  
  
• Justin Wilson

CCWS (Champ Car World Series) Era (2004-Present)

• A. J. Allmendinger
  A. J. Allmendinger
  Allmendinger again failed to qualify for the 2008 Daytona 500. After three failures to qualify in 2 attempts , he was replaced by veteran driver Mike Skinner on a temporary basis. Allmendinger returned to the Cup series at Talladega...
  
  
• Ronnie Bremer
  Ronnie Bremer
  Ronnie Bremer is a Danish racecar driver who has driven in the Champ Car World Series.Bremer won three consecutive Danish Formula A karting championships from 1998 to 2000, before racing in British Formula Ford and Formula 3...
  
  
• Juan Cáceres
  Juan Cáceres
  Juan Ignacio Cáceres is a Uruguayan race car driver from Punta del Este.Caceres began racing in Europe in 2001 and has competed in Italian Formula Renault, Spanish/Portuguese Formula BMW Junior Cup , and Spanish Formula Three. In 2005 he drove in Italian Formula 3000 and had a Formula One test...
  
  
• Cristiano da Matta
  Cristiano da Matta
  Cristiano Monteiro da Matta is an auto racing driver, winner of the American CART Championship in 2002, and former Formula One driver with the Toyota team.-Origins and early career:...
  
  
• Timo Glock
  Timo Glock
  Timo Glock is a German motor racing driver, currently driving in Formula One for the Virgin Racing team. At the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, standing in for Giorgio Pantano who had a contract dispute with Jordan Grand Prix, he joined a select group of drivers who have scored a World Championship...
  
  
• Mario Haberfeld
  Mario Haberfeld
  Mario Haberfeld is a Brazilian auto racing driver.After winning the British Formula Three Championship in 1998, he drove in Formula 3000 from 1999 until 2002. He posted some decent results, but struggled his first season driving for the McLaren junior team failing to score a single point while...
  
  
• Jan Heylen
  Jan Heylen
  Jan Heylen is a Belgian racing driver who most notably competed in the Champ Car World Series.-Early career and F3000:...
  
  
• Ryan Hunter-Reay
  Ryan Hunter-Reay
  Ryan Hunter-Reay is a professional American race car driver best known as the only driver to have won races in each of North America's top open wheel formulas, CART the ChampCar World Series and the IndyCar Series...
  
  
• Tonis Kasemets
  Tonis Kasemets
  Tõnis Kasemets is an Estonian race car driver.He emigrated to the United States in 1995 and began SCCA racing. He advanced through the open wheel ranks and by 2004 was in the Toyota Atlantic series. In 2005 he placed second in the series championship to Charles Zwolsman...
  
  
• Rodolfo Lavin
  Rodolfo Lavin
  Rodolfo Lavín is a Mexican racing driver from San Luis Potosí. He most notably raced in the Champ Car World Series.In Mexico, Lavín raced in Formula Azteca and Formula 3. With funding in the form of sponsorship from Corona, with whom his father is on the board, Lavin raced in Indy Lights from...
  
  
• Marcus Marshall
  Marcus Marshall
  Marcus Marshall is a former Champ Car driver from Australia. Before that he raced in British Formula Three, where he was generally a running outside the top ten, but took a hard fought win in a wet race. He contested 12 races in 2005 for Derrick Walker's renamed Team Australia Racing...
  
  
• Gastón Mazzacane
  Gastón Mazzacane
  Gastón Hugo Mazzacane is a racing driver from Argentina. He participated in 21 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on March 12, 2000. He scored no championship points....
  
  
• Michael McDowell
  Michael McDowell
  Michael McDowell is a Senior Counsel in the Bar Council of Ireland and a former politician. A grandson of Irish revolutionary Eoin MacNeill, McDowell was a founding member of the Progressive Democrats political party in the mid-1980s...
  
  
• Nicky Pastorelli
  Nicky Pastorelli
  Nicky Pastorelli is a Dutch race car driver.-Euro Formula 3000:In 2003 Pastorelli participated in Euro Formula 3000 for Scuderia Fama. He finished on the podium twice and placed 5th in the season championship....
  
  
• Nelson Philippe
  Nelson Philippe
  -Early career: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....
  
  
• Antônio Pizzonia
  Antônio Pizzonia
  Antônio Reginaldo Pizzonia Júnior is a Brazilian racing driver who has raced in Formula One and the Champ Car World Series.He is nicknamed "Jungle Boy", a reference to his native Amazonas...
  
  
• Andrew Ranger
  Andrew Ranger
  Andrew Ranger is a Canadian racing driver driving in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series in the #27 Ford Fusion for Jacombs racing and the #35 Waste Management Chevy in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East...
  
  
• Buddy Rice
  Buddy Rice
  Buddy Rice is an American racecar driver. He is best known for winning the 2004 Indianapolis 500 while driving for Rahal Letterman Racing, and the 2009 24 Hours of Daytona for Brumos Racing.-Early career:...
  
  
• Guy Smith
  Guy Smith
  Guy Smith is a motor racing driver who has competed in various levels of motorsport.Smith started racing karts in 1987, winning the British Championship, and in 1991 finished second in the Senior World Championship...
  
  
• Ricardo Sperafico
  Ricardo Sperafico
  Ricardo Sperafico is a Brazilian racing driver.-Career:He resides in a family of racers, twin brother of Rodrigo, and with two cousins, Alexandre and the late Rafael. He began his career in Europe and won the Italian Formula 3000 series in 2000, before moving to International F3000 competition...
  
  
• Paul Tracy
  Paul Tracy
  Paul Tracy is a professional automobile racer who has competed in CART, the ChampCar World Series and the IndyCar Series...
  
  
• Michael Valiante
  Michael Valiante
  Michael Valiante is a Canadian racing driver.Michael began racing in karting where his success earned him a full-season scholarship in the Skip Barber 2.0 Series. In his first season, Michael was both series champion and rookie of the year...
  
  
• Jimmy Vasser
  Jimmy Vasser
  Jimmy Vasser is a retired American racing driver and current co-owner of KV Racing Technology. Vasser won the 1996 IndyCar season championship with Chip Ganassi Racing, and scored ten victories in the series...
  
  
• Björn Wirdheim
  Björn Wirdheim
  Björn Karl Michael Wirdheim is an auto racing driver. Wirdheim is the son of Örnulf Wirdheim, a Swedish racing driver. He began racing karts, competing in his first race, at the age of 10...
  
  
• Andreas Wirth
  Andreas Wirth
  Andreas Wirth 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...
  
  
• Charles Zwolsman
  Charles Zwolsman
  Charles Zwolsman Jr. is a race car driver who formerly competed in the Champ Car World Series. He is the son of former sports car racing driver and career criminal, Charles Zwolsman, Sr., who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Zwolsman started racing go karts before competing in Formula...
  
  

CART Era (1979-2003)

• Jeff Andretti
  Jeff Andretti
  Jeff Andretti is an American race car driver. He competed in CART, and was the series' Rookie of the Year in 1991.-Racing career:...
  
  
• John Andretti
  John Andretti
  John Andretti is an American race car driver. He has won in CART, IMSA GTP, Rolex Sports Car Series and NASCAR. He was the last NASCAR driver to win a Cup race for the famous Petty Enterprises team.-Andretti family:...
  
  
• Michael Andretti
  Michael Andretti
  Michael Mario Andretti is a retired American CART and Formula One driver and owner of the Andretti Autosport team in the IndyCar Series. Andretti is the son of Mario Andretti. His son is Marco Andretti.-Early career:...
  
  
• Mario Andretti
  Mario Andretti
  Mario Gabriele Andretti is a retired Italian American world champion racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR...
  
  
• Eric Bachelart
  Eric Bachelart
  Eric Bachelart is a former race car driver and current Conquest Racing team owner.-Racing career:...
  
  
• Fabrizio Barbazza
  Fabrizio Barbazza
  Fabrizio Barbazza is an Italian former Formula One driver who raced for the AGS and Minardi teams.-Career:...
  
  
• Alex Barron
  Alex Barron (driver)
  Alex Barron in San Diego, California) is an American race car driver. He began racing CART FedEx World Series Championship cars in 1998 and made his first Indy Racing League Northern Lights Series start in 2001....
  
  
• Gary Bettenhausen
  Gary Bettenhausen
  Gary Bettenhausen is a retired American auto racing driver. He was born in Blue Island, Illinois, raised in Tinley Park, Illinois, and currently resides in Monrovia, Indiana.-Racing family:...
  
  
• Mark Blundell
  Mark Blundell
  Mark Blundell is a Formula One, sports car, and CART racing driver. He was a Formula One presenter for the British broadcaster ITV until the end of the 2008 season when the TV broadcasting rights switched to the BBC....
  
  
• Raul Boesel
  Raul Boesel
  Raul de Mesquita Boesel 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.He won the 1987 World Sportscar Championship and the 1988 24 Hours of Daytona...
  
  
• Scott Brayton
  Scott Brayton
  Scott Everets Brayton was a race car driver from Coldwater, Michigan, on the American open-wheel circuit. He competed in 14 Indianapolis 500s, beginning with the 1981 event...
  
  
• Kenny Bräck
  Kenny Bräck
  Kenny Bräck is a race car driver from Sweden. Until his retirement from racing, he competed in the CART, Indy Racing League and the IROC series. He is the winner of the 1999 Indianapolis 500 and the 1998 driving champion of the Indy Racing League. He survived one of the racing sport's biggest...
  
  
• Patrick Carpentier
  Patrick Carpentier
  Patrick Carpentier is a retired Canadian race car driver. He is best known for his career in the Champ Car World Series and the IndyCar Series. In 2009, Patrick shared the #36 of Tommy Baldwin Racing with Mike Skinner and ran Michael Waltrip's #55 Toyota Camry in the road course races in the...
  
  
• Pancho Carter
  Pancho Carter
  Duane "Pancho" Carter, Jr. is a retired American race car driver. He is most famous for his participation in CART races.-Background:...
  
  
• Hélio Castroneves
  Hélio Castroneves
  Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...
  
  
• Eddie Cheever
  Eddie Cheever
  Edward "Eddie" McKay Cheever, Jr. is an American racing driver who raced for almost thirty years in Formula One, Sports cars, CART and the Indy Racing League. Cheever participated in 143 World Championship Formula One races and started 132, more than any other American, driving for nine different...
  
  
• Kevin Cogan
  Kevin Cogan
  Kevin Cogan is a former racecar driver who drove in Formula One from to . Driving a RAM Williams in the 1980 Canadian Grand Prix, he failed to qualify, suffering the same result driving for Tyrrell at the 1981 US GP West...
  
  
• Dale Coyne
  Dale Coyne
  Dale Coyne is an IndyCar Series team owner and former Champ Car auto racing team owner and driver.-Driving career:Coyne made his CART debut in 1984 at Portland and failed to qualify...
  
  
• Wally Dallenbach Jr.
• Derek Daly
  Derek Daly
  Derek Daly is a former racing driver from the Republic of Ireland. He won the 1977 British Formula Three Championship, and competed as a professional racing driver for 17 years participating in 64 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on April 2, 1978. He scored a total of 15...
  
  
• Luis Diaz
• Scott Dixon
  Scott Dixon
  Scott Ronald Dixon, MNZM is a New Zealand motor racer who became the most successful all-time driver in the Indy Racing League championship in the United States when he won the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio in August 2009. This took his total to 21 wins...
  
  
• Fredrik Ekblom
  Fredrik Ekblom
  Fredrik Ekblom is a Swedish race car driver from Kumla.-Career:He made 13 Indy Lights starts in 1992 and 1993. He then made three starts in CART for three different teams and was entered in the 1994 and 1995 Indianapolis 500 races, but after passing rookie orientation in 1994, he never appeared...
  
  
• Teo Fabi
  Teo Fabi
  Teodorico Fabi , better known as Teo Fabi, is an Italian former racing driver.-Career:Fabi participated in 71 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on January 23, 1982. He achieved 2 podiums, and scored a total of 23 championship points...
  
  
• Juan Manuel Fangio II
  Juan Manuel Fangio II
  Juan Manuel Fangio II is a former auto racing champion and the nephew of legendary auto racer Juan Manuel Fangio....
  
  
• Adrian Fernandez
  Adrian Fernández
  José Adrián Fernández Mier is a Mexican racing driver and co-owner of the Fernandez Racing team.-Early career:...
  
  
• Gil de Ferran
  Gil de Ferran
  Gil de Ferran , is a professional racing driver and team owner. 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...
  
  
• Christian Fittipaldi
  Christian Fittipaldi
  Christian Fittipaldi is a Brazilian racing driver who has competed in various forms of motorsport including Formula One, Champ Car and NASCAR...
  
  
• Emerson Fittipaldi
  Emerson Fittipaldi
  Emerson Fittipaldi |São Paulo]], Brazil) is a Brazilian automobile racing driver who throughout a long and successful career won the Indianapolis 500 twice and championships in both Formula One and CART.-Early and personal life:...
  
  
• Stan Fox
  Stan Fox
  Stan Fox was a United States open wheel race car driver. Fox was one of the last links between the midget car racing world and the Indianapolis 500.-Midget car career:...
  
  
• Dario Franchitti
  Dario Franchitti
  George Dario Marino Franchitti is a Scottish racing driver. He formerly competed in the CART series before switching to the IndyCar Series where he was 2007 champion, and won the rain-shortened 2007 Indianapolis 500. Franchitti is also a former NASCAR driver for Chip Ganassi Racing, competing...
  
  
• Chip Ganassi
  Chip Ganassi
  Floyd "Chip" Ganassi, Jr 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 the IndyCar, NASCAR and Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series circuit...
  
  
• Memo Gidley
  Memo Gidley
  José Guillermo "Memo" Gidley is a Mexican-American racing driver, of German and Canadian ancestry, born in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico in 1973. He holds dual citizenship - American and Mexican....
  
  
• Scott Goodyear
  Scott Goodyear
  Scott Goodyear is a former race car driver from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. Goodyear ran the IRL and Champ Car series during his career from 1987, winning the Michigan 500 in 1992 and 1994...
  
  
• Robby Gordon
  Robby Gordon
  Robert W. "Robby" Gordon is an American racecar driver who currently competes in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series as an owner-driver, driving the No. 7 Speed Energy Dodge Charger for Robby Gordon Motorsports, and also competes part-time in the Nationwide Series...
  
  
• Marco Greco
  Marco Greco
  Marco Greco is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League from 1996 to 1999. His best finish in the season points was 4th in 1997. He made four starts in the Indianapolis 500 with a best finish of 14th in 1998...
  
  
• Mike Groff
  Mike Groff
  Mike Groff is a former race car driver in CART and the Indy Racing League and the 1989 Indy Lights champion. He made 54 starts in CART beginning in 1990 with a best finish of 6th, occurring at Phoenix International Raceway in 1994...
  
  
• Carlos Guerrero
  Carlos Guerrero
  Carlos Guerrero , is a former driver in the CART Championship Car series who was a multiple Formula 3 and Formula 2 champion in his native Mexico. He raced in the 1995-1996 CART seasons with 17 career starts, including the 1995 Indianapolis 500...
  
  
• Roberto Guerrero
  Roberto Guerrero
  Roberto José Guerrero Isaza is a former racing driver from Colombia. He participated in 29 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 23 January 1982...
  
  
• Maurício Gugelmin
  Mauricio Gugelmin
  Maurício Gugelmin is a former racing driver from Brazil. He took part in both Formula One and the Champ Car World Series. He participated in 80 Formula One grands prix, debuting in 1988 for the March team. He achieved one top-three finish and scored a total of ten championship points in the series...
  
  
• Janet Guthrie
  Janet Guthrie
  Janet Guthrie is a retired professional race car driver and the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500....
  
  
• Scott Harrington
  Scott Harrington
  Scott Harrington is a former driver in the Indy Racing League. Starting out on two wheels, Harrington won a number of championships and achieved much success in the world of AMA Motocross and Supercross. In 1986 Sports Car Magazine picked Harrington as one of the three most promising drivers in...
  
  
• Richie Hearn
  Richie Hearn
  Richie Hearn , is an American IndyCar racing driver.Hearn was born in Glendale, California. He ran in the Toyota Atlantic championship for two seasons, winning the title in 1995. In 1996, he began driving for John Della Penna in both the IRL and Champ Car ranks...
  
  
• Bryan Herta
  Bryan Herta
  Bryan John Herta is an American race car driver. He currently runs his own team, Bryan Herta Autosport in the Firestone Indy Lights Series...
  
  
• Stefan Johansson
  Stefan Johansson
  Stefan Nils Edwin Johansson is a former Formula One driver from who drove for among others both Ferrari and McLaren during his Grand Prix career. Since leaving Formula One he has raced in a number of categories, including CART, various kinds of Sports car racing, and Grand Prix Masters...
  
  
• Parker Johnstone
  Parker Johnstone
  Parker Johnstone III is a former race car driver and motorsports announcer from Redmond, Oregon. An accomplished musician, he was the principal trumpet of the International Youth Orchestra, touring Europe, playing with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, and famed pianist Van Cliburn...
  
  
• Davy Jones
  Davy Jones (racing driver)
  Davy Jones is an American racing driver.In 1983 he came 3rd in the British Formula Three Championship behind Ayrton Senna and Martin Brundle. He also that year tested the Brabham F1 car at Brands Hatch with Bernie Ecclestone, the then team owner, looking at Jones as the next American hope for F1...
  
  
• P. J. Jones
• Michel Jourdain Jr.
• Tony Kanaan
  Tony Kanaan
  Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...
  
  
• Jeff Krosnoff
  Jeff Krosnoff
  Jeffrey John Krosnoff was an American race car driver. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but grew up in La Cañada, California. Krosnoff attended Flintridge Prep, a private high school, and enrolled at University of California, San Diego in September 1982. After one year, he transferred to UCLA,...
  
  
• Eddie Lawson
  Eddie Lawson
  Eddie Lawson is a former four-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champion. His penchant for not crashing & consistently finishing in the points earned him the nickname "Steady Eddie".-Biography:...
  
  
• Buddy Lazier
  Buddy Lazier
  Robert Buddy Lazier is an American Indycar driver. He won the 1996 Indianapolis 500 and has finished in the Top Ten in that race six times...
  
  
• JJ Lehto
• Arie Luyendyk
  Arie Luyendyk
  Arie Luyendyk, originally Arie Luijendijk is a Dutch auto racing driver, twice winner of the Indianapolis 500....
  
  
• Jan Magnussen
  Jan Magnussen
  Jan Magnussen is a racing driver from Denmark and a GM factory driver. He has competed in several of the most prestigious events in motor sport including CART, NASCAR, the FIA Formula One World Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.- Lower series racing :Magnussen dominated the 1994 British...
  
  
• Nigel Mansell
  Nigel Mansell
  Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE is a British racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the CART Indy Car World Series...
  
  
• Darren Manning
  Darren Manning
  Darren Manning is a motor racing driver, most recently racing in the IRL IndyCar Series for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.-Early career:...
  
  
• Tarso Marques
  Tarso Marques
  Tarso Anibal Santanna Marques is a racing driver from Brazil. He participated in 24 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on March 31, 1996...
  
  
• Hiro Matsushita
  Hiro Matsushita
  , is a former driver in the Champ Car series. He is the grandson of Konosuke Matsushita, founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.. The family relationship has allowed him to receive financial backing from Panasonic throughout his racing career.-Early career:...
  
  
• Casey Mears
  Casey Mears
  Casey James Mears is the driver of the #13 GEICO Toyota for Germain Racing in the Sprint Cup Series. He is a former winner of the Coca-Cola 600....
  
  
• Rick Mears
  Rick Mears
  Rick Ravon Mears is a retired American race car driver. He is one of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times , and the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six...
  
  
• Tiago Monteiro
  Tiago Monteiro
  Tiago Vagaroso da Costa Monteiro is a Portuguese racing driver. He drove for Jordan, Midland and Spyker MF1 teams—all different iterations of the same team as it was bought by new owners during a two year stint as part of the Formula One paddock...
  
  
• Juan Pablo Montoya
  Juan Pablo Montoya
  Juan Pablo Montoya Roldán is a Colombian race car driver known internationally for participating and winning in Formula One and CART race competitions. He has enjoyed great success. Currently, he competes in NASCAR, driving the #42 Target Chevrolet Impala for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing in the Sprint...
  
  
• Greg Moore
  Greg Moore (race car driver)
  Greg Moore was a 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...
  
  
• Roberto Moreno
  Roberto Moreno
  Roberto Pupo Moreno , usually known as Roberto Moreno and also as Pupo Moreno, 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 before joining...
  
  
• Shinji Nakano
  Shinji Nakano
  Shinji Nakano is a racing driver from Japan.His father, Tsuneharu was also a racing driver who competed in the All-Japan Formula Three Championship etc.-Pre Formula One Career:-Formula One Career:...
  
  
• Danny Ongais
  Danny Ongais
  Danny Ongais is a former racecar driver from the United States.He is the only native Hawaiian to compete at the Indianapolis 500...
  
  
• Max Papis
  Max Papis
  Massimiliano "Max" Papis is a racing driver who has competed in several top-level motorsports events such as Le Mans 24 Hours, Formula One and Champ Car. He has three Champ Car victories. He is the son-in-law of Emerson Fittipaldi. His son's godfather is fellow Italian Alex Zanardi...
  
  
• Scott Pruett
  Scott Pruett
  Scott Donald Pruett is an American race car driver who has competed in NASCAR, Champ Car, IMSA, Trans-Am and Grand-Am. He and his wife Judy have three children, and are children's book authors....
  
  
• Bobby Rahal
  Bobby Rahal
  Robert "Bobby" Woodward Rahal is an American auto racing driver and team owner. As a driver, he won three championships and 24 races in the CART open-wheel series, including the 1986 Indianapolis 500...
  
  
• Willy T. Ribbs
  Willy T. Ribbs
  William "Willy" Theodore Ribbs, Jr. is a racecar driver who competed in many forms of auto racing. After retiring, he became a sport shooter in the National Sporting Clays Association....
  
  
• Andre Ribiero
• Tim Richmond
  Tim Richmond
  Tim Richmond was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR's Winston Cup Series . Richmond was one of the first drivers to change from open wheel racing to NASCAR stock cars full-time, which has since become an industry trend...
  
  
• Gonzalo Rodriguez
• Johnny Rutherford
  Johnny Rutherford
  For the Major League Baseball pitcher, see Johnny Rutherford . For other people with a similar name, see John RutherfordJohn Sherman Rutherford III , better known as Johnny Rutherford, and also known as "Lone Star JR" is a former U.S...
  
  
• Eliseo Salazar
  Eliseo Salazar
  Eliseo Salazar Valenzuela is a Chilean racing driver, and the only one of his countrymen to compete in Formula One. He participated in 37 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix scoring a total of three championship points...
  
  
• Mika Salo
  Mika Salo
  Mika Juhani Salo is a Finnish racing driver. He competed in Formula One between and . His best ranking was 10th in the world championship in 1999. He also won the GT2 class in the 2008 and 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans....
  
  
• Tom Sneva
  Tom Sneva
  Tom Sneva is a former Indy Car driver who was named to the prestigious Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2005. Sneva is best remembered for winning the 1983 Indianapolis 500. Nicknamed "The Gas Man," Sneva was an outstanding qualifier, winning the pole position for the Indianapolis 500 three...
  
  
• Danny Sullivan
  Danny Sullivan
  Daniel John "Danny" Sullivan III is a former racing driver from the United States. He is best known for winning the 1985 Indianapolis 500.-Before racing:...
  
  
• Lyn St. James
  Lyn St. James
  Lyn St. James is a retired professional IndyCar driver with 8 CART and 5 Indy Racing League starts to her name. She is just one of seven women who successfully qualified for the Indianapolis 500, and became the first woman to win the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award...
  
  
• Toranosuke Takagi
  Toranosuke Takagi
  Toranosuke Takagi, known simply as Tora Takagi is a Japanese race car driver.- Early career :...
  
  
• Paul Tracy
  Paul Tracy
  Paul Tracy is a professional automobile racer who has competed in CART, the ChampCar World Series and the IndyCar Series...
  
  
• Al Unser, Jr.
  Al Unser, Jr.
  Alfred Unser, Jr. , nicknamed "Little Al", "Al Junior" or simply "Junior" is a retired American race car driver and two-time Indianapolis 500 winner.-History:...
  
  
• Al Unser
  Al Unser
  Alfred "Al" Unser is a former American automobile racing driver, the younger brother of fellow racing drivers Jerry and Bobby Unser, and father of Al Unser, Jr....
  
  
• Bobby Unser
  Bobby Unser
  Robert William "Bobby" Unser is a retired U.S. automobile racer. He is the brother of Al Unser, Jerry Unser and Louie Unser, the father of Robby Unser, and the uncle of Al Unser, Jr. and Johnny Unser...
  
  
• Jimmy Vasser
  Jimmy Vasser
  Jimmy Vasser is a retired American racing driver and current co-owner of KV Racing Technology. Vasser won the 1996 IndyCar season championship with Chip Ganassi Racing, and scored ten victories in the series...
  
  
• Jacques Villeneuve
  Jacques Villeneuve
  Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve, , is a Canadian musician and automobile racing driver. He is the son of the late Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve, and is the namesake of his uncle...
  
  
• Desiré Wilson
  Desiré Wilson
  Desiré Randall Wilson is a former racing driver from South Africa, one of only five women to have competed in Formula One. She entered one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix in 1980 with a non-works Williams FW07 prepared by Brands Hatch Racing, but failed to qualify...
  
  
• Alex Yoong
  Alex Yoong
  Alexander Charles Yoong Loong , is a Malaysian race car driver of European and Asian parentage. His mother, Joanna Bean, is from England. His father, Hanifah Yoong Yin Fah , a Malaysian Chinese, is a former racer and manager of the Shah Alam circuit between 1988 and 1998...
  
  
• Alex Zanardi
  Alex Zanardi
  Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi is an Italian racing driver and paracyclist.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...
  
  

USAC Era (1956-1979)

• Wally Dallenbach Sr.
• Mark Donohue
  Mark Donohue
  Mark Neary Donohue, Jr. , nicknamed "Captain Nice", was an American racecar driver known for his ability to set up his own race car as well as driving it to victories. Donohue is probably best known as the driver of the 1500+ bhp “Can-Am Killer” Porsche 917-30 and as the winner of the 1972...
  
  
• A.J. Foyt
• Janet Guthrie
  Janet Guthrie
  Janet Guthrie is a retired professional race car driver and the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500....
  
  
• Parnelli Jones
  Parnelli Jones
  Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones , 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...
  
  
• Gordon Johncock
  Gordon Johncock
  Gordon Johncock is a former racing driver, best known as a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 and the 1976 USAC Marlboro Championship Trail champion. Johncock was most often simply referred to as "Gordy."...
  
  
• Joe Leonard
  Joe Leonard
  Joe Leonard , is a retired American motorcycle racer and racecar driver.Leonard won the first A.M.A. Grand National Championship Series in 1954 and won it again in 1956 and 1957. His record totals 27 wins, including the 1957 and 1958 Daytona 200...
  
  
• Roger McCluskey
  Roger McCluskey
  Roger McCluskey was an American race car driver. He was from Tucson, Arizona.He won championship titles in three divisions of USAC -Sprints, Stocks, and Champ Cars. He won the USAC Sprint Car title in 1963 and 1966, the USAC Stock car title in 1969 and 1970. The Champ Car title in 1973...
  
  
• Jim Rathmann
  Jim Rathmann
  Jim Rathmann was an American race car driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1960....
  
  
• Eddie Sachs
  Eddie Sachs
  Edward Julius Sachs, Jr, born May 28, 1927 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, died May 30, 1964 in Speedway, Indiana was a United States Auto Club driver who was known as the "Clown Prince of Auto Racing." He coined the phrase "If you can't win, be spectacular."...
  
  
• Bobby Unser
  Bobby Unser
  Robert William "Bobby" Unser is a retired U.S. automobile racer. He is the brother of Al Unser, Jerry Unser and Louie Unser, the father of Robby Unser, and the uncle of Al Unser, Jr. and Johnny Unser...
  
  
• Rodger Ward
  Rodger Ward
  Rodger M. Ward was an American racecar driver who won the 1959 and 1962 Indianapolis 500. He also was the 1959 and 1962 USAC Championship Car champion.-Early history:...
  
  

AAA Era (1902-1955)

• Billy Arnold
  Billy Arnold
  For the professional baseball player & manager, see Billy Arnold Richard William Arnold won the 1930 Indianapolis 500 after leading all but first two laps of the race, the most ever by a winner of the race. He won by a margin of 7 minutes and 17 seconds. He was 24 years old at the time...
  
  
• Eddie Bald
  Eddie Bald
  Edward Carl Bald, or Eddie Bald, was an American racing automobile driver who was retroactively awarded the 1907 National Championship in 1951 and was a champion bicycle racer in the 1890s with the nickname "The Cannon."...
  
  
• Henry Banks
  Henry Banks
  Henry Banks was an American midget car and "big car" driver.-Background:Henry Banks was born in England, but brought up in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was the son of an early European race-driver...
  
  
• Tony Bettenhausen
  Tony Bettenhausen
  Melvin E. "Tony" Bettenhausen was an American racing driver, who won the National Championship in 1951 and 1958....
  
  
• Jimmy Bryan
  Jimmy Bryan
  James Ernest Bryan was an American racecar driver. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Bryan died as a result of injuries sustained in a champ car race at Langhorne Speedway.-Career:...
  
  
• Bob Carey
  Bob Carey (American racecar driver)
  Bob Carey was an American race car driver. He was killed in a crash at Ascot Park, in an attempt to set a new lap record.-Career:...
  
  
• Gaston Chevrolet
  Gaston Chevrolet
  Gaston Chevrolet was a French-born American racecar champion driver and automobile manufacturer.-Early life:...
  
  
• Earl Cooper
  Earl Cooper
  Earl Cooper was an American racecar driver.-Racing career:...
  
  
• Bill Cummings
  Bill Cummings
  Bill Cummings knicknamed "Wild Bill", won the 1934 Indianapolis 500 and set the diesel . Cummings died driving a passenger automobile on State Road 29 in Indianapolis, when he hit a guard rail and plunged into Lick Creek...
  
  
• Ralph DePalma
  Ralph DePalma
  Ralph De Palma was an Italian-American racecar driving champion, most notably winner of the 1915 Indianapolis 500. His entry at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame estimates that he won about 2000 races...
  
  
• Peter DePaolo
• Bert Dingley
  Bert Dingley
  Bert Dingley was an American racecar driver. He was initially recognized as the first American Championship Car Racing champion in 1909...
  
  
• Sam Hanks
  Sam Hanks
  Sam Hanks was an American racecar driver who won the 1957 Indianapolis 500. He was a barnstormer, and raced midget and Champ cars.-Racing career:...
  
  
• Harry Harkness
  Harry Harkness
  Harry Stephen Harkness was an early American aviator and racing driver. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, of a wealthy family and son of Standard Oil investor Lamon V. Harkness, Harkness financed the building of many early airplanes...
  
  
• Harry Hartz
  Harry Hartz
  Harry Hartz was an American auto mechanic and race car driver.-Career:Harry Hartz was born in Pomona, California, and grew up in the Los Angeles area. At age eighteen, he began to drive in support events for the car races of the time...
  
  
• Ray Harroun
  Ray Harroun
  Ray Harroun was an American racecar driver, born in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania.-Early driving:As noted in the Columbia Car webpages, Harroun participated in the original setting of the record from Chicago to New York in 1903, and the re-taking of that record in 1904...
  
  
• George Heath
  George Heath
  George Heath was an early American racing driver. A native Long Islander who spent much of his time in France, he won the first Vanderbilt Cup race in 1904 driving a Panhard and was retroactively awarded the 1904 National Championship in 1951. Heath returned to the Vanderbilt Cup in 1905 and...
  
  
• Victor Hemery
  Victor Hémery
  Victor Hémery was a champion driver of early Grand Prix motor racing who was born in Sillé-le-Guillaume, France, Sarthe, France. In 1904 he joined Automobiles Darracq S.A. as their chief tester and helped prepare cars to compete in that year's Gordon Bennett Cup...
  
  
• Ted Horn
  Ted Horn
  Ted Horn , born Eylard Theodore Von Horn, was an American race car driver. He won the AAA National Championship in 1946, 1947 and 1948 and collected 24 wins, 12 second-place finishes and 13 third-place finishes in 71 major American open-wheel races prior to his death at the DuQuoin State...
  
  
• Rex Mays
  Rex Mays
  Rex Mays is a former AAA Championship Car race driver from Riverside, California. He made his Indianapolis 500 debut in 1934 and won the pole in 1935, 1936, and again in 1940 and finished second, he returned the next year and finished second again. Mays won the AAA National Championship in 1940...
  
  
• Louis Meyer
  Louis Meyer
  Louis Meyer was an American Hall of Fame race car driver best known as the first three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500....
  
  
• Tommy Milton
  Tommy Milton
  Tommy Milton was an American race car driver best known as the first two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. He was notable for having only one functional eye -- a disability that would have disqualified him from competing in modern motorsports.Born in St...
  
  
• Ralph Mulford
  Ralph Mulford
  Ralph Mulford was an American racecar driver active during the formative years of the auto racing....
  
  
• Jimmy Murphy
  James Anthony Murphy
  James Anthony Murphy was a race car driver who was the American Racing Champion in 1922 and 1924.-Background:...
  
  
• Bill Vukovich
  Bill Vukovich
  Bill Vukovich was a Serbian American automobile racing driver. He won the 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500 plus two more American Automobile Association National Championship races...
  
  
• Barney Oldfield
  Barney Oldfield
  Berna Eli "Barney" Oldfield was an automobile racer and pioneer. He was born on a farm on the outskirts of Wauseon, Ohio. He was the first man to drive a car at 60 miles per hour on an oval...
  
  
• Johnnie Parsons
  Johnnie Parsons
  Johnnie Parsons was an American race car driver from Los Angeles, California who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1950....
  
  
• Kelly Petillo
  Kelly Petillo
  Cavino Michele "Kelly" Petillo, was an American race car driver....
  
  
• Dario Resta
  Dario Resta
  Dario Resta , nicknamed "Dolly", was an Italian Briton race car driver. Raised in England from the age of two, he began racing there starting in 1907. He took part in the Montagu Cup the very first race of the now historic Brooklands track. He set a record of in a half-mile run a few years later...
  
  
• Floyd Roberts
  Floyd Roberts
  Floyd Roberts is a former Championship Car racing driver from Jamestown, North Dakota. He won the Indianapolis 500 in 1938 with a record speed of . He led for 92 laps. The following year, 1939, driving the same car, he was killed in a crash on the backstretch after hitting a wooden fence at near...
  
  
• George Robertson
  George Robertson
  George Robertson may refer to:*George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen , UK Defence Secretary, NATO Secretary-General*George Croom Robertson , Scottish philosopher*George R. Robertson , American actor*George S...
  
  
• Mauri Rose
  Mauri Rose
  Mauri Rose was an American racecar driver.He started from the pole position driving a Maserati in the 1941 Indianapolis 500, but spark plug problems put him out of the race after sixty laps. He then took over the Wetteroth/Offenhauser car being driven by Floyd Davis that had started in 17th place....
  
  
• Louis Schneider
  Louis Schneider
  Louis F. Schneider won the 1931 Indianapolis 500.-Indy 500 results:-External links:...
  
  
• Wilbur Shaw
  Wilbur Shaw
  Warren Wilbur Shaw was a noted American racing driver and president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1945 until his death. Shaw was the automotive test evaluator for Popular Science magazine...
  
  
• Louis Strang
• Chuck Stevenson
  Chuck Stevenson
  Charles "Chuck" Stevenson was an American racecar driver.- AAA and USAC Championship Car series :...
  
  
• Bob Sweikert
  Bob Sweikert
  Robert Charles 'Bob' Sweikert was an American racing driver, best known as the winner of the 1955 Indianapolis 500 and the 1955 National Championship, as well as the 1955 Midwest Sprint car championship - the only driver in history to sweep all three in a single season...
  
  
• Joe Tracy
  Joe Tracy
  Joe Tracy was a racing driver born in Waterford, Ireland who emigrated to the United States at age 19 and became an American citizen...
  
  
• Howard Wilcox