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Andretti competed for 19 years in the CART championship before moving to the IndyCar Series in 2003. He retired from full-time driving following the 2003 Indianapolis 500 to concentrate on team ownership.

Brian Stewart, a native of Scotland who moved to Canada at a young age, began his motorsports career as a driver in 1965. He captured the Canadian Formula Vee title in 1969 and Formula Ford championship in 1972. He formed Brian Stewart Racing shortly thereafter and has enjoyed tremendous success in the development of driving talent.

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Dan Andersen has a long history of preparing cars that win races and helping to develop drivers for careers as professional racers. The drivers who won the last three Indy 500s - Sam Hornish Jr., Dan Wheldon and Buddy Rice - all competed in the U.S. Formula Ford 2000 series while Andersen was that series' administrator. Along with Mike Foschi, Andersen Racing's current director of business development, Andersen founded the FF2000 series in 1991 and guided it for 10 years.

Dave McMillan returns for his second season in the Indy Pro Series under his own banner in 2007, but the former champion driver is no stranger to the series. McMillan was the team manager and engineer for Keith Duesenberg Racing in 2003 and 2004, and he ran the car driven by Marco Andretti for Andretti Green Racing in 2005. As a driver, McMillan won several open-wheel championships in New Zealand in the early 1980s, and in 1982 became the first driver from overseas to win a Toyota Atlantic championship.

Cheever was born in Phoenix, but spent much of his childhood in Italy. By age 20, Cheever had competed in karts, Formula Ford, Formula 3, Formula 2 and Formula One. He competed in Formula One for 12 years, making the most starts of any American in series history, before returning to the U.S. in 1990 to race Indy cars. As a driver, Cheever earned five IndyCar Series victories. He also is a veteran of 14 Indianapolis 500 races, winning the event in 1998. Cheever holds the fastest recorded race lap at the Indianapolis 500 with a lap of 236.103 mph on Lap 78 in 1996.

Peterson founded AFS Racing in order to promote Automatic Fire Sprinklers, Inc.'s brand name and pursue the various sponsorship and driver offers received during the inaugural Indy Pro Series season in 2002. Peterson began racing in the deserts of the Southwest and Mexico in such events as the Baja 100. He moved into Indy car racing and competed in the Toyota Atlantic series for almost a decade.

In 2006, Jaime Camara drove to victory at The Milwaukee Mile to give AGR its fourth Indy Pro Series victory. Jonathan Klein recorded 10 top-five finishes and finished second in points. Andretti drove a partial schedule for AGR in 2005 and scored three victories and three pole positions as a rookie.

Dr. James R. Eifert received his BS from the University of Notre Dame and the MS and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Metallurgical Engineering. He served with the U.S. Navy Seabees as an officer in the Civil Engineer Corps. From 1972 until 2005, he was a faculty member at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. For 17 years, he was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Rose-Hulman. In 1997, he accepted a position as Visiting Vice President at Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan's largest private technological university. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1998, Eifert served the F. W. Olin Foundation as their full-time academic consultant as they designed the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering built in Needham, MA. Eifert returned to Rose-Hulman in 1999 as President of Rose-Hulman Ventures: a practice-based educational, technology development, and economic development component of Rose-Hulman eventually funded by $54.3 million in grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; Eifert was a principal author of the proposal to establish and expand Rose-Hulman Ventures. In 2005, Eifert resigned from Rose-Hulman to pursue a consulting career in the area of innovation-based economic development with special emphasis on university/community interactions. Eifert served two years as a Board member for Indiana's 21 st Century Research and Technology Fund and has been honored as a recipient of the Ralph A. Teetor Award of the Society of Automotive Engineers and a winner of the Cyberstar Award of the Indiana Information Technology Association (now TechPoint). He was also named to the Indiana Business Journal list of 50 Top Technologists in Indiana, as a Sagamore of the Wabash by Governor Kernan of Indiana, and as a Distinguished Alumnus of Chaminade-Julienne High School in Dayton, Ohio. Eifert's technical professional practice has been in the analysis of metallurgical failures where he has provided consulting for more than 50 corporations, law firms, insurance companies, etc. As an avocation, Jim has used this professional interest since 1994 as an official for the United States Auto Club and the Indy Racing League where he serves as an official providing component testing, safety monitoring, failure analysis, and accident investigation for the Indy 500 and the other races of the IRL and Infiniti Pro Series. Since 1967, Jim has been married to the former Judith Rawers of Dayton, Ohio; they have two married children: Rebecca (Mrs. Edvins Joniskan) of Indianapolis and Andrew of Derby, England.

Jeff Simmons had an idea at an early age that he would like to drive fast cars. But while most 5-year-olds were pushing around their Hot Wheels, the Hartford, Conn., native had already notched a national championship racing quarter midgets. By the time he was 15, Simmons had racked up multiple national championships in a career that included 10 consecutive regional titles and more than 150 race victories. It started him on his career up the ladder to racing's highest levels. Away from the track, Simmons, who holds a degree in computer science from Boston College, enjoys golf, music, jet skiing, scuba diving and reading in his spare time.

In 2007, Wiggins teamed up with another ex-Formula One team owner, Paul Stoddart, and the team was renamed Minardi Team USA. Driver Robert Doornbos finished third in the standings. Wiggins, a former driver, joined Lola Cars in 1998, serving as Vice-president and then president of Lola Cars International Inc. in America. Wiggins joined Bettenhausen Motorsports in mid-2000 as managing director and part-owner.

Kim Green began his racing career in 1981 in the Can-Am series and moved to the CART series in 1983. In 1994, he joined the newly formed Forsythe-Green Racing as team manager. In 1995, Forsythe-Green driver Jacques Villeneuve won the CART title and the Indianapolis 500. In 1997, Green was named general manager of Team Green, and in 2001, he was appointed president of the organization. Savoree, a CPA and longtime advisor to Barry Green, was the treasurer and a member of the board of directors of Team Green, Inc. from 1994-2002.

Mark Moore and Tom Wood formed Team Moore Racing in February 2007 to compete in the Indy Pro Series. Moore has more than 30 years of racing experience in all levels of the sport while Wood is a successful businessman who is the chairman and managing director of Xtreme Coil, an oil drilling corporation that is on the cutting edge of technology, with corporate headquarters in Calgary, Alberta. Moore and Wood competed together with Kenn Hardley Racing in 2005-06. In that time, Moore performed double-duty as the team manager and race engineer, helping KHR become one of the premier teams in the series. Wood recorded two top-five finishes in seven starts as one of the team's drivers.

Crawford has been involved with the Indy Racing League since its inception in 1995. The Mequon, Wis., native worked on Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's IndyCar Series program from 1995-97. He then performed public relations, marketing, hospitality and business manager duties for Kelley Racing (1998-99) and PDM Racing (2000-02). Crawford joined Sam Schmidt Motorsports as team manager prior to the 2003 season, helping build a championship-winning team in 2004.

Roger Penske has been racing and winning in the United States since 1958 and has scored victories in every series in which he has competed. Penske Racing has earned 18 national championships, including 11 in Indy-style racing. Penske was one of America's most successful young road racers before he retired from driving in 1965 to focus on his business interests. He fielded Corvettes in the 1966 endurance races at Daytona and Sebring before joining forces with driver Mark Donohue to race in the USRRC and Can-Am sports-car series. Penske Racing found success early with Donohue, winning two consecutive USRRC championships and three SCCA Trans-Am championships.

Ryan Hunter-Reay burst onto the racing scene in the late 1990s, winning three grand national karting championships before turning his attention to open-wheel cars where he shined in the Barber Dodge Pro Series and Toyota Atlantic Series. In 2003, he moved up to the Champ Car World Series, and became the first American rookie in 20 years to win a race when he took the checkers at Surfers Paradise. He won again the following season dominating the race at Milwaukee in 2004 with Team Herdez.

As a driver, Schmidt made 27 career starts and earned one IndyCar Series victory and pole position, both achievements in his hometown in September 1999 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway while driving for Treadway Racing. In January 2000, Schmidt became a quadriplegic due to injuries suffered in a testing crash at Orlando, Fla. Schmidt, who endures more than 35 hours of physical therapy per week, puts his master's degree in international finance from Pepperdine University to work managing the marketing efforts for his team and the strategic direction of the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation. The foundation's mission is to help individuals overcome spinal-cord injuries and other related debilitating illnesses by facilitating scientific research, medical treatment, rehabilitation and technological advances. The foundation raises funds through the power of motorsports to improve quality of life and assure the best possible outcomes by touching individual lives. Every dollar raised in the foundation name goes to support the foundation and its missions. Schmidt resides in Henderson, Nev., with his wife, Sheila, and their children, Savannah and Spencer.

Wade Cunningham gave the team its first series pole position (Watkins Glen), first race victory (California) and first championship in 2005. He returned in 2006 to win four pole positions and three races as Brian Stewart Racing won the team championship by 10 points.

Derrick Walker initially missed the train, Paul Tracy wanted to get on board and the IndyCar Series has a roundtrip ticket to Edmonton, Alberta. Those factors/metaphors led to collaboration between Vision Racing, Walker Racing and the championship driver to compete in the Rexall Edmonton Indy on July 24-26 - the first race in Canada under the IndyCar Series banner. Tracy, 39, will drive the No. 22 Subway/Vision Racing Honda-powered Dallara, which will be maintained by a Walker Racing crew at the temporary Edmonton City Centre Airport racetrack. Northlands, the promoter of the Rexall Edmonton Indy, will be an associate sponsor. Additional races are possible, according to Vision Racing co-owner Tony George.

Nicole Manske had planned on celebrating the holidays with Ryan Briscoe and his family in Australia. What she didn't plan on was becoming engaged to the Team Penske driver.