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Buddy Lazier
Lazier at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May 2008 for the 2008 Indianapolis 500.
Nationality
American
Born
(1967-10-31) October 31, 1967 (age 56) Vail, Colorado, U.S.
Champ Car career
54 races run over 7 years
Years active
1989–1995
Team(s)
Lazier Racing (1989) Gary Trout Motorsports (1989) Hemelgarn Racing (1990–91, 1994) Arciero Racing (1990) Dale Coyne Racing (1991) Todd Walther Racing (1991) Hemelgarn Coyne Racing (1991) Walker Racing (1991) Leader Card Racing (1992–94) Dick Simon Racing (1994) Project Indy (1995) Payton/Coyne Racing (1995) Team Menard (1995)
Best finish
19th – 1992
First race
1990 Budweiser/G.I.Joe's 200 (Portland)
Last race
1995 New England 200 (New Hampshire)
IndyCar Series career
Debut season
1996
Current team
Lazier Partners Racing
Car number
44
Former teams
Hemelgarn Racing (1996–2004) Dreyer & Reinbold Racing (2004, 2006) Panther Racing (2005) Sam Schmidt Motorsports (2007) Hemelgarn-Johnson Racing (2008–09)
Starts
104
Championships
1 (2000)
Wins
8
Podiums
18
Poles
2
Fastest laps
6
Previous series
1986–87
1986–89 1989, 1993 1989–95 2001
2001–02 2007
Canadian-American Challenge Cup American Indycar Series IMSA GT Championship USAC Gold Crown Series Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series International Race of Champions NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Championship titles
1988
1996 2000
American Indycar Series Champion Indianapolis 500 Winner Indy Racing League Champion
Awards
2003
Scott Brayton Trophy
NASCAR driver
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
1 race run over 1 year
2007 position
91st
Best finish
91st (2007)
First race
2007 Smith's Las Vegas 350 (Las Vegas)
Last race
2007 Smith's Las Vegas 350 (Las Vegas)
Wins
Top tens
Poles
0
0
0
Robert Buddy Lazier (born October 31, 1967) is an American auto racing driver, best known for winning the 1996 Indianapolis 500 and the 2000 Indy Racing League season championship.
Lazier began his career in the 1980s by competing in such series as the IMSA GT Championship, the SCCA Canadian-American Challenge Cup and the American Indycar Series. Lazier won the American Indycar Series championship in 1988. Lazier started his IndyCar career in 1989 by competing in the Indy Car World Series. During the season, Lazier failed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. Lazier eventually qualified for the Indianapolis 500 in 1991. During his Champ Car career, Lazier often drove for teams that used older chassis and engines; his best finish in the Champ Car standings was a 19th-place finish in 1992.
Lazier began to compete in the newly formed Indy Racing League in 1996. Lazier won the Indianapolis 500 that season, and he became one of the most dominant drivers in the series for a period of time, winning eight races overall and the series championship in 2000. Lazier began to drive only at the Indianapolis 500 in 2007 and continued to enter the Indianapolis 500 through 2009. He did not return to the series until 2013 at the Indianapolis 500 when he competed for Lazier Partners Racing, a team started by his father Bob Lazier and various investors. Lazier and the team repeated their efforts in 2014, 2015, 2016 and, for the final time, in 2017.
Robert BuddyLazier (born October 31, 1967) is an American auto racing driver, best known for winning the 1996 Indianapolis 500 and the 2000 Indy Racing...
lasted 18 laps, with BuddyLazier in the lead as racing resumed. Top ten results 91- BuddyLazier 98- Billy Boat 99- Jaques Lazier 10- Robby McGehee 8-...
CART series and the Indy Racing League. CART and IRL drivers BuddyLazier, Jaques Lazier, Robby Unser, and Johnny Unser found success in the AIS. The...
4- Sam Hornish Jr. 11- Eliseo Salazar 7- Al Unser Jr. 2- Jaques Lazier 91- BuddyLazier 98- Billy Boat 55- Rick Treadway 20- Hideki Noda This race was...
to find consistency. BuddyLazier first joined the team in 1990 and competed in his first six CART races with the team. Lazier was bumped from the field...
driver and former AIS champion BuddyLazier won the race, his first career victory in top-level Indy car competition. Lazier's victory came just over two...
Lazier Partners Racing was an American racing team in the IndyCar Series. The team was owned by former driver Bob Lazier, father of BuddyLazier and Jaques...
Lazier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bob Lazier (1938–2020), American racecar driver BuddyLazier (born 1967), American racecar...
Indianapolis 500 champion Buddy Lazier and son of former Indy racer Bob Lazier. The younger Lazier ran in U.S. Formula Ford competition from 1989 to 1997 and also...
Indianapolis win. Cheever finished three seconds ahead of second place BuddyLazier, the 1996 winner. Cheever became the first owner/driver to win the "500"...
Earnhardt Mark Dismore Tony Stewart Jeff Burton BuddyLazier Jeff Green Bobby Labonte Kenny Bräck BuddyLazier Ricky Rudd Eddie Cheever Jeff Burton Mark Dismore...
1966. It was the first of two Indy victories for Montoya (2000, 2015). BuddyLazier, the 1996 winner, and eventual season champion, finished second, his...
Series. Many of the IRL's old guard including Robbie Buhl, Greg Ray, and BuddyLazier had difficulty competing in this new manufacturer-driven landscape. The...
caution, leaving Ward and Lazier in front. On the Lap 143 restart, Stewart struck back by passing Luyendyk and Lazier on one lap. Lazier kept dropping back,...
season. It won in Phoenix, the second race of the season (driven by BuddyLazier), but was off the pace at Indy and was quickly dropped by its teams....
qualified on the pole position. Top ten results 51- Eddie Cheever 91- BuddyLazier 55- Steve Knapp 6- Davey Hamilton 52- Robby Unser 14- Kenny Bräck 81-...
in race 2 at California. In the first ever IROC race at Chicagoland, BuddyLazier, Al Unser Jr., and Hélio Castroneves gave the IRL a sweep of the top...
to BuddyLazier after leading a race-high 65 laps. Following the race, Goodyear was ranked in 2nd place in points and was 38 points behind Lazier (a win...
BuddyLazier joined DRR to drive the #24 car (which later became #91 in a joint entry with Hemelgarn). On his first day of track activity, Lazier led...
Montoya, BuddyLazier, Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan, Ryan Hunter-Reay, and Alexander Rossi. Former IndyCar Series champions that entered include Lazier, Dixon...
for Dale Coyne Racing. BuddyLazier drove for Lazier Partners Racing. The 2016 running marked the 20th anniversary of Lazier's Indy 500 victory. Spencer...
Manning 11- Tony Kanaan 3- Hélio Castroneves 17- Vítor Meira 20- Jaques Lazier 7- Bryan Herta 51- Alex Barron This race was held at Nazareth Speedway on...
by Lazier. As time was running out, Jaques Lazier took to the track to try to bump himself into the top 22, and effectively bump his brother Buddy out...
crash where a tire went into the grandstand, killing three spectators. BuddyLazier was leading at the time of the Lap 61 caution, while Greg Ray was leading...
minutes into the session, BuddyLazier wrecked coming out of Turn 4, sliding along the outside wall down the front stretch. Lazier was not seriously injured...
reunited with Sage Karam for the Indianapolis 500. Lazier Partners Racing confirmed the return of BuddyLazier to the Indianapolis 500. On February 18, Bryan...
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