Buddy Rice waits for a qualification attempt before the 2007 Indianapolis 500.
Nationality
American
Born
(1976-01-31) January 31, 1976 (age 48) Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
IndyCar Series career
Debut season
2002
Current team
Panther Racing
Car number
44
Former teams
Cheever Racing Rahal Letterman Racing Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Rubicon Racing Team
Starts
97
Wins
3
Poles
5
Best finish
3rd in 2004
Previous series
2006
1998–2000, 2002 1996–1997
Champ Car World Series Toyota Atlantic U.S. Formula Ford 2000
Championship titles
2000
2004
2009
Toyota Atlantic Champion Indianapolis 500 winner 24 Hours of Daytona winner
Awards
1997
Team USA Scholarship
Buddy Rice (born January 31, 1976) is an American former race car 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.
BuddyRice (born January 31, 1976) is an American former race car driver. He is best known for winning the 2004 Indianapolis 500 while driving for Rahal...
Speedway on May 30. BuddyRice sat on pole. The race was shortened to 180 laps (450 miles) due to rain. Top ten results 15- BuddyRice 11- Tony Kanaan 26-...
Series season and the ninth Indy 500 sanctioned by the Indy Racing League. BuddyRice won the pole position, the pit stop contest, led the most laps, and won...
Lanigan. The team won the Indianapolis 500 twice, first in 2004 with BuddyRice driving and then in 2020 with Takuma Sato. The team was established in...
Al Unser Jr. 91- Buddy Lazier 3- Hélio Castroneves 51- Eddie Cheever 21- Felipe Giaffone 8- Scott Sharp 2- Vítor Meira 52- BuddyRice 15- Dan Wheldon Gil...
27- Dario Franchitti 7- Bryan Herta 17- Vítor Meira 9- Scott Dixon 15- BuddyRice 83- Patrick Carpentier 10- Darren Manning 51- Alex Barron On April 30...
Hornish Jr. 12- Tora Takagi 15- Kenny Bräck 10- Tomas Scheckter 52- BuddyRice 91- Buddy Lazier This race was held June 28 at Richmond International Raceway...
she was expecting their first child. After his death, Dana's teammates BuddyRice and Danica Patrick did not compete in the race as a mark of respect for...
what would be his final IndyCar race, he drove in substitution for BuddyRice. Rice, the 2004 winner suffered a concussion in a practice crash on May 11...
included: Dario Franchitti, Hélio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Dan Wheldon, and BuddyRice who drove in the race A. J. Foyt, Bobby Rahal, Rick Mears, Arie Luyendyk...
consisted of four laps, and each car was allowed three attempts per day. BuddyRice was the first out to qualify, but his speed ultimately did not make the...
Ganassi and Penske entries also filling out the top ten. 2004 winner BuddyRice put the Dreyer & Reinbold team back near the top of the speed chart for...
Hamilton, a combination had been raced at Indianapolis and Texas, and BuddyRice joined Panther Racing in a second No. 44 car after doing so at Indianapolis...
Simmons after his tragic fatal crash. Rahal maintained the services of BuddyRice and Danica Patrick. After a brief retirement, Al Unser Jr., who missed...
session. Paul Dana was killed in the crash and teammates Danica Patrick and BuddyRice withdrew from the race to honor his memory. He was the third driver to...
still in progress. 1 Rahal-Letterman Racing withdrew both Patrick and BuddyRice from competition when their teammate Paul Dana was killed in a race-morning...
Andretti Green Racing 10 17 Ryan Hunter-Reay Rahal Letterman Racing 11 15 BuddyRice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 12 14 Darren Manning A. J. Foyt Enterprises 13...
J. Viso and Tomas Scheckter. After another long green flag segment, BuddyRice brought out the yellow on lap 153 with a heavy crash in turn 2. In the...
Actress. In 2019, Rice starred opposite Miley Cyrus in the season 5 finale of Black Mirror, an episode described as a "save-the-day buddy romp" and "a teen...
Patrick switched from Rahal Letterman Racing to Andretti Green Racing. BuddyRice left Rahal Letterman Racing and raced a one-off event in the Champ Car...
penultimate round at California Speedway, but secured second overall from BuddyRice at the season-ending Texas Motor Speedway race with 533 points. For the...
Herta Max Papis Kenny Bräck Casey Mears Jimmy Vasser Michel Jourdain Jr. BuddyRice Roger Yasukawa Vítor Meira Danica Patrick Paul Dana Jeff Simmons Scott...
the lead to BuddyRice. In order to conserve fuel and make it to the finish, Kanaan let Rice by, as the Andretti Green crew believed Rice would run out...
Herta Max Papis Kenny Bräck Casey Mears Jimmy Vasser Michel Jourdain Jr. BuddyRice Roger Yasukawa Vítor Meira Danica Patrick Paul Dana Jeff Simmons Scott...
Mark Martin 8- Martin Truex Jr. 4- Bobby Hamilton 17- Matt Kenseth 15- BuddyRice 16- Max Papis 20- Danny Lasoski 03- Hélio Castroneves 97- Kurt Busch 01-...
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...