Formula One, team owner (Ensign) Champ Car and Indy Racing League, team owner (Mo Nunn Racing)
Morris Nunn (27 September 1938 – 18 July 2018)[1][2] was an English motor racing team owner and engineer. He founded and ran the Ensign Formula One team in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and later worked for Chip Ganassi's highly successful Champ Car team, before founding Mo Nunn Racing for the 2000 season.
At the urging of Mercedes-Benz Nunn again started a team for the 2002 Indy Racing League season.
The team was sponsored by WorldCom and Hollywood (tobacco) and initially hired Tony Kanaan and Felipe Giaffone. Giaffone finished 3rd in the 2002 Indianapolis 500 and Kanaan was leading but crashed in the last laps. A third car driven by Jeff Simmons finished ninth.
In 2002, Nunn entered one car each in Champ Car and the rival Indy Racing League. The IRL entry for Giaffone proved more competitive than Kanaan's Champ Car entry, encouraging the team to concentrate purely on IRL a year later. With Toyota and Pioneer backing, the former F1 driver Tora Takagi joined the team. He finished 10th in 2003, while Giaffone missed races because of injuries. He was replaced by Alex Barron, who won the Michigan race. For 2004, only one car was entered, for Takagi, whose performance was not impressive after a heavy crash at Twin Ring Motegi. Other than a joint effort with Fernández Racing at the 2005 Indianapolis 500, Nunn closed the team in 2005 and retired.
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^Cooper, Adam (18 July 2018). "Obituary: Ex-Ensign F1 boss and Indycar engineer Mo Nunn 1938-2018". Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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because of rain. Practice was held the following day, and Tony Kanaan of MoNunn Racing recorded the fastest lap of 34.624 seconds. Teammate Zanardi had...
Ganassi Racing and MoNunn Racing both set up separate IRL teams in 2002, but continued to compete in CART for the time being, though MoNunn downsized his...
including a three-win streak with newcomers MoNunn Racing, an effort instigated and managed by Nunn's wife Kathryn. Despite a penalty at the last round...
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Brooklyn, Michigan. In one of the closest finishes in series history, MoNunn Racing driver Alex Barron beat Sam Hornish Jr. by about one hundredth of...
day of qualifying. Alex Barron was named to replace Arie Luyendyk in the MoNunn entry. By Thursday, 32 car/driver combinations had materialized. Among...
Racing Toyota 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing Honda 12 Tora Takagi MoNunn Racing Toyota 13 Greg Ray Access Motorsports Honda 14 A. J. Foyt IV (R)...
for three races in 2004 with James driving for veteran open wheel owner MoNunn. He was able to win in his second start in a race at California Speedway...
All Avex MoNunn Racing Reynard 01i Honda HR-1 55 Tony Kanaan All Hollywood Cigarettes 19 No Limits 2 66 Alex Zanardi 1–16 Pioneer 19 MoNunn Racing 1...
Reinbold Racing 16 29 21 Jeff Simmons R 214.783 Dallara Toyota 179 Running MoNunn Racing 17 17 20 Al Unser Jr. W 217.966 Dallara Chevrolet 179 Running...
(cousin) Indy Racing League IndyCar Series Years active 2001–2006 Teams MoNunn Racing Dreyer & Reinbold Racing A. J. Foyt Enterprises Starts 61 Wins 1...
and team manager MoNunn to sign him. He drove the No. 4 Reynard 99I-Honda car, and was advised on oval track racing by Ganassi, Nunn and teammate Jimmy...
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Green 3 4 21 Felipe Giaffone 230.326 G-Force Chevrolet 200 (−)18.2114 MoNunn Racing 4 26 44 Alex Barron R 228.580 Dallara Chevrolet 200 +1.4037 Blair...
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