PacWest Racing was a Champ Car racing team owned by Bruce McCaw founded in 1993.[1]
The team's first full-time season was the next year, 1994, with drivers Dominic Dobson and future Indy Racing League co-champion Scott Sharp. In 1995, the team switched to former Formula One driver Maurício Gugelmin and a fading Danny Sullivan, who would be replaced late in the season by Juan Manuel Fangio II after an injury. In 1996, Mark Blundell took over Fangio's seat.
1997 became PacWest's breakout year, with the team taking four wins - three from Blundell and Gugelmin's sole CART victory at Vancouver. The team was since considered a major team, and was figured to be in contention for the championship in 1998.
The next three years, however, turned out to be a disappointment. 2001 saw Blundell, who retired after the previous season's end, replaced with 2000 Indy Lights Champion Scott Dixon, who earned PacWest's final victory at Nazareth, in which Dixon's teammate Gugelmin withdrew after the death of his son.
2002 was PacWest's final year, in which the troubled team could only obtain associate sponsorship from NTN. The team started four races with Dixon and Oriol Servia. After the third race, Dixon left the team to join Chip Ganassi Racing, and Servia started one more race before McCaw closed the organization.
The team was purchased by Kevin Kalkhoven and Craig Pollock to form PK Racing. The team operated as KV Racing Technology from 2003 until the end of the 2016 season.[1]
The PacWest team's two cars were the cars used by main characters Jimmy Bly (#18) and Joe Tanto (#17) in the 2001 action movie Driven.[2]
PacWestRacing was a Champ Car racing team owned by Bruce McCaw founded in 1993. The team's first full-time season was the next year, 1994, with drivers...
building in Portland, Oregon PacWestRacing, Bruce McCaw's Champ Car racing team in operation from 1993 to 2002 Pac-West Telecomm, a wholesale telecommunications...
returned to PacWest for a final season in 2000. However, after finishing 21st in the championship with 18 points, he left PacWestracing by mutual agreement...
(born March 9, 1950), better known as Danny Sullivan, is an American former racing driver. He earned 17 wins in the CART Indy Car World Series, including the...
Series) or the Truck Series. Motor-racing journalist Jeremy Shaw and the Team USA Scholarship made the PacWestRacing team aware of Renna's potential. He...
a car to drive for 1996 as Forsythe Racing hired Indy Lights driver Greg Moore. He was to drive for PacWestRacing in their No. 18 Motorola Reynard 96i-Ford...
2000 Indy Lights. He debuted in Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) in 2001 with the PacWestRacing team and won his first major open-wheel race in his...
Robby Unser (born January 12, 1968) is an American former Indy Racing League driver and nine-time winner of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. He...
series' Rookie of the Year. For the 2001 season, Wheldon moved to the PacWest Lights team to compete in the higher-tier Indy Lights Championship. In...
win after he successfully gambled on a fuel-saving strategy that gave PacWestRacing its last win before the team folded in 2002 as well as its first win...
best finish of 12th in 1992, over 60 starts in the CART (Championship Auto Racing Series), with a best finish of 3rd at the Michigan 500 in 1994. Dobson also...
in broadcasting and in NASCAR), Danny Sullivan returned to Indy for PacWestRacing. Michael Andretti, after one year at Ganassi, returned to his familiar...
1956 in Balcarce, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine former auto racing driver. He is the nephew of five-time Formula One champion Juan Manuel Fangio...
stake to Bruce McCaw of PacWestRacing, and for the next five years Galmer had been researching and developing McCaw's team (PacWest). Galmer attempted to...
the CART series and Pollock negotiated the purchase of the assets of PacWestRacing CART team and entered the CART championship for the 2003 series. Pollock...
Toyota Atlantic driver. In 1997 he signed to drive in CART for Dale Coyne Racing, driving the #34 Lola Ford-Cosworth. Coming off of a championship '96 season...
two different cars (Newman/Haas and PacWest), with two 4th places his best. In 1999 he also made his first Indy Racing League start at Phoenix International...
Racing and Bryan Herta from A. J. Foyt Racing. Eddie Cheever replaced Herta at A. J. Foyt Racing. PacWestRacing released both Dominic Dobson and Scott...
series in 1994 with PacWestRacing. His first Indianapolis 500 start also came in 1994. In 1996, Sharp was part of Doyle Racing’s 24 Hours of Daytona...
/ 51.53333; 13.91944 The 2001 American Memorial was a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) motor race held on September 15, 2001 at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz...
The race marked Firestone's first Indy Car victory since 1974. Patrick Racing driver Scott Pruett took his first win in American open-wheel competition...
season. Nextel was also a major sponsor of the now defunct ChampCar team PacWestRacing, which was owned by Craig McCaw's brother Bruce. Nextel Communications...
would be his 29th and final start at Indy. Fittipaldi remained at Penske Racing, which expanded to a three-car effort for 1994, including Al Unser Jr. and...
September 28, 1997, at the then brand-new California Speedway. Brazilian PacWestRacing driver Maurício Gugelmin set the pole with 240.942 mph (387.759 km)...
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