name | Merle Oberon |
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birth name | Estelle Merle Thompson |
birth date | February 18, 1911 |
birth place | Bombay (now Mumbai), British India |
death date | November 23, 1979 |
death place | Malibu, California, U.S. |
occupation | Actress |
years active | 1928–1973 |
spouse | Alexander Korda (m. 1939–1945) (divorced)Lucien Ballard (m. 1945–1949) (divorced)Bruno Pagliai (m. 1957–1973) (divorced) 2 adopted childrenRobert Wolders (m. 1975–1979) (her death) }} |
She began her film career in British films, and a prominent role, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), brought her attention. Leading roles in such films as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) advanced her career, and she travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel Goldwyn. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel (1935). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that could have ended her career, but she soon followed this with her most renowned role, as "Cathy" in Wuthering Heights (1939). Her career continued until the end of the 1940s when it declined and her acting performances over the following years were relatively few.
She obscured her parentage over the years. Some sources claim Merle's parents as Charlotte Selby, a Eurasian from Ceylon with partial Māori heritage, and Arthur Terrence O'Brien Thompson, a British mechanical engineer from Darlington, who worked in Indian Railways. Aged 14, Charlotte had given birth to her first child Constance, in Ceylon, from a relationship with Henry Alfred Selby, an Irish foreman of a tea planter. Some sources claim that Constance was Merle's biological mother, although Charlotte raised Merle as her own child. Charlotte's partner, Arthur Thompson, was listed as her father in Merle's birth certificate, with the forename misspelled as "Arther". Merle reportedly knew Constance as her "sister". Constance had four other children, Edna, Douglas, Harry and Stanislaus (Stan) with her husband Alexander Soares. Edna and Douglas moved at an early age to the UK and Harry later in life moved to Toronto, Canada and retained Constance's maiden name, Selby. Stanislaus was the only child to keep his father's last name of Soares and he currently resides in Surrey, BC Canada. All the siblings reportedly believed that Merle was their Aunt (mum Constance's sister).
When Harry Selby tracked down her birth certificate in Indian government records in Bombay (Mumbai), he was surprised to discover he was in fact her brother. He attempted to visit her in Los Angeles, but she refused to see him. He withheld this information from Oberon's biographer Charles Higham, only revealing it to Maree Delofski, the maker of The Trouble with Merle, a 2002 documentary produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which investigated the conflicting versions of her origin.
In 1914, Arthur Thompson joined the British Army and later died of pneumonia on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme. Merle, with her "mother" (really her grandmother), led an impoverished existence in shabby Bombay flats for a few years. Then, in 1917, they moved to better circumstances in Calcutta. Oberon received a foundation scholarship to attend La Martiniere Calcutta for Girls, a well-known Calcutta private school. There, she was constantly taunted for her unconventional parentage and eventually quit school and had her lessons at home.
Oberon first performed with the Calcutta Amateur Dramatic Society. She was also completely enamored of the films and enjoyed going out to nightclubs. Indian journalist Sunanda K. Datta-Ray claimed that Merle worked as a telephone operator in Calcutta under the name Queenie Thomson, and won a contest at Firpo's Restaurant there, before her film career started.
In 1929, she met a former actor named Colonel Ben Finney at Firpo's, and dated him. However, when he saw Oberon's dark-skinned mother one night at her flat and realised Oberon was mixed-race, he decided to end the relationship. But he promised to introduce her to Rex Ingram of Victorine Studios, if she could come to France. Oberon jumped at the offer and decided to follow the man to the studios in France. After packing all their belongings and moving to France, Oberon and her mother found that their supposed benefactor had dodged them. He had left a good word for Oberon with Ingram at the studios in Nice. Ingram liked Oberon's exotic appearance and quickly hired her to be an extra in a party scene in a film named The Three Passions.
Her film career received a major boost when the director Alexander Korda took an interest and gave her a small but prominent role, under the name Merle Oberon, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) opposite Charles Laughton. The film became a major success and she was then given leading roles, such as Lady Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) with Leslie Howard, who became her lover for a while.
Oberon's career went on to greater heights, partly as a result of her relationship with and later marriage to Alexander Korda, who had persuaded her to take the name under which she became famous. He sold "shares" of her contract to producer Samuel Goldwyn, who gave her good vehicles in Hollywood. Her "mother" stayed behind in England. Oberon earned her sole Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for The Dark Angel (1935) produced by Goldwyn. Around this time she had a serious romance with David Niven, and according to his authorized biography, even wanted to marry him, but he wasn't faithful to her.
She was selected to star in Korda's film I, Claudius (1937) as Messalina, but a serious car accident resulted in filming being abandoned. Oberon was scarred for life, but skilled lighting technicians were able to hide her injuries from cinema audiences. She went on to appear as Cathy in her most famous film, Wuthering Heights (opposite Laurence Olivier; 1939), as George Sand in A Song to Remember (1945) and as the Empress Josephine in Désirée (1954).
According to Princess Merle, the biography written by Charles Higham with Roy Moseley, Oberon suffered even further damage to her complexion in 1940 from a combination of cosmetic poisoning and an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs. Alexander Korda sent her to a skin specialist in New York City, where she underwent several dermabrasion procedures. The results, however, were only partially successful; without makeup, one could see noticeable pitting and indentation of her skin.
Charlotte died in 1937. In 1949 Oberon commissioned paintings of her mother from an old photograph. The paintings hung in all her homes until Oberon's own death in 1979.
Merle Oberon became Lady Korda upon her husband's knighthood in 1942. She divorced him in 1945, to marry cinematographer Lucien Ballard. Ballard devised a special camera light for her to eliminate her facial scars on film. The light became known as the "Obie".
She married twice more, to Italian-born industrialist, Bruno Pagliai (with whom she adopted two children; they lived in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) and Dutch actor Robert Wolders – later companion to actresses Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron – before her retirement in Malibu, California, where she died, aged 68, after suffering a stroke. She was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Merle Oberon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard) for her contributions to Motion Pictures.
Michael Korda, nephew of Alexander Korda, wrote a roman à clef about Oberon after her death entitled Queenie. This was also turned into a television miniseries starring Mia Sara.
Oberon is known to have been to Australia only twice. Her first visit was in 1965, on a film promotion. Although a visit to Hobart was scheduled, she became ill after journalists in Sydney pressed her for details of her early life, and she left for Mexico shortly afterwards. In 1978, the year before her death, she agreed to visit Hobart for a Lord Mayoral reception. The Lord Mayor of Hobart became aware shortly before the reception that there was no proof she had been born in Tasmania, but went ahead with the reception to save face. However, shortly after arriving at the reception, Oberon denied she had been born in Tasmania, to the disappointment of many. She then excused herself, claiming illness; whether ill or not, this meant she was unavailable to answer any more questions about her background. On the way to the reception, she had told her driver that as a child she was on a ship with her father, who became ill when it was passing Hobart. They were taken ashore so he could be treated, and as a result she spent some of her early years on the island. This story, too, seems to have been a fabrication. During her Hobart stay, she remained in her hotel, gave no other interviews, and did not visit the theatre named in her honour.
Yet there are still many people in Tasmania who claim to have known Oberon as a child. They insist she was the illegitimate daughter of a woman named Lottie Chintock from St. Helens.
Other versions of Merle Oberon's story include: In Hobart in 1978, she pointed to a fine old building and told her husband Robert Wolders she had been born and raised there. The building was in fact Government House, the official residence of the Governors of Tasmania. She left Tasmania for India after her distinguished father died in a hunting accident, and was raised there by aristocratic godparents. Lottie Chintock had been seduced by the owner of the St Helens Hotel, John Wills Thompson. Lottie Chintock gave birth to her in Hobart but was forced to relinquish her. In Hobart, Lottie lived with an Indian silk merchant with the unlikely name of O'Brien. The O'Briens adopted the baby and took her to India, where she grew up. She was taken to India by a travelling troupe of actors called O'Brien. She was taken to India by the cousin of her mother's employer. It is claimed that she attended the Model School in Hobart, but that school has no record of her.
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name | Will Power |
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nationality | Australian |
birth date | March 01, 1981 |
birth place | Toowoomba, Australia |
related to | Bob Power (father) |
current series | IRL IndyCar Series |
first year | 2008 |
current team | Team Penske |
car number | 12 |
former teams | KV Racing Technology |
starts | 49 |
wins | 10 |
poles | 15 |
fastest laps | 4 |
best finish | 2nd |
year | 2010 }} |
last series | Champ Car World Series |
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years active | 2005–2007 |
teams | Walker Racing |
starts | 30 |
wins | 3 |
podium finishes | 6 |
poles | 7 |
fastest laps | 2 |
best finish | 4th |
year | 2007 |
prev series | Queensland Formula FordAustralian Formula FordAustralian Formula 3Australian Drivers' Champ.British Formula 3World Series by RenaultA1GP |
prev series years | 1999–20002000–01200220022003–0420052005/2006 |
titles | Queensland Formula FordAustralian Drivers' Champ.Izod IndyCar Series Mario Andretti Road Course Champion |
title years | 200020022010 |
awards | Champ Car Rookie of the Year |
award years | 2006 }} |
William Steven Power (born 1 March 1981 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian motorsport driver, who currently competes in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series, driving for Team Penske.
After three years of Formula Ford racing, Power moved into Formula Holden, racing for the Graham Watson owned Ralt Australia team driving a Reynard 94D. Power swept all before him in Formula Holden, winning the title by over 50 points from Stewart McColl, claiming the 2002 Australian Drivers' Championship by winning 7 times and achieving 3 pole positions.
Mid-way through the 2002 season Power was given an opportunity to drive for the Bevan Carrick owned Cooltemp Racing Formula 3 team, driving a Dallara-Toyota as well in the Australian Formula 3 Championship. Despite missing the opening races Power missed out on winning the Formula 3 championship by only a handful of points to James Manderson.
He tested a Minardi Formula One car in 2004 with his Australian Formula Ford and British Formula 3 rival Will Davison in Italy.
During 2005 he competed in the World Series by Renault for the Carlin Motorsport team, where he proved very competitive. During the course of the WSR championship he scored two race victories, with 4 trips to the podium in total and qualified his car on the front row five times. In addition to driving in the WSR, Power was also one of the featured drivers for the Australian team in the 2005–06 A1 Grand Prix series. Power raced in the series opener at Brands Hatch and piloted Australia to a second place finish behind Team Brazil.
Power drove full time for Team Australia in 2006. He performed well throughout the season with nine top ten finishes and strong qualifying results. At Mexico, the final round of the season, Power took his first podium finish in Champ Car. He won the "rookie of the year" award and finished in 6th place in the championship standings.
In his home race in 2006, at Surfers Paradise in Australia, he scored his first pole position of his career in Champ Cars, in front of his home crowd. However, contact from Paul Tracy in pit lane and then an ambitious overtaking move by Sébastien Bourdais resulted in a bent left steering arm, and he fell to the back, one lap down by the time the car was repaired, eventually finishing 12th.
On 8 April 2007, Power won his first Champ Car race at the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, held in the streets of Las Vegas. He qualified on pole position and led most laps, becoming the first Australian driver to win in the series. On 8 July, at the Steelback Grand Prix of Toronto, with rain pouring down and visibility near zero when he got behind other cars, Will Power decided it was time to get aggressive. The Australian drove from fourth to first in 14 laps, finally splashing past rookie Ryan Dalziel to take the lead with 23 minutes to go, and went on to an easy victory.
To get to the lead, Power also had to pass three-time Champ Car World Series champion Sebastien Bourdais and rookie Neel Jani. Thanks to a series of late caution flags, he was able to go after each of them in turn. "I was close behind Sebastien and I knew he was quite tentative in the wet and I attacked him," Power said. "I got him on a restart. Then the next restart, I got Neel and the next restart, I got Dalziel. It's just about being aggressive at the right time and not hitting anyone". "I just drove so hard here because we've just had so much bad luck in the last few races," said Power, whose first Champ Car victory came in the 2007 opener in Las Vegas. "I didn't care; I just went hard. The car was good in the wet. It was good in the dry, and we stuck it to them." Power had podium finishes at Long Beach, Mont-Tremblant and Mexico City and pole positions at Houston, Edmonton, Surfers Paradise and Mexico City to place fourth in the final point standings in 2007.
Power won the final Champ Car race at Long Beach in 2008, also giving Power his first IndyCar Series win. He scored two top-five finishes in IndyCar Series races, enough for 12th overall, outpointed by team-mate Oriol Servia. In the non-points event in Surfers' Paradise, Australia, Power won the pole position, but crashed out while leading the race.
Penske Racing announced on 13 January 2009 that for the 2009 IndyCar Series season, Power would replace Helio Castroneves at the helm of the #3 Team Penske Honda-Dallara while Castroneves attended to his federal tax evasion charges. Power finished sixth in the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, the first race of the year. Since Castroneves returned to the team for the Long Beach Grand Prix, the second race of the season, Power was entered in that race and the Indianapolis 500 with a third #12 Penske car. He finished in fifth place in the 2009 Indy 500 for Penske and was retained by the team to drive in five more races during the second half of the season, his team being crewed by Penske's Rolex Sports Car Series team on their off weekends. Power captured his first IndyCar race win for Penske in July at the Rexall Edmonton Indy.
During practice for the 2009 Motorola Indy 300 in Sonoma, Nelson Philippe spun exiting Turn 3 and stalled on the track. EJ Viso could barely avoid him but Power had nowhere to go and crashed into the stationary Frenchman. Power had two fractured vertebrae while Nelson Phillipe had a fractured ankle. Both were also concussed and were hospitalized. Because of his injuries, Power would miss the rest of 2009 season. On 19 Nov. 2009, Team Penske announced that Will Power would join the team full time for the 2010 season with sponsorship from Verizon Wireless. Power won the first two races of the 2010 season, at Brazil and St. Petersburg, making him the first IndyCar driver since Sam Hornish Jr. in 2001 to win the first two events of the year. He went on to win from the pole at Watkins Glen, giving Roger Penske his first Izod IndyCar Series win at the historic track. Through thirteen races, Power has five wins and a record eight poles.
Power won the inaugural Mario Andretti Trophy as the road course champion for the 2010 IndyCar Series season. So far in 2011 he has won at Birmingham,Sao Paulo,the second race at Texas, and Edmonton. He is second in the points behind Dario Franchitti. At IndyCar's return to New Hampshire, Power's rival Dario Franchitti crashed out. With a few laps to go, amid protetsts from drivers to not restart because of track conditions, he wrecked on the restart. An irate Power exited his vehicle and seemed to have been calmed down by an official before displaying the middle finger to IndyCar director of competition Brian Barnhart.
Series | ! Year | ! Team | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! Rank | ! Points | |
Australian Formula Ford Championship | 2001 Australian Formula Ford season>2000 | ! Robert Power | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | !7th | !94 | |||||||||
Australian Formula Ford Championship | 2001 Australian Formula Ford season>2001 | ! Power Racing | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | Sandown Raceway>SAN2 | ||||||||
Australian Drivers' Championship | Ralt Australia | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | ! | ! | ! | ! | ||||
Cooltemp Racing | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" |
Year | ! Entrant | ! Chassis | ! Engine | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! 17 | ! 18 | ! 19 | ! 20 | ! 21 | ! 22 | ! 23 | ! 24 | ! 25 | ! DC | ! Points | |||||||
rowspan="2" | 2003 | ! Diamond Racing | ! Ralt F303 | Mugen Motorsports>Mugen-Honda | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | Croft Circuit>CRO1 | Croft Circuit>CRO2 | KNO1 | Knockhill Racing Circuit>KNO2 | SIL1 | Silverstone Circuit>SIL2 | 14th | 40 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Fortec Motorsport | ! Dallara F303 | ! Renault Sodemo | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | |||||||||||||||||||||
! Alan Docking Racing | ! Dallara F304 | Mugen Motorsports>Mugen-Honda | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | Silverstone Circuit>SIL2C | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | ! 9th | ! 111 |
Year | ! Entrant | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! 17 | ! DC | ! Points | |||||
2005 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season | 2005 | ! Carlin Motorsport | Zolder>ZOL1DNS | Zolder>ZOL2DNS | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | MON112 | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | Autodromo Nazionale Monza>MON1 | ! 7th | ! 64 |
! Year | ! Entrant | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! 17 | ! 18 | ! 19 | ! 20 | ! 21 | ! 22 | ! DC | ! Points |
! A1 Team Australia | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | !13th | !51 |
! Year | ! Team | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! Rank | ! Points |
! Team Australia | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | ! | ||||||||||||||
! Team Australia | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | |||
! Team Australia | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" |
! Year | ! Team | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! 17 | ! 18 | ! 19 | ! Rank | ! Points |
! KV Racing Technology | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ||||
Penske Racing>Team Penske | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | ! | ! | |||||||||||||
Penske Racing>Team Penske | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ! | ! | |||
Penske Racing>Team Penske | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | ! |
: * Season in progress. : 1 Run on same day. : 2 Non-points-paying, exhibition race.
! Year | ! Chassis | ! Engine | ! Start | ! Finish | ! Team |
Dallara | Honda | KV Racing | |||
Dallara | Honda | Penske Racing | |||
Dallara | Honda | Penske Racing | |||
Dallara | Honda | Penske Racing |
! Series | ! Seasons | ! Races | ! Poles | ! Wins | ! Podiums(Non-win) | ! Point Finishes(Non-podium) | ! Teams | ! Total Points | ! Championships | ! Best Finish(Championship) |
2 | 28 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 304 | 0 | ||
Formula Holden | 1 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 197 | 1 | |
1 | 12 | unk | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 204 | 0 | ||
2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 82 | 0 | ||
British F3 | 2 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 151 | 0 | |
World Series by Renault | 1 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 64 | 0 | |
A1GP | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 0 | |
CCWS | 3 | 30 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 1 | 492 | 0 | |
3 | 49 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 35 | 2 | 1043 | 0 |
Complete through 2010.
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