Joey Hand
Nationality	American
Born	(1979-02-10) February 10, 1979 (age 33) Sacramento, California, USA
2012 Rolex Sports Car Series
Debut season	2004
Current team	Chip Ganassi Racing
Car no.	01
Starts	55
Wins	7
Poles	1
Best finish	4th in 2005
Previous series
2006-2010 2004 2001-2004 2000 1998-1999	American LeMans Series Formula BMW USA Toyota Atlantic Formula Palmer Audi Star Mazda
Championship titles
1999	Star Mazda Series
Awards
2011 2001 1998	24 Hours of Daytona winner Toyota Atlantic Rookie of the Year Star Mazda Rookie of the Year

Joey Hand is an American professional race car driver. A former champion of the Star Mazda Series, Hand is best known as a sports car driver, and is co-winner of the 2011 24 Hours of Daytona driving for Chip Ganassi Racing.

Personal life[link]

Born in 1979 in Sacramento, California,^[1] Hand is married to Natalie and has two children.^[2]

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Hand began his career in kart racing, starting at the age of 12. Moving up to the Star Mazda Series in 1998, Hand won nine races in the series, winning the rookie of the year award in 1998 and the series championship in 1999.^[2]

Following an injury that sidelined him for most of the 1999 season, Hand moved up to the Toyota Atlantic series in 2001, scoring two wins in three years spent in the series, with a best championship finish of third in 2001.^[2]

Grand-Am and ALMS[link]

Hand's 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans car

Beginning with the 2004 season, Hand has raced in the Grand American Road Racing Association's Rolex Sports Car Series, racing in both the Grand Touring and Daytona Prototype classes, winning five times in the GT category while driving BMWs.^[2] Hand has also raced sporadically in the American LeMans Series; in 2006, Hand was involved in a spectacular end-over-end crash at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course,^[3] while in 2009, he won the first pole position for a BMW in eight years in the ALMS at Road America.^[4]

Hand's 2011 BMW for Turner Motorsport

Driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, Hand, along with co-drivers Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas and Graham Rahal, won the 2011 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race at Daytona International Speedway, driving the #01 Riley-BMW Daytona Prototype. The team was set back by a pit road penalty while Hand was driving, however he was able to recover from the penalty for co-driver Pruett to take the car to victory.^[5] The following month the BMW Motorsport team he drove for won the GT class of the 2011 12 Hours of Sebring.^[6]

Other racing[link]

On October 22nd 2011, Hand made his debut in the International V8 Supercars Championship, driving for Dick Johnson Racing in the Gold Coast 600.^[7] finishing 4th with co-driver James Moffat (racing driver) In November, he drove a DTM car for the first time, testing for BMW at Circuito Monteblanco in Spain..^[8]

DTM[link]

On December 15, 2011, Hand was announced as one of BMW's factory drivers for the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, which will see him compete in the entire 2012 championship, alongside a limited-season American Le Mans Series campaign with BMW Team RLL. ^[9]

Racing record[link]

American open–wheel racing results[link]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Atlantic Championship[link]

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2001	DSTP Motorsports	LBH 3	NAZ 9	MIL 12	MTL Ret	CLE 2	TOR 5	CHI 10	TRR 3	ROA 3	VAN 1	HOU 1	LS 2	3rd	129
2002	DSTP Motorsports	MTY 3	LBH Ret	MIL	LS	POR	CHI	TOR	CLE	TRR 9	ROA 5	MTL 4	DEN Ret	12th	45
2003	DSTP Motorsports	MTY Ret	LBH 7	MIL 9	LS 10	POR 2	CLE 10	TOR 6	TRR 4	MDO 4	MTL 5	DEN 9	MIA 6	7th	108
2004	Polestar Motor Racing	LBH	MTY	MIL	POR1	POR2	CLE	TOR	VAN	ROA	DEN	MTL	LS 9	20th	13

24 Hours of Le Mans results[link]

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2011	GTE Pro	56	D	BMW M3 GT2 BMW 4.0L V8	BMW Motorsport	Andy Priaulx Dirk Müller	313	15th	3rd

V8 Supercar results[link]

Complete DTM results[link]

(key)

* Season in progress.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Joey Hand at Racing Reference
• Joey Hand at Driver Database
• Video of the 2006 crash at "And they walked away..."

Bill Auberlen is a race car driver born in Redondo Beach, California, USA on 12 October 1968.

Bill joined BMW Team PTG in 1996 after a very successful privateer effort. In 1997, Bill won the IMSA GT3 championship, driving a BMW M3. He was the Grand-Am GT Series champion in 2002 and 2004, and scored back-to-back Driver's Championships in 2003 and 2004 in the SPEED World Challenge Touring Car series, driving with Turner Motorsport.

Bill Auberlen driving for Turner Motorsports at Road America

Auberlen currently drives a BMW M3 in the American Le Mans Series GT2 class for Rahal Letterman Racing and a BMW M3 for Turner Motorsport in the Grand-Am GS class.

His career started in the 1970s in motocross, with Auberlen moving to IMSA GTU in 1987. He stayed there until 1997, his last year resulting in him winning the championship. During his time in the IMSA Series he had also become the 1996 Peruvian Formula Three champion.

Other competitions Auberlen has competed in during his career include the 1999 World Sportscar Championship and the American Le Mans Series (1999–2003), driving a BMW V12 LMR in 1999 and 2000 for Schnitzer Motorsport. During the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in 2000, his BMW did a spectacular back flip^[1] over the same hump over which Yannick Dalmas backflipped in a Porsche 911 GT1 in 1998.

Auberlen briefly stepped up to Grand-Am's Daytona Prototype class in 2003, in addition to driving a BMW 325i for Turner Motorsport in World Challenge touring. Auberlen won both the 2003 and 2004 Speed World Challenge Touring Car Championship behind the wheel of a Turner Motorsport BMW 325i. By doing so, Auberlen ended an eight year Honda / Acura domination of the series.

For 2004, Auberlen dedicated himself to the production-based World Challenge GT class for BMW Motorsport's Prototype Technology Group team, earning the series championship for BMW.

In 2005, Auberlen continued to drive for BMW PTG in Grand-Am's GT series, while also driving for Panoz Racing in IMSA's American Le Mans Series. In 2006, Auberlen is once again exclusively driving BMW's — an M3 for Sigalsport's Grand-Am GT team, an M3 for Turner's Grand-Am team and an M3 for BMW PTG's ALMS team.

Bill is married to Yvette Auberlen.

24 Hours of Le Mans results[link]

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1998	GT1	40	P	McLaren F1 GTR BMW S70 6.0L V12	Gulf Team Davidoff EMKA Racing	Steve O'Rourke Tim Sugden	343	4th	4th
1999	LMP	18	Y	BMW V12 LM BMW S70 6.0L V12	Price+Bscher	Thomas Bscher Steve Soper	345	5th	4th
2002	LMP900	12	M	Panoz LMP01 Evo Élan 6L8 6.0L V8	Panoz Motor Sports	David Donohue Gunnar Jeannette	230	DNF	DNF
2005	GT2	77	P	Panoz Esperante GT-LM Ford (Élan) 5.0L V8	Panoz Motor Sports	Robin Liddell Scott Maxwell	27	DNF	DNF

External links[link]

• Grand-Am driver profile
• Bio and career highlights (Rahal Letterman Racing)
• Profile on TheRaceSite.com

Scott Ronald Dixon
Scott Dixon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Carb Day for the 2009 Indianapolis 500.
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	(1980-07-22) 22 July 1980 (age 31) Brisbane, Australia
2012 IndyCar Series
Debut season	2003
Current team	Chip Ganassi Racing
Car no.	9
Starts	115
Wins	24
Poles	17
Fastest laps	21
Best finish	1st in 2003 and 2008
Previous series
1994 1995–1996 1997–1998 1999–2000 2001–2002	NZ Formula Vee NZ Formula Ford Australian Formula Holden Indy Lights CART Champ Car
Championship titles
1994 1995 1996 1998 2000 2003 2008	NZ Formula Vee Class II NZ Formula Ford Class II NZ Formula Ford Class I Australian Drivers' Champ. Indy Lights IndyCar Series IndyCar Series
Awards
1999 2001 2001 2003 2004 2008 2008 2008 2009	Jim Clark Trophy CART Rookie of the Year Jim Clark Trophy Bruce McLaren Trophy Jim Clark Trophy Indianapolis 500 Winner Bruce McLaren Trophy NZ Sportsman Of The Year Inducted into MotorSport New Zealand Wall of Fame

Scott Ronald Dixon, MNZM (born 22 July 1980) is a New Zealand motor racer who became the most successful all-time driver in the Indy Racing League (IRL) championship in the United States when he won the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio in August 2009. This took his total to 21 wins.^[1] Competing for Chip Ganassi Racing since joining IndyCar, Dixon has won the championship twice, 2003 and 2008, and he won the 92nd Indianapolis 500 in 2008 from pole position.^[2]

At Kentucky in August that year he equalled the record for six wins in a season. Known as a consistent race finisher, Dixon has twice in his IndyCar career set the record for finishing the highest number of consecutive races, 28, at Watkins Glen in 2005, and again at Mid-Ohio in 2007 ^[3] He has been on the podium 48 times from the 90 races he has completed, and his ratio of wins to career starts is the best of all-time regular drivers in the IRL.

Among notable awards won by Dixon are the Jim Clark Trophy (1999, 2001, 2004) and the Bruce McLaren Trophy (2003, 2008). In 2012 he was appointed Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Early years[link]

Dixon was born in Brisbane, Australia, to New Zealand parents Ron and Glenys Dixon who were both dirt race car drivers.^[4] The family returned to Auckland in New Zealand when Dixon was very young. He began racing karts as a seven year old,^[5] and caught the attention of the New Zealand public when granted a special dispensation to obtain a competition licence to race a saloon car as a 13-year-old.^[6] New Zealanders cannot obtain a road licence until turning 16 years old.

Dixon was competing at Pukekohe Park Raceway in a one-make series featuring the Nissan Sentra when he rolled the car onto its roof. He caught national attention when TV showed him struggling from the upturned car with a cushion strapped to his back to enable him to reach the pedals, and wiping a tear from his eye.^[7] Dixon went on to win in every series he competed in.

1994–1998[link]

In 1994 he won the New Zealand Formula Vee championship,^[8] before taking the Formula Ford Class 2 series in 1995 with 13 wins from 14 races, and then the full New Zealand Formula Ford championship the next year.

In 1997 Dixon decided to race in Australia. With no money to carry on racing, Rotorua businessman Christopher Wingate provided Dixon and his mentor, Kiwi racing hero Kenny Smith, with both money and airfares between New Zealand and Australia to ensure Dixon's career moved ahead. In 1997 Dixon won Rookie of the Year and third overall in the Australian Formula Holden series driving the Ralt Australia prepared Reynard. This resulted in him being offered a drive with top team SH Racing. As the budgets were going to exceed $250,000, Wingate suggested a company be formed to fund Dixon's career. That company was called Scott Dixon Motorsport (SDMS), funded by shareholders who over the next two years invested more than $1m in Dixon. This allowed him to pursue his career without worrying about money. In 1998 Dixon won the Formula Holden series outright. That win brought offers to race in the Australian V8 Supercar series but that was not where he wanted to make his mark, so arrangements were made for him to go to the USA to test in the Indy Lights series.

1999–2000[link]

With the backing of Scott Dixon Motorsport investors, Dixon moved to the United States in 1999. After a test in Sebring where Dixon broke the track record on his eighth lap, he was signed to Johansson Motorsports Indy Lights team, beginning a long management association with the team's owner, former Ferrari and McLaren Formula One driver Stefan Johansson. He set a lap record when taking pole position for the Chicago oval race which he won. He was consistently fast throughout the year but had five DNFs, which limited him to fifth place in the series.

In 2000 Dixon remained in Indy Lights, moving to the PacWest team. He took the championship in resounding fashion, scoring six wins and seven podium finishes.

CART[link]

2001[link]

PacWest Racing graduated Dixon to its full CART team in 2001. Dixon immediately out-paced his team-mate, the former Formula One driver Maurício Gugelmin. Dixon led his first race in Mexico for 14 laps. Just two races later he won at Nazareth Speedway – his first oval race in the senior CART series. At the age of 20 years, 9 months and 14 days it was widely reported that he became the youngest winner of a major U.S. open-wheel race, but this achievement already belonged to Jimmy Davies who was six months younger when winning the 100-mile (160 km) AAA Championship race at Del Mar, California in 1949. Dixon scored championship points in 11 of 20 starts, and led the FedEx Champ Car Series in laps completed with 2,521 out of a possible 2,610. He won the Jim Trueman Trophy for Rookie of the Year and was eighth in the championship.

2002[link]

Dixon remained with PacWest, owned by Bruce McCaw of McCaw Cellular, for 2002 but it soon became clear the team was woefully short of cash due to the dot com crash. When it eventually collapsed, Toyota arranged an introduction to Target Chip Ganassi Racing which added a third car to its squad to accommodate Dixon. It was his first experience of a true top-level team, which had the then top-level engine supplier, Toyota. Dixon posted 12 top ten finishes, including a second place at Denver.

IndyCar Series[link]

2003[link]

Chip Ganassi joined CART teams Penske and Andretti-Green Racing in 2003 to switch to the all-oval Indy Racing League. Dixon won the season opener at Homestead in Florida. A tangle with Tony Kanaan in Japan left Dixon with a shattered hand, but he recovered to take two more victories and win the championship at his first try. Along the way he also set a record with 343 consecutive laps led, the first time a driver had led consecutive laps in three successive races. At Pikes Peak he led the last 84 laps to win, then led every lap of the next event at Richmond, and at the next event, at Kansas, led the first 53 laps.^[9] Although it was his first year in the IRL, and he won the championship, Dixon was not rookie of the year due to his ChampCar experience.

The year ended on a tragic note for Dixon. Ganassi had recruited Tony Renna as his team-mate. The young American and Dixon were already close friends. But at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, during Renna's first practice session for the team, he spun across the track and became airborne in the third turn. Renna's car hit a post at high speed and was demolished, the cockpit splitting on impact. Renna was killed instantly of blunt force trauma to the head and chest.