Ryan Briscoe

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Ryan Briscoe
Champ Car World Series Record
Nationality	Australian
Car #	10
Current team	RuSPORT
Race starts	2
Series Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
First Champ Car race	2006 Lexmark Indy 300
First win
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Ryan Briscoe (born September 24, 1981 in Sydney) is an Australian auto racing driver who has raced open wheel and sports cars in Europe and America.

Contents 1 Career biography 1.1 Early career 1.2 2005 1.3 2006 2 Complete Driving Results 3 Trivia 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Career biography

[edit] Early career

Like many auto racing drivers, he started his career in karting, first racing in 1993. After winning Australian, North American and Italian championships, he moved to Formula Renault in 2000. He won the Italian Championship in 2001 (winning 5 races) and finished 4th running a limited schedule in the Eurocup (with 2 wins in 6 races). In 2002, he became test driver for the Toyota Formula One constructor. He started that year racing in the Formula 3000 series, but struggled and left his ride after 7 races. He finished the year in the German Formula 3 series, taking 3 podiums in the last 6 rounds. He won the Formula Three Euroseries in 2003 (winning 8 races in the process). He became the Toyota F1 team's 'third' driver (ie, drove the team's test car on Fridays at Grands Prix) for the last third of the 2004 season, after previous third driver Ricardo Zonta was called up to replace Cristiano Da Matta.

[edit] 2005

There were rumors that Briscoe was set to race for the Jordan Grand Prix F1 team in 2005, due to the team's acquisition of Toyota power. Instead, Briscoe raced for Target Chip Ganassi Racing in the Indy Racing League^[1], including a 10th place finish in the Indianapolis 500. He also made his Rolex Grand-Am debute with Ganassi at the 24 Hours of Daytona. He took pole position at Sears Point, but struggled on the ovals and was involved in several crashes.

On September 11, 2005 he was involved in an enormous crash at Chicagoland Speedway, breaking both clavicles among other injuries. He was released from the hospital on September 19 and following some initial treatment in the USA, moved to the specialist Formula Medicine facility in Viareggio, Italy, for the bulk of his rehabilitation. It took 8 weeks for Briscoe to recover from the injuries he sustained in the crash. His official web site announced his return to the USA on November 14, 2005. Following the incident Ryan was nicknamed "Briscoe Inferno".

[edit] 2006

Briscoe was dropped by Ganassi for 2006, replaced by 2005 IRL champion Dan Wheldon. During the winter, he tested with fellow Australian and Champ Car owner Kevin Kalkhoven's PKV Racing team. Briscoe also tested for the Mi Jack Conquest team. Briscoe competed in the 2006 24 Hours of Daytona with 2005 Champions Wayne Taylor, Max Angelelli and Emmanuel Collard, but the team withdrew due to accident damage before Briscoe's turn to drive.

In 2006, Briscoe was announced as an endurance driver for Holden Racing Team, set to partner Jim Richards at the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000. He also drove in the A1 Grand Prix race at Laguna Seca in the USA for A1 Team Australia, scoring three points. At the Indy 500 he was a surprise late driver of the #48 car for A J Foyt Racing - the deal was so late he was still having his seat fitting with less than half an hour of Bump Day qualifying left, and he never got out on the track to attempt a qualifying run. He returned to the IRL the following week and drove the #5 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Dallara to a third place finish at Watkins Glen International, a road course. He return to the Dreyer & Reinbold team on a three race deal for the short speedways in the second half of the season, but recorded DNF's in 2 of his 3 races with the team. He then was tabbed to replace the injured Cristiano da Matta in the final two races of the Champ Car season for the RuSPORT team, including his home country's race at Surfers Paradise.

[edit] Complete Driving Results

(Races in bold indicate pole position)

Series	Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Team	Final Pos	Points
F3000	2002	Nordic Racing	BRA 12	SAN 13	SPA 12	AUT 17	MON RET	EUR RET	GBR 12	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA									Nordic Racing	16	0
German F3	2002	Prema	HOK R1	HOK R2	SAC R1	SAC R2	NOR R1	NOR R2	LAU R1 11	LAU R2 15	HOK R1 RET	HOK R2 7	NUR R1 RET	NUR R2 11	A1R R1 5	A1R R2 RET	ZAN R1 3	ZAN R2 3	HOK R1 3	HOK R2 5			Prema	13	16
Euro F3	2003	Prema	HOK R1 1	HOK R2 1	ADR R1 5	ADR R2 1	PAU R1 1	PAU R2 2	NOR R1 4	NOR R2 RET	BUG R1 3	BUG R2 RET	NUR R1 RET	NUR R2 7	A1R R1 1	A1R R2 1	ZAN R1 17	ZAN R2 1	HOK R1 17	HOK R2 1	MAG R1 14	MAG R2 14	Prema	1	110
Formula 1	2004	Toyota	AUS	MAL	BAH	SMR	ESP	MON	EUR	CAN	USA	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN TD	BEL TD	ITA TD	CHN TD	JPN **	BRA TD			Toyota	-	-
IRL	2005	Chip Ganassi Racing	HOM RET	PIR RET	STP RET	MOT 12	IND 10	TEX 12	RIC RET	KAN RET	NAS 8	MIL DNS	MIC 10	KEN 13	PPIR RET	INF RET	CHI RET	WAT INJ	FON INJ				Chip Ganassi Racing	19	232
IRL	2006	Foyt Enterprises	HOM	STP	MOT	IND DNQ	WAT 3	TEX	RIC	KAN	NAS 9	MIL RET	MIC 10	KEN 13	INF RET	CHI							Dreyer & Reinbold	21	83
V8 Supercars	2006	HRT	ADL	PUK	BRG	WIN	HDV	QLR	ORP	SAN 500 RET	BAT 1000 RET	SUR	SYM	BAH	PHI								HRT	64	0
CCWS	2006	RuSPORT	LGB	HOU	MOT	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SNJ	DEN	MON	RDA	SUR 11	MEX 14							RuSPORT	21	17
ALMS P2	2007	Penske	SEB 8	STP 1	LGB	HOU	MMP	LMR	MDO	ROA	MOS	DET	ATL	LAG									Penske	4*	29*

* Season still in progress. ** Was entered as Third Driver for Japan 2004, but did not run due to bad weather.

[edit] Trivia

• In addition to his native English, Briscoe speaks Italian and French.
• Is good friends with Formula 1 driver Robert Doornbos. While recovering from his crash at Chicagoland Speedway in 2005, Briscoe had surgery in Italy and stayed at Doornbos' house while he was away racing with Minardi.

2007 Champ Car World Series
Newman/Haas	Forsythe	Minardi	Australia	PKV	RSPORTS	Coyne	Conquest	PCM
1 Bourdais 2 Rahal	3 Tracy 7 Dominguez	4 Clarke 14 Doornbos	5 Power 15 Pagenaud	6 Gommendy 21 Jani	8 Tagliani 9 Wilson	11 TBA 19 TBA	27 TBA	28 Dalziel 29 Figge
Las Vegas - Long Beach - Houston - Portland - Cleveland - Mont-Tremblant - Toronto - Edmonton - San Jose - Road America - Assen - Zolder - Surfers Paradise - Zhuhai - Mexico City - Phoenix

[edit] References

1. ^ "Briscoe snubs Jordan for America", BBC Sport, 2005-01-17. Retrieved on 2005-01-19.

[edit] External links

• Ryan Briscoe's official website
• Photograph of Ryan's huge crash in 2005