Tõnis Kasemets

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Tõnis Kasemets (born March 17, 1974 in Pärnu, Estonia) is an Estonian race car driver.

He immigrated to the United States in 1995 and began SCCA racing. He advanced through the open wheel ranks and by 2004 was in the Toyota Atlantic series. In 2005 he placed second in the series championship to Charles Zwolsman. He will participate in a partial 2006 schedule in the Champ Car World Series for Paul Gentilozzi's Rocketsports Racing.

After his visa expired he stayed in the USA as an illegal immigrant and did not visit his native Estonia for ten years. He won the amateurs cup during that time. Tõnis does not earn money from driving and puts the food on the table from the money earned from his company that does painting jobs. To participate in Champ Car in 2006 he had to gather funds for a quarter of the participation costs. Kasemets wants to do a full season of Champ Car in 2007 and in the future he wants to own a successful Champ Car team a la Newman-Haas and Forsythe.^[1]

He currently lives in USA with his 11 year old son and a four year old daughter.

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Yr	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Team	Rank	Points
2006	Rocketsports	LBH DNP	HST DNP	MOT DNP	MIL DNP	POR 16	CLE 12	TOR Ret	EDM 11	SAN DNP	DEN DNP	MON DNP	ROA Ret	SUR DNP	MEX DNP	Rocketsports	19th	34

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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