Mo Nunn

Mo Nunn
Born Morris Nunn
(1938-09-27) 27 September 1938
Walsall, Staffordshire, England[1]
Nationality British
Occupation Motor racing, engineer and team owner
Years active 1963–2005
Known for Formula One, team owner (Ensign)
Champ Car and Indy Racing League, team owner (Mo Nunn Racing)

Morris "Mo" Nunn (born 27 September 1938)[1] is a motor racing team owner and engineer from England. He founded and ran the Ensign Formula One team in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and later worked for Chip Ganassi's highly successful Champ Car team, before founding Mo Nunn Racing for the 2000 season. At the urging of Mercedes-Benz Nunn again started a team for the 2002 Indy Racing League season. The team was sponsored by WorldCom and Hollywood (tobacco) and initially hired Tony Kanaan and Felipe Giaffone. Giaffone finished 2nd in the 2003 Indianapolis 500 and Kanaan was leading but crashed in the last laps. A third car driven by Jeff Simmons finished ninth. In 2002, Nunn entered one car each in Champ Car and the rival Indy Racing League. The IRL entry for Giaffone proved more competitive than Kanaan's Champ Car entry, encouraging the team to concentrate purely on IRL a year later. With Toyota and Pioneer backing, the former F1 driver Tora Takagi joined the team. He finished 10th in 2003, while Giaffone missed races because of injuries. He was replaced by Alex Barron, who won the Michigan race. For 2004, only one car was entered, for Takagi, whose performance was not impressive after a heavy crash at Twin Ring Motegi. Other than a joint effort with Fernandez Racing at the 2005 Indianapolis 500, Nunn closed the team in 2005 and retired.

Race results

Complete CART FedEx Championship Series results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap; results with * indicate most laps led)

Year Chassis Engine Drivers No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
2000 MIA LBH RIO MOT NAZ MIL DET POR CLE TOR MCH CHI MDO ROA VAN LAG GAT HOU SRF FON
Reynard 2Ki Mercedes IC 108E
Brazil Tony Kanaan 55 10 16 18 16 8 10 DNS 24 16 13 8 14 22 13 10 8 18
United States Bryan Herta 16 9 18
2001 MTY LBH TEX NAZ MOT MIL DET POR CLE TOR MCH CHI MDO ROA VAN LAU ROC HOU LAG SRF FON
Reynard 01i Honda Brazil Tony Kanaan 55 7 7 C1 16 3 6 DNS 24 16 10 21 8 5 12 4 7 8 12 8 17 5
Italy Alex Zanardi 66 24 26 C1 20 7 11 24 26 13 4 20 9 19 13 24 20
United States Casey Mears (R) 17 11 26 8
2002 MTY LBH MOT MIL LAG POR CHI TOR CLE VAN MDO ROA MTL DEN ROC MIA SFR FON MXC
Reynard 02i Honda Brazil Tony Kanaan 10 16 20 15*
Lola B2/00 16 12 8 8 17 8 3 14 4 3 6 15 9 5 4 8*
1 The Firestone Firehawk 600 was canceled after qualifying due to excessive g-forces on the drivers.

IndyCar Series results

(key)

Year Chassis Engine Drivers No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
2002 HMS PHX FON NAZ INDY TXS PPIR RIR KAN NSH MCH KTY GAT CHI TXS
G-Force Chevrolet Indy V8 Brazil Tony Kanaan 17 28
Brazil Felipe Giaffone 21 7 19 6 2 3 5 4 3 4 7 3 1* 21 6 17
2003 HMS PHX MOT INDY TXS PPIR RIR KAN NSH MCH GAT KTY NAZ CHI FON TXS
G-Force Toyota Japan Toranosuke Takagi 12 12 22 8 5 31 6 13 18 7 6 7 18 14 9 18 7
Netherlands Arie Luyendyk 20 DNQ
Brazil Felipe Giaffone 21 9 3 3 33 17 13 6 22 15 16 19
United States Alex Barron 6 5 1 16 20 15
2004 HMS PHX MOT INDY TXS RIR KAN NSH MIL MCH KTY PPIR NAZ CHI FON TXS
Dallara Toyota Japan Toranosuke Takagi 12 4 8 10 19 10 19 21 11 20 20 20 19 17 13 14 12
United States Jeff Simmons (R) 21 16
1Toranosuke Takagi had 23 points deduction at Texas Motor Speedway due to unacceptable driving.

References

  1. 1 2 "Profile". OldRacingCars.com. Retrieved 3 October 2012.


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