KV Racing Technology

KV Racing Technology

Founded	2003
Founder(s)	Kevin Kalkhoven Jimmy Vasser
Folded	2017
Base	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Team principal(s)	Kevin Kalkhoven Jimmy Vasser James Sullivan
Former series	Champ Car World Series, IndyCar Series
Teams' Championships	0
Drivers' Championships	0
Website	http://kvracingtechnology.homestead.com/

KV Racing's No. 5 car at the 2008 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

KV Racing Technology was an auto racing team that last competed in the IndyCar Series. The team was originally formed as PK Racing before the 2003 season by Australian businessman Kevin Kalkhoven and former Formula One team manager Craig Pollock from the remnants of the PacWest team.^[1]

The team has also sponsored drivers in the Atlantic Championship.

Champ Car

In its first season, the team fielded one car and employed several drivers including Patrick Lemarié, Bryan Herta, Max Papis and Mika Salo, the latter of which scored the team's best result of third late in the season.

For 2004, the team was significantly revamped. It was renamed to PKV Racing, as businessman Dan Pettit and veteran driver Jimmy Vasser replaced Pollock as co-owners. The team also expanded to field two cars for Vasser and rookie Roberto González. Vasser scored the team's best finish and second podium with a second place at Toronto, but the season was otherwise lackluster. In 2005, PKV replaced Gonzalez with former series champion Cristiano da Matta, who took the team's first win at Portland. Da Matta finished 11th in the championship, while Vasser scored two third-place finishes and was sixth overall.

For 2006, the team fielded full season entries for veteran Oriol Servià and rookie Katherine Legge. Vasser retired from racing after driving a third car at Long Beach. Servià scored a third place at Cleveland and finished 11th in the championship, while Legge struggled and finished 16th overall. The team's 2007 driver lineup was Neel Jani and Tristan Gommendy. Mario Domínguez subbed for Gommendy at Edmonton, and Servià replaced Gommendy for the final two races due to sponsorship issues. The team's best results were Jani's pair of second places finishes at Toronto and San Jose.

IndyCar

Takuma Sato at the 2011 Indy Japan: The Final.

The team switched to the IndyCar Series following the unification of open wheel racing in 2008. Dan Pettit ceased his ownership role in the team and the team changed its name to KV Racing Technology. Australian businessmen Craig Gore and John Fish brought their Team Australia branding from Walker Racing along with driver Will Power to partner Servià.

Power won the Champ Car finale, the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach a race which also counted towards the IndyCar Series championship. In the 2008 Indianapolis 500, the first for the team and both drivers, Power qualified 23rd and finished 13th, while Servià qualified 25th and finished 11th.

Bryan Clauson's damaged No. 88 Jonathan Byrd's Racing car, run in conjunction with KV Racing Technology. returning to the garage at the 2015 Indianapolis 500.

In 2009, the team ran a full-time program for Brazilian Mario Moraes. Paul Tracy also made five starts for the team: Indy 500, Watkins Glen, Edmonton, Toronto, and Mid-Ohio. Townsend Bell drove a third car for the team at the Indy 500. In 2010 the team ran full-time programs for Takuma Sato, E. J. Viso, and Mario Moraes, plus a part-time program for Paul Tracy. James Rossiter tested for the team at Barber. For 2011, Sato and Viso returned to the team, as well as gaining technical support from Lotus Cars, re-branding the team as KV Racing Technology – Lotus, or KVRT-Lotus. The team added Tony Kanaan in a third car, the #82, as a tribute to the late Formula One and Indy 500 champion Jim Clark.^[2]

In the 2011 Indianapolis 500, Sato and Viso were the first two cars retired from the race due to separate accidents.

For 2012, Sato would leave KV for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, replaced by former Formula 1 driver Rubens Barichello. The team also announced that it would be partnering with Chevrolet. Although he was winless, Kanaan would finish 9th that season with a best finish of 2nd at Milwaukee. Both Viso and Barichello would struggle that year for results, with both drivers leaving the team at the end of the year.^[3]

On October 30, 2012, HVM Racing's Simona de Silvestro joined KV for the 2013 IndyCar Series season.^[4]

Kanaan's win in the 2013 Indianapolis 500 was the first for KV, while de Silvestro scored her first podium at Houston. Kanaan departed KV to drive for Chip Ganassi Racing for the 2014 IndyCar Series season, while de Silvestro also departed the team at season's end.^[5] They were replaced by Dragon Racing teammates Sébastien Bourdais and Sebastián Saavedra for 2014.

The team had moderate success in 2014, with Saavedra claiming his first pole at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis and Bourdais taking his first IndyCar win at Honda Indy Toronto. Though Bourdais finished 10th in standings, a lack of results saw Saavedra's release from the team. His replacement for 2015 would be former GP2 driver Stefano Coletti. Coletti would struggle heavily adapting to IndyCar, with a best finish of 8th at the 2015 Grand Prix of Indianapolis.^[6] Bourdais would take his second win at the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit. KV would release Coletti at the end of the season, reducing to only Bourdais' No. 11 for the 2016 season. The team would take its second consecutive win in Detroit.

Despite the win, funding for the team was in doubt as Kahlkoven wished to sell the team's equipment. In response, Bourdais departed KVSH for Dale Coyne Racing. Without proper funding, Kahlkhoven and Vasser attempted to sell the team to Indy Lights owner Trevor Carlin, but the deal fell through. On February 16, Vasser and Kahlkoven released statements confirming the end of KV Racing Technology, and the sale of equipment and technical data to Juncos Racing.

Drivers

Patrick Lemarié (2003)
Mika Salo (2003)
Max Papis (2003)
Bryan Herta (2003)
Jimmy Vasser (2004–2006, 2008)
Roberto González (2004)
Cristiano da Matta (2005)
Jorge Goeters (2005)
Katherine Legge (2006)
Oriol Servià (2006–2008)
Neel Jani (2007)
Tristan Gommendy (2007)
Will Power (2008)
Townsend Bell (2009, 2014)
Mario Moraes (2009–2010)
Paul Tracy (2009–2010)
Takuma Sato (2010–2011)
E. J. Viso (2010–2012)
Tony Kanaan (2011–2013)
Rubens Barrichello (2012)
Simona de Silvestro (2013)
Sebastián Saavedra (2014)
Sébastien Bourdais (2014–2016)
Stefano Coletti (2015)
Bryan Clauson (2015)
Stefan Wilson (2016)

Racing results

Complete Champ Car World Series results

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

Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
PK Racing
2003	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8 t			STP	MTY	LBH	BRH	LAU	MIL	LAG	POR	CLE	TOR	VAN	ROA	MDO	MTL	DEN	MIA	MEX	SFR
			Patrick Lemarié	27	10	10	13	11	19	18
			Bryan Herta								11
			Max Papis									15	12	16	9	4	9	9
			Mika Salo																14	3	5	11
PKV Racing
2004	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8 t			LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	VAN	ROA	DEN	MTL	LAG	LSV	SFR	MXC
			Jimmy Vasser	12	16	12	4	8	5	2	10	8	17	8	17	5	12	5
			Roberto González	21	14	9	12	10	7	13	13	16	12	10	14	10	11	12
2005	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8 t			LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	LSV	SRF	MXC
			Jimmy Vasser	12	9	14	5	6	6	4	11	11	15	7	3	3	6
			Cristiano da Matta	21	10	6	11	1*	16	17	17	10	18	6	12	19	14
			Jorge Goeters	52		18
2006	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8 t			LBH	HOU	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	ROA	SRF	MXC
			Oriol Servià	6	18	12	8	5	10	3	12	4	8	15	16	4	13	6
			Jimmy Vasser	12	14
			Katherine Legge	20	8	14	14	6	13	8	14	13	12	9	13	16	15	16
2007	Panoz DP01	Cosworth XFE V8 t			LSV	LBH	HOU	POR	CLE	MTT	TOR	EDM	SJO	ROA	ZOL	ASN	SFR	MXC
			Neel Jani	21	10	7	15	12	3	6	2	9	2	10	8	5	8	9
			Tristan Gommendy	22	5	11	13	7	13	12	15		8	7	16	4
			Mario Domínguez									17
			Oriol Servià														14	3

Complete 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	17	18	19
2008	Dallara IR-05 Panoz DP01¹	Honda HI7R V8 Cosworth XFE V8 t¹			HMS	STP	MOT	LBH	KAN	INDY	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	EDM	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI	SRF²
			Oriol Servià	5	12	7		5	11	11	6	26	16	5	23	16	5	5	12	15	4	17	5
			Will Power	8	25	8		1*	27	13	14	13	9	25	15	11	4	22	26	25	8	5	22
			Jimmy Vasser	12				10
2009	Dallara IR-05	Honda HI7R V8			STP	LBH	KAN	INDY	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	TOR	EDM	KTY	MDO	SNM	CHI	MOT	HMS
			Mario Moraes	5	21	19	11	33	9	10	17	16	14	11	23	18		4	3	5	7
			Paul Tracy	5													7
			Paul Tracy	15				9					20	19	6
			Townsend Bell	8				4
2010	Dallara IR-05	Honda HI7R V8			SAO	STP	ALA	LBH	KAN	INDY	TXS	IOW	WGL	TOR	EDM	MDO	SNM	CHI	KTY	MOT	HMS
			Takuma Sato	5	22	22	25	18	24	20	25	19	15	25	9	25	18	26	27	12	18
			E. J. Viso	8	12	17	16	15	27	25	11	3	11	19	8	26	19	27	26	15	19
			Paul Tracy	15						DNQ			14	13	6				12	22
			Mario Moraes	32	24	21	13	6	7	31	21	25	5	14	7	12	11	17	18	24	27
2011	Dallara IR-05	Honda HI7R V8			STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	TXS		MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM	MDO	NHA	SNM	BAL	MOT	KTY	LSV
			Takuma Sato	5	5	16	21	8	33	5	12	8	19	20	21	4	7	18	18	10	15	C
			E. J. Viso	59	19	23	25	13	32	7	10	20	17	9	20	15	12	9	15	21	23	C
			Tony Kanaan	82	3	6	8	22	4	11	5	19	2	26	4	5	22	28	3	17	17	C
2012	Dallara DW12	Chevrolet IndyCar V6 t			STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	DET	TXS	MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM	MDO	SNM	BAL	FON
			E. J. Viso	5	8	18	12	9	18	18	19	5	24	20	16	20	16	9	25
			Rubens Barrichello	8	17	8	9	10	11	25	DNS	10	7	11	13	15	4	5	22
			Tony Kanaan	11	25	21	4	13	3	6	11	2	3	4	18	6	10	20	18
2013	Dallara DW12	Chevrolet IndyCar V6 t			STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	DET		TXS	MIL	IOW	POC	TOR		MDO	SNM	BAL	HOU		FON
			Tony Kanaan	11	4	13	20	21	1	13	12	3	10	3	13	5	24	24	13	15	21	24	3
			Simona de Silvestro	78	6	18	9	8	17	16	24	16	24	21	11	10	14	11	9	5	2	10	8
2014	Dallara DW12	Chevrolet IndyCar V6 t			STP	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	HOU		POC	IOW	TOR		MDO	MIL	SNM	FON
			Townsend Bell	6					25
			Sébastien Bourdais	11	13	14	15	4	7	13	20	20	4	5	16	19	1	9	2	12	11	18
			Sebastián Saavedra	17	11	9	18	23	15	14	22	14	15	17	15	17	19	21	20	18	16	17
			James Davison	33					16
2015	Dallara DW12	Chevrolet IndyCar V6 t			STP	NOL	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	TOR	FON	MIL	IOW	MDO	POC	SNM
			Stefano Coletti	4	20	17	23	19	8	25	15	16	19	23	11	20	20	19	24	17
			Sébastien Bourdais	11	6	21	6	8	4	11	14	1	14	5	14	1	9	17	23	20
2016	Dallara DW12	Chevrolet IndyCar V6 t			STP	PHX	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		ROA	IOW	TOR	MDO	POC	TXS	WGL	SNM
			Sébastien Bourdais	11	21	8	9	16	24	9	1	8	18	8	7	20	5	10	5	10
			Stefan Wilson	25						28

¹ Used at 2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

² Non-points-paying, exhibition race.

References

↑ "Pollock launches PK Racing team". Autosport.com. Autosport International. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
↑ "Sato, Viso confirmed for 2011 IndyCar season with KV Racing Technology-Lotus". PRNmag.com. Ignition & Luxury Performance Magazine. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
↑ Lamm, John. "Rubens Barrichello to IndyCar". Road & Track Magazine. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
↑ "Simona de Silvestro to drive No. 78". Associated Press. ESPN. October 30, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
↑ Associated Press (October 4, 2013). "IndyCar: Ganassi Signs Kanaan, Announces Switch To Chevy". Fox Sports. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
↑ "KV Racing Technology names Stefano Coletti for 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series seat". Autoweek.com. Retrieved 12 February 2017.

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