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Ryan Briscoe (born 24 September 1981 in Sydney) is an Australian auto racing driver who has raced open wheel and sports cars in Europe and America.
[edit] Career biography[edit] Early careerLike 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] 2005There were rumors[1] 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 11 September 2005 he was involved in a violent crash at Chicagoland Speedway, breaking both clavicles among other injuries. His car climbed on tip of a spinning Michael Andretti and went airborne. The vehicle went flying against the wall, catching aflame and snapping in two. He was released from the hospital on 19 September 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 14 November 2005. Following the Ryan's accident, he was nicknamed "Briscoe Inferno".[citation needed] [edit] 2006Briscoe 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 returned 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] 2007Briscoe signed a deal to drive for Penske Racing's Porsche LMP2 car in the American Le Mans Series and was named to a ride in the Indy 500 in a car owned by Stephen J. Luczo and Jay Penske with equipment leased from defending '500' champion Penske Racing. Driving the #12 Symantec Luczo Dragon Racing machine, Briscoe qualified 7th with a four lap average speed of 224.410. In the race on 28 May 2007, he completed all 166 laps before the race was called due to a driving rain. Briscoe finished 5th amongst the 33 participants earning him $302,305 and 30 driver points. [edit] 2008Ryan Briscoe signed to drive for Penske's Indy Car team as a race driver for the 2008 Indy Car Series season, replacing the former driver Sam Hornish, Jr., who is racing full time in Penske's NASCAR team in 2008. Briscoe knocked himself out of the Indianapolis 500 along with Danica Patrick when Briscoe came out of the pits and ran into Patrick tearing up her suspension and tearing the front end of Briscoe's car.[2] Briscoe earned his first career win at Milwaukee the week after Indy. Holding off Scott Dixon and avoiding a late crash involving Marco Andretti, Ed Carpenter, and Vitor Meira. He followed up his first career win with a victory, shortly after the halfway point of the season, at the Honda 200 on the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Briscoe also became the first Australian to claim victory at the Surfers Paradise Indy event on October 26 2008 after countryman and favourite Will Power crashed out early in the race. [edit] 20092009 started well for Briscoe, with a restart pass on Justin Wilson giving him the win at the first round of the championship at St. Petersburg. At the second round at Long Beach, Penske were not quick, and that compoinded with bad luck pushed Briscoe down to 13th. At the third round at the Kansas Speedway, Briscoe qualified seventh. He was very quick, and was battling with eventual winner Scott Dixon when a yellow flag got him down the order. Briscoe charged back, and set the fastest race race lap and finished 4th. Briscoe qualified 2nd for the Indianapolis 500. Briscoe was in the lead after 64 laps, but lost the lead on a bad set of tires. He was forced to make an unscheduled stop which dropped him down to 24th. He couldn't recover, and finished 15th. The next round was at the Milwaukee Mile where Briscoe took pole position. After losing the lead to Tony Kanaan on the first lap, Briscoe took the lead on the 26th lap and led until the second round of pitstops when Dario Franchitti jumped him. However, Briscoe passed him 20 laps later and kept the lead at the final round of stops. On lap 201 out of 225, Scott Dixon took advantage of Briscoe stuck behind backmarker Tomas Scheckter and passed him on the inside to win, with Briscoe second. Round 6 was at the Texas Motor Speedway and Briscoe qualified second. He passed polesitter Dario Franchitti on the 10th lap and pulled away. With no cautions for the next 140 laps, Briscoe pulled away and by lap 150, had a 15 second lead over second placed Marco Andretti. A caution for debris on lap 151 took away all that, and now Brisoce had Andretti, as well as teammate Helio Castroneves and the Ganassi cars of Scott Dixon and Franchitti behind him. The third round of stops took place on lap 176, at another caution. A six second stop for Castroneves got him ahead of Briscoe, and for the remaining 52 laps, Briscoe with the quicker car was unable to pass Castroneves and had to settle for second for the second consecutive race after leading the most laps. [edit] Motorsports Career Results[edit] Complete International Formula 3000 results(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
[edit] Complete German Formula Three results(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
[edit] Complete Formula Three Series results(key)
[edit] Complete Formula One results(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
* Was entered as Third Driver, but did not run due to bad weather. [edit] Complete A1 Grand Prix results(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
[edit] American Open Wheel Racing(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
[edit] Touring/Sports Car Racing(Races in bold indicate pole position)
* Overall victory as well as class victory. [edit] Overall Stats
Complete to 12 October 2009. [edit] Indy 500 results
[edit] Trivia
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