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Ryan Briscoe

Ryan Briscoe at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Carb Day for the 2009 Indianapolis 500.
Nationality Australia Australian
Date of birth 24 September 1981 (1981-09-24) (age 28)
2010 IRL IndyCar Series
Debut season 2005
Current team Penske
Car no. 6
Former teams Luczo-Dragon Racing
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
Ganassi Racing
Starts 53
Wins 5
Poles 8
Best finish 3rd in 2009
Ryan Briscoe
American Le Mans Series
Years active 2007
Teams Penske
Car no. 6
Starts 12
Wins 3 (1 class, 2 outright)
Poles 0
Fastest laps 2
Best finish 3rd (LMP2) in 2007
Previous series
2001
2002
2003
2006		 Italian Formula Renault
Formula 3000 and German F3
Formula Three Euroseries
Champ Car World Series
Championship titles
2001
2003		 Italian Formula Renault
Formula Three Euroseries

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.

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[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[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] 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.

Ryan Briscoe waits for a qualification attempt at Indy in 2007

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] 2007

Briscoe 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] 2008

Ryan 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] 2009

2009 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] Racing record

[edit] Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2000 Formula Renault 2000 Italy Prema Powerteam 1 0 0 0 0 16 17th
2001 Formula Renault 2000 Italy Prema Powerteam 10 5 3 1 7 226 1st
Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup 6 2 1 2 3 102 4th
German Formula Three 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
French Formula Three 1 0 0 0 1 0 NC†
Masters of Formula 3 1 0 0 0 0 N/A NC
2002 German Formula Three Prema Powerteam 12 0 0 0 3 16 13th
International Formula 3000 7 0 0 0 0 0 NC
French Formula Three 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
Italian Formula Three 1 0 0  ? 0 0 NC†
Masters of Formula 3 1 0 0 0 0 N/A NC
2003 Formula Three Euroseries Prema Powerteam 20 8 4 5 10 110 1st
British Formula Three 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 7th
Masters of Formula 3 1 0 0 1 1 N/A 3rd
2005 IndyCar Series Target Chip Ganassi Racing 14 0 1 1 0 232 19th
Rolex Sports Car Series CompUSA Chip Ganassi 1 0 0  ? 0 24 68th
2005–06 A1 Grand Prix A1 Team Australia 4 0 0 0 1 51 13th
2006 IndyCar Series Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 4 0 0 0 1 83 21st
Champ Car World Series RuSPORT 2 0 0 0 0 17 21st
Rolex Sports Car Series  ? 2 0 0  ? 2 62 61st
V8 Supercar Holden Racing Team 2 0 0 0 0 120 58th
2006–07 A1 Grand Prix A1 Team Australia 6 0 0 0 1 25 13th
2007 American Le Mans Series - LMP2 Penske Racing 12 3 1 5 9 186 2nd
IndyCar Series Luczo-Dragon Racing 1 0 0 0 0 30 24th
2008 IndyCar Series Team Penske 17 2 3 4 5 447 5th
American Le Mans Series - LMP2 4 1 1 1 1 53 10th
Rolex Sports Car Series 1 0 0 0 1 30 46th
2009 IndyCar Series Penske Racing 17 3 4 5 11 604 3rd
Rolex Sports Car Series 1 0 0 0 0 25 41st

† - As Briscoe was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

[edit] Complete Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Points
2001 Prema Powerteam MOZ
Ret		 BRN
19		 MAG
3		 SIL ZOL HUN
4		 SPI NÜR JAR
1		 EST
1		 4th 102

[edit] Complete International Formula 3000 results

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

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 DC Points
2002 Coca-Cola Nordic Racing INT
12		 IMO
13		 CAT
12		 A1R
17		 MON
Ret		 NUR
Ret		 SIL
12		 MAG HOC HUN SPA MNZ NC 0

[edit] Complete German Formula Three results

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

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 DC Points
2002 Prema Powerteam HOC
1
 HOC
2
 SAC
1
 SAC
2
 NOR
1
 NOR
2
 LAU
1
11		 LAU
2
15		 HOC
3
Ret		 HOC
4
7		 NÜR
1
Ret		 NÜR
2
11		 A1R
1
5		 A1R
2
Ret		 ZAN
1
3		 ZAN
2
3		 HOC
5
3		 HOC
6
5		 13th 16

[edit] Complete Formula Three Euroseries results

(key)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Points
2003 Prema Powerteam Dallara F303/008 Spiess-Opel HOC
1
1		 HOC
2
1		 ADR
1
5		 ADR
2
1		 PAU
1
1		 PAU
2
2		 NOR
1
4		 NOR
2
Ret		 LMS
1
3		 LMS
2
Ret		 NÜR
1
Ret		 NÜR
2
7		 A1R
1
1		 A1R
2
1		 ZAN
1
17		 ZAN
2
1		 HOC
3
17		 HOC
4
1		 MAG
1
14		 MAG
2
14		 1st 110

[edit] Complete Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year Entrant Chassis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 WDC Points
2004 Panasonic Toyota Racing Toyota TF104 AUS
 MAL
 BHR
 SMR
 ESP
 MON
 EUR
 CAN
 USA
 FRA
 GBR
 GER
 HUN
TD		 BEL
TD		 ITA
TD		 CHN
TD		 JPN
*		 BRA
TD		 - -

* 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)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points
2005–06 A1 Team Australia GBR
SPR
 GBR
FEA
 GER
SPR
 GER
FEA
 POR
SPR
 POR
FEA
 AUS
SPR
 AUS
FEA
 MYS
SPR
 MYS
FEA
 UAE
SPR
 UAE
FEA
 RSA
SPR
 RSA
FEA
 IDN
SPR
 IDN
FEA
 MEX
SPR
 MEX
FEA
 USA
SPR
10		 USA
FEA
8		 CHN
SPR
9		 CHN
FEA
3		 13th 51
2006–07 NED
SPR
13		 NED
FEA
3		 CZE
SPR
 CZE
FEA
 CHN
SPR
 CHN
FEA
 MYS
SPR
12		 MYS
FEA
17		 IDN
SPR
6		 IDN
FEA
10		 NZL
SPR
 NZL
FEA
 AUS
SPR
 AUS
FEA
 RSA
SPR
 RSA
FEA
 MEX
SPR
 MEX
FEA
 CHN
SPR
 CHN
FEA
 GBR
SPR
 GBR
SPR
 13th 24

[edit] American open wheel results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

[edit] IndyCar

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Rank Points
2005 Ganassi HMS
Ret		 PHX
Ret		 STP
Ret		 JPN
12		 INDY
10		 TXS
12		 RIR
Ret		 KAN
Ret		 NSH
8		 MIL
DNS		 MIS
10		 KTY
13		 PPIR
Ret		 SNM
Ret		 CHI
Ret		 WGL
INJ		 CAL
INJ		 19th 232
2006 Dreyer &
Reinbold		 HMS STP JPN INDY
DNQ		 WGL
3		 TXS RIR KAN NSH
9		 MIL
Ret		 MIC KTY SNM
Ret		 CHI 21st 83
2007 Luczo-Dragon HMS STP MOT KAN INDY
5		 MIL TXS IOW RIR WGL NSH MDO MIS KTY SNM DET CHI 24th 30
2008 Penske HMS
Ret		 STP
Ret		 MOT1
9		 LBH1
DNP		 KAN
7		 INDY
Ret		 MIL
1		 TXS
3		 IOW
7		 RIR
Ret		 WGL
12		 NSH
Ret		 MDO
1		 EDM
6		 KTY
7		 SNM
2		 DET
9		 CHI
3		 SRF2
1		 5th 447
2009 Penske STP
1		 LBH
13		 KAN
4		 INDY
15		 MIL
2		 TXS
2		 IOW
2		 RIR
19		 WGL
2		 TOR
2		 EDM
4		 KTY
1		 MDO
2		 SNM
2		 CHI
1		 MOT
18		 HMS
2		 3rd 604
1 Run on same day
2 Non-points-paying, exhibition race

[edit] Indy 500 results

Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team
2005 Panoz Toyota 24th 10th Ganassi
2006 Dallara Honda Did not appear Foyt
2007 Dallara Honda 7th 5th Luczo-Dragon
2008 Dallara Honda 3rd 23rd Penske
2009 Dallara Honda 2nd 15th Penske

[edit] Champ Car

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Final Pos Points
2006 RuSPORT LBH
 HOU
 MTY
 MIL
 POR
 CLE
 TOR
 EDM
 SJO
 DEN
 MTL
 ROA
 SRF
11		 MXC
14		 21st 17

[edit] Touring/Sports Car Racing

(Races in bold indicate pole position)

[edit] V8 Supercar results

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Final Pos Points
2006 HRT ADL
 PUK
 BRG
 WIN
 HDV
 QLR
 ORP
 SAN
21		 BAT
Ret		 SUR
 SYM
 BAH
 PHI
 58th 120

[edit] American Le Mans Series results

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Final Pos Points
2007 Penske SEB
8		 STP
1		 LGB
2		 HOU
3		 MMP
1*		 LMR
1*		 MDO
2		 ROA
2		 MOS
2		 DET
7		 ATL
5		 LAG
2		 T-3rd 186

* Overall victory as well as class victory.

[edit] Trivia

 Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (June 2009)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Briscoe ready to debut at Daytona". BBC Sport. 2005-01-17. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/4182769.stm. Retrieved 2005-01-19. 
  2. ^ John Schwarb (2008-05-25). "Patrick struggled with car all day before late crash took her out". http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/racing/indycar/columns/story?columnist=schwarb_john&id=3412112. Retrieved 2008-05-25. 

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