Andersen Racing was a professional auto racing team that competed in
Firestone Indy Lights
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and
Star Mazda
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competition. It was owned by
Dan Andersen, who founded the
U.S. F2000 National Championship in 1991 and his brother John Andersen. The team was formed in 1999 and competed in amateur
SCCA
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Formula Continental
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Most Formula Continental's are Formula Ford 2000 (FF2000) models, which is a flat bottomed, steel tube frame open ...
and the similar F2000 Championship pro series.
In 2006 the team began racing in Star Mazda and they began racing in Indy Lights in 2007 fielding a car for
Andrew Prendeville and
Joey Scarallo who was replaced by
J. R. Hildebrand for the last three races of the season. The Indy Lights team was in partnership with
Rahal Letterman Racing
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. Hildebrand joined the team full-time in 2008 and the second car was shared by Prendeville who left the team mid-season and
Daniel Herrington who stepped in to replace him. Hildebrand captured the team's first Indy Lights win at
Kansas Speedway
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and finished 5th in points. The team also won the 2008 Star Mazda Team Championship.
Mario Romancini
Mario Klabin Xavier Romancini (born December 15, 1987 in Telêmaco Borba) is a professional racing driver from Brazil.
Romancini started his racing career in 2006 in the Brazilian Formula Renault 2.0 series. Driving for the Full Time Racing Tea ...
drove the team's primary car full-time in
2009
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and won two races on his way to 6th in the championship. The team also fielded up to two additional cars for four more drivers on a part-time basis. They fielded three cars (for
Conor Daly
Conor J. Daly (born December 15, 1991) is an American professional racing driver who competes in the NTT IndyCar Series, driving the No. 20 Chevrolet for Ed Carpenter Racing, and part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 50 Chevrolet Ca ...
,
Joel Miller, and
Richard Kent) in Star Mazda that won three races and finished 3rd, 5th, and 7th in the drivers championship respectively.
The team was unable to field a car full-time in
2010
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as the team's initial full-time driver Spaniard
Carmen Jordá
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suffered from a lack of funding and other drivers had to be drafted into the car on a race-by-race basis. Seven different drivers took the wheel of Andersen's Indy Lights cars in 2010. Andersen driver
Anders Krohn placed second in the
2010 Star Mazda Championship season
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and the team's four drivers combined to win a second team championship for Andersen. The team shut down operations in Indy Lights and Star Mazda prior to the 2011 season for financial reasons as well as for Andersen to focus on his revived U.S. F2000 National Championship series that he promotes, and in 2013 took over the Pro Mazda Championship.
The team owns and operates the Andersen Racepark
karting
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facility at their headquarters in
Palmetto, Florida
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History
A post office called Palmetto h ...
.
Andersen Racepark
, ''Andersen Racing'', retrieved 2010-10-04
Motorsports results
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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete USF2000 results
Complete Formula SCCA results
Complete Star Mazda results
Complete Indy Lights results
References
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External links
Andersen Racing official website
- Gordon Kirby, 5 August 2013
American auto racing teams
Indy Lights teams