Eric Jensen (born February 1, 1970) is a

Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

professional race team owner and a former professional race car driver from

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, Canada. As a driver, Jensen competed in the

Atlantic Championship The Atlantic Championship Series is an American open-wheel racing series with races throughout North America. It has previously been called Champ Car Atlantics, Toyota Atlantics (after its then engine supplier for sponsorship reasons), or just ...

and

Firestone Indy Lights Indy NXT (pronounced "Indy Next"), previously Indy Lights, is an American developmental automobile racing series sanctioned by IndyCar, currently known as INDY NXT by Firestone for sponsorship reasons. Indy NXT is the highest step on the Road ...

series during a 13-year career from 1997 to 2009. Jensen currently owns the professional car racing team

Jensen MotorSport Jensen MotorSport is an auto racing team that competes in the Formula Regional Americas Championship. It formerly competed in the Firestone Indy Lights series, Champ Car Atlantic Championship, the Formula BMW Americas Championship, and fielded ...

. Jensen MotorSport continues to operate race cars in several professional race series. In 2011, Jensen MotorSport operated race cars in the Firestone Indy Lights which is a race series that runs together with

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. The team operated three cars during the 2011 season for drivers

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, David Ostella, and Juan Pablo Garcia. The team scored a season best result of 3rd at the

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and set a lap record for Indy Lights at

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. Jensen MotorSport competed in the Atlantic Championship for eleven years from 1999 until 2009. Eric Jensen won the Team Owner of the Year award in the final season of the series in 2009. Jensen drivers in 2009 included Markus Niemela and Matt Lee. Henri Karjalainen drove for the team in 2008. Under

Champ Car Champ Car World Series (CCWS) was the series sanctioned by Open-Wheel Racing Series Inc., a Governing body, sanctioning body for American open-wheel car racing that operated from 2004 to 2008. It was the successor to Championship Auto Racing T ...

sanction, in the 2007 season Jensen operated race cars in the Champ Car Atlantic series for drivers

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, Tom Sutherland, and

Dominick Muermans Dominick Muermans (born 17 July 1984 in Geleen, Netherlands) is a Dutch racing driver. Dominick raced full-time in the Atlantic Championship in the 2008 season. Since 2008, he has raced in the Superleague Formula, in the 2008 season he raced f ...

. In 2006, the team operated race cars in the Champ Car Atlantic series for drivers Tim Bridgman and

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. Jensen MotorSport also operated race cars for

and Tom Sutherland in the

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USA championship.

Motorsports career results

American Open-Wheel racing results

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Indy Lights

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Atlantic Championship

External links

Jensen MotorSport official website
1970 births Indy Lights drivers Atlantic Championship drivers Racing drivers from Toronto Living people {{Canada-autoracing-bio-stub Canadian racing drivers Motorsport team owners Long stubs with short prose