Sigma Autosport was a CART

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racing team that competed in 2001 and 2002. It was owned by former Toyota Atlantic driver Tom Wieringa. Sigma competed in the

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with driver

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. Servià finished 19th in points with two fifth-place finishes. In the off-season, Wieringa drove in a test himself on the Homestead-Miami Speedway road course. For the

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, Sigma hired veteran

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, who had recently been let go from

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. The team reportedly missed a payment to engine supplier

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and was forced to miss a practice session at the

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, the second race of the season. In the sixth race of the season, the team was again in arrears to Cosworth and was denied an engine and the team was forced to miss the race. The team shut down shortly thereafter, reporting that the reason was that several of their sponsors had failed to make their agreed payments to the team. Papis sat sixth in points after his last race start at

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, having scored third-place finishes at Long Beach and the

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.2002 Grand Prix of Monterey
''Racing-Reference.Info'', Retrieved 2017-03-27 He finished the season in 19th after making two starts later in the season for Fernandez Racing. The team also fielded a Toyota Atlantic car for Tom Wieringa's son

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, who completed the 2002 season with the team finishing 16th in points with a best finish of tenth at

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. Tom Wieringa later appeared competing in the Indy Pro Series/

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, competing in sixteen races from 2006 to 2008, primarily competing for

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rather than his own team.

Complete CART FedEx Championship Series results

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

References

{{Champ Car teams Champ Car teams 2001 establishments in the United States 2002 disestablishments in the United States Atlantic Championship teams