Newman/Haas Racing

Not to be confused with Stewart-Haas Racing, Haas F1 Team, Haas Lola, or Carl A. Haas Motorsports.

Newman / Haas Racing
Career
Owner(s)	Paul Newman Carl Haas Mike Lanigan
Base	Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States
Series	IZOD IndyCar Series
Debut	1983 Kraco Dixie 200
Latest race	2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championships
Drivers' Championships	8
Race victories	107
Pole positions	109

Newman/Haas Racing (NHR) was a motor racing team competing in the IndyCar Series. The team operations were based in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Newman/Haas Racing was formed when actor Paul Newman and long-time racer Carl Haas, competitors in the Can-Am championship, each began looking to CART racing in 1982. The two decided to join forces for 1983, with Mario Andretti as the team’s driver. The team won 105 CART races and 8 Drivers' championships. From 2007 until May 2010 Mike Lanigan became a partner in the company, resulting in the change of team name for that time. In 2011, Carl Haas announced that the team would not run in the IndyCar Series in 2012 due to the economic climate.^[1]

Drivers' champions

Year	Champion	Wins	Chassis	Engine	Tyres
1984	Mario Andretti	6	Lola T800	Cosworth DFX	Goodyear
1991	Michael Andretti	8	Lola T91/00	Chevrolet 265A	Goodyear
1993	Nigel Mansell	5	Lola T93/00	Ford XB	Goodyear
2002	Cristiano da Matta	7	Lola B02/00	Toyota RV8F	Bridgestone
2004	Sébastien Bourdais	7	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE	Bridgestone
2005	Sébastien Bourdais (2)	6	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE	Bridgestone
2006	Sébastien Bourdais (3)	7	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE	Bridgestone
2007	Sébastien Bourdais (4)	8	Panoz DP01	Ford XFE	Bridgestone

Championship Auto Racing Teams

Nigel Mansell driving for the team in 1993.

NHR was one of the most successful teams in the history of CART, its drivers winning eight championships: Mario Andretti in 1984, Michael Andretti in 1991, Nigel Mansell in 1993, Cristiano da Matta in 2002, and Sébastien Bourdais in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Newman/Haas Racing was also second overall in driver wins. The team had many notable drivers over the years, including Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Paul Tracy, Cristiano da Matta, Sébastien Bourdais, Justin Wilson, and Graham Rahal.

In 2005, Newman/Haas Racing fielded two cars in the Champ Car World Series. The drivers were Bruno Junqueira and Sébastien Bourdais, the eventual champion. Junqueira was injured in a crash during the 2005 Indianapolis 500, however, and was replaced in the cockpit by Oriol Servià.

Bourdais won four Champ Car titles with the team.

For 2006, Newman/Haas Racing fielded two cars in the Champ Car World Series. The cars were upgraded Lola B03-00 chassis, powered by Ford Cosworth engines with Bridgestone tires. The drivers were Sébastien Bourdais and Bruno Junqueira.

NHR earned its 100th CART win on June 10, 2007 when Sébastian Bourdais won the Portland Grand Prix by 15 seconds.

After more than a decade of intense rivalry, Indy Racing League founder and CEO Tony George and the owners of the Champ Car World Series agreed on February 22, 2008, to re-unify American open-wheel racing for 2008 and beyond. Newman/Haas Racing welcomed the news and confirmed their participation in the unified IndyCar Series in 2008 with Justin Wilson and Graham Rahal.

IndyCar Series

2008 season

The 2008 season started in the difficulty typical to all transitional teams, with Wilson struggling for pace on the high-speed Homestead-Miami Speedway. Graham Rahal in the Hole-In-The-Wall-Camps car was not able to run in the opening race after crashing heavily in testing at Homestead. Wilson drove a steady race to finish highly amongst the ex-ChampCar teams, but struggled to race the established IndyCar teams.

Fortunes changed dramatically for the powerful squad at round two on the streets of St. Petersburg in Florida. Wilson qualified strongly, and led most of the opening stint before being shuffled back in the chaotic stops onto slick tires as the track dried. Graham Rahal's crew, however, read the conditions perfectly, and filled him with just enough fuel to scrape to the end with a few safety cars. It came down to the final laps, when Rahal had just enough fuel to pull away from Helio Castroneves to take an historical win, becoming the youngest winner in the history of major open-wheel racing.

Round 3, the final Champ Car sanctioned event at Long Beach, was tough for NHR. Wilson was supreme in qualifying and took pole position. Running a strong second early on the race, his engine suffered a rare failure and was out. Rahal struggled, and after a spin mid-race, he crashed out on the final lap.

Round 17 of the season in Detroit brought the team their second win of the year with Justin Wilson standing at the top of the podium following a battle with Helio Castroneves through the latter half of the race. Wilson started 6th on the grid, after the first set of pitstops Wilson moved up to second on the road behind Castroneves and pressured him for the lead initially before falling back to a comfortable second. The second set of stops and a safety car brought Wilson back to contention, he again pressured Castroneves who blocked Wilson and was forced to give Wilson the lead by race control. Once in the lead Wilson managed to pull away, eventually winning by over 4 seconds.

After the Detroit race Wilson sits eleventh in the driver's standings with Rahal in seventeenth, with Wilson second in the rookie of the year standings and Rahal 45 points behind in fourth.

2009 season

Wilson's services were not retained by the team for 2009. He was replaced by former Champ Car driver Robert Doornbos on the team. Rahal shifted to Wilson's 02 car, and Doornbos took over the 06. Milka Duno tested a third car for the team before the season, but a full-season ride never materialized. McDonald's returned as primary sponsor of the 02, and as of Richmond the 06 began to carry McDonald's decals on its sidepods as well. On Tuesday 4 August, Doornbos announced that he had left the team with immediate effect. Subsequently Oriol Servià, who had previous substituted for the team for Bruno Junqueira in 2005, was announced as the driver of the 06 for the remainder of the 2009 series.

2010 season

Unable to find sponsorship for Graham Rahal's 02 car, Newman Haas released him and started the 2010 schedule with only one driver: Hideki Mutoh driving the 06 car coming from Andretti Green Racing. However Rahal returned to the team in the 02 car for the Honda Indy Toronto, finishing 5th. Rahal later found sponsorship for five more races.

2011 season

Newman/Haas started the 2011 series with one car, driven by Oriol Servià and sponsored by Telemundo.

Prior to the second race of the season, Newman/Haas Racing announced that Canadian James Hinchcliffe would drive for the team in the North American events of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season including his debut in the 100th Anniversary Indianapolis 500 and events in his hometown of Toronto as well as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Sprott Inc., a leading independent asset manager based in Toronto, was the primary sponsor of Hinchcliffe’s car.

2012 season

Although Newman/Haas Racing initially planned to run the full 2012 IndyCar Series season, even going as far to buy two Dallara DW12 chassis, Carl Haas announced on December 1, 2011 that they would not run the season due to lack of sponsorship. Although they initially announced they would run the 2012 Indianapolis 500 with Jean Alesi, they later withdrew and Alesi went on the race in the Indianapolis 500 with Fan Force United. The team told press that they would try to return to the Indycar series for the 2013 season with two cars, but that failed to materialize.^[2] As of May, 2013, the team's website and Twitter feed had not been updated in more than a year.

Drivers

Mario Andretti (1983–1994)
Michael Andretti (1989–1992, 1995–2000)
Sébastien Bourdais (2003–2007)
Cristiano da Matta (2001–2002)
Robert Doornbos (2009)
Teo Fabi (1992, substitute for Mario Andretti)
Christian Fittipaldi (1996–2002)
James Hinchcliffe (2011)
Alan Jones (1985, substitute for Mario Andretti)
Bruno Junqueira (2003–2006)
Alex Lloyd (2009)
Nigel Mansell (1993–1994)
Roberto Moreno (1997–1999, sub for Fittipaldi)
Hideki Mutoh (2010)
Graham Rahal (2007–2010)
Oriol Servià (2005, substitute for Junqueira; 2009, replacement for Doornbos; 2011)
Paul Tracy (1995)
Justin Wilson (2008)

Racing results

Complete CART / Champ Car World Series results

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

Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
1983	Lola T700	Cosworth DFX V8 t			ATL	INDY	MIL	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	RIV	MDO	MCH	CPL	LAG	PHX
1983	Lola T700	Cosworth DFX V8 t	Mario Andretti	3	5	23	18	15	3	1	7	16	2	4	1*	2	2
1984	Lola T800	Cosworth DFX V8 t			LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	PHX	LAG	CPL
1984	Lola T800	Cosworth DFX V8 t	Mario Andretti	3	1*	20	17	8	26	1*	21	1	1*	19	1*	7	1	12	2	2
1985	Lola T900	Cosworth DFX V8 t			LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	LAG	PHX	MIA
			Alan Jones	1								3
			Mario Andretti	1	1*		1*	1	26	14*	10		7	7	15	21	11	3	27
			Mario Andretti	3		2*
1986	Lola T86/00	Cosworth DFX V8 t			PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	TOR	MCH	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	ROA	LAG	PHX	MIA
			Mario Andretti	2			32
			Mario Andretti	5	7	5		5	1	24	3	3	21	1	24	8	10	9	4	4	11
1987	Lola T87/00	Chevrolet 265A V8 t			LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	TOR	MCH	POC	ROA	MDO	NAZ	LAG	MIA
1987	Lola T87/00	Chevrolet 265A V8 t	Mario Andretti	5	1*	5	9*	17	10	2	10	15	19	19	1*	17	19	17*	4
1988	Lola T88/00	Chevrolet 265A V8 t			PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	MEA	MIC	POC	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG	MIA
1988	Lola T88/00	Chevrolet 265A V8 t	Mario Andretti	6	1*	15	20	17	5	1	25	2	12	17	2	3	3	3	15
1989	Lola T89/00	Chevrolet 265A V8 t			PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MCH	POC	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG
			Mario Andretti	5	8	18	4	7	3	25	2	20	26	3	5	7	7	8	2
			Michael Andretti	6	4	2	17	2	13*	6	18	18*	1	1*	3	3	6*	5	7
1990	Lola T90/00	Chevrolet 265A V8 t			PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MCH	DEN	VAN	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG
			Michael Andretti	3	20	4	20	5*	1*	1*	25	1*	2	15	5	20	1*	1	5	3
			Mario Andretti	6	4	5	27	21	25	2	4	24	6	3	4	3	2	5	4	26
1991	Lola T91/00	Chevrolet 265A V8 t			SFR	LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MCH	DEN	VAN	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG
			Michael Andretti	2	14	16	4		1*	19	1*	1	16	1*	14*	3	1*	1*	1*	3*	1*
			Michael Andretti	10				2*
			Mario Andretti	6	17	19	9	7	3	7	5	6	15	2	4	15	4	7	3	5	3
1992	Lola T91/00 Lola T92/00	Ford XB V8 t			SFR	PHX	LBH	INDY	DET	POR	MIL	NHA	TOR	MCH	CLE	ROA	VAN	MDO	NAZ	LAG
			Michael Andretti	1	17*	10	16	13*	4*	1*	1*	2	1*	18	2	4	1*	21*	2*	1*
			Mario Andretti	2	7	17	23	23		6	6	7	4	15	5	5	6	5	5	2
			Teo Fabi	2					6
1993	Lola T93/00	Ford XB V8 t			SFR	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	NHA	ROA	VAN	MDO	NAZ	LAG
			Nigel Mansell	5	1	Wth	3	3	1	15	2	3	20	1*	1	2	6	12	1*	23
			Mario Andretti	6	4	1	18	5*	18	3	6	5	8	2	20	15	5	7	13	9
1994	Lola T94/00	Ford XB V8 t			SFR	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	NHA	VAN	ROA	NAZ	LAG
			Nigel Mansell	1	9	3	2	22	5	21	5	2	23	26	7	18	10*	13	22	8
			Mario Andretti	6	3	21	5	32	14	18	9	27	4	18	10	19	11	16	25	19
1995	Lola T95/00	Ford XB V8 t			MIA	SFR	PHX	LBH	NAZ	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	ROA	TOR	CLE	MCH	MDO	NHA	VAN	LAG
			Paul Tracy	3	27	1	4	28	26	24	1	8	18	2	8	26	23	2	23	8	2
			Michael Andretti	6	20*	9*	2	9	22	25	3	4	4	27	1*	7	25	19*	2	21	4
1996	Lola T96/00	Ford XD V8 t			MIA	RIO	SFR	LBH	NAZ	500	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG
			Michael Andretti	6	9	22	19	7	1*	23	1	1	11	19	22	22	3	1	1*	9
			Christian Fittipaldi	11	6	5	5	21	9	12	6	2*	3	7	7	10	7	16	3	10
1997	Swift 007.i	Ford XD V8 t			MIA	SFR	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	FON
			Michael Andretti	6	1*	3	22	2	21	11*	2	2	8	23	4	21	8	26	16	27	19
			Christian Fittipaldi	11	26	28							4	6	11	16	21	4	9	21	9
			Roberto Moreno	11			24	14	18	25	10	5
1998	Swift 009.c	Ford XD V8 t			MIA	MOT	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	HOU	SFR	FON
			Michael Andretti	6	1*	14	21	18*	5	2*	26	10	17	2	2	6	21	15	2	10	28	20	18
			Christian Fittipaldi	11	4	25	26	11	21	11	DNS	17	26	11	16	25	13	3	14	9	27	3	7
			Roberto Moreno	11							24
1999	Swift 010.c	Ford XD V8 t			MIA	MOT	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	POR	CLE	ROA	TOR	MCH	DET	MDO	CHI	VAN	LAG	HOU	SRF	FON
			Michael Andretti	6	2	5	7	6	26	1*	15	10	3	2	26	4	4	8	22	14	10	3	5	21
			Christian Fittipaldi	11	9	3	5	7	3	9	6	14	12	1	3	8						7	25	3
			Roberto Moreno	11													14	16	9	15	2
2000	Reynard 2Ki	Ford XF V8 t			MIA	LBH	RIO	MOT	NAZ	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	CHI	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	GAT	HOU	SRF	FON
			Michael Andretti	6	22	14	9	1	6	2	13	4	4	1	2	2	8	19	12	14	20*	13	20	19
			Christian Fittipaldi	11	7	18	5	11	11	9	19	3	17	17	14	DNS	3	15	4	10	12	6	15	1
2001	Lola B01/00	Toyota RV8F V8 t			MTY	LBH	NAZ	MOT	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	CHI	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAU	ROC	HOU	LAG	SRF	FON
			Cristiano da Matta	6	1*	2	10	25	25	7	10	7	15	4	19	10	6	20	26	3	6	20	1	1
			Christian Fittipaldi	11	20	24	5	4	18	5	3	11	12	18	25	8	18	11	19	24	8	9	8	13
2002	Lola B02/00	Toyota RV8F V8 t			MTY	LBH	MOT	MIL	LAG	POR	CHI	TOR	CLE	VAN	MDO	ROA	MTL	DEN	ROC	MIA	SFR	FON	MXC
			Cristiano da Matta	1																	8*	11	2
			Cristiano da Matta	6	1*	8	13	11	1*	1*	1*	1*	16	12	13	1	2	3	2	1*
			Christian Fittipaldi	11	3	13	12	4	2	13	14	3	12	13	2	6	7	5	17	2	11	7	15
2003	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8 t			STP	MTY	LBH	BRH	LAU	MIL	LAG	POR	CLE	TOR	VAN	ROA	MDO	MTL	DEN	MIA	MXC	SFR
			Bruno Junqueira	1	3	5	3	2	4	17	2	4	3	3	2	1*	13	13	1*	9	7	15*
			Sébastien Bourdais	2	11	17	16	1*	1*	9	17	14	1	4	3	2	5	19	2	17	2	17
2004	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8 t			LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	VAN	ROA	DEN	MTL	LAG	LSV	SFR	MXC
			Sébastien Bourdais	2	3	1*	18	1*	1*	1*	5	3	1	15*	8	1*	2	1*
			Bruno Junqueira	6	2	2	6	2	2	18	4	15	3	1	2	2	1	2
2005	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8 t			LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	LSV	SRF	MXC
			Sébastien Bourdais	1	1*	5	6	2	5	5*	1	1*	1	4*	1	1*	17
			Bruno Junqueira	2	3	1
			Oriol Servià	2			3	16	3	2	2	3	4	1	2	5	4
2006	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8 t			LBH	HOU	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	ROA	SRF	MXC
			Sébastien Bourdais	1	1*	1	1*	1*	3	18	3	2*	1*	7	1*	3*	8	1
			Bruno Junqueira	2	15	10	10	15	4	2	8	15	17	2	12	2	6	4
2007	Panoz DP01	Cosworth XFE V8 t			LSV	LBH	HOU	POR	CLE	MTT	TOR	EDM	SJO	ROA	ZOL	ASN	SFR	MXC
			Sébastien Bourdais	1	13	1*	1*	1	12	2*	9	1*	5	1*	1*	7	1*	1*
			Graham Rahal	2	17	8	2	9	8	7	11	3	6	3	3	9	11	4

Complete IndyCar Series results

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
2004	G-Force GF09B	Honda HI4R V8			HMS	PHX	MOT	INDY	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MCH	KTY	PPIR	NAZ	CHI	FON	TXS
2004	G-Force GF09B	Honda HI4R V8	Bruno Junqueira	36				5
2005	Panoz GF09C	Honda HI5R V8			HMS	PHX	STP	MOT	INDY	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MCH	KTY	PPIR	SNM	CHI	WGL	FON
			Bruno Junqueira	36					30
			Sébastien Bourdais	37					12
2008	Dallara IR-05 Panoz DP01¹	Honda HI7R V8 Cosworth XFE V8 t¹			HMS	STP	MOT	LBH	KAN	INDY	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	EDM	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI	SRF²
			Justin Wilson	02	15	9		19	9	27	7	27	12	7	25	18	11	3	24	9	1	11	12
			Graham Rahal	06		1*		13	12	33	25	11	10	18	8	12	16	26	25	8	13	19	9
2009	Dallara IR-05	Honda HI7R V8			STP	LBH	KAN	INDY	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	TOR	EDM	KTY	MDO	SNM	CHI	MOT	HMS
			Graham Rahal	02	7	12	7	31	4	22	11	3	13	20	7	5	8	21	5	3	11
			Robert Doornbos	06	11	9	12	28	14	11	15	9	9	23	9	19
			Oriol Servià	06													11	6	7	4
			Alex Lloyd	40202																	8
2010	Dallara IR-05	Honda HI7R V8			SAO	STP	ALA	LBH	KAN	INDY	TXS	IOW	WGL	TOR	EDM	MDO	SNM	CHI	KTY	MOT	HMS
			Graham Rahal	02										5		20	9	10		8	10
			Hideki Mutoh	06	20	14	15	13	23	28	12	20	12	12	17	18	17	13	17	14	20
2011	Dallara IR-05	Honda HI7R V8			STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	TXS		MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM	MDO	NHA	SNM	BAL	MOT	KTY	LSV
			Oriol Servià	2	9	5	6	5	6	21	15	3	14	12	22	8	2	11	2	5	6	C
			James Hinchcliffe	06		24	4	9	29	20	19	6	9	14	15	20	4	7	24	15	4	C

¹ Used at 2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

² Non-points-paying, exhibition race.

References

↑ Cavin, Curt (December 26, 2011). "Farewell, Champions". AutoWeek 61 (26): 80.
↑ INDYCAR: Newman/Haas Working On Two-Car Return In 2013 Marshall Pruett for speedtv.com, May 03, 2012.

External links

Newman/Haas Racing

Owners	Paul Newman (1983-2008) Mike Lanigan (2007-2010) Carl Haas

Notable drivers	Mario Andretti Michael Andretti Sébastien Bourdais Cristiano da Matta Nigel Mansell Paul Tracy

National Championships	1984 (Ma. Andretti) 1991 (Mi. Andretti) 1993 (Mansell) 2002 (da Matta) 2004 (Bourdais) 2005 (Bourdais) 2006 (Bourdais) 2007 (Bourdais)

See Also	Newman Wachs Racing Newman's Own Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Carl A. Haas Motorsports Haas Lola Lola Racing Cars Mi-Jack

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