John Edwards #6 Hole In the Wall Camps Cosworth / DP01

TEAM HIGHLIGHTS
Most successful team currently participating in the Champ Car World Series with 97 victories and seven titles

Second in Champ Car history with 100 pole positions
Only team in Champ Car history to win titles with five different drivers (1984, 1991, 1993, 2002, 2004-06)
Finished 1-2 in the Champ Car season standings in 2004 and 2005
Winners of at least one event in 23 of 24 seasons

TEAM BIO
Newman/Haas Racing was formed when actor Paul Newman and long-time racer Carl Haas, competitors in the Can Am Series, each began looking to Champ Car racing in 1982. The two decided to join forces for 1983, with Mario Andretti as the team's driver.

Since then, the team has won 97 Champ Car races, as well as Mario Andretti's 1984 series title, Michael Andretti's 1991 championship, Nigel Mansell's 1993 series crown, Cristiano da Matta's 2002 title and the 2004, 2005 and 2006 championships with Sebastien Bourdais. Under the revised name of Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing, the team will begin their 25th season of Champ Car competition in 2007 and will attempt to add to the seven championships, 97 race wins and 100 pole positions earned by Newman/Haas Racing.

Nothing new to making history, having helped Mario to 18 wins and scoring the unheard-of F1/Champ Car double with Mansell in ?93, Newman/Haas Racing again broke new ground in 2006 as Sebastien Bourdais earned his record-tying third consecutive championship, matching the feat of Ted Horn (1946-48) in becoming only the second driver to win three straight titles.

The championship was more impressive as it was the first in 26 years where a driver led the Champ Car points standings from wire-to-wire. He scored seven wins and seven poles and set a personal best with 11 podium finishes. Bruno Junqueira returned to the car after his violent accident at the Indianapolis 500, and suffered a number of bad-luck incidents that ended promising runs. He persevered through the maladies, winning the pole in Portland, scoring three podiums and finishing fifth in the championship.

The 2005 championship may have been one of the finest hours for the team as it came under great hardship. Both Bourdais and Junqueira split the first two wins of the year, but Junqueira was injured in an accident at Indianapolis, leaving him unable to compete for the remainder of the season after having just taken over the Champ Car point lead. The team signed veteran Oriol Servia to replace him, and the affable Spaniard took full advantage of the opportunity, winning the first race and pole of his career while finishing a career-best second in the series. Bourdais again dominated the championship, using a second-half run of five wins in six starts to clinch the title. The performance made the team the first Champ Car squad since 1994 to have three different drivers win races in the same season.

The team had one of its best seasons ever in 2004, dominating the competition with Bourdais and Junqueira, sweeping the top-two spots in the season championship for the first time in its storied history. The team scored nine wins and nine poles in the march to the title and finished 1-2 an amazing six times in the year's 14 races.

The duo joined Newman/Haas in 2003 and combined for five wins and seven poles, including poles in the first two starts of Bourdais' career. Junqueira went on to finish second in the championship while Bourdais placed fourth, marking the first of three times that the teammates would both finish in the top-five in the final standings.

Da Matta, in his third season of Champ Car competition, scored three wins after taking over for Michael Andretti in 2001, including a victory in his first start with the team at Monterrey, Mexico. The change signaled the first time in the team's 18 seasons that it did not have an Andretti on the team, but da Matta made the move pay off with a breakout year in 2002 to give the team its fourth title. He won seven races, including four in a row, seven poles and bested the field by 73 points.