Champ Car World Series - Rocketsports Racing

Rocketsports Racing

ROCKETSPORTS RACING

Headquarters: Lansing, Michigan

Owners: Paul Gentilozzi

Team Manager: Phil Howard

General Manager: Greg Remer

DRIVERS:

Antonio Pizzonia

#10 Cosworth / DP01

Enrique Bernoldi

#36 Sangari Cosworth / DP01

TEAM HIGHLIGHTS

Won series' Rookie-of-the-Year title with Timo Glock in 2005
Scored first Champ Car victory with Alex Tagliani at Road America in 2004
Finished a team-best seventh in the 2004 Champ Car point standings with Alex Tagliani
Won two Champ Car poles in rookie season of 2003

TEAM BIO:
2008 saw the Rocketsports Racing squad continues its steady growth with another two-car effort in the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. The team earned its first Rookie-of-the-Year title in '05 when German Timo Glock bested a strong field of first-year drivers. Glock scored 10 top-ten finishes including a second-place run at Montreal to win the award. In 2008 the team won one race when driver Antonio Pizzonia won the Champ Car Grand Prix of Edmonton. The team also campaigned Americans Ryan Hunter-Reay and Michael McDowell, with earning four top-10 finishes of his own. The Rocketsports Racing squad expanded its presence in the series in 2004 by ramping up to a two-car effort, and in the process, bettered the results with drivers Alex Tagliani, Guy Smith and Nelson Philippe.

Tagliani scored the first victory of his career and the first for the Lansing, Michigan team when he beat the field to the stripe at Road America, coming from 13th on the starting grid to win the race. Tagliani would also collect a podium finish in Cleveland, helping the team to a seventh-place finish in the season point standings, the best in its brief history. The second car was first manned by the rookie Philippe, who became the youngest-ever driver in the Champ Car World Series when he took the flag for the season opener in Long Beach. The Frenchman scored two top-10 drives before giving way first to Memo Gidley and then to sports-car veteran Guy Smith for the year's final seven races. Smith scored three top-10 finishes in his seven starts. The team scored two poles during its rookie year in the series with Tagliani finishing 10th in the season point standings.