CART always gives a most improved driver award for the season but there is no such honor for teams source: cart.com - Robin Miller If there were, Herdez Competition would be the runaway winner. After slagging around at the back of the pack as a rookie for most of 2002, Mario Dominguez turned into a contender in 2003 -- winning Miami, scoring three other podiums and finishing sixth in the point standings. And while Dominguez clearly stepped up his game so did his team - in every way - pit stops, engineering and overall reliability. "I won nine championships over the years in Europe so I've had some pretty fulfilling moments but the thing I like is that I believe we've built a good team of people and that gives me a lot of satisfaction," said Keith Wiggins, managing director and minority shareholder of Herdez Competition. "As much as the results, I'm proud of what we've done as a group." Wiggins, who began running the team in July of 2000 after founder Tony Bettenhausen lost his life in an airplane crash five months earlier, kept some core people, added some new faces and tried to mold it into a cohesive unit. "Sometimes it's harder to change an existing team than start a new one," said Wiggins, an Englishman whose success in Formula Ford, Formula 3 and Formula 3000 came with J.J. Lehto, David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen and Eddie Irvine. "When I came in it was probably 'Who's the bloody foreigner?' and I had to adapt because this series was different to anything I'd ever done.
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