They both kicked butt in shifter karts. Both won the Stars of Tomorrow scholarship. Both turned in dazzling debuts in Toyota Atlantic source: champcarworldseries.com - Robin Miller And, while one is a laid-back 17-year-old from California and the other an aggressive 23-year-old from Wisconsin, both have the same goal. Making their living in Champ Car. Alan Sciuto and Bobby Wilson are exactly what Champ Car needs to bolster its fan base in this country. They're red, white and blue kids with passion for open wheel racing who have no desire to follow the exodus of youth to NASCAR. Neither has any money, but both are loaded with talent and hopefully that will be enough to carry them to Formula Atlantics and beyond. Scuito (pronounced shoot-oh) showed up in San Jose last July with a handful of Barber Dodge and Star Mazda races under his belt and one day of testing in an Atlantic car a few months before. Yet despite his lack of familiarity with the car and circuit, he was the second fastest of 21 cars in his initial practice session, qualified seventh and finished fourth in the race for PR 1 Racing. The next stop was Denver and all he did was become the youngest driver to win a pole position in the 32-year history of Atlantics. Wisely, he took it easy on the start, dropped to fifth and then charged back to take second and his first podium. The complete article at ChampCarWorldSeries.com
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