Two-time Champ Car World Series winner, Ryan
Hunter-Reay, teams up with Rocketsports Racing for the 2005 Bridgestone Presents
the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season
source: champcarworldseries.com Hunter-Reay and Rocketsports enter their third year of Champ Car competition starting with the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 10th. The most notable of Hunter-Reay's victories is a dominating flag-to-flag victory at the 2004 Time Warner Cable Road Runner 250 presented by US Bank in Milwaukee. Hunter-Reay holds the Champ Car record for the most laps led in a race, surpassing Nigel Mansell's record, became the first American in over 20 years to win in his rookie season, and is the only American driver to win a Champ Car race in the previous two seasons. Hunter-Reay is a pure product of the Champ Car ladder system having become the first driver of the program who started with the Stars of Tomorrow Karting Scholarship seat of the two liter Skip Barber Formula Dodge, then onto the Barber Dodge Pro Series and finally the Toyota Formula Atlantic Series before strapping into his 750 horsepower Cosworth powered open-wheel rocket. Hunter-Reay looks forward to the opportunity to work with the Rocketsports organization piloting the No. 31 Rocketsports Lola. "It's a great move for me to continue my Champ Car career," said Hunter-Reay. "The potential to win races is there, proven by Alex's (Tagliani) win last year. Paul (Gentilozzi) has put together an excellent program and I feel that I will fit into that program very well and our driver/team learning curve will be short."
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