Dreyer & Reinbold Racing

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing is a team of the IndyCar Series .

The team, founded in 2000, is owned by former driver Robbie Buhl and car dealer Dennis Reinbold. The team was never at the very top of the series; Robbie Buhl himself achieved the only race win in the very first race. His teammates changed in the early days, among them Sarah Fisher , who has since founded her own team. Before the 2006 season, the team was even close to being closed due to a lack of sponsorship funds.

# 15 Buddy Rice

In the 2008 season Dreyer & Reinbold Racing relied on the one hand on the former Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Rice and on the other hand on Townsend Bell and Milka Duno , who took turns in a second car. The performance of the Venezuelan racing amazon in particular was often not convincing, as it was unable to achieve a top 10 result in ten races. Bell, on the other hand, did this three times, although he only contested seven races. For the 2009 season , Mike Conway was hired as a full-time pilot, who was able to take a surprising third place in the race in Sonoma . Two other vehicles were driven by various drivers this season, although the cars were not used for the entire season.

The following two years were overshadowed by serious accidents involving DRR drivers. Justin Wilson joined his compatriot Conway as a full-time pilot in 2010 , with Conway having a serious accident on the penultimate lap of the Indianapolis 500 and being out for the rest of the season. He was replaced by various drivers, and the team used two more cars in individual races. In the following season it caught Wilson, who had an accident in training in Mid-Ohio and also had to sit out the rest of the season. As the second driver in the 2011 season, DRR relied on Ana Beatriz , who also had to be replaced for one race due to an injury, but did not impress in the other races either. Thus, none of the team's drivers made it into the top 20 of the final accounts this season.

The 2012 season marked a change in the IndyCars. With a new standard chassis and the entry of Chevrolet and Lotus as additional engine manufacturers, the series was put on a new technical basis. At the beginning of the season, Dreyer & Reinbold relied on Lotus as the engine supplier for the only chassis used, which was piloted by the Spaniard Oriol Servià . But from the first race of the season, the engine proved to be clearly inferior to the competition from Honda and Chevrolet. Like many other teams, DRR changed suppliers before the season highlight in Indianapolis so as not to be without a chance there. The team formed a strategic partnership with Panther Racing , which had a second engine contract with Chevrolet since the beginning of the season, but did not use it. The resulting partnership continues to this day. With the new engine in the rear, Servià was able to take fourth place in the Indy 500 and also achieve three more top five placements in the course of the rest of the season.

driver

season	No.	driver	comment
2000	23	Steve Knapp	only in Indianapolis
	24	Robbie Buhl
2001	24	Robbie Buhl
2002	22nd	Robbie Buhl
	23	Sarah Fisher	not in Miami, Phoenix, Fontana, Texas, Pikes Peak
	24	Memo Gidley	only in Fontana
2003	22nd	Robbie Buhl
	23	Sarah Fisher	not in Nazareth
2004	24	Robbie Buhl	the first four races
		Felipe Giaffone	the races from Texas
2005	24	Roger Yasukawa
	44	Jeff Bucknum	only in Motegi and Indianapolis
		Thiago Medeiros	California Speedway training only
2006	5	Buddy Lazier	in all season races not mentioned below
		Ryan Briscoe	only in Watkins Glen, Nashville, Milwaukee, Infineon Raceway
		Sarah Fisher	only in Kentucky and Chicagoland
	31	Al Unser Jr.	only in Indianapolis
2007	5	Sarah Fisher
	15th	Buddy Rice
	24	Roger Yasukawa	only in Indianapolis
2008	15th	Buddy Rice
	23	Milka Duno	in all season races not mentioned below, not in Long Beach
		Townsend Bell	only in St. Pete, Motegi, Milwaukee, Edmonton, Infineon Raceway, Surfers Paradise
	99		only in Indianapolis
2009	24	Mike Conway
	23	Darren Manning	only in St. Pete, Long Beach
		Milka Duno	in all season races not mentioned below
		Roger Yasukawa	only in Motegi
		Tomas Scheckter	in Milwaukee, Edmonton, Iowa, Richmond, Toronto only
	43		only in Texas, Kentucky, Chicagoland, Motegi, Homestead
		John Andretti	only in Indianapolis, as "Petty Motorsports"
	44	Davey Hamilton	only on the Indy 500
2010	22nd	Justin Wilson
	23	Ana Beatriz	only in Sao Paulo
		Tomas Scheckter	only in Indianapolis
	24		only in Texas, Toronto, Edmonton
		Mike Conway	all races up to and including Indianapolis
		Graham Rahal	only in Iowa
		Paul Tracy	Watkins Glen, Kentucky, Motegi only
		JR Hildebrand	Mid-Ohio, Infineon Raceway only
		Ana Beatriz	only in Chicagoland, Homestead
	25th		only in Indianapolis
2011	11	Davey Hamilton	only in Indianapolis, Texas and Las Vegas
	22nd	Justin Wilson	all races up to and including Edmonton
		Simon Pagenaud	only in mid-ohio
		Tomas Scheckter	only in Loudon
		Giorgio Pantano	only in Baltimore, Motegi, Infineon Raceway
		Townsend Bell	only in Kentucky, Las Vegas
	23	Paul Tracy	only in Indianapolis
	24	Ana Beatriz	not in Alabama
		Simon Pagenaud	only in Alabama
2012	22nd	Oriol Servià	from Indianapolis as "Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing"

Web links

Commons : Dreyer & Reinbold Racing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Dreyer & Reinbold Racing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.motorsport-total.com/usracing/news/2012/05/Chaos_vor_dem_Indy_500_Allianz_und_Klage_12050801.html
2. ↑ http://www.motorsport-total.com/usracing/news/2009/04/Richard_Petty_als_IndyCar-Teambesitzer_09040403.html