Ed Carpenter

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Ed Carpenter (born March 3, 1981 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) is an American racing driver . He has been driving in the IndyCar Series since 2003 . In 2012, he joined the series as team principal with the Ed Carpenter Racing team and continued to work as a driver.

He is the stepson of Tony George , an owner of the IndyCar Series.

Career

Carpenter began his motorsport career in 1989 in midget car racing, in which he was active until 2000. In 2000 and 2001 he was also active in the Silver Crown Series. In 2002 he moved to the IRL Infiniti Pro Series . With three podium finishes, he finished his first season in third place overall. In 2003 he stayed initially in the IRL Infiniti Pro Series and was again third in the overall standings with a win.

At the end of the 2003 season he made his debut in the IndyCar Series starting at the last three races for PDM Racing . At the end of the season he finished 27th overall. In 2004 he switched completely to the IndyCar Series. As a teammate of Alex Barron , he started for Cheever Racing . Carpenter couldn't keep up with his teammate and eighth place remained his best result. In the overall ranking he was 16.

In 2005 , Tony George , his stepfather, founded Team Vision Racing and signed Carpenter as a pilot for the season. With a tenth place as the best result, he was 18th in the drivers' championship. He also returned to the IRL Infiniti Pro Series for a race. At the start of the 2006 season in Homestead , Carpenter lost control of his vehicle after a tire damage and hit the track barrier. As he turned back onto the track, Paul Dana drove into his car. Both drivers were immediately taken to the hospital. Dana was fatally injured in the accident. Carpenter had to sit out two races due to his injuries. In the last race of the season he achieved his best result in the series with a fifth place and ended the season in 14th place overall. With his teammate, Tomas Scheckter , he did not keep up again this season. In 2007 Vision Racing entered with three cars and Carpenter and Scheckter were joined by AJ Foyt IV . With a few placements among the top ten drivers, he finished 15th overall behind Scheckter and Foyt at the end of the season.

Ed Carpenter at the 2009 Toronto IndyCar race

In 2008 Carpenter repeated his best IndyCar placement to date, a fifth place, twice. He finished the season ahead of his teammate Foyt in 15th place in the overall standings. In addition, Carpenter took part in each of the races in the Rolex Sports Car Series in 2007 and 2008 . In 2009 he achieved his best-ever placement in the IndyCar Series with a second place at Kentucky Speedway . He also achieved his best result in the overall ranking with twelfth place. In 2010 Carpenter lost his IndyCar cockpit because Vision Racing had ceased racing. He was then given a cockpit by Panther Racing for four IndyCar races in the 2010 season. The Carpenter achieved the first pole position of his IndyCar career at Kentucky Speedway and just barely missed his first victory as second in the race. At the end of the season he finished 28th overall. For the 2011 season Carpenter was signed by Sarah Fisher Racing . He participated in ten out of seventeen events. His first race of the season was the Indianapolis 500 . At Kentucky Speedway, Carpenter scored his first IndyCar win in his 113th race. He drove the final laps alongside Dario Franchitti and finally crossed the finish line with a margin of 0.0098 seconds. Before that, he had to do a few laps with one hand because his visor was loose and he had to hold it tight. At the end of the season he was 26th overall.

In 2012 Carpenter started his own racing team, Ed Carpenter Racing, in the IndyCar Series. He contested the entire season as a driver for the team. Carpenter received support in founding the racing team from the vodka brand Fuzzy's Ultra Premium Vodka , which is owned by the US professional golfer Fuzzy Zoeller . Carpenter has been sponsored by this brand since 2010. At the Indianapolis 500 he spun in the lead group in the final phase and crossed the finish line one lap behind. After Carpenter had only finished in the top 10 in two oval races before the last race of the season, the MAVTV 500 , he won the season and achieved his second IndyCar victory. He finished the season in 18th place. In 2013 Carpenter stayed active in the IndyCar Series with his own racing team. At the Indianapolis 500 , he achieved pole position and the most laps in the lead. He finished in tenth place. In the oval races in Fort Worth and Newton , he was fourth. In the last race of the season, the MAVTV 500 , he finished in second place and achieved his only podium finish of the season. While Carpenter made it into the top 10 five times in six races on the oval courses, his best place on the street courses was a 13th place in Toronto . In the overall standings, he improved to 16th place.

In 2014 Carpenter decided not to compete on street courses and only to drive on oval courses. Mike Conway , who had ruled out further starts on oval courses in 2012, took over his cockpit on the street courses. Carpenter again achieved pole position at the Indianapolis 500 . He retired from the race after a collision. At the next oval race in Fort Worth he decided the race for himself and in Fontana he was third. Carpenter finished the season in 22nd place in the drivers' standings. Conway won two street course races, so both drivers together would have finished eighth overall. In 2015 , Carpenter merged his racing team with Fisher Hartman Racing to form CFH Racing . He remained active as a driver and shared the cockpit with Luca Filippi this season . Carpenter completes all six oval races. He was eliminated in four races and a sixth place in Newton was his best result. For the IndyCar Series 2016 , Sarah Fisher and Wink Hartman withdrew from the joint racing team, so that Carpenter continued the team under the name Ed Carpenter Racing . Like him last year, he took part in the oval races. He only crossed the finish line once. His best results were two 18th places. In 2018 he started from pole position at the Indianapolis 500 and led most of the laps. He finished the race second.

statistics

Career stations

  • 1989-2000: Midget
  • 2000-2001: Silver Crown Series
  • 2002: IRL Infiniti Pro Series (3rd place)
  • 2003: IRL Infiniti Pro Series (3rd place)
  • 2003 : IndyCar Series (27th place)
  • 2004 : IndyCar Series (16th place)
  • 2005 : IndyCar Series (18th place)
  • 2005: IRL Infiniti Pro Series (26th place)
  • 2006 : IndyCar Series (14th place)
  • 2007 : IndyCar Series (15th place)
  • 2007: Rolex Sports Car Series , DP (72nd place)
  • 2008 : IndyCar Series (15th place)
  • 2008: Rolex Sports Car Series, DP (54th place)
  • 2009 : IndyCar Series (12th place)
  • 2010 : IndyCar Series (28th place)
  • 2011 : IndyCar Series (26th place)
  • 2012 : IndyCar Series (18th place)
  • 2013 : IndyCar Series (16th place)
  • 2014 : IndyCar Series (22nd place)
  • 2015 : IndyCar Series (27th place)
  • 2016 : IndyCar Series (25th place)
  • 2017 : IndyCar Series (22nd place)
  • 2018 : IndyCar Series (20th place)
  • 2019 : IndyCar Series (23rd place)

Individual results in the IndyCar Series

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th Points rank
2003 PDM Racing HMS PHX MOT INDY TXS PPI RIR KAN NSH MIS STL KTY NZR CHI HAIRDRYER TX2       43 27.
                          13 13 21st      
2004 Cheever Racing HMS PHX MOT INDY TXS RIR KAN NSH Mil MIS KTY PPI NZR CHI HAIRDRYER TX2       245 16.
12 19th 22nd 31 21st 16 14th 22nd 11 14th 8th 11 20th 11 12 21st      
2005 Vision racing HMS PHX STP MOT INDY TXS RIR KAN NSH Mil MIS KTY PPI SNM CHI WGL HAIRDRYER     244 18th
18th 16 19th 16 11 20th 12 17th 10 12 23 22nd 19th 15th 17th 14th 20th    
2006 Vision racing HMS STP MOT INDY WGL TXS RIR KAN NSH Mil MIS KTY SNM CHI           252 14th
DNS INJ 20th 11 6th 9 8th 16 10 16 7th 11 12 5          
2007 Vision racing HMS STP MOT KAN INDY Mil TXS IOW RIR WGL NSH MDO MIS KTY SNM DET CHI     309 15th
6th 18th 15th 17th 17th 7th 18th 6th 10 12 13 16 14th 7th 13 10 16    
2008 Vision racing HMS STP MOT LBH KAN INDY Mil TXS IOW RIR WGL NSH MDO EDM KTY SNM DET CHI SRF 320 15th
5 18th 6th   10 5 20th 9 23 11 17th 8th 15th 13 6th 23 14th 28  
2009 Vision racing STP LBH KAN INDY Mil TXS IOW RIR WGL GOAL EDM KTY MDO SNM CHI MOT HMS     321 12.
18th 18th 9 8th 16 9 10 13 16 15th 16 2 17th 11 6th 13 12    
2010 Panther Racing SAO STP ALA LBH KAN INDY TXS IOW WGL GOAL EDM MDO SNM CHI KTY MOT HMS     90 28.
          17 8               20th 2   13    
2011 Sarah Fisher Racing STP ALA LBH SAO INDY TXS Mil IOW GOAL EDM MDO NHA SNM BAL MOT KTY LSV   175 26th
        11 8 18th 16 16 11     22nd 11 25th 20th   1 C.  
2012 Ed Carpenter Racing STP ALA LBH SAO INDY DET TXS Mil IOW GOAL EDM MDO SNM BAL HAIRDRYER         261 18th
18th 22nd 14th 21st 21 28 12 12 8th 8th 18th 22nd 22nd 20th 25th 1*        
2013 Ed Carpenter Racing STP ALA LBH SAO INDY DET TXS Mil IOW POC GOAL MDO SNM BAL HOU HAIRDRYER 333 16.
14th 22nd 18th 23 10 * 1 18th 15th 4th 14th 4 ° 6 9 13 22nd 20th 19th 14th 23 22nd 2 °
2014 Ed Carpenter Racing STP LBH ALA IMS INDY DET TXS HOU POC IOW GOAL MDO Mil SNM HAIRDRYER   262 22nd
        27 ° 1.1     1 °     13 5       9 °   3 °  
2015 CFH Racing STP NOL LBH ALA IMS INDY DET TXS GOAL HAIRDRYER Mil IOW MDO POC SNM       88 27.
          30th     22nd   22 ° 10 6th   17th        
2016 Ed Carpenter Racing STP PHO LBH ALA IMS INDY DET ROA IOW GOAL MDO POC TXS WGL SNM       67 25th
  21st       31 20       18th     21st 18 °          
2017 Ed Carpenter Racing STP LBH ALA PHO IMS INDY DET TXS ROA IOW GOAL MDO POC STL WGL SNM     169 22nd
      7th   11 ° 2     11   12     12 21st      
2018 Ed Carpenter Racing STP PHO LBH ALA IMS INDY DET TXS ROA IOW GOAL MDO POC STL POR SNM     187 20th
7th 2 * 1 20th 10 10 ° 12
2019 Ed Carpenter Racing STP COA ALA LBH IMS INDY DET TXS ROA GOAL IOW MDO POC STL POR LAG     161 23.
6 ° 2 13 19th 6th 2
2020 Ed Carpenter Racing TXS IMS ROA IOW INDY STL IMS STP MDO           52 22nd
5 15th 23        
Remarks
  1. ↑ Took place on the same day as the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
  2. ↑ Took place on the same day as the Indy Japan 300.
  3. ↑ No points were awarded.

( Legend )

Web links

Commons : Ed Carpenter  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Out for Vision Racing" (Motorsport-Total.com on January 28, 2010)
  2. ↑ "Kentucky sensation by Carpenter and Baguette!" (Motorsport-Total.com on September 4, 2010)
  3. ↑ "Sarah Fisher stops - Carpenter takes over" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 30, 2010)
  4. ↑ “Carpenter earns first victory by a nose”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (indycar.com on October 2nd, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.indycar.com
  5. ↑ “Carpenter scores maiden IndyCar win as Franchitti reclaims championship lead” (autosport.com on October 2, 2011)
  6. ↑ “Carpenter forms own team backed by Fuzzy's” ( Memento from November 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (indycar.com on November 2, 2011)
  7. ^ Marshall Pruett: "INDYCAR: Rahal Leads Free Agent Class For 2013". (No longer available online.) Speedtv.com, August 1, 2012, archived from the original on November 21, 2012 ; accessed on November 10, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Pete Fink: "Carpenter: Conway drives the non-ovals". Motorsport-Total.com, October 15, 2013, accessed November 20, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Ed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis , Indiana, United States