Rocketsports Racing

Rocketsports Racing is a former motor racing team from the United States based in East Lansing, Michigan.

Team history

Rocketsports was founded in 1985 by racing driver Paul Gentilozzi to compete in the Trans-Am series. It competed in Trans-Am until 2004, when the championship was cancelled, and achieved 57 outright wins in 20 years. It has also raced in the IMSA sports car racing championship.

Rocketsports joined Champ Car in 2003 with driver Alex Tagliani, who scored the team's only victory at Road America in 2004. In 2005 and 2006 the team fielded cars for pay drivers and frequently changed drivers. In 2007, Tagliani returned full-time and the team shared technical information with RuSPORT. This alliance was dubbed RSPORTS, and took a race win with RuSPORT's Justin Wilson. However, the alliance ended at the end of the season. In 2008, following the unification of Champ Car and the IRL, Rocketsports announced that it would not transition to the IndyCar Series. They did compete in the Champ Car finale at Long Beach Grand Prix, with drivers Antônio Pizzonia, who competed for Rocketsports at Long Beach in 2006, and Juho Annala.^[1]

Since the demise of Champ Car, Rocketsports has competed in the revived Trans-Am Series with driver Tomy Drissi, winning the 2009 championship.^[2]

Gentilozzi went on to form RSR Racing in 2009.

Drivers that have competed for Rocketsports in Champ Car

• Juho Annala (2008)
• Mario Dominguez (2006)
• Memo Gidley (2004)
• Timo Glock (2005)
• Ryan Hunter-Reay (2005)
• Tõnis Kasemets (2006)
• Michael McDowell (2005)
• Nicky Pastorelli (2006)
• Nelson Philippe (2004)
• Antônio Pizzonia (2006, 2008)
• Guy Smith (2004)
• Alex Tagliani (2003–2004, 2007)

Racing results

Complete CART / Champ Car World Series results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position) (results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
2003	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8t			STP	MTY	LBH	BRH	LAU	MIL	LAG	POR	CLE	TOR	VAN	ROA	MDO	MTL	DEN	MIA	MXC	SFR
			Alex Tagliani	33	19	3	10	8	18	5	14	3	8	17	14	3	6	4*	9	13	16	7
2004	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8t			LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	VAN	ROA	DEN	MTL	LAG	LSV	SFR	MXC
			Alex Tagliani	8	8	5	13	7	3	7	7	1*	10	7	6	16	19	11
			Nelson Philippe	17	13	10	14	15	10
			Memo Gidley							16	11
			Guy Smith									10	18	16	9	17	9	17
2005	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8t			LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	LSV	SRF	MXC
			Timo Glock	8	6	11	9	10	10	7	13	6	13	2	8	6	5
			Ryan Hunter-Reay	31	13	7	17	15	18	6	16	14	6	12	10
			Michael McDowell													12	11
2006	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8t			LBH	HOU	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	ROA	SRF	MXC
			Nicky Pastorelli	8		17	15	10	17	17		17	10	12	6
			Mario Domínguez													12	2	17
			Antônio Pizzonia		10
				18											11		10	12
			Tõnis Kasemets						16	12	15	11				17
2007	Panoz DP01	Cosworth XFE V8t			LSV	LBH	HOU	POR	CLE	MTT	TOR	EDM	SJO	ROA	ZOL	ASN	SFR	MXC
			Alex Tagliani	8											9	15	7	13

Complete IndyCar Series results

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
2008	Panoz DP01	Cosworth XFE V8t			HMS	STP	MOT	LBH	KAN	INDY	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	EDM	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI	SRF1
			Antônio Pizzonia	9				16
			Juho Annala	10				18

¹ Non-points-paying, exhibition race.

References

External links

• Team Website