Bradley Motorsports was a racing team in the Indy Racing League owned by Colorado convenience store owner Brad Calkins. His son, Buzz Calkins, drove the bright red cars shod in the livery of Bradley Food Marts, Brad Calkins' company. Bradley won the first IRL race in 1996 at Walt Disney World Speedway and were the co-champions of the inaugural IRL season. The team began in 1990, supporting Calkins' rise through the Indy Lights development series. After Calkins' retirement from the cockpit at the end of the 2001 season, the team ran a program in the first half of the 2002 season for Japanese pay driver Shigeaki Hattori, but following poor finishes, Hattori left after the Pikes Peak International Raceway race. The team finished out the season unsponsored with Brazilian Raul Boesel driving in his final season of open wheel racing. Bradley Motorsports earlier had a pro super vee team in the mid and late 1980s that ran the Bradley Food Marts car driven by future RuSPORT co-owner Steve Wulff.
Complete IRL/IndyCar 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 1996 WDW PHX INDYReynard 95iFord-Cosworth Buzz Calkins12 1* 6 17 1st 1996–97 NHA LSV WDW PHX INDY TXS PPIR CLT NHA LSVReynard 95iFord-Cosworth Buzz Calkins12 2 6 10th204G-Force GF01Infiniti 11 8 11 19 5 21 28 1998 WDW PHX INDY TXS NHA DOV CLT PPIR ATL TXS LSVG-Force GF01BOldsmobile Aurora V8 Buzz Calkins12 14 9 10 15 15 24 28 11 11 19th134 1999 INDY Dallara IR9Oldsmobile Aurora V8 Buzz Calkins12 17 14 13th201G-Force GF01CC 19 9 14 5 8 15 5 8 2000 INDY Dallara IR-00Oldsmobile Aurora V8 Buzz Calkins12 8 23 25 18 4 12 23 12 9 15th145 2001 INDY Dallara IR-01Oldsmobile Aurora V8 Buzz Calkins12 9 16 3 12 15 15 10 13 9 16 22 9 10 9th242 2002 INDY Dallara IR-02Infiniti Shigeaki Hattori12 25 26 10 20 6 1927th78 Raul Boesel 11 5 15 13 8 11 22158
The 1999 VisionAire 500K was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities.
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