Indy Regency Racing was a racing team owned by Sal Incandela who had worked with several Formula One and CART teams.
Team history The team made its debut at the Mid-Ohio round of the 1991 Indy Lights Championship, with David Kudrave as its driver, and contested the entire Indy Lights series for 1992 (again with Kudrave). In 1993 the team made its move to the CART Championship Car series by fielding a car in the 1993 Indianapolis 500 for F1 veteran Olivier Grouillard. The team's first race that year was to be the Indianapolis 500, however, the car failed to make the field for the "500" but Grouillard participated in 11 races that season for the team. In 1994 the team signed 1990 Indy 500 champion Arie Luyendyk who had been let go by Chip Ganassi Racing. Luyendyk got the team into its first Indy 500 with 8th on the grid but was knocked out by an engine failure 11 laps from the finish. Luyendyk also finished 17th in points in 1994 with a runner up finish at the Michigan International Speedway. In 1995 the team only ran Indy Lights except for an unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the 1995 Indianapolis 500 with driver Franck Freon.
The team returned to the Indy 500 in 2000 with an entry for Johnny Unser who started 30th and finished 22nd in the team's first Indy Racing League race. They returned the following year with inexperienced rookie Cory Witherill who made an improbably successful Bump Day run to get the Regency machine into its 3rd Indy 500. Witherill brought the car home in 19th position. In 2002 Regency fielded a car for Hideki Noda in the last 3 races of the season with little success.Kelly, Paul & Mittman, Dick. McGehee Making Comeback In Hometown; MK To Produce Falcon Chassis, IndyCar.com, August 15, 2002 The team participated in Toyota Atlantic in 2002 after Indy Lights' demiseIndy Regency Racing Announces Plans to Compete in Toyota Atlantic for 2002, Toyota Atlantic Press Release, December 3, 2001 and apparently shut down shortly thereafter.
Drivers
CART Franck Fréon (1994) Olivier Grouillard (1993) Arie Luyendyk (1994)
IRL Hideki Noda (2002) Johnny Unser (2000) Cory Witherill (2001)
Racing results
Complete CART Indy Car World Series results (key) Year Chassis Engine Drivers No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1993 SFR INDYLola T92/00Chevrolet 265A V8t Olivier Grouillard29 DNQ 12 24 13 11 DNS 17 12 16 26 16 18 20 1994 SFR INDY Lola T94/00 Ilmor 265D V8t Arie Luyendyk28 25 22 11 18 21 19 14 21 31 2 13 27 6 22 26 6 Franck Fréon29 18
Complete Indy Racing League results (key) Year Chassis Engine Drivers No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 2000 INDY G-Force GF05Oldsmobile Aurora V8 Johnny Unser22 22 2001 INDY G-Force GF05BOldsmobile Aurora V8 Cory Witherill16 22 19 2002 INDY G-Force GF05CChevrolet Indy V8 Hideki Noda28 17 24 25
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