SAMAX Motorsport
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SAMAX Motorsport was a racing team owned by Peter Baron that competed primarily in the Rolex Sports Car Series but also spent one year in the IndyCar Series .
Team history
The team was founded in 2005 by fielding a car for Mark Greenberg at the 6 Hours of Mont Tremblant. Shortly after that race the team ran the #7 Riley-Pontiac Daytona Prototype co-owned by millionaire businessman Brian Tuttle , Greg Wilkins and Dave Lacey and the #17 Porsche 911 GT3 in Grand Am. In 2006, Milka Duno joined the Daytona Prototype team, bringing with her sponsorship from Citgo . The team of Duno, Patrick Carpentier , Darren Manning , and Ryan Dalziel finished 2nd overall in the 2007 24 Hours of Daytona , the team's best Grand Am finish and the best finish in a major sports car race for a female driver. SAMAX fielded a second Prototype in the 2007 24 Hours of Daytona for Roger Yasukawa , Tomáš Enge , Chris Festa , and Christian Montanari that finished 6th.
On March 23, 2007, the team announced that it would enter the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series . They ran Duno with Citgo sponsorship in 6 races during the 2007 season , including the Indianapolis 500 . French-Canadian driver Jean-Francois Dumoulin replaced her in the prototype. The team did not return to the IndyCar Series in 2008 as Duno moved to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing , but continued in the Rolex Sports Car Series with their BMW - Riley being driven by Dalziel and Henri Zogaib . The team of Dalziel and Zogaib captured the team's first Daytona Prototype victory in the 5th race of the season at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca . Despite the success, the team did not return for 2009. Reportedly, Zogaib had been funding the racing venture through employing a Ponzi scheme in which he had conned the Dalziel family for $550,000 USD and owes SAMAX owner Peter Baron $450,000 in team expenses and $800,000 in investments Baron had made in the Ponzi scheme. [1]
In 2010, Baron re-entered team ownership with the new Starworks Motorsport team.
Racing results
Complete IRL IndyCar Series results
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Year | Chassis | Engine | Drivers | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
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2007 | HMS | STP | MOT | KAN | INDY | MIL | TXS | IOW | RIR | WGL | NSH | MDO | MCH | KTY | SNM | DET | CHI | ||||
Dallara IR-05 | Honda HI7R V8 |
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23 | 14 | 31 | 11 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 15 |
References
- ↑ Ganguli, Tania & Willoughby Mariano. Investors: Racer said to keep things quiet Archived 2009-07-25 at the Wayback Machine , Orlando Sentinel , July 24, 2009