Ryan
Briscoe
Biography
Ryan Briscoe was born in Sydney in 1981 and started karting in 1993. He won championships in Australia, North America and Italy before moving up to Formula Renault in 2000. In 2001 he took the Italian title with five wins and finished fourth in the Eurocup on a limited programme.
In 2002 he became a test driver for Toyota, who entered Formula One that year. He left Formula 3000 after seven races and finished the season in German Formula 3. In 2003 he won the Formula 3 Euro Series with eight victories. For the final third of the 2004 season he was Toyota's third driver, running the team's test car on Fridays at Grands Prix. He never started a Formula One World Championship race.
In 2005 he moved to the IndyCar Series with Chip Ganassi Racing, taking pole position at Sears Point and finishing tenth in the Indianapolis 500. A heavy crash at Chicagoland in September left him needing several weeks to recover. Ganassi replaced him for 2006, but he finished third at Watkins Glen for Dreyer & Reinbold and drove the last two Champ Car races of the year. In 2007 he was fifth in the Indy 500 and won three races in the American Le Mans Series in Penske's Porsche RS Spyder.
He raced mainly for Penske from 2008 to 2012. His first IndyCar win came at Milwaukee in 2008, followed by another at Mid-Ohio. At Surfers Paradise he became the first Australian to win his home event, although the race did not count towards the championship. In 2009 he won three races and finished third overall after leading the standings for much of the year. In 2012 he won at Sonoma and became the first Australian to take pole position for the Indy 500.
In endurance racing, he won the P2 class at Sebring with Level 5 Motorsports in 2013 and the GTLM class at Daytona and Sebring for Corvette in 2015. In Ganassi's Ford GT he was runner-up in the IMSA championship in 2016 and 2018 and won his class at Daytona again in 2018. In 2020 he won the 24 Hours of Daytona and Petit Le Mans with Wayne Taylor Racing.
Source: Wikipedia, “Ryan Briscoe”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.