1984 - Sixth in world Karting championships.
Racing Career:
1984 - Sixth in world Karting championships.
1985 - Won Canadian Formula Ford 2000 championship at
age sixteen, the youngest FF champion ever.
1986 - Competed in FF 2000 winning at Sanair. Won
Budweiser 650 Can-Am race, youngest Can-Am winner ever at
age seventeen.
1987 - One FF2000 win also raced in SCCA Escort
endurance series. Motorsport twenty four hours event and
British Grandstand series. Worked as test driver for Reynard
Racing and General Motors.
1988 - Entered American Racing Series (Indy Lights)
Competition. Won first ARS event he entered at Phoenix.
Ninth in final standings with five Top Ten finishes.
1989 - Second season of ARS competition. Two second-
place finishes, one third for eighth in points.
1990 - Indy Lights championship-winning season. Won
nine of fourteen races. Also set single season record for
poles (seven). Set four race records and six qualifying
records. Successfully tested Truesports Indy car with eye
towards entering 1991 Indy car events. Awarded the Bruce
McLaren Trophy by the British Racing Drivers Club presented
annually to the Commonwealth's most promising driver.
1991 - Started first PPG Cup race at Long Beach for Dale Coyne Racing before
changing teams . Signed with Penske Racing in mid-year as team test driver with eye on
1992 Indy 500 start. Qualified eighth at Marlboro 500 but crashed on lap three breaking
his left leg. Recovered from injuries in time to start at Nazareth and scored best finish of
the year - seventh.
1992 - Started eleven races filling in for Rick Meares (recovering from wrist
surgery) in the latter part of the season. Scored six Top Five qualifying efforts including
first PPG Cup career pole at Elkhart Lake. Scored three podium finishes including second
place at Michigan and Mid-Ohio. Led races on seven different occasions for a total of 128
laps (fourth in category) and challenging for the lead at Detroit, Toronto and Laguna Seca.
1993 - Ran his first full season and scored five victories (tying him with PPG
Cup champion Nigel Mansell for most wins of the year) and two poles. Led most laps (757
of 2,112). Named Most Improved Driver by his peers. Finished third in points. Joined
Mansell as only driver to win from the pole - doing it twice. A successful replacement for
the legend Rick Mears.
1994 - Started all sixteen races for Penske Racing. Scored victories at Detroit,
Nazareth and Laguna Seca. Won poles at Phoenix, Long Beach, Road America and
Laguna Seca. Got off to a slow start scoring only two points in first four races but
rebounded to finish third behind Penske team mates Al Unser Jr and Emerson Fittipaldi.
Announced he would be joining Newman/Haas racing in 1995.
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