ED CARPENTER

'Ed Carpenter' is an Indy Racing League driver born March 3, 1981. He is the stepson of Indy Racing League founder Tony George. He and his wife, Heather Carpenter, are expecting their first child in October of 2007.
Following a successful career in midget racing that dated as far back as 1989, he moved up to single-seater formula cars in 2002 with the creation of the IRL Infiniti Pro Series. Driving for Sinden Racing Services, he finished third in points with a best finish of second. He drove for legendary owner A.J. Foyt the following season and won the Futaba Freedom 100, the series' most prestigious race, in his backyard at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He made his Indy Racing League debut later that season contesting a few races for PDM Racing and longtime owner Paul Diatlovich.
In 2004 he ran his first fulltime season for Red Bull Cheever Racing. He struggled to match the pace of experienced teammate Alex Barron and scored only a best result of eighth. Out of a ride for 2005, George started the new Vision Racing team and not surprisingly Carpenter was his driver. He failed to light up the scoreboard again with a solitary top ten finish from 17 starts.
On March 26th, 2006, during the warmup for the Toyota 300 IndyCar Series opener, Carpenter was involved in a brutal crash with driver Paul Dana. Dana died soon after from his injuries; Carpenter was reported to be "awake and alert," and was released the next day suffering only bruised lungs. He returned to the series on April 22 at Twin Ring Motegi. In a rain-affected race in June at Watkins Glen International Carpenter switched to rain tires late in the race while most others stayed on slicks and captured his best IRL finish to date, a sixth place.

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Career Results

Indycar

Indy 500 results

External links

Career Results

Indycar

(Races in 'Bold' indicate pole position)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
'2003'	PDM	HMS	PHX	JPN	IND	TXS	PPIR	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIS	STL	KTY	NZR	CHI 13	CAL 13	TX2 Ret		'27th'	'43'
'2004'	Cheever	HMS 12	PHX Ret	JPN Ret	IND Ret	TXS Ret	RIR 16	KAN 14	NSH Ret	MIL 11	MIS 14	KTY 8	PPIR 11	NZR Ret	CHI 11	CAL 12	TX2 Ret		'16th'	'245'
'2005'	Vision	HMS Ret	PHX 16	STP Ret	JPN Ret	IND 11	TXS Ret	RIR 12	KAN 17	NSH 10	MIL 12	MIS Ret	KTY Ret	PPIR 19	SNM 15	CHI 17	WGL 14	CAL Ret	'18th'	'244'
'2006'	Vision	HMS DNS	STP INJ	JPN Ret	IND 11	WGL 6	TXS 9	RIR 8	KAN 16	NSH 10	MIL Ret	MIS 7	KTY 11	SNM 12	CHI 5				'14th'	'252'
'2007'	Vision	HMS 6	STP Ret	JPN 15	KAN Ret	IND Ret	MIL 7	TXS Ret	IOW 6	RIR 10	WGL 12	NSH 13	MDO 16	MIS Ret	KTY 7	SNM 13	DET 10	CHI	'15th ★ '	'295 ★ '

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★ 2007 season currently underway

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
5	3	62	0	0	0	14	0	0

Indy 500 results

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish
2004	Dallara	Chevrolet	16th	31st
2005	Dallara	Toyota	26th	11th
2006	Dallara	Honda	12th	11th
2007	Dallara	Honda	14th	17th

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