About Ryan
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We are excited to announce that Ryan Hunter-Reay has agreed to be Racing For Cancer’s Global Ambassador! Ryan’s story is a great one. Here’s a guy that has risen through the racing community as one of the next great American race car drivers. Here’s a guy without a permanent ride in 2010 yet won the race at Long Beach earlier this year, catapulting him to 3rd place in the IZOD Indy Car series points championship. He’s an intelligent, young, talented, caring guy who lost his mother last November to colon cancer, and won the Long Beach race in her honor. He met his fiancé at this racetrack, and is the first American driver to win at Long Beach since his boss Michael Andretti. He’s even got the good looks and media presence that every sports superstar must possess.
We have no doubt Ryan will be “kissing the bricks” at Indianapolis in the not to distant future.
- Andretti Autosport IZOD IndyCar Series Driver
- 6th in IZOD IndyCar Series Championship Points (only 45 points out of 1st place)
- Winner of the 2010 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
- Diver of the Andretti Autosport #37 Team IZOD IndyCar
- Birthday: December 17, 1980 | Hometown: Boca Raton, FL | Residence: Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Only driver to have wins in IndyCar, Champ Car and CART
- 2008 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year
- Won 2008 Watkins Glen IndyCar Grand Prix
- 2007 Indy Racing League Rookie of the Year
- Took pole and led every lap of 2004 Milwaukee Mile Champ Car race
- Greg Moore Legacy Award winner, 2004
- Qualified in top ten in 100% 2004 Champ Car races
- Won 2003 Champ Car Surfers Paradise street race
- 3 race wins in 2002 Toyota Atlantic Championship records for most wins (3), most poles (3), most laps led, most fastest lap times and most track records
- 2000 Barber Dodge Rookie of the Year
- 1999 National Barber Dodge champion
- 9 time WKA Karting Champion
- 3 time U.S. Grand National Karting Champion
