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PacWest Racing was a Champ Car racing team owned by Bruce McCaw founded in 1993.
The team's first full-time season was the next year, 1994, with drivers Dominic Dobson and future Indy Racing League co-champion Scott Sharp. In 1995, the team switched to former Formula One driver Maurício Gugelmin and a fading Danny Sullivan, who would be replaced late in the season by Juan Manuel Fangio II after an injury. In 1996, Mark Blundell took over Fangio's seat.
1997 became PacWest's breakout year, with the team taking four wins - three from Blundell and Gugelmin's sole CART victory at Vancouver. The team was since considered a major team, and was figured to be in contention for the championship in 1998.
The next three years, however, turned out to be a disappointment. 2001 saw Blundell, who retired after the previous season's end, replaced with 2000 Indy Lights Champion Scott Dixon, who earned PacWest's final victory at Nazareth, in which Dixon's teammate Gugelmin withdrew after the death of his son.
2002 was PacWest's final year, in which the troubled team could only obtain associate sponsorship from NTN. The team started four races with Dixon and Oriol Servia. After the third race, Dixon left the team to join Chip Ganassi Racing, and Servia started one more race before McCaw closed the organization.
The team was purchased by Kevin Kalkhoven and Craig Pollock to form PK Racing. The team operated as KV Racing Technology from 2003 until the end of the 2016 season.
The PacWest team's two cars were the cars used by main characters Jimmy Bly (#18) and Joe Tanto (#17) in the 2001 action movie Driven.
Past drivers
Racing results
Complete CART FedEx Championship Series results
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position) (results in italics indicate fastest lap)
Galmer G92B Chevrolet 265A V8Turbocharger Dominic Dobson 17 14 DNQ 0 Chevrolet 265C V8Turbocharger 18 Lola T94/00 Ford XB V8Turbocharger Dominic Dobson 17 12 24 17 29 13 25 17 25 11 3 15 6 19 11 19 10 18th 30 Scott Sharp 71 11 9 28 16 12 13 18 24 16 12 11 24 12 10 15 21 21st 14 Reynard 95i Ford XB V8Turbocharger Danny Sullivan 17 9 5 27 10 18 9 17 12 22 25 18 5 16 19th 32 Juan Manuel Fangio II 7 15 28 13 24th 6 Maurício Gugelmin 18 2 4 13 5 17 6* 14 15 7 24 12 23 11 6 11 20 3 10th 80 Reynard 96i Ford XB V8Turbocharger Maurício Gugelmin 17 26 25 4 15 15 2 15 16 16 21 12 3 26 21 24 5 14th 53 Mark Blundell 21 17 27 5 22 5 8 11 11 6 10 20 12 24 16th 41 Teo Fabi 18 16 Wth 36th 0 Reynard 97i Mercedes-Benz IC108D V8Turbocharger Maurício Gugelmin 17 6 17 2 9 22 6 5 16 6* 15 6 6 7 2 1 9 4 4th 132 Mark Blundell 18 14 8 13 19 8 24 12 17 1 9 1* 2 26 16* 7 2 1 6th 115 Reynard 97i
Reynard 98iMercedes-Benz IC108D V8Turbocharger
Mercedes-Benz IC108E V8Turbocharger Maurício Gugelmin 17 10 20 10 17 9 16 21 19 7 20 12 13 4* 19 6 27 18 12 5 15th 49 Mark Blundell 18 12 10 7 20 11 10 12 22 22 10 26 17 19 7 12 25 14 11 6 18th 36 Reynard 99i Mercedes-Benz IC108E V8Turbocharger Maurício Gugelmin 17 11 7 14 18 22 18 8 25 21 12 14 22 24 20 19 4 11 6 26 6 16th 44 Mark Blundell 18 8 24 13 17 10 13 21 19 12 24 19 16 23rd 9 Roberto Moreno 11 4 12 7 8 19 4 19 58 Reynard 2Ki Mercedes-Benz IC108F V8Turbocharger Maurício Gugelmin 17 16 10 21 22 2 11 16 19 10 15 13 7 20 17 21 7 19 23 10 17 17th 39 Mark Blundell 18 13 8 7 19 17 17 11 20 12 22 19 23 14 11 25 13 23 20 11 15 21st 18 Reynard 01i Toyota RV8F V8Turbocharger Maurício Gugelmin 17 15 22 C 12 10 10 20 10 7 15 22 14 23 15 16 20 20 16 24 20 24th 17 Scott Dixon 18 13 19 C 1 9 3 22 7 20 5 10 4 12 4 13 9 22 18 4 15 17 8th 98 Lola B2/00 Toyota RV8F V8Turbocharger Scott Dixon 7 6 18 9 97 Oriol Servià 17 10 11 6 Wth 44
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