XM Satellite Radio 2006 Peak Antifreeze Indy 300 Fact Sheet
Sept. 5, 2006Indianapolis, Ind.
XM Satellite Radio Driver Bryan Herta
2006 Peak Antifreeze Indy 300 Fact Sheet
Who: #7 XM Satellite Radio Dallara/Honda/Firestone driver Bryan Herta
What: Peak Antifreeze Indy 300, Round 14 of the Indy Racing League® IndyCar® Series
Where: Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, Ill.
When: Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006
Television: ABC Sports (Live), 1:30 p.m. (EDT)
Bryan Herta on the Peak Antifreeze Indy 300: "Chicago is a track where the XM Satellite Radio team has had good results in the past. We haven't performed well on the big ovals all season but we keep getting closer, so hopefully we'll be able to end the season on a good note. We're still capable of moving up in the championship and that's our goal."
Bryan Herta Facts
Herta has three previous starts at Chicagoland with two podium finishes.
He finished second in 2004 and third in 2003.
He has never started outside the top 10 at Chicagoland.
In the past two races at Chicagoland, AGR drivers have led 211 of a possible 400 laps.
He is currently in 11th place in the IndyCar Series championship,
only 10 points out of ninth place.
Herta recorded a seventh-place finish at Milwaukee and a sixth-place result at Richmond.
Herta tallied a fourth-place result at the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, his best 2006 finish.
Herta garnered the first IndyCar Series win for XM Satellite Radio and the second of his IndyCar
Series career at Michigan in 2005.
Herta led 159 of 200 laps at Michigan in 2005, the most laps led by any driver in one race during 2005.
Herta is one of only 22 drivers to win two or more races in IndyCar Series history.
Herta was the only driver in 2005 to claim pole positions on a road course (St. Petersburg), a short
oval (Phoenix) and a superspeedway (Michigan).
His first IndyCar Series win came at Kansas Speedway in 2003 in only his third start for AGR.
Herta has four career major open-wheel racing wins and 10 poles.
George Klotz, Team Manager, #7 XM Satellite Radio Dallara/Honda/Firestone on the Peak Antifreeze Indy 300: "We still have things we need to accomplish at Chicago. It's a track where AGR has had a lot of success as a team and where Bryan scored a second-place finish in the XM Satellite Radio car in 2004. We're in a position to make a move in the championship and that's what we're focused on."