Newman Wachs Racing (also referred to as NWR) is an auto racing team owned by Eddie Wachs and, until his death, Paul Newman. NWR was based outside of Chicago in Mundelein, Illinois. Newman and Wachs met when they both competed in Can-Am series in the mid-1970s and over the years talked about joining forces to create a driver development race team. They formed a Champ Car Atlantic team for the 2006 season to meet their objectives.

In 2009, John Edwards won the Atlantic Championship, beating teammate Jonathan Summerton in a tiebreaker.

For 2010, the team entered a SpeedSource-prepared Mazda RX-8 in the Rolex Sports Car Series GT class for Edwards and Adam Christodoulou.[1]

In 2016, the team announced a return to open wheel racing in the U.S. F2000 National Championship.[2]

Drivers

Atlantic Championship

Rolex Sports Car Series

Results

Complete Atlantic Championship results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position) (results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Car Drivers No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 D.C. Points
2006 Swift-Mazda Cosworth LBH HOU MTY POR CLE TOR EDM SJO DEN MTL ROA
United States Joe D'Agostino 34 11 12 9 24 9 7 7 7 22 18 16 7 12th 123
New Zealand Daniel Gaunt 35 20 DNS 15 8 22 21 24th 22
United States Steve Ott1 21 21 20 23 18 19th 48
United States J. R. Hildebrand 36 19 43rd 2
2007 Swift-Mazda Cosworth LVG LBH HOU POR CLE MTT TOR EDM SJO ROA
Estonia Tõnis Kasemets 34 17 29th 4
United States J. R. Hildebrand 36 13 30 7 6 9 2 9 19 21 5 15 9 7th 140
2008 Swift-Mazda Cosworth LBH LAG MTT EDM ROA TRR NJ UTA ATL
Switzerland Simona de Silvestro 34 1 10 9 8 19 9 18 4 11 5 4 8th 167
United States Jonathan Summerton 36 4 6 12 6 1* 19 1 2 3 2 14 3rd 224
2009 Swift-Mazda Cosworth SEB UTA NJM LIM ACC ACC2 MDO MOS TRR ATL LAG
Finland Markus Niemelä2 1 12 9 4 4 6th 98
United States Jonathan Summerton3 34 4 2 11 1 3 1 1 2 2nd 182
United States John Edwards 36 1 2 5 6 2 1 1 9 2 2 3 1 1st 182
1 Ott also competed in 4 races for Jensen MotorSport.
2 Niemelä also competed in 8 races for Jensen MotorSport.
3 Summerton also competed in 4 races for Genoa Racing.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "AUTO-RACING - GRAND-AM: Mazda Adds to Rolex GT Ladder - SPEEDtv.com". Archived from the original on 2010-02-24. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  2. ↑ "Legendary Newman Name Returning to Open-Wheel Racing".
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