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2009 Season Connor continued to win Championships. Early in the year winning the Silver State Championship at Las Vegas Motorspeedway started off the year in great fashion. Ending the year with the Skip Barber National Championships winning a fully funded ride in the Star Mazda Series for 1020. He was also chosen to represent the United States in Europe to race in two very prestegious races. Winning the Walter Hayes Memorial Race and becoming the youngest driver and the second American to win this race was a great accomplishment. Looking towards the 2010 season and hoping for the same success as 2009. For additional information on Connor, please visit www.connordephillippi.com
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Gerry is the Chairman and CEO of Dougherty and Company and Dougherty Funding. They are affiliated companies involved in Investment Banking and Commercial Finance. Gerry has a Masters degree in Finance from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Gerry began competing in cars doing Solo events during college and attended Skip Barber racing school in 1985. He began seriously racing in 1993 after attending the Danny Collins driving school in Denver. Gerry raced Spec Racer Fords for several years before moving to the Formula Continental class in 1997. He won 6 nationals, finished top-5 in CENDIV points in 2000 and had numerous other top-5 finishes while driving Formula Continentals. Gerry stepped up to the Cooper series in 2004 and finished 8th overall in 2005.
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Caio Lara started his career in 2004, driving karts, reaching good results and winning vice-championship in 2006. At 16, he graduated at Formula Ford driver's formation. There he reached the best time among all his classmates. In 2007, he went to the Formula Ford Championship, finishing third and establishing a new record of 10 consecutive times on the podium. He was also Rookie of the Year. In 2008, he had a chance to compete in the Star Mazda Series again reaching good results. with more experience, Caio decided to compete in the star Mazda Series again this year moving over to JDC MotorSports.
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Chris began racing karts when he was eight years old. Following numerous shifter-kart wins and championships he moved up to the Stars of Karting. In 2007 he began his car racing career by attending the Skip Barber Racing School and competing in SCCA Formula Continental competition where he won multiple races. In 2008 Chris competed in the F2000 Championship series finishing fourth in the series championship as the highest finishing American with four podiums and 13 consecutive top tens. Currently a student at the University of Minnesota, Chris looks forward to working with JDC again in 2009.
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Alex Ardoin began racing in 1999 in go karts. He began competing on the national level in 2001. With numerous wins and titles under his belt, he moved to car racing in 2005. He contested the 2006 Southwest Formula Mazda Series coming away with Champion honors, Rookie of the Year, and Teen Championship honors. He started competing in the Star Mazda Series in 2007 and earned one win and two pole positions to date. He joins JDC MotorSports for the 2009 season set on winning the championship.
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Dane Cameron started racing karts in 2000. He won several races while winning the 2003 Jim Russell Karting 80cc Jr Shifter Championship. He had his start in National Karting during the 2004 season finishing 2nd in the Canadian National Karting Chmpionship ICC Pro Shifter. Dane moved to cars in 2005 winning the SCCA Jim Russell Championship and Rookie of the Year honors. 2006 marked his debut in professional racing finishing runner-up in the Cooper Tires F2000 Championship and capturing Rookie of the year. As the 2006 Team USA Scholarship winner, he won the Formula Palmer Audi Winter Championship with 4 wins, 2 seconds and 2 poles in 6 races. Dane joins the JDC MotorSports team for the 2007 Star Mazda Championship.
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Adam’s racing career began at the tender age of eight when he started karting and it soon became apparent that he had a natural talent for racing. He went on to win the British Karting Championship four times in succession, the highlight being when he finished second at the 2005 World Karting Championships.
During his first season in cars in 2007 Adam blitzed the competition and won the Formula Renault UK Graduate Cup. He also finished fourth overall in the main Championship that has fielded many of today’s F1 stars including current World Champion, Kimi Raikkonen, and Britain’s Lewis Hamilton. In 2008 Adam won the Formula Renault UK Championship outright.
This season, Adam enters the Star Mazda Championship Series with JDC MotorSports. He is off to a fantastic start with a win at the season opener in Sebring.
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Nick started his racing career in 2003 racing karts. He spent the 2003-2004 seasons racing 80cc and 100cc karts finishing on the podium 14 times in 17 starts. He also had his formula car debut in 2004 driving a skip barber car and finishing the year in the Russell Racing Championship with 4 podiums in 5 starts. For 2005, Nick competed in the Cooper Zetec Championship with JDC MotorSports. He finished the year 9th overall in points and 6th in class. In 2006 Nick finished 3rd in points and Rookie of the Year in the Pacific F2000 series. Nick begins the 2007 season as a rookie in the Star Mazda Championship.
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Chuck is President and CEO of Silicon Salvage, Inc.; a computer & electronic surplus and salvage company as well as an E-Waste recycler for California. Chuck grew up around racing and began his racing career in the 1970’s to 1980’s, piloting Sprint Cars on the West Coast with CRA and NARC. Since the 1990’s, he has raced Modified Stock Cars, and the Jim Russell Championship Series, where he took the Grand Masters Champion title in 2004 and 2006 as well as many top 5 overall Championship finishes. In 2007, Chuck won the 2007 Masters Champion title in the Pacific F2000 Championship Series and finished 7th overall. He also ran 5 races with the 2007 Star Mazda Championship Series, had two top 10 finishes and while not officially entered in the Masters Championship battle, scored ahead of the first place finisher in 4 out of the 5 races.
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Joel Miller started his racing career in 1997 with karting in southern California. He won many local and regional championships in route to being notice by factory teams out of Europe. Joel became a factory driver for Tony Kart and captured the North American championship in the ICA division for 2006. His formula car career started in 2003 with formula fords, but a lack of funds limited his progression. However, in 2007 he won the Skip Barber National Series with 5 wins/10 podiums in 14 starts. This propels him to the Pro Mazda championship in 2008 with support from the Mazda Driver Development Program. Also, in 2007 Joel was selected for the Team USA Scholarship which allowed him to compete in England during the off season. Joel is looking forward to the 2008 Pro Mazda season with JDC Motorsports.
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Cole Morgan was born June 13th, 1988 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Growing up around the track racing has been a part of his life for as long as he can remember. He began racing go-karts at the age of 14 in the EasyKart 100 class. Attending Skip Barber racing school at the age of 15 he was racing SCCA Nationals at the age of 16. He qualified on the front row at the SCCA National Championship in 2005 and 2006 finishing 2nd in 2006. He holds the Formula Continental track records at Road Atlanta, Roebling Road Raceway, and Moroso Motorsports Park. Hoping to further his career and dream to become a professional racecar driver, he is partnering with JDC Motorsports in the Star Mazda Championship. Cole is very excited to be with JDC as they are the best of the best.
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My name is Ernesto Otero. I am 20 years old. My hometown is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I began racing go-karts at 7 years of age. I was 11 when I started racing Motocross. I raced Motocross until I was 15 when I had a very bad accident. The following week my brother, who is 2 years younger than me, also suffered a really bad accident. Therefore, we decided to resume racing go-karts. In 2005, I was 2nd place in the Brazilian Formula Ford Championship, winning the last 3 races. In 2006, I raced the ultra-competitive Brazilian Formula Renault 2.0 Liter Championship. I won 1 race, had three 2nd places and 5 podium finishes. In 2007, I began the season in the South American F3 with a 3 car team in its first year. I was third in the Championship when I received a proposal from Double R Team in England to do the second half of the season in British F3. It was an offer I couldn’t refuse. I finished 2nd at Silverstone in my debut race. My second best finish was 4th in Croft. I decided to contest the 2008 Star Mazda Championship Series because it is a great series, very competitive and in my opinion, the open wheel unification will bring rapid growth and opportunities in the American open wheel scenario.
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I was born in Bogotá on June 9th 1986, I have an older sister, Nadia, and an older brother, Federico. Since I was a kid, I played soccer at a very competitive level and I always watched those old good F1 races of Senna, Prost, Mansell with my father but it was not until 2004 that I decided to try racing
I started in 2004 in a local indoor go kart track with immediately good results. I got 2nd place at the championship of that track and I knew I was good at it so in 2005, I convinced my father of buying me a go-kart and started racing professional go-karts.
I was the champion of the 2nd semester of the Easykart 125cc Rookie class in 2005.
In 2006, I only got a fifth at the championship at the Easylart 125cc expert class because of many technical problems. I also did my debut in formula car racing doing the 3Day and 2Day Skip Barber Schools and then I had permission to race directly at the Skip Barber National Championship at RA where I did the fastest lap race in Race 2 and finished 7th after starting 14th. I also ran the regional series later that year in MidOhio getting two 6th places. In December, I tried to race the 6 hours of Bogota but we could not start because of technical issues of the car. In 2007, I was 2nd at the Colombian Rotax Max Challenge and I almost went to Rotax World Finals in Dubai. I also got the 2nd place at the Fedekart Karting Cup. I also raced the 6 hours of Bogota in a Renault Twingo Turbo, we were doing a really good job until my partner crashed in an unfortunately incident.
I’m also coursing my 4th year of mechanical engineering at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.
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