Biography:

2010 Competed in 8 of 10 Grand-Am Continental Sportscar Challenge Series events with co-drivers Gene Sigal and Mike Skeen. With a best qualifying result of third and two top 5's, the car and driver line-ups proved very successful. Chris showed quickest in multiple practice sessions during the year, lead laps at three events and regularly ran in the top 5. As a team, the Q3 autosport squad finished the championship tenth in the standings..

2009 Built a Porsche Boxster into a Grand-Am Continental Sportscar Challenge ST Class racecar. Testing and car development became the focus of the season, before eventually entering two Grand-Am events and collecting a best result of 15th. Won the Volkswagen Challenge autocross at VIR and a special edition VW guitar. Signed sponsorship deal with Royal Purple Synthetic Lubricants and the blockbuster movie "Iron Man 2" for the 2010 season.

2008 Spent 5 races working with the "Factory" General Motors Grand-Am Rolex GT team Banner Racing and Pratt & Miller engineers, eventually earning the opportunity to race the team's #06 GT Class Pontiac GXP.R at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca's Rum Bum 250 event. Got first taste of the GXP.R on Friday morning, steadily improved speed in the 2 practice sessions before posting a ninth position in qualifying. An event filled race fielded the #06 car a ninth place result at the finish. Contested 4 Spec Miata events to qualify for the SCCA Run-Offs earning a pole and one win in the process. Best finishing 1.6 Ltr car at the Run-Offs with an eighth place result. Competed in the Rock Island Grand Prix 125cc "King of the Streets" karting event placing seventh.

2007 Chosen as a contestant on Speed TV's racing reality show "Setup" Season 2 after being fastest in a 125cc shifter kart over more than 60 other potential competitors. Went on to win 4 races in route to becoming the overall winner of the show, earning $100,000 and a test in a Banner Racing Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series GT Class Pontiac GXP.R. Finished second in the SCCA Central Division Spec Miata Championship standings with two poles and seven top-5 finishes..

 

 

2006 Won the "Hard Charger" award at the SCCA National Championship Run-Offs and turned the fastest rain lap. Finished eighth in the SCCA Central Division Spec Miata Championship standings with one pole and four top-5 finishes. Competed in one Stars of Karting presented by the IRL event (Stars East #3) and finished 25th & 23rd of 44 competitors in the ICC Finals.

2005 Signed with Jensen Motorsports to race in the Toyota Atlantic Championship's Road America 500 event in Elkhart Lake, WI. Qualified eighth and passed eventual series champion before a mechanical DNF. Won championship in USA International Raceway's shifter kart class and set the track's record. Overall Co-Champion of 100 Lap Endurance Race at USA International Raceway..

2004 Tested for Sam Schmidt Motorsports in the Firestone Indy Lights Series racecar at Kentucky Speedway. Experienced first taste of oval racing at 190+ mph and successfully completed the IRL's licensing test. Finished third in the Skip Barber Formula Dodge National Championship with one win, six podiums, eleven top-5 finishes, and never finishing out of the top-10 in all 14 races. Completed every lap of every race and took the championship points battle down to the final event. Contested four Skip Barber Western Regional Series races, winning all four and leaving each track with new lap records.

2003 2 day test of the Barber Dodge Pro Series racecar (Reynard 98E). Finished twelfth in Formula Dodge National Championship with one podium, several top-10 finishes, and multiple fastest race laps. Competed in the Skip Barber U.S. Championship Run-Offs finishing fourth overall and was the winner of his age bracket earning himself a $5,000 scholarship.

2002 Competed in the Skip Barber Midwestern Regional Series, earning three podium finishes, placing 19th out of 112 competitors, and earned an invitation into the next season's Skip Barber Formula Dodge National Championship.

2001 Started car racing career by attending the 3 Day Derek Daly Racing Academy in Las Vegas, NV

 

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