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Subscribe to our newsletter. The Motorsport. Motorsport Network Motorsport. In a fact, his Indy Car debut was at the Indianapolis , where he finished 25th due to a water pump failure. His best result was 8th place at Texas Motor Speedway. At Indianapolis , he sensationally managed to qualify second. In the race, he was leading for 18 laps before retiring on lap due to a gearbox failure.

In the next race, at Texas, Ray finished second. Knapp Motorsports was skipping some races due to a lack of sponsorship so Ray participated in two races with AJ Foyt Enterprises' 11 Dallara-Oldsmobile, as a replacement to the injured Billy Boat. Ray rejoined Knapp for the final three races of the season. He finished 21st in the championship standings.

At Indianapolis , he started second and finished 21st. At the end of the season, after ten races, Greg Ray became the champion, beating second-placed Kenny Brack by 37 points. Greg Ray's championship winning 2 Dallara-Oldsmobile.

The defending champion continued to drive for Team Menard in , having a number 1 on a car. During a season, he scored six pole positions, including the best starting place at the Indianapolis Ray was leading for 26 of the first 66 laps before crashing out on lap He was 13th in the points at the end of the season. The team closed at the end of the year from a lack of sponsorship.

Greg Ray made his Indy Racing League start during the portion of the Indy Racing League season driving the 97 Thomas Knapp Motorsports Dallara - Oldsmobile Aurora in 5 of 10 events including the Indianapolis wher he would finish 25th due to a water pump failure. However, during practice for the Indianapolis Mercury stopped paying its sponsorship bills and left Knapp's team without a sponsor.

In the race Ray led for 18 laps before retiring on lap due to a gearbox failure. Knapp then reopened his team with sponsorship from Genoa Racing and Best Access Systems but would retire from all three races. This because Ray and Montoya were the favorites to win. Ray would lead 26 of the first 66 laps before crashing on lap 67 and finishing in 33rd last place with Montoya leading of the laps on his way to an easy win.

However, Ray would drop to 13th in points. Ray continued to be an excellent qualifier with 4 poles in the series' first 10 races but had trouble finishing races with a win at the zMax Atlanta Classic at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Ray's relationship with Menard got even worse after the Indianapolis where Ray qualified 2nd and would 40 laps before finishing 17th, 8 laps down.

Ray made his debut at the Indianapolis starting 31st and crashing after 28 laps and finishing in 33rd, last, place again. This led to a 23rd place finish in points. The team started out strong with a 9th place finish at the Indy Japan at Twin Ring Motegi and followed that up with an 8th place finish at the Indianapolis Ray would finish 15th in points despite missing three races.

In Ray looked to be in good shape after a resptable season. But prior to the Indianpolis Renovac stopped paying their bills but Ray was ale to get sponsorship from Rent-A-Center due to the company being based in Ray's home town of Plano, Texas. But soon a lack of sponsorship caught up to Ray as he had to withdraw from the following race, the Argent Mortgage Indy at Kansas Speedway.

Ray would quietly finish 23rd in points and the team closed up shop at the end of the season. Ray soon afterwards retired from racing after being unable to find a drive for the season. In that season Ray had 7 podium finishes and set a track recoed lap for a Formula Ford car at Sears Point Raceway and would take the series championship. In Ray moved up to the Formula Atlantic series and would take the championship in series in dominating fashion.

Ray would have seven other podium finishes, six pole positions, and eight fastest laps with the championship. Ray's best race of the season came at the race at the Milwaukee Mile where Ray started 4th and finished in 2nd place. Ray would finish in 12th place in the overall championship. Ray had a best finish of 7th at the race at Talladega Superspeedway and would also starst 2nd at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway race.

Ray would finish in 11th place in the championship. Template:IRL Champions. Autopedia Explore. Browse wiki.