Matt Young Motorsports

Matt Young Motorsports is a professional auto racing organization based in Bryan, Texas. The organization first launched operations in the Infiniti Pro Series (now Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires) in 2004. Debuting at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the Freedom 100, 18-year-old team owner Matt Young became the youngest team owner in racing history to date.^[1][2]

The following season, on the heals of a podium finish in the opening round of the 2005 Infiniti Pro Series season at Homestead-Miami Speedway the team would go on to its first professional race victory in the Phoenix 100 at Phoenix International Raceway on March 19. They would leave Phoenix leading the series points standings. The team would never regain its early season form nor would they maintain the top spot in the series points standings after being plagued by a series of engine and mechanical failures for the rest of 2005.^[3][4]

After a slow start to the 2006 Indy Pro Series season that would see the team finish outside of the top 5 in the first 6 races of the year, Matt Young Motorsports shuttered its Indianapolis, IN Indy Pro Series operation.^[5]

In 2011, after nearly a 5-year hiatus from professional racing, Matt Young Motorsports returned to top-level motorsport, working with soccer player and United States Men's National Team regular Heath Pearce. Competing in Grand-Am Road Racing's Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge, the team campaigned a pair of Porsche 997s in the Grand Sport (GS) class, debuting rookie co-drivers Andy Lee, a professional driving instructor at Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, and BestIT CEO Harry Curtin in the race at Barber Motorsports Park.^[6][7][8]

In 2012 Matt Young Motorsports moved to the Pirelli World Challenge Championship competing in the Touring Car (TC) class and campaigning two Mazda RX-8's. The team's 2 cars finished in the top 10 in every race entered that season, with the exception of a single mechanical DNF for J.D. Mobley in race 3 at Miller Motorsports Park. Between its 2 entries, Matt Young Motorsports collected 4 top 5's in 6 races.^[9]

In 2013 the team launched an effort to market and support Camp Quality USA, a nonprofit organization that serves pediatric cancer patients and their families by providing year-round programs, experiences, and companionship at no cost, along with a week at one of 15 summer camps across 12 states for its more than 900 participants. Matt Young Motorsports initially decided to continue its relationship with Mazda and returned to Pirelli World Challenge with the intent to campaign Mazda MX-5s in the Touring Car class. But after significant mechanical gremlins cost the team a chance to compete in all 3 rounds of the season's opening race weekend at Circuit of the Americas, the team abandoned the new MX-5 project. The team would, however, run the entire season in the Touring Car B-Spec (TCB) class with its two Honda Fit racecars. With lead driver Joel Lipperini behind the wheel of its #81 entry, the team took 6 podiums in 14 races, scoring back-to-back wins mid-season at Lime Rock Park race 3 and Toronto race 1. After two second place finishes in the two season ending rounds at the Grand Prix of Houston Lipperini and the team just missed out on the TCB class championship, settling for a runner-up finish in the points.^[10][11]

The team has announced its return to Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car competition for the full 2016 season, running Canadian Nick Wittmer in the Honda Ste-Rose Honda Accord V6.^[12] The team started the season with a Pole for the Nissan Grand Prix of Texas Presented by VP Racing Fuels TC Round 1.^[13] After leading from pole in the early stages of the race, the #91 Touring Car's engine blew and Wittmers day was done. ^[14] The team made an overnight motor change in order to make the grid for Round 2, Nick Wittmer started 4th and finished 2nd in the Honda Accord V6 Touring Car.^[15][16] At CTMP the team scored a double podium weekend after winning Round 3, and finishing a close second to Toby Grahovic in Round 4. ^[17][18] Wittmer grabbed his second win and 4th podium of the season at Lime Rock Race 1, but had a mechanical issue and had to settle for a 7th place finish in Round 6. ^[19][20]

Pirelli World Challenge

Year	Car #	Driver	Sponsor	Make/Model	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Driver Rank	Driver Points	Team Rank	Team Points
2012	97	J D Mobley	Global Barter Corporation/iTraycer/MYM	Mazda RX-8	TC	STP1	STP2	MMP1 5	MMP2 4	MMP3 12	LAG	CTMP1	CTMP2	CTMP3	MidO1	MidO2	SNM1	SNM2	SNM3	-	-	-	-
2012	98	Tommy Boileau	Global Barter Corporation/iTraycer/MYM	Mazda RX-8	TC	STP1	STP2	MMP1 8	MMP2 8	MMP3 8	LAG	CTMP1	CTMP2	CTMP3	MidO1	MidO2	SNM1	SNM2	SNM3	-	-	-	-
2012	97	Marlin Langeveldt	GoopyPerf/iTraycer/MYM	Mazda RX-8	TC	STP1	STP2	MMP1	MMP2	MMP3	LAG	CTMP1 10	CTMP2 4	CTMP3 7	MidO1	MidO2	SNM1	SNM2	SNM3	-	-	-	-
2012	98	Steve Blethen	MYM/iTraycer	Mazda RX-8	TC	STP1	STP2	MMP1	MMP2	MMP3	LAG	CTMP1 9	CTMP2 5	CTMP3 6	MidO1	MidO2	SNM1	SNM2	SNM3	-	-	-	-
2013	5	Mike Skeen	Camp Quality USA/MYM	Mazda MX-5	TC	COTA1 MEC	COTA2 MEC	COTA3 MEC	LRP1	LRP2	LRP3	TOR1	TOR2	MidO1	MidO2	SNM1	SNM2	HOU1	HOU2	-	-	-	-
2013	81	Joel Lipperini	Camp Quality USA/RaceLabz/MYM	Honda Fit	TCB	COTA1 6	COTA2 4	COTA3 4	LRP1 18	LRP2 5	LRP3 1	TOR1 1	TOR2 3	MidO1 3	MidO2 4	SNM1 4	SNM2 3	HOU1 2	HOU2 2	2nd	1352	-	-
2013	32	Jonathan Baker	Camp Quality USA/32Racing/MYM	Honda Fit	TCB	COTA1 12	COTA2 8	COTA3 7	LRP1	LRP2	LRP3	TOR1	TOR2	MidO1 6	MidO2 10	SNM1	SNM2	HOU1 5	HOU2 4	11th	589	-	-
2016	91	Nick Wittmer	Honda Ste-Rose/Matt Young Motorsports	Honda Accord V6	TC	COTA1 MEC	COTA2 2	CTMP1 1	CTMP2 2	LRP1 1	LRP2 7	RA1 3	RA2 18	UMC1 4	UMC2 11	MRLS1 4	MRLS2 4	-	-	3rd	971	2nd	926

Years	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Top 5's	Top 10s	Championships
3	48	3	4	12	26	36	0

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Indy Lights

Year	Driver	Sponsor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2004	Jon Herb	Aercon/Old Republic International/Matt Young Motorsports	HMS	PHX	INDY 26	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	PPIR	CHI	FON 6	TXS 7			18th	67
2005	Jon Herb	Aercon/Fossil, Inc./Matt Young Motorsports	HMS 3	PHX 1	STP 11	INDY 13	TXS 7	IMS 9	NSH 6	MIL 4	KTY 11	PPIR 11	SNM 9	CHI 4	WGL 11	FON 9	7th	364
2006	Jon Herb	Aercon	HMS 6	STP1 13	STP2 9	INDY 19	WGL 8	IMS 8	NSH	MIL	KTY	SNM1	SNM2	CHI			11th	126

Years	Races	Poles	Front Row Starts	Wins	Podiums	Top 5's	Top 10s	Championships
3	23	0	1	1	2	4	15	0

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2011 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season

Year	Car #	Drivers	Sponsor	Make/Model	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
2011	89	Marcelo Abello/Barry Ellis	Hop A Jet Worldwide Jet Charter/Gulfstream Brazil	Porsche 997	GS	DIS 21	HMI	BMP	VIR	LRP	WGI	RAM	LAG	NJMP	MidO
2011	88	Fraser Wellon/Barry Ellis	Hop A Jet Worldwide Jet Charter	Porsche 997	GS	DIS	HMI 12	BMP	VIR	LRP	WGI	RAM	LAG	NJMP	MidO 19
2011	89	Frank Rossi/Marcelo Abello	Hop A Jet Worldwide Jet Charter	Porsche 997	GS	DIS	HMI 19	BMP	VIR	LRP	WGI	RAM	LAG	NJMP	MidO
2011	88	Jeff Courtney/Barry Ellis	Hop A Jet Worldwide Jet Charter/Kenda/RecStuff.com	Porsche 997	GS	DIS	HMI	BMP 23	VIR	LRP	WGI	RAM	LAG	NJMP	MidO
2011	89	Harry Curtin/Andy Lee	BestIT/Matt Young Motorsports with/Heath Pearce	Porsche 997	GS	DIS	HMI	BMP 26	VIR	LRP	WGI	RAM	LAG	NJMP	MidO DNS
2011	89	Jack Corthell/Barry Ellis	Hop A Jet Worldwide Jet Charter	Porsche 997	GS	DIS	HMI	BMP	VIR	LRP	WGI	RAM	LAG	NJMP	MidO 24

Years	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Championships
1	8	0	0	0	0	0

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References

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhFtqnTPys
2. 2004 Infiniti Pro Series season
3. http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=7382
4. http://racing-reference.info/rquery?id=herbjo01&trk=t0&series=IL
5. 2004 Indy Pro Series season
6. http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Heath-Pearce/1487187021
7. http://www.bondurant.com/about/instructors
8. http://www.bondurant.com/pit-row/news/andy-lee-driving-bondurant-dream
9. http://dailyderbi.com/weekend-wallpaper-97-matt-young-motorsports-rx8/
10. http://www.world-challenge.com/news/team-news/item/1179-matt-young-motorsports-to-partner-with-camp-quality-usa.html
11. http://www.mattyoungmotorsports.com/news/index.html?article_id=7
12. http://world-challenge.com/latest/team-news/canadian-nick-wittmer-to-focus-on-winning-his-first-championship-in-the-united-states/
13. http://world-challenge.com/latest/series-news/wittmer-bickers-and-rodgers-score-tc-tca-and-tcb-poles-at-cota/
14. http://world-challenge.com/latest/series-news/kozarov-goulart-and-rodgers-win-season-opening-tctcatcb-round-at-cota/
15. http://world-challenge.com/latest/series-news/grahovec-wolfe-rodgers-win-tctcatcb-round-2-cota/
16. http://world-challenge.com/latest/team-news/wild-opening-pwc-weekend-ends-runner-finish-wittmer/
17. http://world-challenge.com/latest/series-news/wittmer-goulart-morse-win-round-3-canadian-tire-motorsport-park/
18. http://world-challenge.com/latest/series-news/grahovec-goulart-rodgers-win-round-4-canadian-tire-motorsport-park/
19. http://world-challenge.com/latest/series-news/wittmer-goulart-rodgers-win-tctcatcb-round-5-lime-rock-park/
20. http://world-challenge.com/latest/series-news/geraci-goulart-washay-win-tctcatcb-lime-rock-park/
21. http://goracingtv.com/04/29/2012/j-d-mobley-tommy-boileau-drive-grid-1matt-young-motorsports-rx-8s-miller/
22. http://dailyderbi.com/weekend-wallpaper-97-matt-young-motorsports-rx8/
23. http://mattyoungmotorsports.com/news/?article_id=6
24. http://www.world-challenge.com/news/story.php?story=3095
25. http://racing-reference.info/rquery?id=herbjo01&trk=t0&series=IL
26. http://d3n6xuhqxlr5vq.cloudfront.net/assets/CTSCCRace%20Results%20Official1.pdf
27. http://www.grand-am.com/Portals/0/Images/PDF/CTSCCRace%20Results%20Official.pdf

External links

• Official website