Bradley Motorsports

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Bradley Motorsports was a racing team in the Indy Racing League owned by Colorado convenience store owner Brad Calkins. His son, Buzz Calkins, drove the bright red cars shod in the livery of Bradley Food Marts, Brad Calkins' company. Bradley won the first IRL race in 1996 at Walt Disney World Speedway and were the co-champions of the inaugural IRL season. The team began in 1990, supporting Calkins' rise through the Indy Lights development series. After Calkins' retirement from the cockpit at the end of the 2001 season, the team ran a program in the first half of the 2002 season for Japanese pay driver Shigeaki Hattori, but following poor finishes, Hattori left after the Pikes Peak International Raceway race. The team finished out the season unsponsored with Brazilian Raul Boesel driving in his final season of open wheel racing. Bradley Motorsports earlier had a pro super vee team in the mid and late 1980s that ran the Bradley Food Marts car driven by future RuSPORT co-owner Steve Wulff.

Complete IRL/IndyCar Series Results

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

YearChassisEngineDriversNo.123456789101112131415Pts PosPos
1996 WDW PHX INDY
Reynard 95i Ford-Cosworth Flag of the United States.svg Buzz Calkins 121*6171st246
1996–97 NHA LSV WDW PHX INDY TXS PPIR CLT NHA LSV
Reynard 95i Ford-Cosworth Flag of the United States.svg Buzz Calkins 122610th204
G-Force GF01 Infiniti 118111952128
1998 WDW PHX INDY TXS NHA DOV CLT PPIR ATL TXS LSV
G-Force GF01B Oldsmobile Aurora V8 Flag of the United States.svg Buzz Calkins 121491015152428111119th134
1999 WDWPHXCLT INDY TXSPPIRATLDOVPPIRLSVTXS
Dallara IR9 Oldsmobile Aurora V8 Flag of the United States.svg Buzz Calkins 12171413th201
G-Force GF01CC 1 19914581558
2000 WDWPHXLSV INDY TXSPPIRATLKTYTXS
Dallara IR-00 Oldsmobile Aurora V8 Flag of the United States.svg Buzz Calkins 1282325184122312915th145
2001 PHXHMSATL INDY TXSPPIRRIRKANNSHKTYGATCHITXS
Dallara IR-01 Oldsmobile Aurora V8 Flag of the United States.svg Buzz Calkins 1291631215151013916229109th242
2002 HMSPHXFONNAZ INDY TXSPPIRRIRKANNSHMCHKTYGATCHITXS
Dallara IR-02 Infiniti Flag of Japan.svg Shigeaki Hattori 122526102061927th78
Flag of Brazil.svg Raul Boesel 11515138112219th158
  1. ^ The 1999 VisionAire 500K was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities.