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Patrick Barrett
and Joel Miller are the 2007 Team USA Scholarship Winners
Patrick Barrett, 17, from Los Osos, Calif., and Joel Miller, 19, from
Hesperia, Calif., today were named as the latest winners of prestigious
Team USA Scholarships. The pair were chosen from a short-list of seven
talented young American race car drivers who were interviewed by an
illustrious panel of judges during the recent Champ Car Grand Prix of
San José.
The Team USA Scholarship program has provided opportunities for
deserving young Americans since Jimmy Vasser received the inaugural
award in 1990. Vasser went on to win the 1996 Champ Car crown and today
is co-owner of the PKV Racing Champ Car team. Subsequent recipients
include two contenders in this weekend’s Generac 500 American Le Mans
Series event: Bryan Herta (1991), who will drive the #26 XM Satellite
Radio Acura ARX-01a, and Joey Hand (2000), who campaigns the #22 Team
PTG Panoz Esperante GTLM. Also among the alumni are 2004 Indianapolis
500 winner Buddy Rice (1997); this year’s Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the
Year Phil Giebler (2000); current Cooper Tires Presents the Champ Car
Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda contender J.R. Hildebrand (2005);
and 2006 winner Dane Cameron, who this weekend is looking to extend his
lead in the Star Mazda Championship at Road America.
Barrett, who currently leads the Pacific F2000 Championship Presented by
Hankook, driving for the PR1 Motorsports team, and Miller, who leads the
BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda points table, will
travel to England later in the fall to contest the Formula Palmer Audi
Autumn Trophy. The series will comprise six races over two weekends at
renowned race tracks Brands Hatch and Snetterton.
“Winning the Team USA Scholarship means a lot to me,” said Barrett, who
burst onto the racing scene last year, winning the Formula Russell
Championship at a canter and then scooping two race wins on his debut in
the Pacific F2000 series. “Knowing that the people who support the
program believe in my talent is a great feeling. I’m really looking
forward to this opportunity and hope that it will open more doors in my
future.”
“I have to thank everybody behind the Team USA Scholarship for giving me
this opportunity to represent the U.S. this year in the Formula Palmer
Audi series,” added Miller, who has been ranked as the nation’s top ICA
karter the last few years. “Racing in Europe in a competitive series has
always been a goal of mine, and now the Team USA Scholarship is making
that a reality.”
The adjudicating panel included Vasser, Champ Car team owner Dale Coyne,
Pacific Coast Motorsports (Champ Car) Team Director Tyler Tadevic,
vintage racer/businessman Doug Mockett, driver manager Will Prappas,
Champ Car World Series Communications Manager Tom McGovern, CCWS Media
Relations Manager Karina Redmond, renowned
journalists David Phillips (RACER) and David Malsher (Autosport),
FormulaCar Magazine assistant Editor Allan Craighead and Team USA
Scholarship founder Jeremy Shaw.
Team USA Scholarship supporters include Doug Mockett & Company, a
Torrance, Calif.-based producer and supplier of “Fine Architectural
Hardware For Your Fine Furniture,” American Honda, Snap-on Tools, “Stars
of Karting,” Sparco USA, RACER magazine, FormulaCar Magazine, Speedstar
Management, Manifest Group, The Print Network and an array of past
Scholarship winners. Additional contributors are actively being sought.
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