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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ross Cheever (born April 12, 1964 in Rome, Italy) is a retired American race car driver and is the younger brother of former Formula One driver and Indianapolis 500 champion Eddie Cheever. Born in Rome, Cheever spent most of his career in Japan, where he won the Japanese Formula Three championship in 1987 and raced successfully in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship for eight years.

Cheever started his career in British Formula 3, with five wins between 1984 and 1985. He later competed in Formula Atlantic in New Zealand during the winter of 1985 and 1986 winning the New Zealand Grand Prix both years at the wheel of a Ralt RT4. After failing to qualify in his International Formula 3000 debut at Brands Hatch, and a brief foray in the United States' racing scene that included three starts in the new American Racing Series (current Indy NXT), Cheever switched his attention to Japan in 1987.

In his first season, Cheever won the Japanese Formula Three championship and signed a deal with Dome, racing at the All-Japan Sports Prototype Championship with Toyota and a half-season program in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, which became a full time seat for 1988. He narrowly lost the 1989 title to Hitoshi Ogawa by three points, and again in 1991 at the last race to Ukyo Katayama, finishing second both times. He also reached the final race of the 1992 and 1993 season with title chances, finally retiring at the end of the 1994 season after finishing third in the standings for the third straight year. By then, Cheever had become a Suzuka specialist, with seven of his ten wins in Japanese F3000 coming at this track since 1991.

After his first prototype experience in 1987, Cheever returned to a Toyota seat with Dome in 1989, which included a 24 Hour of Le Mans run that ended in an early retirement due to an engine failure. In the summer of 1992, Cheever dovetailed his F3000 season with his Indy Car debut for A. J. Foyt Enterprises in 1992, racing against his brother Eddie. He finished 11th in his debut at Portland, but suffered mechanical failures at Milwaukee and Cleveland, crashed at Road America early in the race and withdrew from the Vancouver event due to a crash in practice.

Cheever returned to the cockpit in 2000 as a test driver for Eddie's Cheever Racing, to help in their transition to Infiniti engines in the Indy Racing League. He was entered in a second Cheever Racing car for the Indianapolis 500 and completed rookie orientation. However, he was withdrawn by the team before Pole Day, as Eddie claimed that his crash during Opening Day had left the team without "the necessary resources to field a first-class effort for the car". Ross had only taken part in a single practice day, four days before being pulled out, and brushed the wall in an incident between Turns 1 and 2.

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 DC Points
1986 Eddie Jordan Racing SIL VAL PAU SPA IMO MUG PER ÖST BIR
DNQ
BUG JAR NC 0

Complete Japanese Formula 3 results

(key)

Year Team Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Pts
1987 Funaki Racing Toyota SUZ
4
TSU
1
FUJ
2
SUZ
1
SUG
1
SEN
15
MIN
2
TSU
4
SUZ
3
SUZ
1
1st 122

Complete Japanese Formula 3000 results

(key)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 DC Points
1987 Dome SUZ FUJ
9
MIN
Ret
SUZ SUZ SUG
Ret
FUJ SUZ
13
SUZ 17th 2
1988 Dome SUZ
6
FUJ
8
MIN
12
SUZ
Ret
SUG
14
FUJ
6
SUZ
5
SUZ
Ret
9th 4
1989 Dome SUZ
11
FUJ
1
MIN
1
SUZ
2
SUG
Ret
FUJ
10
SUZ
2
SUZ
12
2nd 30
1990 Dome SUZ
2
FUJ
DNS
MIN
Ret
SUZ
Ret
SUG
6
FUJ
Ret
FUJ
6
SUZ
Ret
FUJ
10
SUZ
Ret
8th 8
1991 Team LeMans SUZ
Ret
AUT
Ret
FUJ
12
MIN
Ret
SUZ
11
SUG
1
FUJ
Ret
FUJ
C
SUZ
1
FUJ
C
SUZ
1
FUJ
Ret
2nd 27
1992 Team LeMans SUZ
1
FUJ
Ret
MIN
Ret
SUZ
2
AUT
13
SUG
3
FUJ
17
FUJ
2
SUZ
DNS
FUJ
6
SUZ
4
3rd 29
1993 Promise & Reynard SUZ
1
FUJ
Ret
MIN
4
SUZ
9
AUT
C
SUG
3
FUJ
C
FUJ
12
SUZ
1
FUJ
7
SUZ
2
3rd 31
1994 Team LeMans SUZ
1
FUJ
3
MIN
5
SUZ
2
SUG
4
FUJ
7
SUZ
1
FUJ
Ret
FUJ
Ret
SUZ
7
3rd 33

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Class No Tyres Car Team Co-Drivers Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1989 C1 36 B Toyota 89C-V
Toyota R32V 3.2L Turbo V8
Japan Toyota Team Tom's Japan Hitoshi Ogawa
Italy Paolo Barilla
45 DNF DNF

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

Indy Lights

Year Team Series 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rank Points
1986 Brian Stewart Racing ARS PHX1 MIL MEA TOR POC MDO
3
ROA
4
LS
15
PHX2 MIA 14th 33

CART

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rank Points Ref
1992 A. J. Foyt Enterprises SRF PHX LBH INDY DET POR
11
MIL
20
NHA TOR MIS CLE
25
ROA
25
VAN
Wth
MDO NAZ LS 32nd 2 [1]

Indy Racing League

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Rank Points Ref
2000 Team Cheever WDW PHX LVS INDY
Wth
TXS PPIR ATL KTY TX2 NC [2]

References

  1. ^ "Ross Cheever – 1992 CART Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
  2. ^ "Ross Cheever – 2000 Indy Racing Northern Light Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 6, 2023.

External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by Winner of the New Zealand Grand Prix
1985 and 1986
Succeeded by
Preceded by All-Japan Formula Three
Champion

1987
Succeeded by


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