August, 29, 2009 – Joliet. At the Chicagoland Speedway, J. R. Hildebrand became the first American since A. J. Foyt IV in 2002 to win the IRL Firestone Indy Lights Championship. Although J. R. only started 13th and finished 5th that was all it took to get enough more points to bring the trophy home for AFS Racing/Andretti Green Racing.
The 21-year-old star from Sausalito, California, claimed 5 poles this season and won 4 races. He also finished in the top 5, 11 times and finished 13 of this year’s 14 races. J. R. also led 241 total laps. He has high hopes that this record will put him on a fast track to Indy.
In the mean-time, Winston-Salem, N. C.’s Daniel Herrington of Bryan Herta Autosport won his first Lights race. And Australia’s James Davison of Vision Racing [2nd] and Chatham, N. J.’s Andrew Prendeville of Team Moore Racing [3rd] took the other two podium spots. New Zealand’s 2005 Lights champion Wade Cunningham with Sam Schmidt Motorsports, [4th] led the first 13 laps of the race and registered the most times led, 3, and the most laps led, 39 of 67, of any of the drivers.
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August 23, 2009 – Sonoma. Californian J. R. Hildebrand applied his best of strategies again today at the Infineon Raceway road race to stretch out his driver’s season points lead – win the pole, stand on it from the start and don’t let anyone pass you on those 40 laps.
This was the third race AFS Racing/Andretti Green Racing’s J. R. pulled this strategy, giving him 6 poles, 4 wins and 9 podium finishes this season. Nothing like smoking them when you are at the closest track to your hometown, Sausalito, California.
The starting order had Sam Schmidt Motorsports’ Ana Beatriz in 2nd and Bryan Herta Autosport’s Felipe Guimaraes in 3rd. James Hinchcliffe, one of Ana’s teammates, started 4th.
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August 9, 2009 – Lexington. James Davison and Vision Racing took on the big teams, Sam Schmidt Motorsports and AFS Racing/Andretti Green Racing, and blew them away. Davison, who had won the pole for the Watkins Glen road race but settled for 2nd as J. R. Hildebrand won, started again by winning the pole at the 2.258 mile, 13-turn road course – and having learned a lesson.
James stood on it and led all 40 laps of the Mid-Ohio 100 to take the checkered flag. If you don’t let them pass you, you don’t have to pass them to win! It was the first win of the season for both Davison, and Tony and Laura George’s Vision Racing. It was not the first win at Mid-Ohio though for James. He won it last year too!
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