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Sam Schmidt

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Racing career
Career results
Indy Racing League
Other
References
External links

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|name = Sam Schmidt
|image = Sam Schmidt - Carb Day 2015 - Sarah Stierch.jpg
|caption = Schmidt in 2015
|birth_date = {{bda|1964|8|15}}
|birth_place = Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
|death_date =
|last series = IndyCar Series
|years active = 1997–1999
|teams = {{ubl|Blueprint Racing|LP Racing|Treadway Racing}}
|starts = 26
|wins = 1
|poles = 1
|best finish = 5th
|year = 1999
|prev series = USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series
|prev series years = 1995
}}

Samuel "Sam" Schmidt (born August 15, 1964, in Lincoln, Nebraska) is a former Indy Racing League driver and current Verizon IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights series team owner. Schmidt's brief IndyCar career included a win in 1999, but an accident before the 2000 season left him a quadriplegic.

Racing career

After graduating from Pepperdine University, he became a successful businessman, eventually purchasing his father's parts company in 1989 at the age of 25.{{cn|date=September 2018}} He raced at a competitive amateur level, supported by his business income, but dreamed of someday driving in the Indianapolis 500. He first drove professionally in 1995 in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series at the age of 31 which, by racing standards, is an unusually old age to begin a professional career.{{cn|date=September 2018}} Nonetheless, he won Rookie of the Year honors.{{cn|date=September 2018}}

In 1997 he made his first Indy Racing League start and became a rising star in the league. He raced three consecutive years at the Indianapolis 500, and earned his first race victory, from the pole position, at Las Vegas in 1999.{{cn|date=September 2018}} He finished fifth in series points that year. During that offseason, while testing in preparation for the 2000 season, Schmidt crashed at Walt Disney World Speedway on January 6, 2000.^[1] The accident rendered him a quadriplegic, and put him on a respirator for five months.^[2]

After leaving the hospital, Schmidt, no longer able to actually drive a racecar, realized he needed to find a new passion and follow it. Inspired by meeting tetraplegic Formula One team owner Sir Frank Williams, he founded Sam Schmidt Motorsports, which has become the most successful team in the history of the Indy Lights series,{{cn|date=September 2018}} winning the 2004 series championship with Thiago Medeiros, the 2006 title with Jay Howard, and the 2007 title with Alex Lloyd. Sam Schmidt Motorsports was a full-time IndyCar series team in 2001 and 2002, and continues to participate annually in the Indianapolis 500. In the Firestone Indy Lights series, as of August 2009 the team had posted 30 victories out of 100 starts.{{cn|date=September 2018}}

After acquiring the FAZZT Race Team IndyCar team in 2011, Sam Schmidt Motorsports returned full-time to the IZOD IndyCar Series, and on May 21, 2011, driver Alex Tagliani won the pole position for the Indianapolis 500, the first pole for the team.{{cn|date=September 2018}}

Career results

Indy Racing League

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
1996–97	Blueprint Racing	Dallara IR7	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	NHM	LVS	WDW	PHX {{small\|10}}	IND {{small\|34}}	TXS {{small\|23}}	PPI	27th	76
1996–97	LP Racing	Dallara IR7	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	CLT {{small\|18}}	NH2 {{small\|22}}	LV2 {{small\|27}}					27th	76
1998	LP Racing/PCI	Dallara IR8	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	WDW {{small\|9}}	PHX {{small\|7}}	INDY {{small\|26}}	TXS {{small\|18}}	NHM {{small\|12}}	DOV {{small\|17}}	CLT {{small\|14}}	PPIR {{small\|13}}	ATL {{small\|15}}	TX2 {{small\|27}}	LVS {{small\|2}}	14th	186
1999	Treadway Racing	G-Force GF01C	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	WDW {{small\|27}}	PHX {{small\|9}}	CLT C¹	INDY {{small\|30}}	TXS {{small\|3}}	PPI {{small\|2}}	ATL {{small\|22}}	DOV {{small\|5}}	PP2 {{small\|5}}	LVS {{small\|1}}	TX2 {{small\|22}}	5th	233

¹ The 1999 VisionAire 500K at Charlotte was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities.

Other

Schmidt won $16,350 on Press Your Luck over the course of three episodes between January 2–4, 1985.{{cn|date=September 2018}}
He established the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation to further the cause of paralysis research, treatment and quality-of-life issues.{{cn|date=September 2018}}
He was helped by Arrow Electronics to drive again by creating a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray that is controlled with head movement, voice commands, and by mouth sip/puff actions.^[3]^[4]
Schmidt currently serves on the board of directors for BraunAbility, a leading manufacturer of wheelchair accessible vehicles and other mobility solutions.

References

1. ^{{cite news|title=Crash at Disney paralyzes IRL driver|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22795022/sam_schmidt/|first=Juliet|last=Macur|newspaper=The Orlando Sentinel|page=19|via=Newspapers.com|date=January 19, 2000|accessdate=August 14, 2018}}{{Open access}}
2. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqjcxJiPX9M], Sam's story, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, may 21, 2014 (video)
3. ^{{cite web|title=Sam Schmidt will get the first semi-autonomous driver's license|url=http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/sam-schmidt-will-get-first-semi-autonomous-drivers-license|publisher=Autoweek|accessdate=19 May 2018|date=26 September 2016|author=Wesley Wren}}
4. ^{{cite web|last1=Weaver|first1=Matt|title=Paralyzed Sam Schmidt set to race 77-year-old Mario Andretti at Indianapolis|url=http://autoweek.com/article/indycar/paralyzed-sam-schmidt-set-race-77-year-old-mario-andretti-indianapolis|publisher=Autoweek|accessdate=19 May 2018|date=13 May 2017}}

External links

Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
[https://web.archive.org/web/20051214185525/http://www.samschmidt.org/ Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation]

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