Cheever Racing

Cheever Racing is an Indy Racing League founded in 1996 by Eddie Cheever as Team Cheever. They have fielded a car for Cheever for much of its existence, but have occasionally has become a two car team, almost always for the Indianapolis 500. The team won the 1998 Indianapolis 500 with Cheever driving and then switched to Infiniti engines and gained sponsorship from Excite for 2000. The team continued to be moderately successful and gained Infiniti's first series win. When Infiniti left the series in 2003 the team, which by then was sponsored by Red Bull switched to Chevrolet engines then switched to Toyota in 2005. Despite some of the most talented drivers in the league, a long string of bad luck and underpowered engines rendered the team little more than mid-pack. With no sponsor for the 2006 season, Eddie decided to trim the team to a single car return to the cockpit as both a cost cutting move and to seize the opportunity to return to racing before he felt he got too old to be competetive. He has only committed to drive until the Indianapolis 500 but his team has committed to running the whole season, so his plans after the "500" are currently unknown.

Cheever Racing also runs a Daytona Prototype car in the Rolex Grand-Am series driven by Eddie Cheever and Christian Fittipaldi and sponsored by Crown Royal Special Reserve.

Drivers who have driven for Cheever

• Alex Barron (IRL 2003-2004)
• Ed Carpenter (IRL 2004)
• Patrick Carpentier (IRL 2005/Grand Am 2006)
• Eddie Cheever (IRL 1996-2002, 2006/Grand Am 2006)
• Tomas Enge (IRL 2006)
• Wim Eyckmans (Indy 500)
• Scott Goodyear (Indy 500)
• Robby McGehee (Indy 500)
• Max Papis (Indy 500 2002,2006)
• Buddy Rice (IRL 2002-2003)
• Tomas Scheckter (IRL 2002)
• Robby Unser (Indy 500)
• Jeff Ward (Indy 500)
• Christian Fittipaldi (Grand Am 2006)
• Lucas Luhr (Grand Am 2006)
• Hoover Orsi Grand Am 2006)
• Stefan Johansson (Grand Am 2006)