About Lynx Racing

About Lynx Racing
"This cannot be accident; it must be design… the glory of human nature lies in our capacity to exercise conscious control of our own destiny."
-- Winston Churchill

Overview
2004 marks the 14th anniversary of Lynx Racing, one of the most unique organizations in auto racing today. Created and owned by two women, Peggy Haas and Jackie Doty, Lynx is both a championship-winning racing team and a uniquely successful driver development program that focuses on a driver's mental, psychological and spiritual growth in addition to their on-track skills.

Mission Statement
The Lynx mission is to seek out young drivers with the desire and potential to become champions at the highest levels of the sport and provide them with the funding, equipment and training to realize that potential -- a process the team calls 'Destiny by Design.' Lynx is self-funded, so drivers are chosen for their potential rather than their ability to bring money or generate sponsorship. Lynx sponsors one car and driver for two seasons at a cost of $1.2 million per year. Two car teams are the ideal in terms of maximizing testing, personnel and race results, so the team has traditionally made a second car available to qualified drivers with funding.

Choosing a Lynx Driver
Being self-funded gives Lynx the ability to choose the most promising drivers, and this is the reason for the team's remarkable success over the years.

Candidates must, of course, be very, very fast, but other considerations include:

  • Early start in racing and a record of success
  • Strong family support for their chosen career
  • Speed, physical conditioning, reflexes and endurance
  • Attitude and willingness to learn
  • Media presence, appearance and total dedication to goals

 
Training Program
Each Lynx driver is the focus of an intensive, one-on-one training program that includes:

  • Car setup
  • Race strategy
  • Driving technique
  • Meditation /visualization techniques
  • Extensive physical training including weights, aerobic exercise and karting
  • Testing and development procedures
  • Interpretation of information from on-board data systems
  • Working one-on-one with engineering personnel
  • Public relations
  • Sponsor activities


Drivers that graduate from the Lynx Racing program are thoroughly educated in the arts and sciences of auto racing. They are intelligent, enthusiastic, pragmatic and fiercely focused on winning. Each is an individual, but all have in common those characteristics possessed by winners and champions. Recent Lynx alumni include such rising stars as Patrick Carpentier, Buddy Rice, Memo Gidley, Alex Barron and Michael Valiante.
 

Bryan Sellers

Current Driver
Bryan Sellers, 21, of Centerville, Ohio, begins his first full season as the Lynx Racing driver in 2004. He ran four Atlantic races with the Lynx team in 2003. In 2003, driving for Cape Motorsports, he was the Formula Ford Zetec Champion with 7 poles and 8 wins. As a result, he was named to the 2002 American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) All-American First Team, joining such notable drivers as Cristiano da Matta, John Force, Sam Hornish Jr., Boris Said and Tony Stewart. His championship also earned him a test at Sebring in Christian Fittipaldi’s No. 11 Lilly Newman/Haas Racing Toyota Lola.

Prior to racing cars, Sellers raced karts for eight years, winning the WKA National Championship in 1998. That same year, he competed in two STAR Mazda races, winning both. The following year, Sellers competed in the Skip Barber Formula Dodge Series. In 26 races, he won 15 times en route to capturing the Mid-West championship and the Rookie of the Year honors. In 2000, Sellers won seven Skip Barber Dodge National Championship races and finished second in the championship.

Sellers is widely regarded in the racing community as a rising American star in a series largely populated with foreign-born drivers. He is at the top of every Champ Car team's driver wish list for the 2005 season.

Team Accomplishments
Since the beginning of Lynx Racing's 'modern era' in 1994, the team has scored:

  • Two championships
  • Thirty-nine race wins
  • Atlantic series record for the most race wins in a single season (9)
  • Atlantic series record for the most consecutive poles in a single season (8)
  • Atlantic series record for the most prize money won in a single season ($275,600)
  • Atlantic series record for the most 'fastest race lap' in a single season
  • Only driver to win championship and 'Rookie of the Year' in the same season.


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