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Andersen Racing Signs Prendeville
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01/25/2007
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Team, driver share New Jersey roots
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By IndyCar.com staff
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 Andrew
Prendeville will be one of Andersen Racing’s two
full-season drivers in the team’s first season
of Indy Pro Series™ competition, team owner Dan
Andersen announced.
Prendeville, of Morristown, N.J., has worked
with Andersen Racing in the past. He finished
second in the 2004 Formula Ford 2000 Zetec
national championship, contributing to the team
winning the championship with seven victories
and 15 podium finishes.
Prendeville, 25, also won the 2002 SCCA Formula
Continental national championship.
On Jan. 24, he drove an Indy Pro Series car for
the first time, passing his rookie test at
Homestead-Miami Speedway. The season opener is
March 24 on the track’s 1.5-mile, high-banked
oval.
"We're very pleased to be working with Andrew
again, as we think he's not only a quality
driver, but also a quality person," Dan Andersen
said. "We haven't forgotten the maturity he
showed when he finished second in the F2000
series in 2004. His car suffered a bent
suspension piece in the season finale. He ended
up just 16 points shy of Bobby Wilson in the
driver point standings that year, through no
fault of his own, but he took it like a
champion."
Wilson went on to win the race that day at Road
America, while Wade Cunningham, the 2005 Indy
Pro Series champion, finished second.
"Andrew is excited about getting in the car and
racing against some of the drivers he competed
with in F2000, like Bobby Wilson and Chris Festa,"
John Andersen said. "It will be especially
exciting for everyone in the Northeast, because
he's a Jersey boy."
"Bobby beat me for that championship in 2004, so
running against him again will give me high
motivation," Prendeville said. "But the
challenges are the same no matter who shows up
at a race. You have to try to beat them all.
"I'm looking forward to having a full-season
ride, and being back running in a championship.
I had two years off, and I'm really looking
forward to just the overall competition."
Prendeville also is looking forward to the
series’ three races at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway.
"It will be a dream come true to get the chance
to compete at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,"
he said. "I've been to four or five Indy 500s,
and before that I watched them on TV. It's
always been a dream of mine to run at the
Speedway."
The team plans to announce the name of another
full-season Indy Pro Series driver for 2007
shortly.
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