CART Co-Founder, Indy 500-Winning Team Owner Pat Patrick Dies at 91
Patrick’s teams won 45 Indy-car races, three Indianapolis 500s.
U.E. Pat Patrick co-founded Championship Auto Racing Teams and founded the Indy Lights Series.
Patrick, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91, won three Indy 500s and 45 Indy-car races as a team owner.
Patrick Racing s greatest season was 1989. That year, Patrick won both the Indianapolis 500 and the CART championship with driver Emerson Fittipaldi.
Veteran IndyCar racer and 1983 Indianapolis 500 winner Tom Sneva ducked into the Patrick Racing hospitality tent at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland during a July CART race weekend in 1995.