Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing

Owner(s)	Sarah Fisher Andy O'Gara Wink Hartman
Base	Indianapolis, Indiana
Series	USF2000 Championship
Career
Debut	2008 Indianapolis 500
Latest race	2014 MAVTV 500 IndyCar World Championships
Race victories	1

Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing, currently competing as theSarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development, is an auto racing team founded in January 2008 which competed in theVerizon IndyCar Series. The team is jointly owned by former driverSarah Fisher, Fisher's husband Andrew O'Gara, and businessmanWillis "Wink" E. Hartman. The team competed in the IndyCar Series until 2014, after which it merged withEd Carpenter Racing to formCFH Racing for the 2015 season. The team ceased operations after the 2015 season, but returned as a development series team in 2020 as Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development.

SFR was founded in late 1999 as a platform to handle Sarah Fisher's endorsements and business ventures. Fisher announced on February 27, 2008, that she would begin fielding her own race team in the IndyCar Series in 2008.^[1] Fisher, along with her husband Andy O'Gara, his father, John O'Gara and Fisher's then-agent/manager Klint Briney all leftDreyer & Reinbold Racing to start SFR.

The team announced a partial schedule for the2008IndyCar Series season that will include theIndianapolis 500.^[2] The team's primary sponsor for the Indianapolis 500 was set to beGravity Entertainment who claimed to represent and have rights toRESQ energy drink, set for a new product launch in May, but when May arrivedGravity Entertainment (who in fact, did not have the rights to represent RESQ as it turned out) failed to deliver any money and put the team's plans of competing at the Indy 500 along with Kentucky and Chicago in jeopardy.

TheIndianapolis Motor Speedway opened for practice on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, for the 2008 Indy 500 and Fisher's team continued to move forward without primary sponsorship.^[3] The team became front and center when then-presidential hopeful SenatorHillary Clinton paid the team a visit on Indiana's primary election day creating a media frenzy.^[4]

As the month went on, SFR continued to pick up associate sponsors, which included Hartman Oil, ProLiance Energy,AAA,Direct Supply, Indianapolis college,IUPUI, as well donations from fans at $51,000. Fisher solidly placed the car in the field in 22nd position and picked up Text4Cars.com as the primary sponsor on the Friday before the Indy 500-mile (800 km) race.^[5] The race started on a bad note for the team when the car stalled at the green flag but the team was able to get it going again. Fisher spun on the first caution but made no contact on Lap 12 in Turn 4. She was not as lucky on Lap 106 when a crash byTony Kanaan collected her car landing her in a 30th place, after running as high as third in the race. After the race, Fisher toldESPN'sJamie Little she was unsure if the team would be able to make it to Kentucky and Chicago because of the crash.^[6]

The team announced on July 16, 2008, thatDollar General has become the primary sponsor for theKentucky Speedway andChicagoland Speedway races.^[7][8] Fisher tested at Kentucky Speedway on July 31 and August 1 in preparation for the upcomingMeijer Indy 300. Fisher qualified 16th for the race, ran as high as 10th, before a right rear suspension failure on the final lap hampered her finish. The failed part sent Fisher coasting to the finish line to finish 15th. Fisher crashed out of the Chicagoland Speedway race on lap 116 and was credited with 24th.

The team returned in 2009 with Sarah Fisher as driver for six (6) races andDollar General as a sponsor. It was announced on January 13, 2009, inUSA Today that the team would run four events and later added two additional races April 26, 2009. The team qualified 21st for the2009 Indianapolis 500^[9] and finished 17th. The team was showcased on three national programs during May, which includedThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CBS'sThe Price Is Right andFUSE TV'sNo. 1 Countdown.^[10]

It was announced at the end of 2009 that the team would be expanded to two cars for the 2010 season. Fisher would drive the #67 in seven races with Dollar General (all the ovals with the exception of Japan), and newly hired Jay Howard would drive the #66 Service Central machine in Kansas, Indy, Texas, Mid-Ohio, and Chicagoland. SFR put Howard quickly to work to build his brand name joining forces withMTV for a national promotion where Howard served as a driver coach for a music-obsessed teen named Lauren for four weeks during MTV's primetime showReal World/Road Rules Challenge beginning October 28 and ending November 18 with the fifth installment airing during themtvUWoodie Awards in 2009.

The 2010 season began with Fisher's longtime agent/manager Klint Briney resigning his position with her team, leaving to start the talent agency, BRANDed.^[11] Fisher was slated to open the season at St. Pete butGraham Rahal replaced Fisher for two road course events in 2010 (St. Pete and Barber Motorsports Park) and the team later added Long Beach to Rahal's schedule.^[12] The team continued to struggle in 2010 with just one top-10 finish (ninth at St. Pete with Rahal) and the balance of the team's results were 15th place or worse. The team pulled Howard's 2010 Indy 500 qualifying time on Bump Day on a gamble to duplicate his already qualified time, leaving the No. 66 Service Central machine without a spot in the 94th running of the Indianapolis 500.^[13]

AtChicagoLand Speedway, Fisher led her first laps since 2002 under a pit strategy, but later went two-laps down to finish 15th, while her teammate Howard's car continued to have issues and which would fulfill Howard's contract with the team. In an effort to salvage the team's relationship with Howard's sponsor, SFR agreed to fulfill Service Central's five-race (Howard drove in just four events after the team pulled his qualifying time for the Indy 500) agreement and added the Kentucky Indy 300 race to the No. 66 car schedule but chose to have Rahal drive the car.^[14] The change didn't seem to pay off as Rahal qualified just 25th of 27th cars for the twilight race, finishing 20th (5 laps down) and the last car running and urged media outlets includingSpeedTV and theIndianapolis Star to note the No. 66 car has been slow regardless of the driver.^[15]

Fisher announced her retirement on Monday, November 29, 2010, after 25 years of racing^[16] while also announcing thatEd Carpenter would be the team's new driver beginning in 2011. The team would celebrate its first win at the 2011 Kentucky Indy 300 on October 2, 2011, Carpenter beating defending series championDario Franchitti to the line by .0098 seconds. At the end of the season,Dollar General ended their sponsorship of SFR, and Ed Carpenter left to start his own racing team.^[17]

Century 21 Real Estate announced at their annual convention that they would be the team's official IndyCar sponsor for the Indianapolis 500. The car's number was changed to #21 for the race.^[18]Lucas Luhr partnered Newgarden at Sonoma.

For the 2015 season, the team merged withEd Carpenter Racing, becomingCFH Racing.^[19]

After the end of their IndyCar program, Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing continued to runsprint cars in various series in the United States.^[20] In 2020, the team announced plans to return to single-seater racing by entering theFormula 4 United States Championship with the team rebranded as Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development, but these plans were sidelined with by the globalCOVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the team joined theUSF Juniors championship as their formal return to single seater racing. In 2023, they competed in theUSF2000 Championship.^[21]

(key) (Results inbold indicate pole position; results initalics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Driver	no.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
2008					HMS	STP	MOT	LBH	KAN	INDY	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	EDM	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI	SRF1
	Dallara IR-05	HondaHI7RV8	Sarah Fisher	67						30									15			24
2009					STP	LBH	KAN	INDY	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	TOR	EDM	KTY	MDO	SNM	CHI	MOT	HMS
	Dallara IR-05	HondaHI7RV8	Sarah Fisher	67			13	17		17						12			14		18
2010					SAO	STP	ALA	LBH	KAN	INDY	TXS	IOW	WGL	TOR	EDM	MDO	SNM	CHI	KTY	MOT	HMS
	Dallara IR-05	HondaHI7RV8	Jay Howard	66					25	DNQ	26					24		22
			Graham Rahal																20
				67		9	17	22
			Sarah Fisher						17	26	15	22						15	22		22
2011					STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	TXS		MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM	MDO	NHA	SNM	BAL	MOT	KTY	LSV
	Dallara IR-05	HondaHI7RV8	Tomas Scheckter	57																		C2
			Ed Carpenter	67					11	18	16	16	11			22	11	25	20		1	C2
2012					STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	DET	TXS	MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM	MDO	SNM	BAL	FON
	DallaraDW12	Honda HI12TTV6t	Bryan Clauson	39					30
			Josef Newgarden	67	11	17	26	23	25	15	13	25	19	13	17	12	23		16
			Bruno Junqueira															19
2013					STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	DET		TXS	MIL	IOW	POC	TOR		MDO	SNM	BAL	HOU		FON
	DallaraDW12	Honda HI13TTV6t	Josef Newgarden	21					28
				67	23	9	13	5		7	16	8	11	15	5	23	11	23	24	2	5	13	20
			Lucas Luhr	97															22
2014					STP	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	HOU		POC	IOW	TOR		MDO	MIL	SNM	FON
	DallaraDW12	Honda HI14TTV6t	Josef Newgarden	67	9	19	8	17	30	20	17	11	20	20	8	2	20	13	12	5	6	10
			Alex Tagliani	68					13

#	Season	Date	Track / Race	No.	Winning Driver	Chassis	Engine	Tire	Grid	Laps Led
1	2011	October 2	Kentucky Speedway(O)	67	Ed Carpenter	DallaraIR-05	HondaHI7RV8	Firestone	4	8

• Note: this does not include two wins achieved in2015 asCFH Racing

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