AFS Racing is a professional racing team participating in theIndyCar Series and previously theFirestone Indy Lights series. It is owned byGary Peterson, the founder ofAutomatic Fire Sprinklers for which it is named, and is based inHuntington Beach, California.

The team was founded with the creation of the Infiniti Pro Series (now Indy Lights) in 2002. At that time the team's only driver was Peterson himself and he finished seventh in points with a best finish of fourth. In 2003 Peterson was joined byG. J. Mennen who made 7 starts and finished 13th in points. Peterson finished 10th. In 2004, Peterson only drove part-time but the team ran a second car forArie Luyendyk Jr. for the final five races of the season after he leftSam Schmidt Motorsports. Luyendyk finished third in points. The team also fielded a car for sprint car racerJay Drake in theFreedom 100 and he finished fourth. In 2005, the team ran only a partial schedule, fielding a car for Luyendyk in three races andRocky Moran Jr. in the Freedom 100. In 2006Alex Lloyd finished 7th in the team's primary entry while Luyendyk drove in four races andThiago Medeiros,Phil Giebler, andTyce Carlson all drove in one race each for the team. Lloyd captured the team's first two wins that season with victories in the Freedom 100 and the secondInfineon Raceway race.

In 2007 the team formed a partnership withAndretti Green Racing and fielded cars full-time forJaime Camara andWade Cunningham. The partnership was often referred to asAGR-AFS Racing Cunningham finished third in points with a win atWatkins Glen International while Camara finished sixth in points. In 2008 the team fielded full-time entries for reigningAtlantic Championship championRaphael Matos and Arie Luyendyk Jr. Matos won three races on his way to the series championship while Luyendyk finished fourth in points and captured his first series win in the season finale atChicagoland Speedway. 2009 saw the team field entries forJ. R. Hildebrand andSebastián Saavedra. Hildebrand captured AGR-AFS's second consecutive championship on the back of four race wins while Saavedra won twice and finished third in points, winning Rookie of the Year honors. The team's 2010 drivers wereMartin Plowman andCharlie Kimball. Plowman captured a win at theMid-Ohio Sports Car Course and finished third in points while Kimball failed to win and got fourth.

The team first entered the IndyCar Series in 2009 by fielding a car in conjunction with Andretti Green Racing atInfineon Raceway forFranck Montagny. In 2010 the partnership participated in two road course races with driverAdam Carroll, finishing 16th and 19th.

In2011 the team has separated from Andretti and is now on its own. It began the 2011 season only operating in the IndyCar Series with a single part-time entry driven by Raphael Matos.^[1] After failing to qualify for the2011 Indianapolis 500, Matos and the team parted ways. They signed former AFS Indy Lights driver Martin Plowman to a three race deal in association withSam Schmidt Motorsports, AFS's former Indy Lights rival.^[2]Hideki Mutoh was signed to drive the team's car atTwin Ring Motegi.Wade Cunningham, who earlier in the season debuted driving an in-house Schmidt Motorsports car, will drive in the season's final two oval races for the team. AFS Racing fielded a car in conjunction with Andretti Autosport at the2012 Indianapolis 500 which was driven bySebastián Saavedra. Unfortunately, Saavedra crashed and finished 26th. AFS Racing and Saavedra returned to race atInfineon Raceway for theGoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, where Saavedra finished 15th.

AFS spent the 2013 season away from IndyCar. It returned in2014, this time partnered withKV Racing Technology, with a full-season entry for Saavedra.

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Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
2009					STP	LBH	KAN	INDY	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	TOR	EDM	KTY	MOH	SNM	CHI	MOT	HMS
	Dallara IR-05	HondaHI7RV8	Franck Montagny(R)	25														201
2010					SAO	STP	ALA	LBH	KAN	INDY	TXS	IOW	WGL	TOR	EDM	MOH	SNM	CHI	KTY	MOT	HMS
	Dallara IR-05	HondaHI7RV8	Adam Carroll(R)1	27										16			19
2011					STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	TXS		MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM	MOH	NHA	SNM	BAL	MOT	KTY	LSV
	Dallara IR5	HondaHI11RV8	Raphael Matos	17	7	20	11	25	DNQ
			Martin Plowman(R)2													18		12	11
			Hideki Mutoh2																	18
			Wade Cunningham(R)2																		7	C3
20121					STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	DET	TEX	MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM	MOH	SNM	BAL	FON
	DallaraDW12	Chevrolet IndyCarV6t	Sebastián Saavedra	17					26								15		21
20144					STP	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET	DET	TXS	HOU	HOU	POC	IOW	TOR	TOR	MOH	MIL	SON	FON
	DallaraDW12	Chevrolet IndyCarV6t	Sebastián Saavedra	17	11	9	18	23	15	14	22	17	15	17	15	17	19	21	20	18	16	17
20155					STP	NOL	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	TOR	FON	MIL	IOW	MOH	POC	SNM
	DallaraDW12	Chevrolet IndyCarV6t	Sebastián Saavedra	8			10		17					16						13
				17						23
20176					STP	LBH	ALA	PHX	IMS	INDY	DET		TEX	ROA	IOW	TOR	MOH	POC	GAT	WGL	SNM
	DallaraDW12	Chevrolet IndyCarV6t	Sebastián Saavedra	17						15
20187					STP	PHX	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TEX	ROA	IOW	TOR	MOH	POC	GAT	POR	SNM
	DallaraDW12	Honda HI18TTV6t	Jay Howard	7						24

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