Scott Speed

Later on, however, he had 25 seconds added to his race time for overtaking under yellow flags, dropping him to 9th place and out of the points.

He was also fined $5000 for using inappropriate language towards David Coulthard during a post-race stewards hearing.

Scott Andrew Speed (born January 24, 1983) is an American race car driver who has competed in numerous disciplines, including open-wheel, stock car, and rallycross racing.

Speed's career started at the age of 10 in karting, his stint there lasting from 1993 until 2001, winning the SKUSA Super Pro Title for JM Racing driving a Tony Kart Swedetech Honda in 2000 2 IKF Grand Nationals driving a 6-year-old kart, and 3 IKF regional titles.

Scott Speed was born in Manteca, California and graduated from East Union High school in 2001.

He moved up to the Formula series in 2001, competing in US Formula Russell and becoming champion.

He also won the 2002 Rock Island GP in 125cc Shifter Karts.

He drove in both the Formula Dodge National Championship and Star Mazda in 2002, finishing third and eighth respectively.

In 2003, Speed drove for Alan Docking Racing in the British Formula Three Championship after winning the Red Bull Driver Search programme.

During that year he fell ill with ulcerative colitis, a form of inflammatory bowel disease, and was forced to return to the United States for treatment.

After returning in 2004, Speed won two championship titles, with him first winning the Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and later the Formula Renault 2000 Germany, despite his worsening colitis.

His performances resulted in a drive in the inaugural season of GP2 Series for 2005, as number two at iSport International, to Can Artam.

Speed was later promoted to the first driver for the team, as he collected five podiums and 12 top 5 finishes in 24 races.

He ended the season third place in the drivers' championship standings behind Nico Rosberg and Heikki Kovalainen.

At the end of 2005, Speed drove the first three races of the new A1 Grand Prix series for A1 Team USA, achieving a best result of fourth in the Portugal feature race.

In at the, Speed took part as a test driver for Red Bull Racing; becoming the first American driver to participate in a Formula One event since Michael Andretti's stint.

He was also the test driver at the.

Following its purchase of Minardi, Red Bull Racing announced the creation of Scuderia Toro Rosso with Speed and Vitantonio Liuzzi as its drivers in.

In, Speed became the first American driver to race in Formula One since Michael Andretti in , when he made his début at the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix for Scuderia Toro Rosso.

He contested 28 races before he was replaced midway through the season by Sebastian Vettel.

Speed later turned his career towards stock car racing, specifically NASCAR where he drove for Team Red Bull, Whitney Motorsports and Leavine Family Racing in the Sprint Cup Series.

Speed bounced back and ran rather well at the finishing 10th.

At the he finished 10th, matching David Coulthard's pace throughout, after suffering from back pains and breathing problems, consequences from a Friday practice accident.

A week later and after a decent run at the he finished 11th.

At the he finished 11th and 4 laps behind the leader in very wet and changeable conditions.

After crashing during the first qualifying session for the, Speed finished 12th in the race.

In his debut race at the, he finished 13th.

A week later at the he retired after 41 laps due to a clutch failure.

After the it looked as if he had scored his and Toro Rosso's first point.

He retired from the with an engine failure and in his first he finished 13th.

He retired from the on the opening lap with accident damage after colliding with Ralf Schumacher.

At the he qualified a career-best 13th only to be taken out in a first-lap collision.

In turn 2, McLaren's Juan Pablo Montoya nudged his teammate Kimi Räikkönen into a spin.

Montoya then clouted Honda's Jenson Button whose front right tyre got caught by BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld who was launched into a triple barrel roll.

Speed was caught up in the resulting melee.

None of the drivers were injured.

His teammate Liuzzi finished 8th and scored the team's first World Championship point.

Subsequently, he moved into Global Rallycross with Andretti Autosport, winning the title in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

He finished the in 15th place.

He won the 2018 Americas Rallycross Championship with Andretti before racing in 2019 with Subaru Rally Team USA.