Matthew Brabham

He qualified 26th and finished 22nd.

Although he has not run another IndyCar race, he remains involved as the driver of IndyCar's two-seater for guests at race weekends.

Matthew Chase Brabham (born 25 February 1994) is an Australian-American racing driver.

He competes in the Trans-Am Series, driving the No. 20 Ford Mustang for Gym Weed.

He started racing karts in 2001 at the age of 7, competing in the Australian 'Midget' class.

In 2007, he won the Queensland State 'Rookie' Title, following up by winning both the New South Wales and Queensland State Junior National Light Titles and finishing second in the Australian and Melbourne City Titles in 2008.

A year later, Brabham won the 'Junior Rotax' Young Guns Title, before graduating to Formula Ford racing towards the end of the year.

In 2010, he competed in the Australian Formula Ford Championship with the CAMS Rising Star Team before moving to the Victorian State Formula Ford Series and the Australian National Championship with Sonic Motor Racing Services.

In the state series, he won eight out of 12 races, including seven in a row, while he scored two wins, two runner-up finishes, and a pole position in the national division.

Brabham won the championship with two races remaining, capturing a series-record 11th win in his rookie season.

He has also won championships in the Road to Indy ladder with the 2012 U.S. F2000 and 2013 Pro Mazda Championships.

Brabham is a third-generation racing driver; he is the son of Geoff Brabham and the grandson of three-time Formula One World Champion Sir Jack Brabham.

Born in Boca Raton, Florida, Brabham and his family moved to Australia in his youth.

Much of Brabham's early exposure to racing came via watching his mother's jet ski competitions as he rarely attended his father and grandfather's auto races.

For 2012, Brabham joined Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing, to compete in the U.S. F2000 National Championship.

Brabham won the title over his teammate Spencer Pigot by seven points, capturing four wins from 11 podium finishes in the fourteen race season.

He won 18 of 47 career Road to Indy races (approximately 38.3 percent) from 2012 to 2015, the second highest winning percentage in the ladder's history behind Kyle Kirkwood's 62.5 percent.

In October 2021, Brabham rejoined Andretti's Indy Lights programme for the Chris Griffis Memorial Test at Indianapolis, during which he set the tenth-best time.

Three months later, he formally committed to the 2022 Indy Lights season with the team; at 28 years of age, he was the oldest driver in the field.

He won the season opener at St. Petersburg after passing teammate Christian Rasmussen, who ran out of fuel, on the penultimate lap.

In doing so he won a $350,000 USD scholarship through the Road to Indy to race in the Star Mazda Championship in 2013.

He signed to drive the No. 27 car for Andretti Autosport for the 2013 Star Mazda Championship.

Brabham's title secured a scholarship to compete in Indy Lights in 2014.

Brabham remained with Andretti Autosport to challenge for the Indy Lights title in 2014.

He won one race and collected four podiums and 10 top-fives in 14 races to finish fourth in the overall standings.

Brabham attributed his lower points finish than hoped to his lack of experience, having progressed through three levels of the Road to Indy in as many years, and his difficulties in adjusting to the series' use of Cooper Tires after mainly racing with Firestone.

In November 2014, Brabham competed in the second round of the inaugural Formula E world championship in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

He replaced Charles Pic for Andretti Autosport.

At age 20 Brabham became the youngest driver to compete in Formula E.

From 2015 to 2021, he was a regular in the Stadium Super Trucks, where he is a three-time series champion with titles in 2018, 2019 and 2021.

Financial issues prevented him from completing a second season in 2015.

In 2015, Brabham made his Stadium Super Trucks debut at Honda Indy Toronto; Brabham, who was at the track working as a driver coach, received the opportunity to race after Paul Tracy became unavailable due to television obligations.

He finished sixth and fourth in the weekend's two races.

Later in the year, he competed at the Gold Coast 600, Valvoline Raceway, and the Sydney 500 events, recording runner-up finishes at Gold Coast and Valvoline.

In 2016, Brabham made his Indianapolis 500 debut, driving the No. 61 for Pirtek Team Murray.

Brabham began racing in the series on a full-time basis in 2016.

In June, he swept the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix rounds.

He later joined Team Traxxas, driving the No. 83 alongside Sheldon Creed.

Brabham scored his third win of the season when he held off Creed at Toronto.

He finished second in the 2016 standings, 75 points behind Creed, with three wins and 16 podiums.