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Engineer : Eddie Jones
Chief Mechanic : Mike
Horvath
General Manager : Kyle
Moyer
In 30-plus years of motorsport, Eddie Jones has been a
successful driver, mechanic, designer, chief engineer and
company executive.
Prior to working with Marco, he was for three years
Dan Wheldon's race engineer on the #26 Klein Tools/Jim
Beam Dallara/Honda/Firestone, working with Wheldon the
year he took the title.
Eddie
was race engineer for Michael Andretti's Team Motorola
in 2001's CART FedEx Championship Series (the year Michael
finished 3rd in the championship). Eddie
came to Andretti Green in 1997 as the lead engineer for
Team KOOL Green's Indy Light series with
drivers such as Greg Ray, Chris Simmons, Naoki Hattori
and Jonny Kane.
Behind
Marco in the pits are some of the League’s best and
most proven veterans led by engineer Eddie Jones, chief
mechanic Mike Horvath and race strategist Kyle Moyer.
In 2005 Mike Horvath (veteran of Team KOOL Green days
where he worked with Dario Franchitti) took the Indycar Chief
Mechanic of the Year Award and its $25,000 prize for his
work during Dan Wheldon's Championship season. Horvath
was Dan Wheldon's crew chief for two years.
Mike
- a Seattler - is also a two-time Indy 500 winner. He was
on Chip Ganassi's team when Juan Pablo Montoya won the 2000
Indy 500. In May
2005, Wheldon piloted his Andretti-Green car to victory
in the Indy 500, and went on to win the Indy Racing League
title. Wheldon switched to the Ganassi
team, and Marco Andretti took the vacated ride at AGR.
You know the rest...

Race Engineer: Eddie Jones
Hometown: London, England
Eddie
Jones took over the engineering duties of the NYSE car and
Marco Andretti in 2006, a season that saw a win at Infineon
and a second-place result at Indianapolis. Jones will continue
as the race engineer for Andretti in 2007. Jones was a vital
component in the IndyCar Series championship-winning efforts
of the Klein Tools/Jim Beam crew in 2005. In addition to
the 2005 championship, Jones helped engineer Dan Wheldon's
winning efforts at the 89th running of the Indianapolis 500.
2004 saw the combination earn a third-place finish at Indy
and a runner-up finish in the 2004 IndyCar Series standings.
Jones, a native
of London, England, enjoyed a milestone year in 2003, serving
as race engineer during the final four starts of Michael
Andretti’s
driving career, not including the 2006 Indianapolis 500, before
helping Wheldon to the 2003 IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year
title. Now in the 37th year of his racing career, Jones brings
a lengthy professional resume to his position at Andretti Green
Racing. With career highlights that include engineering the
Shannon S2000 race car, Jones joined Team Green in 1997 as
the chief engineer for Green’s Indy Lights program working
with young drivers Chris Simmons, Greg Ray, Naoki Hattori and
Jonny Kane. In 2001 Jones became Andretti’s race engineer.
General Manager: Kyle Moyer
Hometown: Monrovia, Indiana
Longtime motorsports professional Kyle Moyer returns in
2007 as Andretti
Green Racing's General Manager, a position he transitioned
into in 2004. In that role, Moyer oversees the team's four-car
IndyCar Series racing operation and the new Acura-powered
ALMS entry.
Since
beginning his racing career in 1978 with Bettenhausen Racing,
Moyer worked with such organizations as Gurney/Curb Racing
and Galles-Kraco Racing before joining Forsythe-Green Racing
in 1993, where he served as the team manager for Jacques
Villeneuve in the Toyota Atlantic Championship. Moyer made
the move to Team Green in 1994 where he earned a CART title
and an Indy 500 win with Villeneuve in 1995 and then went
on to work for five seasons with Dario Franchitti (1998-2002).
During that stretch, Franchitti notched 10 wins and 11
poles, and posted a career-best runner-up finish in the
CART championship standings in
1999.
When
AGR began racing in the IndyCar Series in 2003, Moyer called
races for Franchitti and Bryan Herta as each drove races
for the team in 2003. Since joining the IndyCar Series,
Moyer has directed AGR drivers to six wins from the pit
box, one with Bryan Herta in 2003, two in each season of
2004 and 2005 with Franchitti and one with Marco Andretti
in 2006.

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