Wade Cunningham

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Cunningham driving his IPS car on the Streets of St. Petersburg in 2005

Wade Cunningham (born August 19, 1984) is a racing driver from Auckland, New Zealand. His professional career began when he won the Karting World Championship in 2003. The following year he moved to the United States and competed in the Cooper Tires Formula Ford Zetec Championship in which he finished 5th after winning four consecutive poles and seven podium finishes. He won the 2005 Indy Pro Series championship in his rookie season for Brian Stewart Racing despite only winning a single race. He continued with the team in 2006 and won the Freedom 100 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and placed third in championship points despite missing two races due to illness. While missing out on the drivers title the team was still able to claim their second consecutive entrants championship.

He drove in the A1 Grand Prix series as practice driver for A1 Team New Zealand in the round in Taupo, New Zealand^[1] and returned to the Indy Pro Series in 2007 for AGR-AFS Racing where he finished 3rd.

In December 2007 Cunningham tested an IndyCar Series machine for the first time at Sebring, driving the Andretti Green Racing IndyCar normally driven by Danica Patrick^[2].