Tomas Scheckter

Tomas Scheckter (born September 21st 1980) is from South Africa. He has raced in 10 straight seasons and has 2 wins in the IRL.

Career
He began his career driving for Red Bull Cheever Racing in 2002. He lead 85 laps in his first Indy 500. Cheever added another rookie Buddy Rice to the team and announced Rice would be Scheckter's replacement the following season. At the race a Michigan he battle Rice side by side and got his first career victory.

He moved to Target Ganassi Racing in 2003 but under performed alot considering his teammate Scott Dixon won the championship. The next two seasons Tomas raced for Panther Racing. He scored one win with the team at Texas in 2005. In 2006 he moved to Vision Racing and finished 10th in the points for them the next 2 seasons.

In 2008 the stronger field with the merge found him racing part time with Dragon Racing. The team experienced several mechanicle failures. In 2009 He raced for Dale Coyne at Indy (finished 12th) and drove the rest of the season for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing. He returned part time for the team in 2010 but failed to register a single top 10 performance. In 2011 he drove for KV Racing at Indy and finished 8th.

No word on his 2012 plans yet