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Matt Young Motorsports is a professional auto racing organization with corporate offices based in Bryan, Texas. MYM first launched operations in the Infiniti Pro Series (now known as Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires) in 2004. Debuting at Indianapolis, the team and 18-year-old team owner Matt Young were formally featured by the Indy Racing League and its TV partner ESPN on the ESPN2 broadcast of the Texas 100 at Young's "home race", the season finally at Texas Motor Speedway. At the time, Young was officially recognized as the youngest team owner in major auto racing history at 18 years, 209 days. The team's driver Jon Herb would go on to finish just outside of the top 5 in 7th position after staying with the lead pack most of the race.〔2004 Infiniti Pro Series season〕〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhFtqnTPys〕 The following season, on the heals of a podium finish in the opening round of the 2005 Infiniti Pro Series season at Homestead-Miami Speedway the team and Herb would go on to its first professional race victory in the Phoenix 100 at Phoenix International Raceway on March 19. They would leave Phoenix leading the series driver points standings heading into the 3rd round at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Experiencing the ultimate contrast of highs and lows, the team reluctantly parted ways with its winning chief mechanic after a major oversight caused Herb to crash in multiple sessions over the course of the St. Petersburg race weekend, ultimately placing the team in a disappointing 13th finishing position after its only crash related DNF of the season. Unfortunately Herb and MYM would never regain its early season momentum or the top spot in the series points standings and would be plagued by a series of engine and mechanical failures from that point on. For the rest of 2005, the MYM squad would come close to the podium on a few occasions, but fail to reach it again.〔http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=7382〕〔http://racing-reference.info/rquery?id=herbjo01&trk=t0&series=IL〕 After a slow start to the 2006 Indy Pro Series season that would see the team finish outside of the top 5 in the first 6 races of the year, Matt Young Motorsports mutually agreed to part ways with its Chief Engineer and driver Jon Herb. In 2011, after nearly a 5-year hiatus from professional motorsport, MYM added professional soccer player Heath Pearce as a partner as it prepared to make the switch to Sports Car racing. Competing in Grand-Am Road Racing's Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge, the team campaigned Porsche 997's in the Grand Sport (GS) class debuting rookie co-drivers at Barber Motorsports Park; Andy Lee, a professional driving instructor at the famed Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, and BestIT CEO Harry Curtin.〔http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Heath-Pearce/1487187021〕〔http://www.bondurant.com/about/instructors〕〔http://www.bondurant.com/pit-row/news/andy-lee-driving-bondurant-dream〕 In 2012 Matt Young Motorsports moved to the Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car (TC) Championship campaigning two Mazda RX-8's. The team finished in the top 10 in every race it entered with both cars with the exception of one mechanical DNF for J.D. Mobley in race 3 at Miller Motorsports Park. Between its 2 entry's, MYM collected 4 top 5's in 6 races.〔http://dailyderbi.com/weekend-wallpaper-97-matt-young-motorsports-rx8/〕 In 2013 the team launched an effort to market and support Camp Quality USA, a nonprofit organisation that serves pediatric cancer patients and their families by providing year-round programs, experiences, and companionship at no cost, along with a week at one of 15 summer camps across 12 states for its more than 900 participants. MYM initially decided to continue its relationship with Mazda and returned to Pirelli World Challenge with the intent to campaign Mazda MX-5's in the Touring Car championship. But after significant mechanical gremlins cost the team a chance to compete in all 3 rounds of the touring car season's opening race weekend at Circuit of the Americas, the team abandoned the new MX-5 project. They would return to competition later that year however, with two Honda Fit Touring Car B-Spec (TCB) racecars entered in the season ending rounds at the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston. The team took 2 podiums and 2 top 5's between its entry's between the events two races.〔http://www.world-challenge.com/news/team-news/item/1179-matt-young-motorsports-to-partner-with-camp-quality-usa.html〕〔http://www.mattyoungmotorsports.com/news/index.html?article_id=7〕 The team has been fairly mum about its 2014 plans but rumors have surfaced that the team may be looking to move up and compete in GT class racing after the team's executive leadership attended an official Pirelli Tire Test at Circuit of the Americas in December. The team is known to currently have 3 Volkswagen Jetta racecars eligible for competition in Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car Championship, or the IMSA Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge.〔http://www.mattyoungmotorsports.com/news/index.html?article_id=9〕 ==Pirelli World Challenge== 〔http://goracingtv.com/04/29/2012/j-d-mobley-tommy-boileau-drive-grid-1matt-young-motorsports-rx-8s-miller/〕 〔http://dailyderbi.com/weekend-wallpaper-97-matt-young-motorsports-rx8/〕 〔http://mattyoungmotorsports.com/news/?article_id=6〕 〔http://www.world-challenge.com/news/story.php?story=3095〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matt Young Motorsports」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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