Indy 500: Davey Hamilton; A New Team with Experience
10 May 1998
INDIANAPOLIS, IN: There is a new car owner on the IRL block and his neighbors ought to beware. Bob Nienhouse, owner of the #6 Nienhouse Motorsports Force Aurora driven by Davey Hamilton, has one of the most experienced teams in auto racing in his corner.A lifelong racing enthusiast, Bob Nienhouse saw an opportunity with the IRL to become a car owner and purchased the assets of Galles Racing International in November of 1997. Those assets included former Championship Car Owner Rick Galles and his crew.
"It is thrilling as an owner to have a team with such experience and professionalism. Having the best driver in the IRL magnifies that by 100%.
Nienhouse driver Davey Hamilton finished 2nd in the IRL Championship in 1997, while the Nienhouse crew clinched the Coors-Pit Stop competition at the Indianapolis in both 1996 and 1997 under the direction of then car owner Rick Gales. As a car owner Rick Galles has won the competition 5 times in the past seventeen years. The teams record speaks for itself.
Although running a race team is somewhat new to Bob, running a business is not. In 1981 Bob Nienhouse co-founded the Merrill Corporation, one of the nation's most successful applied technology and financial printing companies, with over $400 million in annual revenue.
His respect for the newly formed IRL coupled with his love for auto racing lead Bob Nienhouse to become a car owner.
"It's exciting to be involved with an organization like the IRL that has taken the greatest racing spectacle in the world and opened its front doors to whomever has the talent to race it." Motorsports fans can see Davey Hamilton attempt to qualify the #6 Nienhouse Motorsports G- Force Aurora for the running of the Indianapolis 500 on Saturday, May 16th live on ABC starting at 11 a.m. ET.
