Marcos Ambrose (born September 1, 1976) is an Australian retired racer. He won the Australian Supercar V8 championship series in 2003 and 2004.
In 2006, Ambrose moved to the United States to pursue the race at NASCAR, starting with the World Trucking Tower Series. He moved to the Nationwide Series in 2007, and then the Sprint Cup Series in 2008. In 2011, he won his first Series Cup victory at Watkins Glen International, becoming the first Australian rider to win at NASCAR's highest level, and repeated that win in the year next.
He is known in NASCAR for having won a total of 6 races at Watkins Glen. In the Sprint Cup Series he won at Glen in 2011 and 2012. In the Nationwide Series he won 3 races at Glen in 3 years 2008, 2009 and 2010. He won his final race during the NASCAR Nationwide Series 2014 in Glen. It was the only race he had played during the season.
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Ambrose grew up in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, the son of another racer, Ross Ambrose and educated at Scotch Oakburn College. He started kart racing at the age of ten. He won four Tasmanian youth karting championships and became Australia's karting champion in 1995 at Clubman Heavy class at the Dubbo circuit in New South Wales. He moved to Formula Ford in 1996. Ambrose finished second in the Formula Ford Australia championship in 1997.
In 1998 Ambrose moved to Europe in an effort to reach Formula One, competing in Formula Ford England in 1998 and 1999. In 1999 he won the European Formula Ford Championship. In 2000 he started the season race in Formula Three of the French Championships, before switching mid-season to the British Formula Three Championships.
By the end of 2000 Ambrose had no budget to continue racing in Europe, and returned to Australia. In October 2000 he was invited to compete in the Young Guns race held on the Indy 300 Gold Coast. Ambrose won against a number of young drivers on Honda's road car.
He also represented Australia in the 1996 EFDA Nations Cup at Donington Park in England.
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V8 Supercar
For 2001, Ambrose was signed by Stone Brothers Racing to drive the Ford Falcon AU. Ambrose shocked the V8 Supercar world when he qualified on pole upon debut, in the Australian Grand Prix support race. He qualifies at the mast again for lap three at Eastern Creek, lap nine at Queensland Raceway and round 11, Bathurst 1000, where he became the first rookie to take pole position since 1987.
Ambrose went on to finish eighth in the championship, winning the Rookie of the Year award. He won the fourth round of the season, at Hidden Valley Raceway, although he did not win any of the three races in the round.
In 2002, Ambrose began winning pole position at Phillip Island before recording his first race win in the first race. He eventually finished third in the championship, including winning the final round at Sandown.
With the new BA Falcon, Ambrose gave the Ford team a great start to the 2003 season with a win in the first Clipsal 500 race. He followed this up with a third win at Eastern Creek after 13 rounds in the 2003 V8 Supercar Series, Ambrose presented with a driver series trophy, 102 points from second place.
In 2004, Ambrose claimed three pole positions and five round wins and went into the final round at Eastern Creek with an almost unequal advantage. In the end he collected his second championship in Saturday night's opening race and then went on to clean up the spins in record-breaking style on his Pirtek Falcon. Teammate Russell Ingall finished second in the championship, giving Stone Brothers Racing 1-2 Quinella completed. The final part of the season was highlighted by quarrels between Ambrose and Rick Kelly when Ambrose looked to have checked Kelly on goal after race on the Gold Coast; Ambrose was fined $ 10,000 for careless driving.
Ambrosius won the Barry Sheene Medal coveted in 2003 and 2004.
Ambrose began in 2005 with a clean sweep of the opening round in Adelaide. He remained in the championship lead and nearly won the championship until Round 10 at Bathurst 1000 when he was involved in a controversial accident with Greg Murphy approaching The Cutting at the end of the race. Both racers came out and argued in applause from the fans. The two are angry with each other, and share hot words after the accident. Murphy said, "He has an ego problem that we all know and that raises his bad head again, and I will not hold him". Ambrose was quoted after the race was over in the hope of his title;
This accident, combined with poor performance at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit arguably lost all three straight titles. He then endorsed Russell Ingall's title bid successfully, and both helped Ford and Stone Brothers Racing take the Drivers, Teams, and Manufacturer championships. Ambrose finished third in the championship behind Ingall and fellow Ford driver Craig Lowndes.
2015
In September 2014, it was announced that Ambrose would return to the V8 Supercars to drive the Ford Falcon FG X to the DJR Penske Team, formed by NASCAR owner Roger Penske, who was interested in expanding the Penske Team organization to start teams in Australia and as a result of a merger with Dick Johnson Racing, became DJR Team Penske
Ambrose begins in 2015. He debuted in the final round of the 2014 season, driving a car sponsored by Xbox # 66.
He started the 2015 season with a low note, starting near the back of the field in every race. His best performance was the 12th in the 3rd race at Clipsal 500 in Adelaide.
In March 2015, Ambrose took a temporary leave from Tim DJR Penske to improve his training with the V8 Supercar racing, replaced with Scott Pye. He returned for Pirtek Endurance Cup three rounds as the second Pye rider, claiming the eighth finish at Surfers Paradise race 1.
Ambrose did not return as a full season racer in 2016.
NASCAR
2006
In the first V8 Supercar race of 2005, Ambrose held a press conference on Saturday morning to announce to top staff and fans that he would leave the V8 Supercars at the end of the 2005 season to try his career in dream racing for the rest of his life. NASCAR organization.
In 2005 Ambrose signed an agreement to compete under NASCAR and Ford Motor Company signed Ambrose to participate overseas in the United States with Wood Brothers/JTG Racing at NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 2006 to start his career. However, Ambrose had to wait until the middle of the 2006 season to begin. NASCAR is unclear Ambrose for the first three NCTS race races, as they are held in mid-to high-speed ovals, and like fellow Wood Brothers/JTG rider Bobby East, Ambrose is not cleared to start the race faster. Ambrose made his debut in the Truck Series on April 1, 2006 at Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway, qualifying 20th and finishing 33rd after being caught in an incident that took place in front of him.
Ambrose was the first notable Australian driver in NASCAR sanctions since Dick Johnson in 1990 and New Zealand Jimandia New Zealand, Jim Richards in the mid-90s.
Ambrose made history by finishing third at O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway on July 2, 2006. This is the first time a non-American racer has finished in the top five truck series events since Canada's Ron Fellows won at Watkins Glen Street on the 26th June 1999. He also took the lead in the opening lap, becoming the first Australian to lead the lap of the World Series Truck Series competition. The following week, he made history further by printing his first pole position for Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway, and then leading the deepest lap of the race itself, though he finished 19th. Ambrose finished 3rd on the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway after qualifying 11.
Ambrose reached as high as 19 points in the championship, but finished the 21st overall and 3rd in the Rookie of the Year, despite having missed the first three races of the year.
2007-10
For the year 2007, Ambrose stepped into the NASCAR Nationwide Series, driving No. 1. 59 Kingsford Ford Fusion done by Wood Brothers/JTG Racing. In the first two races of the 2007 season, he finished on the main lap, at 16 and 25, on a track he had never met before. In the third race of the season, Telcel-Motorola MÃÆ' Â © xico 200, Ambrose ended in eighth, his best career at the time. having gained several positions in the last few rounds of the race. He followed up his 8th finish in Mexico City with the other top 10, finishing 10th at Sam's Town 300 in Las Vegas. He recorded the best career of the National Series finished sixth after starting third at Dover in May.
In the 200 National Series NAPA Auto 200 race at the Gilles Villeneuve Circuit in Montreal, Ambrose was the dominant driver of the day, having led 37 laps. After the warning period is over, Ambrose has a regular Sprint Cup and Dakar Rally Robby Gordon rider behind him. In turn 3, Gordon manages to make a pass on Ambrose and then the yellow flag comes out. At the next corner, Ambrose slammed into the back of the left of Gordon's carriage, asking him out in yellow. Being cautiously taken out early by a big accident behind them, Gordon returned behind Ambrose. NASCAR officials stated that Gordon's move was too fast and ordered Gordon to return to 14th place but he refused and then got a black flag. When they started back with 2 laps to go, Gordon deliberately ran behind Ambrose in turn 2, twisting it. Although the victory was over, Ambrose took to the field but recovered to finish in 7th place. After this incident, Gordon apologized and made a peace offer for Ambrose in a ride for the Watkins Glen road race, at Ford No.90 Ford Ford No.84 Gordon. However, the qualification was bombarded with rain and the field was set by the owner of the points, and No. 77 did not make the race.
In September, Ambrose missed a second chance to drive a No. 1 car. 77 because his wife Sonja gave birth to their daughter Adelaide on the same day as the Cup race in Dover. Ambrose finished the 2007 season 8 in the standings points, the highest of any drivers not also competing in the Nextel Cup, and finished second behind David Ragan in Rookie of the Year standings. On Sunday 20 April 2008 Ambrose was involved in a racing incident with Boris Said in the Busch Series show in Mexico. Ambrose acknowledged the "get-go" of the street specialist Said, causing Said to destroy and destroy his chances in a race where Said consistently finished in the top 10. After the Said race claimed he was not angry at Ambrose, but wanted to apologize to the crew (Ambrose) , Gary Cogswell for "buying him a car," implying that Said would destroy Ambrose deliberately the next time they find themselves on a NASCAR track together. Though NASCAR says that Boris just ruined herself freely, and that Ambrose has repeatedly apologized, in many subsequent public appearances, Said has not backed down his threat against Ambrose, at one point suggesting that he will not apologize but rather "beat (Ambrose) ass ".
However, the end of that year at Watkins Glen when Ambrose led the NBNS race, in the last five laps he took the lead and with 2 laps remaining he rode behind bumper Boris Said composed. Ambrose's crew chief Gary Cogswell ordered Ambrose not to pass. Said believes that Said still has a grudge against them after Mexico City. The fans, Ambrose, his team and among the other NASCAR racers were surprised when Boris Said did not retaliate before Ambrose won the race. To this day Said has not explained why he did not bump into Ambrose when he had a good chance and it is still unknown why Said did not take revenge.
Before the 2008 season, Wood Brothers Racing and JTG Racing were split into two teams. Ambrose is scheduled to drive for both teams in the Sprint Cup competition in 2008. He will run 12 races in No. 1 car. 21 for Wood Brothers and four others in No. car. 47 for JTG Racing. However, due to various problems he only ran 11 of 16 planned races. He ran well at the Toyota-Save Mart 350 in Infineon, qualifying 7 of 47 drivers and running in the top three, but No. 21 it spins through the famous Turn 11 hairpin and blows the transmission, completing a disappointing 42 in the 43-car Field. He tried to make his second Sprint Cup career starting at Lenox Industrial Tools 301 in New Hampshire, but failed to qualify, qualifying 45 out of 45. Again, 43 cars would start, and again, he tried to qualify 21 cars. He also drove a full National Series schedule.
He almost won the 2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200, dominating again as it did in 2007, but when a lightning storm blew up the track, Ambrose tried to slow down the pit stop. Nevertheless his car slid in the pit road too fast because it was unable to stop because of the waters; so he gets a black flag for a penalty pass. He ended third in the final result behind the winner of the Ron Fellows race.
On July 15 it was announced that Ambrose will run the full 2009 cup schedule with JTG Racing with a new partnership with Brad Daugherty. The team changed its name to JTG Daugherty Racing.
Ambrose earned his first Nationwide Series victory on 9 August 2008 at Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen after a broken heart in Montreal the previous week (See above). The next day, he finished 3rd, having started in 43rd position at Centurion Boats at the Glen, behind winners Kyle Busch and Tony Stewart.
Ambrose pushes Toyota No. 47 in the 2009 Sprint Cup NASCAR series, after forming a technical alliance with Michael Waltrip Racing and Toyota Racing Development. Ambrose also drove the last 4 races of the 2008 Sprint Cup 2008 series at Toyota. 47, after NASCAR agreed to change the MWR car number from No. 1. 00 to No. 47. Ambrose enters Homestead with No. 47 in the Top 35, earning him a guaranteed start for the first time in his career. However, a poor finish at Homestead put the team back out of the Top 35, so Ambrose will be required to qualify on time for the first five races of 2009. Finally, the team gets the Top 35 release after a number of teams join. Ambrose did not qualify for the 2009 Rookie of the Year consideration because he ran 11 races in 2008. Ambrose finished 10th at the 2009 Food City 500, despite losing the cylinder with about 100 laps (50 miles) to go. Ambrose will support the Top-10 by posting 4 more in the first half of the season. Ambrose earned his second consecutive National Series victory at Watkins Glen, the second in two years as he held Kyle Busch to victory. He followed up with 2nd place in the Sprint Cup race at Glen. The following week Ambrose dominated the Nationwide race in Montreal, but on the last lap, he was overtaken by Carl Edwards when Ambrose jumped the sidewalk too high, and Carl Edwards passed him to win. Ambrose took a top ten finish on the 2009 Sharpie 500. Ambrose charged hard from 1 lap down with less than 100 laps remaining, to finish in third place behind Kyle Busch and Mark Martin.
The 2010 season is a myriad of problems for Ambrose. Engine problems, unlucky collisions and pit troubles disrupt his racing season. However, at Zippo 200 at The Glen, Ambrose won Watkins Glen's third in a row he held off Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick to win. Since winning, he started getting some form, recording top 10 in Atlanta and top 5 in Richmond. At Toyota/Save Mart 350 in Sonoma, Ambrose leads 35 laps, and leads ten seconds over Jimmie Johnson. The advantages are deleted carefully on lap 104. During the warning, Ambrose turns off his car engine to save fuel, but can not turn it back on. As a result, Ambrose attempted to return to his place, but was forced to fall to seventh on the restart for not maintaining a certain speed during warning, and finished sixth. After the race, Ambrose stated, "I was leading the race and had trouble getting a motorcycle that was revived a bit there, and NASCAR made a call.I tried to save fuel and motor dead." It did not budge, as it should.I did not stop rolling over, but it is like that. "
2011
Ambrose announced on August 17, 2010 that he signed a multi-year agreement with Richard Petty Motorsports to drive the # 9 Stanley/DeWalt Power Tools Ford Fusion. He finished 37th in his first race with a team at the Daytona 500, after falling from a fight in a car crash of 15 in turn 3 on lap 29. He finished the race. He went on to have a memorable race in the Phoenix running in the top 10 for most of the day. In August, Ambrose won a rain delaying Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen on August 15 to win his first career in the Sprint Cup Series by passing Brad Keselowski and Kyle Busch with two laps to go. Ambrose further proved his path capability, retreating under a week later by taking an emotional victory at Montreal in the Nationwide Series, during NAPA Auto Parts 200. The 2011 season continued to be his best career as he recorded 5 5 and 12 top. 10 done. Ambrose finished the 2011 season 19 in the final points standings.
2012
Ambrose returned to Richard Petty Motorsports for 2012. In February he almost won the Budweiser Shootout with the help of the dice from Keselowski; but lost in the lead as he took the white flag for Tony Stewart and eventual eventual winner Kyle Busch. Ambrose said after the race that despite losing the Shootout, the race was his best performance on the boundary plate track (although he also had some top-dozens in the previous plate race, like 4th place finish at Talladega in the spring race 2009).
Ambrose started the season by finishing 13th place on the Daytona 500, and in the spring of the race, collecting six top-twenty finishes and two top ten finishes. In June, he posted the fastest qualifying pace in the NASCAR competition in 25 years, winning his first Sprint Cup career at Quicken Loans 400 at the Michigan International Speedway at 203,244 miles per hour (327,085 km/h), the third fastest pole speed ever NASCAR. Ambrose finished ninth in the race.
The following week, Ambrose won a pole at Infineon Raceway but only led about 10 laps before he had to complain so put him in the top ten for the rest of the day. She finished 8.
Back at Watkins Glen, Ambrose started fifth and dominated part of the race but was passed in three wide strides by Kyle Busch with 20 laps remaining. When the white flag was about to wave he saw that Busch was slipping in oil; at the entrance to her essay and Brad Keselowski through it; Ambrose then saw that Keselowski slipped in oil as well and he took the lead in the last round, holding Keselowski for the second time in a row and defending his victory from a year earlier. Ambrose is very emotional about his victory because his father saw him on television in hospital because of illness and because of his luck that day. The win puts Ambrose up one place in the standings from 18 to 17. Ambrose is still promising a racing world for future oval victories because his 1st goal today is to prove he can win elsewhere besides the road.
His victory led local Mac Tools company to offer Ambrose sponsorship for several years approved by Ambrose boss Richard Petty. Mac Tools sponsored Ambrose in several races for 2012 and throughout 2013.
2013
To start the 2013 season, Ambrose has completed 11 places in Sprint Unlimited and Budweiser Duel. Ambrose drove in the top ten for part of the Daytona 500 but when Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne and Tony Stewart crashed out of the race, Ambrose slowed to avoid getting involved in the crash, causing him to drive for the rest of the race further back into the field. He finished in 18th place. He recorded 18 places to finish in Phoenix and finish 22 places in Las Vegas.
Ambrose was on his way to a good finish on the NRA 500 at Texas Motor Speedway before crashing into Jeff Burton and completing the lap down. Then, a few weeks later he had a frustrating day at Richmond International Raceway when his engine failed early and he finished 42nd. He recovered to finish 14th place at Talladega, one of his top 2013 finishes.
In Coca-Cola 600, Ambrose reached the top ten spots with an unusual style. On the last lap, Carl Edwards will hold Ambrose for the tenth position, but lost at the final corner to the finish line, causing Ambrose to miss the tenth spot and lock Edwards out of the top ten finishers. This fight for tenth place resembles Ambrose's racing style in Montreal in 2009, which ended with Edwards getting him on the last lap.
At Sonoma, Ambrose leads the first lap of the race that pole keeper Jamie McMurray has set up at the start of the race. He finished in 7th position. At Loudon, Ambrose fought Harvick in the opening lap for the top ten places. In the corner, Harvick bumps into Ambrose's right-hand section that causes Ambrose to spin out; he will finish in 33.
At Watkins Glen, Ambrose won the pole after breaking the record with a speed of 128,241 mph (206,384 km/h), breaking the previous record held by Juan Pablo Montoya 127.020 mph (204,419 km/h). Ambrose leads 51 laps but on lap 60, he complains with caution. He started back on the 15th and never recovered. With 3 laps left while running in 8th place, Ambrose is caught with a Max Papis street rival, ending his hopes of winning three consecutive races at Glen. Ambrose looked annoyed with Papis after him, angrily throwing the steering wheel to the camera in the car, throwing his helmet hard through the window, and pointing his finger at Papis when Papis came cautiously. Ambrose finished 31. Had he won, Ambrose would have joined Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin as the only racer in NASCAR history to win three consecutive races at Glen.
Ambrose made the National Series back at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course's Nationwide Children's Hospital 200. Ambrose had to start behind because he did not qualify the car. Ambrose climbed to third, but then moved many times, falling to 16th. He got up to finish in 7th but was sacked by Parker Kligerman after the checkered flag for his previous contact during the race.
2014
Ambrose started with the seventh place finish at Sprint Unlimited, and finished 18th place at Daytona 500. He then has 21 and 24 places finished in Phoenix and Las Vegas. At Bristol, Ambrose finished fifth in what is statistically one of Richard Petty Motorsports's best races to date, when team mate Aric Almirola finished third. It was Ambrose's first top five in the race since Irwin Tool 2012 Night Competition.
In Richmond, Ambrose ran in the top five in Richmond 400. While racing Casey Mears on the way to the race, Ambrose was hit wide by Mears who lost some of Ambrose's positions. The two riders faced each other post-race, who saw Ambrose land a blow to Mears's face after Mears was seen pushing Ambrose. Ambrose was fined $ 25,000 and Mears $ 15,000 for the fight. Both drivers were placed on probation for one month. Despite the feud, both Casey and Marcos say they remain friends and will "drink beer together" with Ambrose promising to buy.
Ambrose finished 10th in Daytona to finish the top ten while team mate Aric Almirola won the race when rain had shortened the event.
Ambrose returned to the National Series at Watkins Glen at No. 09. Ambrose dominated the race and won his 5th Nationwide victory holding Kyle Busch in a reminiscent performance in 2009. The next day Ambrose started second and after leading several laps, appeared short after a side- by-side with former teammate AJ Allmendinger who beat Ambrose by 1.5 seconds after accelerating away from Ambrose on the final lap. Ambrose's crew chief, Drew Blickensderfer, protested the settlement by saying that the Allmendinger jumped back, but NASCAR and Ambrose officials denied this, saying "Restart has no effect on the results." We just run and he wins.
Ambrose missed Chase for the Sprint Cup and on September 11, 2014 said he did not expect to be back with Richard Petty Motorsports in 2015. It was soon after the Stanley-DEWALT sponsor was pulled out of the RPM to join Carl Edwards's car at Joe Gibbs Racing but it is unknown whether the decision Ambrose to depart has anything to do with Stanley-DEWALT pulling out their sponsorship of 9 teams. It was not long after it was announced that Ambrose would return to Australia after the 2014 NASCAR season ended for what Ambrose and Petty described as "personal reasons."
In September 2014, Ambrose insists he will leave RPM and NASCAR at the end of the 2014 season with the aim of returning to Australia. Ambrose stated that it was for both personal reasons for his children and because he had accepted an offer to join Team DJR Penske, co-owned by NASCAR owner Roger Penske.
When asked about his departure from NASCAR Ambrose stated: "I think I've achieved everything I can achieve in NASCAR.When I came, it was clear that I could do was win the race and not have a chance at the championship. my time here and I will miss my friends and other racers but this step is mostly done to help my children grew up in our home country and I feel like I want to start a new chapter in my life I love to go with a lot of victories at NASCAR and chasing the King. "
In its last NASCAR race, Ford EcoBoost 400 in 2014, Ambrose qualified for the 17th. He struggled with a bad handling car, and hit the wall on lap 195, but managed to finish 27 and on the leader's lap.
Personal life
Ambrose is from Launceston, Australia. He grew up in Launceston and found racing as his hobby. He became the driver of the race car and was noticed by the team owner of the V8 Supercar series. His father was an Australian investor at Ford named Ross Ambrose. Ross was born in London but was three years old, moving to Australia.
The Ambrose family has a rich history in this formula like Marcos's father, Ross Ambrose, along with Ralph Firman Sr, founder of Ford formula car maker Van Diemen.
Marcos Ambrose married Sonja Ambrose and has two daughters named Adelaide and Tabitha.
Awards
On October 24, 2000, Ambrose was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for the achievement of his motorcycle racing.
Motorports career results
Career summary
V8 Supercar International Championship
1 Wildcard entry is not eligible for championship points
Complete Bathurst 1000 results
NASCAR
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Sprint Cup Series
Daytona 500
National Series
Craftsman Truck Series
* Season still in process for 1 Not qualified for series points
24 Hours Daytona
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See also
- List of winners of NASCAR competitions born abroad
- The Australian team
References
External links
- Official website
- Marcos Ambrose driver statistics in Racing-References
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