Max Papis

Max Papis
Cheez-It 355 at The Glen (Watkins Glen )
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
Nationwide Children's Hospital 200 (Mid-Ohio )
Wins Top tens Poles 0 4 0
Chevy Silverado 350K (Texas)
Last race	2013 Chevrolet Silverado 250 (Mosport)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 5 0
2012 Pinty's 250 (Kawartha )
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
2006 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis )
Wins Podiums Poles 0 0 0
Laguna Seca )
Wins Podiums Poles 3 11 2
Statistics up to date as of November 17, 2013.
Panoz, Corvette Racing
Best finish	5th (2003)
Class wins	0

Massimiliano "Max" Papis (born 3 October 1969)

.

Papis was born on 3 October 1969 in

He is married to Tatiana Papis, daughter of the racing driver

(Matteo).

Papis is a member of the "brat pack", a group of CART drivers that were close friends off the track, that included Dario Franchitti, Tony Kanaan and the late Greg Moore.^[5]

After a spell as the

on the last lap. When Morbidelli returned, Papis was out of a drive and headed to America for 1996.

He moved to

.

Papis raced in the IRL early in his career. He has raced for Roger Penske, Andretti-Green Racing and Panther Racing from 2001 to 2009. Papis is a long-time friend of drivers Tony Kanaan and Alex Zanardi. In 2013 at the Indianapolis 500, Papis and Zanardi were present in the victory celebration when Kanaan won his first Indy 500.

In 2016, Papis was hired by the IndyCar Series as a race steward along with Arie Luyendyk and Dan Davis.^[6]

On 8 June 2003, Papis made his debut in the ASCAR Racing Series by joining Team HTML in the British Stock Car racing series. He made his debut in Round 3 of the championship driving the No.68 Pontiac, placing 14th overall at Rockingham Motor Speedway. This would be his only race during the season and he was replaced by Derek Hayes for the rest of the season.^[7]

He made his

race but failed to qualify.

Papis also announced that he would run 2 races in 2007 for James Finch's Phoenix Racing No. 01 Chevy. In his first race, at Montreal in the inaugural NAPA 200, Papis avoided Marcos Ambrose' crash (caused by a disqualified Robby Gordon), with 2 laps left, to finish in third place. At Watkins Glen the next week, his engine failed on lap 2.

Papis made his Cup Series debut at

on three road course races in the 2008 Nationwide Series. Haas CNC Racing hired Papis to drive the No. 70 Chevrolet Monte Carlo at the course at Watkins Glen in the Sprint Cup Series in August 2008. He was announced as the driver of the No. 13 GEICO Toyota in 18 races in the 2009 and a full-time ride in the 2010 Sprint Cup.

In his first Cup season with a dedicated ride, Papis recorded a career best 8th-place finish at Watkins Glen and 15th starting position at Fontana. He also recorded 12th-place finish at Infineon Raceway. In February at Daytona in 2010, Papis had the fastest truck in the truck series event, nearly winning his first Truck series event after leading for some laps. Papis was collected in an accident with 15 laps left in the race, while going towards the lead.

After Watkins Glen in 2010 the team announced that Papis would be replaced by Casey Mears for 2011 and Papis would race in the Truck Series for the team.

Also in 2010, Papis recorded a top-30 finish in the Daytona 500, but failed to qualify at Bristol. He nearly had a top ten running at Talladega but was caught up in an accident. At Montreal in the Nationwide Series, Papis drove for Richard Childress Racing and while leading on the final lap, took too much of a last-turn curb, got passed by Boris Said, and recorded a second-place finish.

In 2011, Papis raced in the Truck Series partly for Germain, resulting in an 18th-place finish in the standings.

From 2011 to 2013, Papis had good runs on the road-course races but did not win any of them. In 2011 at Road America he had a good car, but he was spun out by Jacques Villeneuve with two laps left. When the race ended, Papis blocked Villeneuve's car on pit road and they argued. In 2012, Papis finished in fourth-place at Road America. Also in 2012, Papis ran one race in NASCAR Canadian Tire Series at Kawartha Speedway driving No. 24 Dodge for Scott Steckly, he started 16th and finished 21st.^[9]

In 2013 at Road America, Papis, who spent nearly the entire race in the top five, found himself being spun out twice in the waning laps. When the race was over, a furious Papis went up to Billy Johnson (who spun him out one of the times) and slapped him.^[10] After being separated by officials Papis and Johnson exchanged shouts ending with Papis walking off. When he spoke to reporters, Papis apologized for the slap.^[10]

In early August 2013, Papis was named to substitute for

for Richard Childress Racing, finishing in fourth place.

Papis drove for

Also in 2013, Papis ran 4 races in the

.

In 2014, Papis' team fielded the No. 99 car for the

In 2017, Papis ran one race in NASCAR K&N Pro Series East driving No. 13 Toyota for Eric McClure at Watkins Glen International, he started 17th and finished 18th after the engine blew.^[15]

In 2016, Papis made his debut in

"Mad Max"

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Papis earned the nickname "Mad Max" at the 1996

) and proceeded to set some of the fastest laps of the entire race. Taylor was nursing his car around the track due to an overheating problem and otherwise would have been able to cruise to a win, but Papis' pace and the slowing Oldsmobile suggested that Papis could theoretically take the win from him. Papis' speed was achieved at the cost of maximum fuel consumption. At one point late in the race, Papis came into the pits for fuel, spectacularly racing down the pit lane at near full speed. (Pit lane speed limits were imposed the next year). Taylor was still ahead by 64 seconds at the end of the race.

Motorsports career results

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

International Formula 3000 results
Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
1993	Vortex Motorsport	Reynard 93D	Cosworth	DON 4	SIL Ret	PAU 5	PER Ret	HOC Ret	NÜR 15	SPA Ret	MAG Ret	NOG 6	10th	6
1994	Mythos Racing	Reynard 94D	Judd	SIL 7	PAU Ret	CAT 1	PER 4	HOC Ret	SPA 11	EST 13	MAG 6		6th	13

(key)

Formula One results
Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
1995	Footwork Hart	Footwork FA16	Hart V8	BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR Ret	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL Ret	ITA 7	POR Ret	EUR 12	PAC	JPN	AUS	22nd	0

(key)

CART results
Year	Team	No.	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Rank	Points	Ref
1996	Team Arciero-Wells	25	Reynard 96i	Toyota RV8A V8t	MIA	RIO	SRF	LBH	NAZ	500	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MIC	MOH 24	ROA 9	VAN	LS 22						26th	4	[20]
1997	Team Arciero-Wells		Reynard 97i	Toyota RV8B V8t	MIA 19	SRF 14	LBH 25	NAZ 22	RIO 13	GAT 26	MIL 19	DET 11	POR 28	CLE 27	TOR 15	MIC 8	MOH 14	ROA 15	VAN 20	LS 14	FON 12					24th	8	[21]
1998	Team Arciero-Wells		Reynard 98i	Toyota RV8C V8t Toyota RV8D V8t	MIA 26	MOT 13	LBH 24	NAZ 14	RIO 28	GAT 22	MIL 16	DET 18	POR 11	CLE 12	TOR 8	MIC 19	MOH 14	ROA 11	VAN 9	LS 12	HOU 5	SRF 17	FON 16			21st	25	[22]
1999	Team Rahal	7	Reynard 99i	Ford XD V8t	MIA 5	MOT 16	LBH 9	NAZ 13	RIO 4	GAT 5	MIL 13	POR 8	CLE 16	ROA 5	TOR 5	MIC 7	DET 26	MOH 5	CHI 4	VAN 23	LS 3	HOU 4	SRF 2	FON 2		5th	150	[23]
2000	Team Rahal		Reynard 2Ki	Ford XF V8t	MIA 1	LBH 20	RIO 16	MOT 8	NAZ 22	MIL 7	DET 2	POR 25	CLE 18	TOR 8	MIC 9	CHI 24	MOH 4	ROA 7	VAN 8	LS 16	GAT 6	HOU 24	SRF 16	FON 12		14th	88	[24]
2001	Team Rahal		Lola B01/00	Ford XF V8t	MTY 12	LBH 17	TEX C	NAZ 24	MOT 6	MIL 8	DET 11	POR 1	CLE 18	TOR 8	MIC 16	CHI 13	MOH 24	ROA 16	VAN 22	LAU 2	ROC 11	HOU 9	LS 1	SRF 9	FON 2	6th	107	[25]
2002	Sigma Autosport	22	Lola B02/00	Ford XF V8t	MTY 9	LBH 3	MOT 18	MIL 3	LS 13	POR	CHI	TOR	CLE	VAN												19th	32	[26]
	Fernández Racing	51		Honda HR-2 V8t											MOH 15	ROA	MTL	DEN	ROC	MIA	SRF	FON 14	MXC
2003	PK Racing	27	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE V8t	STP	MTY	LBH	BRH	LAU	MIL	LS	POR 15	CLE 12	TOR 16	VAN 9	ROA 4	MOH 9	MTL 9	DEN	MIA	MXC	SRF	FON C			17th	25	[27]

IndyCar Series results
Year	Team	No.	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points	Ref
2002	Red Bull Cheever Racing	53	Dallara IR-02	VRH35ADE V8	HMS	PHX	FON	NZR	INDY 23	TXS	PPIR	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIS	KTY	STL	CHI						43rd	16	[28]
	Marlboro Team Penske	6		Chevrolet Indy V8															TX2 21
2006	Cheever Racing	52	Dallara IR-05	HI6R V8	HMS	STP	MOT	INDY 14	WGL	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	SNM	CHI						27th	16	[29]
2008	Rubicon Race Team	44		HI7R V8	HMS	STP	MOT1	LBH1	KAN	INDY DNQ	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MOH	EDM	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI	SRF2	NC	-	[30]

¹ Run on same day.

² Non-points-paying, exhibition race.

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2002	Dallara	Infiniti	18	23	Cheever
2006	Dallara	Honda	18	14	Cheever
2008	Dallara	Honda	DNQ		Rubicon

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1997	Moretti Racing	Gianpiero Moretti Didier Theys	Ferrari 333 SP	LMP	321	6th	3rd
2003	JML Team Panoz	Olivier Beretta Gunnar Jeannette	Panoz LMP01 Evo-Élan	LMP900	360	5th	3rd
2004	Corvette Racing	Ron Fellows Johnny O'Connell	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	GTS	334	8th	2nd
2005	Corvette Racing	Ron Fellows Johnny O'Connell	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	347	6th	2nd
2006	Corvette Racing	Ron Fellows Johnny O'Connell	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	327	12th	7th
2007	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	22	DNF	DNF
2008	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	341	15th	3rd
Sources:[31][32]

Year	Team / Constructor														Pts
		R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	R12	R13
2003	Team HTML Pontiac			14											114

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Sprint Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NSCC	Pts	Ref
2006	Furniture Row Racing	78	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN DNQ	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN	TAL	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	NA	-	[33]
2008	Haas CNC Racing	66	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON 35	NHA	DAY	CHI	IND	POC																65th	92	[34]
		70																							GLN 43	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN	TAL	CLT	MAR	ATL
	Germain Racing	13	Toyota																																		TEX DNQ	PHO	HOM DNQ
2009				DAY	CAL	LVS 36	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX 35	PHO	TAL 18	RCH	DAR 35	CLT 42	DOV DNQ	POC	MCH 35	SON 12	NHA	DAY DNQ	CHI	IND DNQ	POC	GLN 8	MCH	BRI DNQ	ATL 40	RCH 37	NHA	DOV	KAN 32	CAL 35	CLT 41	MAR	TAL 29	TEX DNQ	PHO 35	HOM DNQ	43rd	1047	[35]
2010				DAY 40	CAL 28	LVS 33	ATL 34	BRI DNQ	MAR 40	PHO 40	TEX 22	TAL 40	RCH DNQ	DAR 29	DOV DNQ	CLT DNQ	POC 34	MCH 43	SON 43	NHA 43	DAY 42	CHI 42	IND 43	POC DNQ	GLN 22	MCH 41	BRI	ATL	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT	MAR	TAL	TEX	PHO	HOM	43rd	907	[36]
2013	Stewart-Haas Racing	14	Chevy	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	MAR	TEX	KAN	RCH	TAL	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	KEN	DAY	NHA	IND	POC	GLN 15	MCH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	NHA	DOV	KAN	CLT	TAL	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM	58th	01	[37]

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
2010	Germain Racing	Toyota	31	40

Xfinity Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NNSC	Pts	Ref
2006	McGill Motorsports	36	Chevy	DAY	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	MAR	GTY	IRP	GLN 14	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX 40	PHO	HOM	97th	164	[38]
2007	Phoenix Racing	1	Chevy	DAY	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	CGV 3	GLN 41	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	105th	205	[39]
2008	Rusty Wallace Racing	64	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	MXC 15	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	CGV 20	GLN 11	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	74th	351	[40]
2009	Phoenix Racing	1	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV 20	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	127th	103	[41]
2010	Kevin Harvick Inc	33	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	NSH	PHO	TEX	TAL	RCH	DAR	DOV	CLT	NSH	KEN	ROA	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV 2	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT	GTY	TEX	PHO	HOM	98th	175	[42]
2011				DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	TAL	NSH	RCH	DAR	DOV	IOW	CLT	CHI	MCH	ROA 23	DAY	KEN	NHA	NSH	IRP	IOW	GLN	CGV	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM		123rd	01	[43]
2012	Richard Childress Racing			DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH	ROA 4	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW	GLN	CGV	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			66th	41	[44]
2013				DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR	CLT	DOV	IOW 31	MCH	ROA 17	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH 4	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM			48th	81	[45]

Camping World Truck Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	NCWTC	Pts	Ref
2008	SS-Green Light Racing	07	Toyota	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	KAN	CLT	MFD	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN	IRP	NSH	BRI	GTW	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR	ATL	TEX 29	PHO	HOM 27	69th	158	[46]
2009	Germain Racing	9	Toyota	DAY	CAL 10	ATL 20	MAR 13	KAN	CLT	DOV 16	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN	IRP	NSH	BRI 28	CHI	IOW	GTW	NHA 22	LVS 18	MAR 21	TAL 22	TEX	PHO	HOM	34th	958	[47]
2010				DAY 21	ATL	MAR 8	NSH	KAN	DOV 29	CLT	TEX	MCH	IOW	GTY 15	IRP	POC	NSH	DAR	BRI 14	CHI	KEN	NHA	LVS	MAR	TAL 27	TEX 23	PHO	HOM 18	33rd	947	[48]
2011				DAY 12	PHO 15	DAR 18	MAR 10	NSH 23	DOV 13	CLT 25	KAN 22	TEX 15	KEN 11	IOW 20	NSH 27	IRP 18	POC 11	MCH 19	BRI 26	ATL 14	CHI 18	NHA 20	KEN 28	LVS 29	TAL 10	MAR 18	TEX 14	HOM 21	18th	643	[49]
2013	NTS Motorsports	14	Chevy	DAY	MAR	CAR	KAN	CLT	DOV	TEX	KEN	IOW	ELD	POC	MCH	BRI	MSP 6	IOW	CHI	LVS	TAL	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM				92nd	01	[50]

Whelen Euro Series – Elite 1 results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	NWES	Pts	Ref
2013	OverDrive	33	Chevy	NOG	NOG	DIJ	DIJ	BRH	BRH	TOU 2	TOU 25					23rd	?	[51]
	Max Papis Racing	19	Chevy									MNZ 6	MNZ 21	LEM	LEM

(key) (Bold - Pole position. * – Most laps led.)

International Race of Champions results
Year	Make	1	2	3	4	Pos.	Points	Ref
2005	Pontiac	DAY 6	TEX 6	RCH 9	ATL 9	10th	30	[52]
2006		DAY 4	TEX 10	DAY 2	ATL 8	6th	46	[53]

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2014	Marsh Racing	P	Coyote Corvette DP	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	DAY 10	SIR	LBH	LS	DET	WGL	MSP	IMS	ELK	COA	PET 5	35th	49
2015	Action Express Racing	P	Coyote Corvette DP	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	DAY 4	SEB 5	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL 4	MSP	ELK	COA	PET 3		10th	116

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Terry Borcheller	2004 With: Scott Pruett	Succeeded by Max Angelelli Wayne Taylor