Kenny Bräck

Kenny Bräck
Kenny Bräck at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Nationality	Swedish
Born	(1966-03-21) 21 March 1966 (age 50) Arvika, Värmland
Retired	2005
IRL IndyCar Series
Years active	1997–99, 2002–03, 2005
Teams	Rahal Letterman Racing Chip Ganassi Racing A. J. Foyt Enterprises Galles Racing
Starts	47
Wins	4
Poles	0
Best finish	1st in 1998
Previous series
2000–2002 1994–1995 1993	CART World Series Formula 3000 Barber Saab Pro Series
Championship titles
1999 1998 1993	Indianapolis 500 winner Indy Racing League champion Barber Saab Pro Series champion
Awards
2005 2000	Scott Brayton award CART Rookie of the Year

Kenny Bräck (born 21 March 1966) is a Swedish former race car driver. Until his retirement from racing, he competed in the CART, Indy Racing League and the IROC series. He is the winner of the 1999 Indianapolis 500 and the 1998 driving champion of the Indy Racing League. He survived one of the racing sport's biggest accidents in Fort Worth, Texas 2003, in which a deceleration of 214g was measured. 18 months later he made a comeback at the Indy 500 and set the fastest qualifying time of the field. He retired from IndyCar racing after the race.

In 2009, he made a come back but now to rally, and competed in Rally X at X-Games 15 and won Gold. Bräck still drives occasionally and won The Dukerie's Stage Rally in Nottingham, England with co-driver Emil Axelsson in June 2011. The duo also won the Swedish classic "The Midnight Sun Rally" in July 2011. In September Brack took pole position and won the RAC Tourist Trophy race at the Goodwood Revival in an AC Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupé 1964 together with 9-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen. In September 2013 Bräck won The Whitsun Trophy race at the Goodwood Revival in a Ford GT 40 together with Red Bull F1 Racing's Adrian Newey.

Born in Arvika, he grew up in the little village of Glava, where his father taught him to drive cars on the lake-ice in the winters. A neighbor introduced Bräck to racing when he was 13 years of age, working in his business one summer, buying him a Go-Cart. Apart from the beginning of Bräck's career, he has managed his career himself, from finding sponsors, negotiating contracts to winning races.

He raced in Britain and Sweden in Formula Ford and Formula 3 (he was Swedish junior Formula Ford Champion in 1986), in Europe in Formula Opel Lotus, in Scandinavia and Europe in the Renault Clio Cup (Scandinavian Champion 1992) and in the USA in the Barber Saab Pro Series (Champion in 1993).