Sage Karam | |||||||
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Karam in 2014
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Nationality | American | ||||||
Born |
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
March 5, 1995 ||||||
IndyCar Series career | |||||||
Debut season | 2014 | ||||||
Current team | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | ||||||
Car no. | 24 | ||||||
Former teams | Chip Ganassi Racing | ||||||
Starts | 8 | ||||||
Wins | 0 | ||||||
Poles | 0 | ||||||
Previous series | |||||||
2010 2011-2012 |
U.S. F2000 National Championship Star Mazda Championship |
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Championship titles | |||||||
2010 2013 |
U.S. F2000 National Championship Firestone Indy Lights Champion |
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IndyCar Series career | |||||||
14 races run over 3 years | |||||||
Team(s) | No. 24 (Dreyer & Reinbold Kingdom Racing) | ||||||
2015 position | 20th | ||||||
Best finish | 20th (2015) | ||||||
First race | 2014 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
Last race | 2016 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
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Sage Karam (born March 5, 1995) is an American racing driver from Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
Karam grew up in Nazareth, Pennsylvania and raced cars at Oakland Valley Race Park in Cuddebackville, New York. He has a younger sister, a swimmer. He graduated from Nazareth Area High School in 2014.
After karting, Karam competed in the 2010 season of the U.S. F2000 National Championship for Andretti Autosport. Karam won nine of the twelve races and the pole in all but one race and dominated the championship. For winning the championship, as a part of the Road to Indy program and the Mazdaspeed development ladder, Karam won a prize package valued at US$350,000 that allowed him to compete in the Star Mazda Championship in 2011, again with Andretti Autosport. Karam won back-to-back oval races at the Milwaukee Mile and Iowa Speedway and finished fifth in points, winning rookie of the year honors. He returned to the team and series in 2012 and improved to third in points with three race wins.
In 2013 he moved up the Road to Indy ladder to the Firestone Indy Lights series with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Karam won the Indy Lights title that year, becoming the eighth rookie to win the series championship.