Bradley Motorsports was a racing team in the

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owned by

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convenience store owner Brad Calkins. His son,

Buzz Calkins Bradley "Buzz" Calkins Jr. (born May 2, 1971 in Denver, Colorado) is a former Indy Racing League driver. After a successful run in Indy Lights from 1993 to 1995 where he finished 11th, 10th, and 6th in his three seasons, he and his Bradley Motors ...

, drove the bright red cars shod in the livery of Bradley Food Marts, Brad Calkins' company. Bradley won the first IRL race in 1996 at

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and were the co-champions of the inaugural IRL season. The team began in

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, supporting Calkins' rise through the

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development series. After Calkins' retirement from the cockpit at the end of the 2001 season, the team ran a program in the first half of the 2002 season for Japanese

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Shigeaki Hattori Shigeaki "Shige" Hattori (服部茂章, November 3, 1963) is a Japanese professional race car driver and team owner based in the United States. As a driver, he competed in the CART and IndyCar Series, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (now th ...

, but following poor finishes, Hattori left after the

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race. The team finished out the season unsponsored with Brazilian

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driving in his final season of open wheel racing. Bradley Motorsports earlier had a pro super vee team in the mid and late 1980s that ran the Bradley Food Marts car driven by future

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co-owner Steve Wulff.

Complete IRL/IndyCar Series Results

( key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) # The 1999

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was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities.

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