Dan Wheldon is very much looking forward his third season with the Target team in 2008, in order to add to an already impressive IndyCar career in which he can boast 13 career wins, including an Indianapolis 500 victory (2005), five pole positions, and a championship title (2005).

After finishing runner-up in the 2006 Championship, Wheldon began the 2007 season in grand form with a pole position and third consecutive win at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. He followed that up with a second win at Kansas Speedway and continued to be a championship contender throughout the season, finishing fourth in the points standings.
Target Chip Ganassi Racing welcomed the talented Brit to the team as the driver of the No.10 Target Honda Dallara in 2006 and he immediately proved his worth by winning the season opener at Homestead Miami, posting two pole positions and a second win in the season finale to tie in points in the drivers Championship standings. Unfortunately, Wheldon would lose the tiebreaker with two fewer wins than rival Sam Hornish Jr.

That season, Wheldon earned nine top-five finishes after leading the field at least once in 11 of 14 races for a total of 761 laps, the most of any driver this season, and was second in laps completed with 2451 of 2510 (97.6%).

Prior to joining the Target team, the young British driver went from being an unproven rookie to an Indianapolis 500 winner and IndyCar Series Champion in just three IndyCar Series seasons.

Dan Wheldon’s race career in the United States began in 1999 when he promptly dominated and claimed the US Formula 2000 Championship with six wins and eleven podiums to garner Rookie of the Year and Road to Indy titles. He followed that up with successful stints as runner-up in both the Toyota Atlantics and Indy Light Championships.

After making his debut in the IRL with Panther racing in 2002 for the final two events of that season, Wheldon joined Andretti Green Racing the following year. He competed in 14 of 16 IndyCar Series events during the 2003 season, finished 11th in the standings for AGR and won Rookie of the Year honours after earning five top-five and nine top-10 finishes, including a career-best third in the season finale at Texas.

The 2004 campaign was Wheldon’s first full season in the IndyCar Series, but that chance afforded Wheldon three race victories, including the prestigious event at Twin Ring Motegi. The talented young Brit started second and finished third in the Greatest Spectacle in Racing– the 88th running of the Indianapolis 500, went from last to first to win at Richmond and won the final race ever run at Nazareth Speedway. Wheldon finished the season a close runner-up in the 2004 IndyCar Series Drivers’ Championship with 533 points; the second-highest point total ever and highest ever to not win the Championship.

Wheldon captured the 2005 IRL Driver's Championship by recording six wins in 17 races, breaking Sam Hornish Jr.’s IRL record for most wins in a season.  In May, Wheldon won the 89th running of the Indianapolis 500 in only his third attempt, becoming the first Englishman to accomplish the feat since the late Graham Hill in 1966. This season he posted 12 top-five finishes and 15 top-10 finishes, and clinched the 2005 IRL Driver's Championship with one practice lap at Watkins Glen.

In addition, Wheldon became the first Englishman and the first driver since Jacques Villeneuve in 1995 to win both the Indy 500 and a major Driver's Championship in the same season.  He joined such racing legends as A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears, Al Unser, Johnny Rutherford, Bobby Unser, Louis Meyer and Wilbur Shaw to accomplish this feat.

With a firm lead in the 2005 Championship by the month of May, Wheldon set his sights on winning the 89th Indianapolis 500. Starting from 16th position, he worked his way through to the front, passing rookie Danica Patrick with 30 laps to go and took the double checkered flags to capture the Indy 500 victory and a record purse of more than 1.5 million dollars.  It was the first time in history a driver had ever won the race from a 16th place starting position.