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Gidley Joins Team Sahlen For 2011
September 30th, 2010
Memo Gidley will join Team Sahlen to drive the No. 43 Team Sahlen Mazda RX-8 next year. (Grand Am Photo)
Memo Gidley will be the lead driver for Team Sahlen in the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series GT division next season. Gidley will be paired with long-term Team Sahlen driver Wayne Nonnamaker in the No. 43 Team Sahlen Mazda RX-8.
At the conclusion of the 2010 Season, Gidley co-drove with Nonnamaker in the second race at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Int’l and season finale at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah. In those events Gidley consistently raced inside the top five while leading several laps during the season finale.
“We are very excited to have Memo with us for the entire 2011 season. He is very dedicated to working with everyone on the team to get the maximum from the Mazda RX-8,” said team owner Joe Sahlen. “And his dedication behind the wheel has been evident in the past two races. Everyone at Team Sahlen is very dedicated to competing at the sharp edge of the Rolex GT field in 2011. All the pieces are in place for a great season next year, and Memo is the key catalyst to making this a reality.”
“I have been very impressed with the changes that team Sahlen has made and continues to make for an assault on the Rolex Series GT championship 2011,” Gidley said. “Joe Sahlen is a true racing sportsman that has shown his dedication to the Grand Am Series over the last number of years and even more importantly, his passion for racing in general. This is the kind of team owner that I want to work for. I feel the combination of this and working with the entire Nonnamaker family who I have come to respect, and being paired up with Wayne Nonnamaker as my team mate who is fast and experienced, this is going to be fantastic. I am committed 100 percent to do everything I can to make 2011 as successful as possible for 2011. I’m very excited.”
Gidley has raced everything from BMX bikes to go-karts to Daytona Prototypes to open-wheel IndyCars to front-wheel-drive sedans, and achieved success in every discipline. Gidley is one of only three drivers ever to win the ultra competitive go-kart SuperNationals in Las Vegas, in the 125cc Super-Pro class and the key driver with results that helped turn TrackMagic into a kart superpower in the late ’90s and 2000s.
During his tenure as an IndyCar driver, Gidley competed in 38 races with teams such as Walker Racing, Dale Coyne Racing, Players-Forsythe Racing, Della Penna Motorsports, Target Chip Ganassi Racing and Rocketsports Racing.
In this span in the CART ranks, Gidley had three podiums (two seconds & a third), four top-five finishes and numerous top tens, all without the benefit of a full season ride or season testing. Gidley led 230 laps in the CART series against some of the best drivers in the world.
More recently Gidley has spent his time driving in the Grand Am Rolex Series Daytona Prototype ranks. Gidley’s versatility is not just limited to land, as his first form of racing was in small sailboats and he continues to crew and race on the San Francisco bay.
Gidley’s co-driver Wayne Nonnamaker is a long-time veteran of Grand Am competition. Nonnamaker cut his teeth racing in the Continental Tire Challenge Series, where he won his first Championship driving a Mazda in the Street Tuner class in 2001. Nonnamaker added a second Street Tuner championship in 2002. He then stepped up to the Grand Sport class the following season and won that championship as well.
Nonnamaker also has the distinction of having been the last driver in series history to have solo wins, having won 2 GT events in 2005.