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Michael Wheeler

Driver #1

Michael Wheeler's racing career began in 2004 after he completed the Panoz 3-day race school at Road Atlanta. He has significant sportscar experience including front and rear engine GT cars and front and rear wheel drive Touring cars. The highlights of his career include:

• Finishing Fourth in GT2 Class in his first appearance at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Road America (September 2009) driving a 2005 Porsche GT3 Cup car. His efforts earned him the Sunoco Hard Charger award.
• Finished 2009 season 3rd in National Points in SCCA National GT2 Class (out of 58 National drivers).
• 2009 Southeastern Division Race Champion in SCCA National GT2 Class.
• Multiple wins and podium finishes in SCCA National, NASA Pro and Panoz GT Racing Series events.
• Holds SCCA Touring 3 class track record at Sebring International Raceway

Michael holds or has held IMSA, Grand-Am and SCCA National race licenses and is currently racing Porsches in SCCA National and Grand-Am/Continental Tire competition. Michael is married to Jessica and has two daughters, Caitlin and Chloe. He was born in Frederick, Md. and currently resides in Miami, Florida. His hobbies include fitness, travel, cycling, golf, snowboarding, and playing the electric guitar very loud.

Tony Wedderburn

Driver #2

Affectionately known around the track as “BiggaBoss”, is a highly skilled driver with over 17 years of racing experience beginning in 1993 in Touring C as a top contender. He won his first Touring Car championship in 1996 in a Ford Fiesta. He then moved to the Formula division where he perfected his skills at open-wheel competition.

In 1998 he began racing in the Grand Touring 1 division in a Tommy Riggins Mustang and won his second championship the following year. In 2000 he was bestowed with the award for the Florida Region National Driver of the Year.

He continued to race competitively throughout the Southeast United States in National competitions over the next decade. At the 2009 National Runoffs he won the Sunoco Hard Charger Award in a Touring 3 Cobalt SS.

BiggaBoss is now launching his professional racing career, debuting in 2010 in the World Challenge Touring Car where he will be campaigning his Supercharged Chevrolet Cobalt. His charismatic personality gives his paddock area the positive energy and dynamic ambiance that attracts spectators, media, officials, competitors and dignitaries.