Scott Speed
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| Scott Andrew Speed is a race car driver born on 24 January 1983 in Manteca, California, USA. A driver for the Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 team, he made his Formula 1 race debut at the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix. Speed's career started at the age of 10 in karting, his stint there lasting from 1993 until 2000. He moved up to Formula series in 2001, competing in US Formula Russell and becoming champion. Drives in both the US Barber Formula Dodge and US Star Mazda Series followed in 2002, although he failed to win either title, and in 2003 the American drove for the ADR team in British Formula Three after winning the Red Bull Driver Search Programme. 2004 saw two championship titles for Speed, though, with him first winning in Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and later German Formula Renault. His performances resulted in a drive in the inaugurual season of GP2 Series for 2005, as number two for the iSport team to Can Artam. Speed was later promoted to first driver for the team, and ended the season third place in the driver championship standings behind Heikki Kovalainen. In 2005 at the Canadian Grand Prix, Speed worked as a test driver for Red Bull Racing; becoming the first American driver to participate in a Formula One event since Michael Andretti's 1993 stint. At the end of 2005, Speed drove the first three races of the new A1GP series for Team USA. In 2003, Speed was diagnosed with severe Ulcerative Colitis, but as of March 2006 has remained symptom free for a year. 
 Following its purchase of Minardi, Red Bull Racing announced the creation of Scuderia Toro Rosso with Speed and Vitantonio Liuzzi as its drivers in 2006 season. Speed has generally been outpacing team-mate Liuzzi since the Canadian Grand Prix, often failing to make it past the first part of qualifying when his team-mate has. In the Australian Grand Prix, Scott initially finished 8th, but was demoted after an overtaking move on David Coulthard was found to have been under yellow flags (ironically, for a crash involving Liuzzi). Scott's outburst after this punishment led ITV commentator Martin Brundle to remark that he was "not an easy person to like", ITV main commentator Jackie Stewart then commented "Same can be said about you Martin".[[Citing sources citation needed]] Speed currently resides in Fuschl am See, Austria, where he lives with his girlfriend Valentina Neuhauser.
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