Robbie Buhl | |
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Nationality | American |
Born | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | September 2, 1963
Retired | 2004 |
Indy Racing League IndyCar Series | |
Years active | 1996–2004 |
Teams | Beck Motorsports Team Menard Sinden Racing Tri-Star Racing Dreyer & Reinbold Racing |
Starts | 78 |
Wins | 2 |
Poles | 0 |
Best finish | 3rd in 1996 |
Previous series | |
1993–1994 1990–1996 1989 | CART World Series Indy Lights Barber Saab Pro Series |
Championship titles | |
1992 1989 | Indy Lights Barber Saab Pro Series |
Robbie Buhl (born September 2, 1963) is an American former race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League. He was a color commentator for the IndyCar races on Versus. In 2016, Robbie, along with his brother Tom Buhl, started Buhl Sport Detroit, a motorsports marketing company, professional race team, and teen driving program based in Detroit, MI.
Buhl's current race team, Racing4Detroit, is the first professional race team based in Detroit, and most recently ran in the 2019 Americas Rallycross Championship. He also created and acts as lead instructor of Teen Street Skills, an advanced teen driver training program also based and operating in Detroit.
He won the 1992 Indy Lights championship and caught the eye of John Menard's Team Menard in 1996, running as team mate to Tony Stewart for two seasons succeeding the late Scott Brayton. He scored his first win in what was once the closest finish in series history when he beat ex-MasterCard Lola F1 driver Vincenzo Sospiri by 0.064 seconds at the New Hampshire International Speedway.