Graham Rahal insisted he, and not McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown, was the happiest winning bidder following last week’s Newman/Haas Racing memorabilia auction at the team’s headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire, Illinois. 2 Panoz he drove as a Champ Car World Series rookie in 2007. “For me, the Panoz will always be special because it was the very first car I drove (at this level),” Rahal said Wednesday. “And then, of course the St. Pete car was the first car I won with.”. Brown paid $995,000, easily the highest fetched for any of the cars. The company called it “the largest sale ever of open-wheel race cars ever auctioned.”. “I drove that car, too, and qualified fourth with it (in the 2009 Indianapolis 500),” Rahal said.

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