Tracy inducted into Ontario Sports Hall of Fame

Paul Tracy is among this year's inductees into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.

The 2003 Champ Car champion was the sole motorsports representative in a class that also included multiple world record-holding swimmer Summer McIntosh and the 2019 NBA championship-winning Toronto Raptors team.

"I am honored to be inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame," said Tracy. "Growing up in Toronto, I never would have imagined the career and success I've had. And as a driver to be acknowledged with all these great Canadian athletes is a pretty cool deal."

The Ontario Sports Hall of Fame celebrates athletes who "distinguished themselves in their chosen sport(s), whether amateur or professional, in an individual competitive sport or as a member of a recognized team or teams in an officially sanctioned league. They must have either lived, been born in, competed in or enriched sport in Ontario."

Tracy's aggressive driving style and unfiltered persona made him one of the biggest stars of the CART/Champ Car era, but he backed it all up with results: he picked up 31 wins in a career that included stops at Team KOOL Green, Forsythe, Penske (twice) and Newman/Haas.

His full-time open-wheel career ended with the unification of the Champ Car World Series and the IndyCar Series for the 2008 season, although he continued to make occasional IndyCar appearances until 2011, when he contested the Indy 500 with Dreyer & Reinbold and five other races with Dragon Racing.

In addition to open-wheelers, he built up a solid sports car resume that includes five starts in the Rolex 24 at Daytona between 2005 and 2013, NASCAR starts in the-then Busch and Craftsman Truck Series, and he was ever-present for the first two seasons of SRX in 2021 and 2022.

Outside the cockpit, his post-race activities have included several forays into the media, including serving as part of NBC's IndyCar broadcast team between 2014 and 2021, and his current role as host of the Racers Unchained podcast for RACER.