Adrian Fernández was born April 20, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico. He currently co-owns the Super Aguri Fernandez Racing IRL team, which runs Scott Sharp and Kosuke Matsuura. After becoming the first driver to win 4 races in his rookie Indy Lights season, he moved up to Champ Car for 1993. He took his first victory in the championship in 1996 at Toronto, in a race that claimed Jeff Krosnoff's life. Despite the one win, he was not a regular front-runner until he joined Patrick Racing in 1998. That year, he crashed at Michigan and three spectators were killed by the errant wheel from his car. On a positive note, he took two victories and 4th overall that year, and two more wins en route to 6th in 1999. In 2000 he came close to winning the championship, despite not starting on the front row al