England’s Baker Joins Andersen Racing

Andersen Racing announced today that British hot shoe Jonny Baker has joined its team to contend for the 2007 Star Mazda Championship presented by Mazda.

Baker, of Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England, joins Ricardo Vassmer and one driver who has not yet been named as the Fairfield, N.J.-based team's primary drivers for the 12-race Star Mazda season. Phil Saville and Michael Fitzgerald will also drive in selected Star Mazda events this year with the team, including the season opener Friday, March 16 at Sebring, Fla.

All the events are broadcast on SPEED in one-hour, tape-delayed telecasts.

Baker, 22, has been running with Team JLR in England for the last two years. He had two podium finishes last year in the UK Formula Ford Championship and finished ninth in that series' final point standings for the season. He finished second in the 2005 UK Formula Ford Scholarship Cup with four victories, and fifth in the national class that year. In 2004 he finished second in Class B of the British Race Drivers' Club single-seater championship with four victories.