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Dale Coyne (born 1954 in Minooka, Illinois) is a Champ Car auto racing team owner and former driver.

Following four unsuccessful seasons as a Champ Car driver, he retired from competition to start Dale Coyne Racing in 1988. In his early years of team ownership, Coyne launched some impressive careers, including that of Paul Tracy (1991) and Michel Jourdain Jr. (1997). The perennial hopeful has never had great funding and scored a best finish of 3rd at the 1996 U.S. 500 at Michigan International Speedway with veteran Roberto Moreno. The result was matched in 2004 when Oriol Servia accomplished the feat at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Servia also scored the team's best finish in the points with 10th.

From 1996 until 1999 the team was known as Payton/Coyne Racing following Coyne's association with former Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton. Payton passed away in 1999 and the team was renamed to its original status.

For all the successful careers that Coyne has launched, similar to the Minardi team in Formula One, there have been a fair amount of pay-drivers including a record six drivers in 1997 and 2005.

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