Riley Technologies
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Riley Technologies, formerly known as Riley & Scott, is a company providing chassis for sportscar racing. They are located near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and were founded in 1990 by Bob Riley and Mark Scott.
Riley Technologies/R&S are completely unrelated to the defunct British Riley marque.
Equipped with Ford engines, R&S won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1997 and 1999. R&S also built the Cadillac Northstar LMP chassis and contributed to the development of the Chevrolet Corvette C5-R.
Riley & Scott was also a chassis supplier in the Indy Racing League from 1997 to 2000. The car was initially competitive, but had fewer cars on the track due to R&S not having their cars ready for the beginning of the 1997 season as competitors G-Force and Dallara were. Their cars garnered a single IRL win in 2000 with driver Buddy Lazier. By that time though, the Riley & Scott was woefully uncompetitive on larger tracks and its customers had abandoned it for other chassis.
Reynard Motorsport bought R&S in 1999, which contributed to Reynard's bankruptcy in 2001.
In 2001, Bob and son Bill Riley formed Riley Technologies to provide Daytona Prototype chassis for the Rolex Grand-Am series.
Rileys won the 24 Hours of Daytona with different engines, in 2005 as Pontiac-Riley and in 2006 and 2007 as Lexus-Riley.
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