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Zach "Ziggy" Veach is a 16-year-old autoracing driver who
competes in INDYCAR's 'Mazda Road to Indy' USF2000 National
Championship Series, an important open-wheel stepping-stone to a
career in the IZOD IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500. In 2011,
Veach captured the USF2000 Cooper Tires Winterfest Championship, on
the heels of placing fifth in the 2010 season, despite missing two
race events. In 2010, Michael Andretti signed Veach to his team,
Andretti Autosport, while also being named one of CNN's "Intriguing
People," nominated for Sports Illustrated "Sports Kid of the Year"
award and being named a NEXT athlete by ESPN The Magazine in
mid-2011. In addition to his racing, Veach is an advocate for safer
driving in conjunction with Oprah Winfrey's "No Phone Zone," and is
the national spokesperson for FocusDriven, an advocacy group for
victims of motor vehicle crashes involving drivers using their cell
phones. In 2010, Veach released his first published Android
application through his phone-app building company, ZaAPP, releasing
urTXT, in the Marketplace for Android to help consumers avoid
dangerous text messaging while driving and helms his own safe driving
program, Ziggy's Safe Driving, which hits DMA markets across the
country each year. Veach has been a guest or profiled on a variety of
national platforms including NBC's The Today Show, CNN's Headline
News, ABCNews.com, Oprah Radio's The Gayle King Show, The Los Angeles
Times, AOL.com Mashable.com and is a blogger for RACER magazine. The
son of a national truck and tractor-pulling champion, Veach enters
his junior year of high school this fall and released his first book, 99 THINGS TEENS WISH THEY KNEW BEFORE TURNING 16, in March 2011. For more information, please visit www.ZachVeach.com.