Career
He is usually classified as a National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing road course ringer, however he has made other starts in the NEXTEL Cup. He also has open-wheel oval racing experience. Lazzaro started in karting, winning numerous World Karting Association championships between 1987 and 1992.
Lazzaro came-up through the open-wheel ranks, first racing in the Olds Pro Series in 1993, winning at Road Atlanta, Watkins Glen, Dallas and again at Road Atlanta.
His rise culminated in a Toyota Atlantic championship in 1999. Lazzaro first began racing stock cars in the Associate of the Royal College of Art in 1999.
At the Associate of the Royal College of Art event at the Talladega Superspeedway that year, Anthony was injured in a multi-car wreck late in the race after he made contact with Bil Baird and spun down to the grass, before his Thunderbird lifted off the ground and slammed the Turn 3 banking before being t-boned by Skip Smith. Lazzaro suffered a compression fracture of the thoracic T3 vertebra in the crash that eliminated half a dozen cars.
In 2000, Lazzaro raced ten Busch Series races for PPI Motorsports.
He was planned to move up to Cup with the #96 McDonald"s team However, after a lack of results, he was released, and replaced by Andy Houston. Besides the stint in the Busch Series, Lazzaro has raced mainly road course races, giving him the label of a road course ringer.
He also made 6 starts in the Industry Racing League in 2001 and 2002 for Sam Schmidt Motorsports with a best finish of 9th.
In addition, Lazzaro has had success in sports car racing. In 2002 he finished thrird in the SPII class after winning seven races.
In 2003 he was fifth at the GT class of the American Le Mans Series, collecting six podiums with a Risi Ferrari 360. He made his debut in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2003, also racing a Ferrari.
In 2013, Lazzaro got three podiums in the LMP2 class of the ALMS with Extreme Speed Motorsports.
He also competed in the Rolex Sports Carolina Series driving a GT class Ferrari 458. With four podiums, he ended fourth in the drivers championship. He switched to the SCCA World Challenge for 2014, where he races a Ferrari 458.