Felipe Drugovich will get an opportunity to drive IndyCar Sequence equipment as a part of a driver analysis check with Chip Ganassi Racing at Barber Motorsports Park.
The 2022 Components 2 champion, Drugovich is at present the check and reserve driver for Aston Martin’s Components 1 group. He has additionally spent this yr competing within the European Le Mans Sequence, together with the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a part of a lineup that included Jack Aitken and Pipo Derani in a Cadillac V-Sequence.R ready by Motion Categorical.
The check outing for the 24-year-old Brazilian will occur on the 2.3-mile, 17-turn pure terrain highway course, which can happen on September 30 – the identical day Jamie Chadwick will likely be on monitor in IndyCar gear for Andretti World.
Mike Hull, managing director of Chip Ganassi Racing, confirmed to Motorsport.com that testing Drugovich was right down to a wide range of elements, together with making up for a missed alternative from final yr.
Felipe Drugovich, Aston Martin F1 Workforce
Photograph by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Photographs
“I feel due to his Components 2 expertise, to begin with,” Hull mentioned.
“He has a possibility… That automobile is 625 horsepower, the tires are related, energy to weight ratio is comparable. So, it is a good analysis of him as a driver. That approach you are not spending numerous time having him discover ways to drive an IndyCar. He is mainly already pushed one for at the least two years. That helps rather a lot. We had really promised him a check a yr in the past and we weren’t capable of do it. And so it is extra what we had promised.”
Chip Ganassi Racing is downsizing from 5 automobiles to a few for the 2025 season within the IndyCar Sequence, with six-time champion Scott Dixon and newly-crowned three-time titlist Alex Palou the one drivers confirmed.
With that, although, Hull made clear this outing shouldn’t be a figuring out issue to finish its driver roster for subsequent season.
“There have been no strings connected to that one,” Hull mentioned.
“Actually, nothing to this one. We noticed him first hand at Le Mans within the Cadillac automobile that Motion Categorical runs, so we acquired to know him a bit with that. And so these three issues mixed in all probability contribute to it. The place is it gonna go? Proper now, it would not have legs.”
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