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Famend engineer Michael Cannon splits from Prema, in response to supply
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Famend engineer Michael Cannon splits from Prema, in response to supply

By Miles Cooper January 18, 2025
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Michael Cannon, the IndyCar engineering mastermind thought of by many as one of many largest offseason signings, has parted from Prema Racing, the collection’ latest crew, the place he’d solely weeks in the past joined as its head of engineering, a collection supply confirmed to IndyStar.

Trackside On-line first reported the information. The crew couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.

Famend engineer Michael Cannon splits from Prema, in response to supply

Cannon, who simply two months in the past left AJ Foyt Racing as its technical director, made his public debut with the crew eight days in the past at Prema’s launch occasion at Basic Motors’ Technical Middle, the place crew proprietor Rene Rosin, its IndyCar program CEO Piers Phillips, and full-time drivers Callum Ilott and Robert Shwartzman shared their first public feedback because the crew’s driver lineup was revealed this fall. It was there, too, that Prema confirmed off its Nos. 83 and 90 Chevy liveries for the season, in addition to the drivers’ vibrant pink fireplace fits and confirmed that Romain Grosjean would function Prema’s reserve driver in 2025 and that ex-IndyCar driver Ryan Briscoe had been named the crew’s sporting advisor.

IndyCar information: https://www.indystar.com/s

Within the background of a number of crew pictures, Cannon could possibly be seen decked out within the crew’s all-red package, surfacing for the primary time since he helped set the groundwork for Foyt driver Santino Ferrucci’s ninth-place championship end, one of many season’s most-celebrated Cinderella tales.

Throughout his two-year tenure with Foyt that started with the 2023 season, Cannon served because the spark that helped Ferrucci take a front-row beginning spot in that season’s Indianapolis 500, resulting in a 4th-place end — a efficiency that helped generate talks that will ultimately result in Staff Penske, which had struggled in 500 qualifying for a pair years, initiating talks with AJ Foyt Racing that will result in a technical alliance.Within the first yr of that partnership, Staff Penske swept the entrance row, with a lot of the paddock . Andretti International driver Colton Herta was essentially the most direct, quipping, “What an inexpensive technique to rent (Michael) Cannon, proper?”

Earlier than becoming a member of Foyt, Cannon spent three seasons at Chip Ganassi Racing, a tenure that included serving as Scott Dixon’s race engineer throughout his dominant begin to the 2020 season that ended along with his sixth profession title. Cannon was additionally on-staff at CGR for Marcus Ericsson’s 2022 Indy 500 victory — the crew’s first 500 win in a decade — in addition to Dixon’s back-to-back 500 poles in 2021-22.

Cannon’s tenure earlier than becoming a member of Ganassi included stints at Dale Coyne Racing, Andretti International and Ed Carpenter Racing, in addition to Gamers Forsythe Racing throughout it is dominant days in CART and Champ Automobile.

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