Ross Chastain will make his IMSA Michelin Pilot Problem debut with Skip Barber Racing at Street America subsequent month. Chastain will share the controls of the No. 16 Skip Barber Racing Faculty entry with IMSA Numerous Driver Improvement Scholarship winner Ken Fukuda.
“I’m actually trying ahead to racing with Skip Barber at Street America,” Chastain stated. “I’ve been a buyer of Skip Barber Racing Faculty, and to now race with their IMSA workforce makes complete sense. Dan and Anthony DeMonte run the premier racing college within the nation so hopefully I can have displaying for them throughout considered one of our NASCAR off-weekends. I all the time admire the extra monitor time.”
Skip Barber has beforehand sponsored Chastain within the NASCAR Xfinity Collection and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection. Chastain is considered one of over 20 present NASCAR Cup Collection drivers who has frolicked coaching with the instructors at Skip Barber to enhance their highway racing prowess. Different alumni embody John Hunter Nemechek, Erik Jones, Jimmie Johnson, and Michael McDowell.
“Once we noticed a niche within the NASCAR Cup Collection schedule that lined up with our race workforce’s outing at Street America, we knew what we wanted to do,” Skip Barber Racing Faculty Chief Advertising Officer Dan DeMonte stated. “This is a chance that we merely couldn’t afford to cross up and we’re past thrilled to welcome Ross into the workforce at Street America.”
Skip Barber Racing will even area a pair of entries in Ford Mustang Problem on the identical weekend.
Chastain and Skip Barber are additionally carefully aligned in campaigns for highway security with Chastain’s Defend Your Melon initiative and the Skip Barber Driving Academy, a one-day defensive-driving program designed to construct safer drivers on public roads.
