Dreyer & Reinbold Racing with Cusick Motorsports will area a two-car effort for the Indianapolis 500 that includes 2014 race winner Ryan Hunter-Reay and seven-time Indy 500 starter Jack Harvey.
It marks Hunter-Reay’s third month of Could with the staff, and for Harvey, it’s a reunion of kinds with former Andretti World driver Hunter-Reay after Harvey spent three Indy 500s as a satellite tv for pc teammate via Meyer Shank Racing’s technical alliance with Andretti.
The pairing of Hunter-Reay and Harvey is the third totally different line-up in as a few years: the Dennis Reinbold-led staff entered Hunter-Reay and Stefan Wilson in 2023, Hunter-Reay and Conor Daly in 2024, and now Harvey alongside the 2012 NTT IndyCar Collection champion.
“We’re enthusiastic about Jack from the standpoint of we really feel like he can show loads and hasn’t had had his greatest final result but for the five hundred,” Reinbold advised RACER. “We like his competitiveness and the way he goes about racing. We need to win, and we’re very clear and on the identical web page with that respect.
“With Ryan, that goes with out saying. We’ve had some circumstances which have occurred during the last two runs with Ryan that simply didn’t give us a shot to be there on the finish. However we’ve had the velocity and had a superb automotive, and he’s confirmed that he can drive the factor just like the champion he’s. So we’re enthusiastic about getting it proper and getting all points of the race to fall into place. We expect each guys can win it and we’re moving into with a little bit of a chip on our shoulder, as we usually do, as a result of it’s a tall process to only do this race.”
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“Thrilled to be again with this gifted group for the third consecutive 12 months following our robust 2024 efficiency,” Hunter-Reay stated. “Qualifying within the Quick 12 as the only real Indy-only program was an incredible accomplishment and collectively we’ve been working onerous to return in even higher kind. Wanting ahead to once more teaming up with Jack Harvey; we‘ll be working collectively to contribute to our purpose of combating for a win at Indy.”
Harvey’s greatest Indy 500 got here with MSR in 2020, when he certified twentieth and completed ninth. After signing a part-time take care of Dale Coyne Racing in 2024 that targeted on highway and avenue programs, the Briton missed the Indy 500 and relishes the possibility to return.
Harvey’s trying ahead to taking good care of unfinished enterprise on the Speedway. James Black/IMS Photograph
“I’m completely over the moon to get the chance to qualify and hopefully compete within the 109th Indianapolis 500 with Dreyer and Reinbold Racing,” he stated. “I’ve plenty of respect for Dennis, his companions, and your complete staff. I’m actually trying ahead to working with RHR once more. Ryan has all the time been actually beneficiant together with his time and information; I do know we’ll have an awesome month collectively.
“That is additionally the primary time in my IndyCar profession that I’ll get to work with Chevrolet, which is fairly thrilling.”
For Cusick, the connection with DRR is a satisfying collaboration.
“Cusick Motorsports seems to be ahead to our fifth Indy 500 and particularly our third in a row with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing,” Don Cusick stated. “We’ve got made nice strides as a staff, together with a Quick 12 qualifying slot with Ryan and a top-10 end with Conor that got here with main the race for twenty-four laps within the 2024 race.
“For 2025 we’re tremendous excited to welcome again Ryan and likewise herald Jack Harvey, each IndyCar veterans with the expertise and skill to win the race. At all times, we’re tremendous grateful to Dennis Reinbold, Brett DeBord, Chase Selman and your complete DRR crew and workers for letting us be part of the Biggest Spectacle on Earth.”
