NTT IndyCar Collection champions Chip Ganassi Racing will take a look at 2022 Components 2 champion Felipe Drugovich at Barber Motorsports Park on Sept. 30. Andretti World will even give Indy NXT race winner Jamie Chadwick her first IndyCar run on the similar take a look at.
“We’ve acquired approval at the moment from IndyCar to check him,” CGR managing director Mike Hull instructed RACER. “With the best way IndyCar has the testing guidelines structured to check and consider drivers, it made sense to attach with Felipe and get him in considered one of our vehicles.”
The Ganassi workforce doesn’t have any vacancies in its downsized three-car roster for 2025, so the Brazilian isn’t vying for a race seat with the workforce. Having examined 2021 F2 runner-up Robert Schwarzman and been impressed along with his pace and suggestions, Hull expects extra of the identical from Drugovich, who serves as take a look at and reserve driver for Aston Martin F1 workforce.
“We needed to check him a yr in the past and we’re catching up on that,” Hull stated. “Not directly, we had been launched to Drugovich final yr at Le Mans and had been impressed with him up shut and private. We wish to get to know him and we predict it’s value doing.”
After Drugovich, Hull anticipates giving one other younger driver their first IndyCar take a look at throughout the offseason.
“We nonetheless have the flexibility to check an Indy NXT driver due to the rules,” he stated. “So we’ll in all probability try this earlier than the tip of the yr.”
