Thursday, January 23, 2025

Juncos Hollinger indicators Robb for 2025 IndyCar season

Sting Ray Robb is shifting to Juncos Hollinger Racing for the 2025 IndyCar season. The Idahoan, who made his debut in 2023 with Dale Coyne Racing and moved to A.J. Foyt Racing in 2024, is the primary driver confirmed by JHR for the upcoming yr.

“To be sought out by leaders like Ricardo Juncos and Brad Hollinger and a group as pushed as JHR means the world to me,” Robb mentioned. “We share a imaginative and prescient for what we will obtain collectively, and I’m honored to contribute to JHR’s continued progress, as I additionally develop as their driver. Excited to see what we accomplish along with our ambition and the ‘energy of chance!’”

The 23-year-old newlywed will deliver his deep base of household and monetary assist to the squad owned by Juncos and Hollinger the place he spent three seasons on the Highway To Indy, beginning in 2019 within the Indy Professional 2000 championship, once more in 2020 when he gained the Indy Professional championship with Juncos, and in 2021 when he took the development prize from Andersen Promotions to Indy NXT with Juncos and positioned eighth.

Having completed twenty third as an IndyCar rookie with Coyne, Robb made notable good points as a sophomore with Foyt and completed twentieth this yr. He joins a JHR group in transition, the place its struggles to seek out sponsorship have dictated its method to the driving force market.

Romain Grosjean, its lead driver from 2024, has but to be signed, and as he lately informed RACER, JHR wants funding for each of its Chevy-powered entries, which is a brand new dynamic that speaks to the monetary hardships being confronted by a lot of IndyCar groups.

In Robb, JHR receives a younger journeyman whose tempo and consistency improved in his second season, the place a career-best end of ninth at World Huge Know-how Raceway was achieved.

“Sting Ray is an thrilling expertise, and we’ve had the privilege of seeing his progress as a driver first-hand throughout our championship run in Indy Professional,” Juncos mentioned. “That is greater than a reunion; it’s an opportunity to select up proper the place we left off and actually purpose for the highest of this collection. We’re dedicated to creating this season a breakout yr for Sting Ray, in addition to a rare yr for JHR as we proceed to raise our presence in IndyCar.”

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