Pato O’Ward is about to look at Components E’s Mexico Metropolis race in January, the place he’s understood to be driving his Arrow McLaren IndyCar in an indication run, in addition to sampling NEOM McLaren’s Components E automobile.
The transfer is a part of a continued effort to extend collaboration throughout McLaren’s prolonged racing portfolio, and was teased by Components E on social media on Monday, and subsequently confirmed by RACER.
O’Ward has been probably the most notable of McLaren’s roster to department out throughout disciplines – others being the crew’s former Excessive E drivers Emma Gilmour and Tanner Foust, in addition to David Malukas and Tony Kanaan, all of whom have sampled historic sports activities automobiles and grand prix automobiles in demonstrations in current seasons.
Information of O’Ward’s deliberate Components E go to comes after his newest free observe outing for McLaren’s Components 1 crew finally weekend’s Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix, which happened on the similar venue because the Mexico Metropolis E-Prix – Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez – though the Components E makes use of an alternate observe format to the Components 1 race.
O’Ward has additionally expressed an curiosity in competing within the upcoming NASCAR Cup sequence race in Mexico Metropolis – a sentiment one thing McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has echoed, with him expressing an curiosity in seeing the seven-time IndyCar winner competing within the Daytona 500 in some unspecified time in the future.
O’Ward made his second F1 free observe look in Mexico Metropolis final weekend. Steven Tee/Motorsport Pictures
Whereas IndyCar continues to discover the potential for a race in Mexico Metropolis, nothing is on the quick horizon. If it have been to transpire, Penske Leisure CEO Mark Miles careworn to RACER final month that it could be an “NTT IndyCar championship factors race” and never as a part of a standalone worldwide sequence, which had been mooted.
Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez was final part of the American open-wheel image between 2002-2007, when it hosted the Champ Automobile World Sequence.
McLaren’s Components E driver lineup includes 12-time race winner Sam Chicken and Taylor Barnard, who turned each the youngest starter and youngest podium finisher throughout a stand-in stint final season when he stuffed in for Chicken throughout a quick damage layoff. The season begins in Sao Paulo, Brazil on December 7.
