Juri Vips will make his return to the IndyCar subject later this month in a fourth entry for Rahal Letterman Lanigan within the Grand Prix of Portland.
Vips – who turns 24-years-old this week – will race the workforce’s quantity 75 entry within the occasion on the twenty seventh August, the primary time RLL has run that entry since Takuma Sato raced in a one-off look at this 12 months’s Indianapolis 500.
The previous Crimson Bull junior and Components 2 racer will return to IndyCar having competed in two races to the top of final season at Portland and Laguna Seca. He completed 18th on his debut within the championship at Portland, the primary finisher one lap down, earlier than being caught up in a multi-car crash at the beginning in Laguna Seca which left him a number of laps down.
Vips will be a part of current RLL drivers Graham Rahal, Pietro Fittipaldi and Christian Lundgaard. Crew co-owner Bobby Rahal stated the workforce have been happy to have the ability to convey Vips again to race for the workforce for his subsequent race.
“He confirmed at each Portland and Laguna Seca final 12 months that he actually has the tempo to characteristic in any occasion he runs with us,” stated Rahal. “He has executed numerous work for us within the simulator this 12 months, which has helped us perceive the hybrid system, so it’s good to reward him for his effort. I’m hopeful that this may result in extra races for him with RLL.”
Vips expressed his gratitude to the workforce for getting the possibility to race once more.
“I’ve been working intently with the workforce on the simulator programme and it has been a 12 months since I’ve been within the automotive, however I’m assured that the expertise gained final 12 months at Portland and Laguna Seca will assist me to stand up to hurry shortly,” he stated.
“It is going to nonetheless be a really massive problem and one I’m very a lot trying ahead to.”
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