Felipe Drugovich will get an opportunity to drive IndyCar Sequence equipment as a part of a driver analysis take a look at with Chip Ganassi Racing at Barber Motorsports Park.
The 2022 System 2 champion, Drugovich is presently the take a look at and reserve driver for Aston Martin’s System 1 crew. He has additionally spent this 12 months competing within the European Le Mans Sequence, together with the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a part of a lineup that included Jack Aitken and Pipo Derani in a Cadillac V-Sequence.R ready by Motion Categorical.
The take a look at outing for the 24-year-old Brazilian will occur on the 2.3-mile, 17-turn pure terrain highway course, which can happen on September 30 – the identical day Jamie Chadwick might be on monitor in IndyCar tools for Andretti World.
Mike Hull, managing director of Chip Ganassi Racing, confirmed to Motorsport.com that testing Drugovich was all the way down to a wide range of components, together with making up for a missed alternative from final 12 months.
Felipe Drugovich, Aston Martin F1 Staff
Picture by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Photographs
“I believe due to his System 2 expertise, initially,” Hull mentioned.
“He has a chance… That automobile is 625 horsepower, the tires are comparable, energy to weight ratio is analogous. So, it is a good analysis of him as a driver. That manner you are not spending plenty of time having him learn to drive an IndyCar. He is principally already pushed one for a minimum of two years. That helps so much. We had truly promised him a take a look at a 12 months in the past and we weren’t capable of do it. And so it is extra what we had promised.”
Chip Ganassi Racing is downsizing from 5 vehicles to a few for the 2025 season within the IndyCar Sequence, with six-time champion Scott Dixon and newly-crowned three-time titlist Alex Palou the one drivers confirmed.
With that, although, Hull made clear this outing will not be a figuring out issue to finish its driver roster for subsequent season.
“There have been no strings hooked up to that one,” Hull mentioned.
“Actually, nothing to this one. We noticed him first hand at Le Mans within the Cadillac automobile that Motion Categorical runs, so we obtained to know him a bit with that. And so these three issues mixed in all probability contribute to it. The place is it gonna go? Proper now, it would not have legs.”
