Mark Miles, president and CEO of Penske Leisure, and vice chairman Michael Montri toured the monitor and the services of the Termas racetrack which has hosted MotoGP since 2014 and is a daily on the home TC2000 touring automotive collection calendar.
The pair had been accompanied by Juncos Hollinger Racing workforce co-owner Ricardo Juncos and Ricardo Sosa, government secretary of the Nationwide Institute of Tourism Promotion of Argentina, in addition to provincial authorities.
Sosa had already met with IndyCar on the first spherical of the 2023 championship in St. Petersburg.
This go to by IndyCar officers is one other step in the direction of making Argentina the venue for a championship race, presumably in 2024, for the primary time since 1971 in Rafaela, Santa Fe.
It follows JHR’s exhibition in Termas final November, with Argentine touring automotive ace Canapino readily available to drive an IndyCar. Since then, Canapino has turn out to be a full-time driver for JHR as team-mate to Callum Ilott within the squad’s expanded two-car lineup.
It’s understood that the passion of the followers current on the Termas racetrack that day, in addition to on the exhibition additionally held that very same week on the Buenos Aires racetrack, caught the eye of IndyCar authorities.
Miles is in Argentina to go to the potential venue
Photograph by: Michael L. Levitt / Motorsport Images
IndyCar president Jay Frye, talking solely to Autosport shortly after the November occasion, described the reception from the Argentine followers as “unbelievable” earlier than including: “I might say one of the best factor is that they received our consideration.
“We respect the curiosity of everybody who went to see that, the 2 exhibitions. Every little thing that we noticed was an unbelievable occasion.”
Requested then concerning the probabilities of IndyCar returning to race in Argentina, Frye commented: “By no means say by no means. Once more, I feel it was a extremely good factor for Ricardo to come back again, it was nice that he may try this in his dwelling nation.
“And as I discussed, we did not know what to anticipate, however every thing we anticipated, it was exceeded. It was superb.”
