The #25 DragonSpeed/Cusick Motorsports automobile turns into the 33rd – and certain last – entry within the 106th operating of the Indianapolis 500, with the gear is being equipped by AJ Foyt Racing.
Cusick Motorsports was based simply final yr by entrepreneur Don Cusick, who backs Wilson within the 4 Michelin Endurance Cup rounds of the IMSA SportsCar Championship, when he shares the Hardpoint Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R with staff’s full-timers Rob Ferriol and Katherine Legge.
Title associate LOHLA Sport and co-primary associate Sierra Pacific Home windows will proceed their roles from final yr’s operating of ‘The Best Spectacle in Racing,’ whereas including Gnarly Premium Minimize Jerky to the principle companions supporting the entry.
DragonSpeed, one of many stalwart privateer groups in sportscar racing, additionally took half in 4 IndyCar races throughout 2019 and 220, two of which have been Indy 500s.
In 2019, Ben Hanley within the sole DragonSpeed entry managed to outpace McLaren’s Fernando Alonso and Carlin’s Pato O’Ward to get himself onto the grid.
Stefan Wilson, Andretti Autosport Honda
Photograph by: Barry Cantrell / Motorsport Images
“This chance means a lot to us,” mentioned Julian, who noticed his staff rating its third Daytona 24 Hours class victory this yr, with a automobile pushed by Colton Herta, Pato O’Ward, Devlin DeFrancesco and Eric Lux.
“Placing this program along with Don Cusick, Stefan Wilson, and the Cusick Motorsports associate group brings us again to Indy even sooner than we hoped, and a step nearer to turning into a full-time IndyCar staff.
“With that concentrate on in our sights, I can let you know we aren’t coming to the Brickyard to make up the numbers. We’re right here to renew our IndyCar studying curve and construct on our expertise from 2019 and 2020, and Stefan’s previous performances as properly.
“I do know that Don and Stefan share our ambitions, and I am grateful to AJ Foyt Racing and Larry Foyt’s racer spirit for serving to make this effort doable via using their gear. We additionally massively recognize the help of Jay Frye at IndyCar and Jim Campbell at Workforce Chevy.
“Including the 500 to our IMSA commitments is sophisticated, however everybody at DragonSpeed is 100 p.c up for the problem of Indy.”
Wilson, who raced at Indy in 2016 with KVSH Racing and in 2018 and ’21 with Andretti Autosport, mentioned: “The journey to the 2022 Indianapolis 500 has been a rollercoaster experience for Cusick Motorsports, our companions and myself.
“A number of quick weeks in the past it didn’t appear like this was going to occur for us, however I’m so relieved all the items got here collectively to get one other shot at this race.
“The Cusick Motorsports and DragonSpeed partnership couldn’t be a greater match and I do know it’ll be a terrific mixture for Indy this yr, in addition to for future alternatives.
“I’m additionally trying ahead to becoming a member of Workforce Chevy and sporting a Bowtie this month. There are such a lot of folks I’ve to thank for making this occur for us.
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