2022 Indycar silly season

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Bottom post of the previous page:

Kanaan back at Ganassi for the 500:

https://racer.com/2022/01/18/kanaan-set ... y-500-run/
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MonteCristo wrote: 2 years ago And more news...
Foyt signs Calderon for 2022 IndyCar ride

The last time the NTT IndyCar Series had a female driver signed to a full-time effort was in 2013 with Simona De Silvestro and KVSH Racing, and thanks to a late decision by A.J. Foyt Racing sponsor ROKiT, Tatiana Calderon will take a step towards ending the long representation drought when she takes the wheel of the No. 11 Chevy for the road and street course events.

The 28-year-old will also continue the tradition of Colombian talent being represented in IndyCar as she helps the Foyt team — which RACER revealed in September — realize ROKiT’s desire to have two cars carrying its branding and gives the series an unexpected 26th entry for the entire season. The team is yet to sign a driver for the oval races.
https://racer.com/2022/01/17/foyt-signs ... ycar-ride/
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John wrote: 2 years ago
MonteCristo wrote: 2 years ago And more news...
Foyt signs Calderon for 2022 IndyCar ride

The last time the NTT IndyCar Series had a female driver signed to a full-time effort was in 2013 with Simona De Silvestro and KVSH Racing, and thanks to a late decision by A.J. Foyt Racing sponsor ROKiT, Tatiana Calderon will take a step towards ending the long representation drought when she takes the wheel of the No. 11 Chevy for the road and street course events.

The 28-year-old will also continue the tradition of Colombian talent being represented in IndyCar as she helps the Foyt team — which RACER revealed in September — realize ROKiT’s desire to have two cars carrying its branding and gives the series an unexpected 26th entry for the entire season. The team is yet to sign a driver for the oval races.
https://racer.com/2022/01/17/foyt-signs ... ycar-ride/
Well this will amount of absolutely nothing.
In terms of competitiveness I feel like the title of the press release could have been worded along the lines of "A.J. Foyt Racing signs engine partnership deal with Lotus".
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https://racer.com/2022/02/02/juncos-hol ... ar-season/
Ricardo Juncos and Brad Hollinger will field their full-time NTT IndyCar Series entry for English rookie Callum Ilott through a new technical alliance with Carlin Racing.

Having purchased Carlin’s inventory of IndyCar assets during the offseason, RACER understands the majority of the Carlin team members who were with the program in 2021 will move forward supporting Juncos Hollinger Racing and its single-car effort with the No. 77 Chevy.

...

RACER also understands JHR, which has been targeted by a number of drivers to field a second Indy 500 entry on their behalf, is not expected to put another car in play during the month of May as the full focus on Ilott’s Speedway debut is believed to be the priority.
RIP Carlin.

Question is... where does this leave Chilton?
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Next Question is, do we care?
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MonteCristo wrote: 2 years ago https://racer.com/2022/02/02/juncos-hol ... ar-season/
Ricardo Juncos and Brad Hollinger will field their full-time NTT IndyCar Series entry for English rookie Callum Ilott through a new technical alliance with Carlin Racing.

Having purchased Carlin’s inventory of IndyCar assets during the offseason, RACER understands the majority of the Carlin team members who were with the program in 2021 will move forward supporting Juncos Hollinger Racing and its single-car effort with the No. 77 Chevy.

...

RACER also understands JHR, which has been targeted by a number of drivers to field a second Indy 500 entry on their behalf, is not expected to put another car in play during the month of May as the full focus on Ilott’s Speedway debut is believed to be the priority.
RIP Carlin.

Question is... where does this leave Chilton?
Ahh so that explains why I keep seeing Max.

Carlin was owned by Daddy Chilton, so I don’t know the story, but I’d strongly suspect that he did the same with Carlin as he did with Arena Motorsports and just decided one day not to pay the bills anymore, I feel sorry for the staff, who on previous Chilton form, probably haven’t been paid or got any redundancy, I know someone who worked at Arena who lost everything last time this happened.

Pretty sure I, along with others, predicted this would happen to Carlin when Trevor got into bed with Grahame and Grahame or Max got bored of Indycar. What an absolute c u next Tuesday Grahame is.

Hopefully Grahame will be blacklisted so he can’t spend any of that £50million he’s just earned ruining more people’s lives, funny that the family home has just been sold too, maybe he’s planning to retire to some tropical island, one can hope….
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Chilton wants to go to sportscars: https://www.autosport.com/indycar/news/ ... s/7880666/

So no extra seat from him.
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Plent of people in sport cars that will part him from his money lol
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Ian-S wrote: 2 years ago Plent of people in sport cars that will part him from his money lol
Especially this late in the pre-season game. Choices and options will be limited and need more money to make happen at short notice. Supply and Demand at its best. :suspicious:

"You want what? I hope your pockets are deep" might be something heard regularly by Team Chilton.

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Enerson desperate to get a 500 ride, but struggling for money and to find teams with a ride available. Looks like Top Gun might be at an end too.

https://racer.com/2022/02/08/enerson-ta ... 00-return/

A real shame on both fronts. The has deserved a shot for a long time.

Meanwhile, Will Marotti is looking to partner in a team.

https://racer.com/2022/02/07/marotti-ai ... 500-entry/

Marotti, meet Enerson. Enerson, Marotti.
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I'm so goddamned sick and tired of this never ending off-season.

Anyway K-Mag joins CGR for pre-season testing https://racer.com/2022/02/14/magnussen- ... r-testing/
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