IndyCar’s Juncos Hollinger Racing Exhibition Tour of Argentina

It’s been almost a decade for the reason that NTT IndyCar Collection has final had a championship spherical exterior North America. Because the remaining São Paulo Indy 300 in 2013, the one often scheduled IndyCar race exterior of the US has been on the streets of Toronto. Nonetheless, IndyCar goes to be getting assist reinvigorating curiosity in South America from one of many sequence’ smallest groups.

Juncos Hollinger Racing introduced that it is going to be taking its No. 77 Chevrolet-powered Dallara IndyCar on an exhibition tour of Argentina in early November. Its open-wheel machine shall be on show on the famed Michelangelo Tango home in Buenos Aires November 4. Then, the No. 77 will carry out demonstration runs through the Turismo Nacional race weekend at Autódromo de Buenos Aires Oscar y Juan Gálvez November 5 and 6. The tour closes November 9, when Juncos Hollinger Racing will conduct a non-public check 740 miles northwest of Buenos Aires at Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, the present residence of MotoGP’s Argentine Grand Prix.

The transient tour of Argentina largely got here to fruition due to the impetus of the staff’s Argentinean co-owner and staff principal Ricardo Juncos. He mentioned:

“For a few years we’ve got been attempting to deliver a NTT IndyCar Collection automotive to Argentina and right this moment to be within the place to formally announce the automotive shall be returning for an exhibition after 51 years is superb. This provides us plenty of delight as Argentineans and for all that this implies. Since we’re linked to Chevrolet in the US and to have Agustin Canapino as the driving force shall be one of many best moments of motorsports in our neighborhood. When Alberto Canapino was with us on the 24 Hours of Daytona, we considered what an important second this may be to see Agustin in an NTT IndyCar Collection automotive and from that time on, on my promise that’s what we had been going to make occur. Whatever the staff and energy it will take, right this moment it’s a actuality and I’m certain Alberto could be so pleased with this second.”

Argentinean inventory automotive champion Agustín Canapino will substitute the staff’s common driver Callum Illot through the tour. Canapino’s father and legendary inventory automotive engineer Alberto Canapino handed away in February 2021 from COVID-19. As talked about by Juncos, the final time IndyCar visited Argentina was for the 1971 USAC season-opener. It could be improbable if IndyCar held a points-paying spherical at Termas de Rio Hondo to plug the early season gaps in its present schedule whereas increasing the business attain of the championship.