The Olympic break lasted less than two weeks for the NTT IndyCar Series field, as half of the 10 full-time teams are spending the day at World Wide Technology Raceway and a sixth team, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, is running on the IMS road course with Formula 2 driver Zane Maloney
The WWTR outing is a blend of rookie test days with Arrow McLaren’s Nolan Siegal, Chip Ganassi Racing’s Linus Lundqvist and Kyffin Simpson and Ed Carpenter Racing’s Christian Rasmussen, and team days for Andretti Global with Colton Herta, Kyle Kirkwood and Marcus Ericsson, and Juncos Hollinger R acing with Romain Grosjean and Conor Daly.
Although JHR’s Agustin Canapino is shown on the timing and scoring screen, multiple sources at the WWTR test have told RACER that Daly is in the No. 78 Chevy for the day. An outreach to JHR to inquire about the testing change was made, but the team had not responded at time of publication.
For ECR, the rookie day presents a chance to give Rasmussen, whose primary campaign has been on road and street courses, more oval miles in an IndyCar after doing the Indianapolis 500 in May. Although the reigning Indy NXT champion is not scheduled to race at any of the remaining ovals on the schedule, team president Tim Broyles said the Dane can help get teammates Ed Carpenter and Rinus VeeKay in a better state of tune when they come back to WWTR to race in a few weeks.