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[bjohnsonsmith]

Hinchcliffe, Palou and Camara on Coyne's shortlist.

http://classic.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/147462

[joeb]

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

Hinchcliffe, Palou and Camara on Coyne's shortlist.

http://classic.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/147462

I wonder what the criteria for selection will be, budget? With Hinch you get loads of experience, but the series has seen an influx of very talented young drivers over the past few years.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by joeb

I wonder what the criteria for selection will be, budget? With Hinch you get loads of experience, but the series has seen an influx of very talented young drivers over the past few years.

It's Coyne so budget is probably the top 3 on the list. Camara probably leads the list, he has money and likely zero chance of moving to F1. It sounds like he has Indy money but not F1 money and 3 years without a title is not a great showing.
Hinch has some but apparently not even half of what the big teams needed. I could see him buying in to a Coyne seat for Indy though. Honda would be a big part of this seat no matter the number of races.
I know nothing about Palou other than he wasn't storming the field in his single F2 season but seems to be running well in Super Formula.

I would guess barring anything crazy it's Camara's seat to turn down. I don't know if SealMaster left with Bourdais or Coyne still has that sponsor in his pocket. If he does that helps Hinch, if not.

[chunterer]

Camara showed strongly in his first season (the last of GP2, the proper cars ) but flopped last year in the new F2 against an admittedly very strong top end of the field. He has done better this year but still way below where people expected him to be.

Change of scene will do him good. I mean, look at Ferruci!!!

Palou has seemed very very good at times but has ducked in and out of series until this year. He was a contender for Nippon until the end I think?

[bjohnsonsmith]

Conor Daly gets road and street course drive with ECR.

https://www.indycar.com/News/2019/12...ECR-Conor-Daly

[Hawkwood]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

It's Coyne so budget is probably the top 3 on the list. Camara probably leads the list, he has money and likely zero chance of moving to F1. It sounds like he has Indy money but not F1 money and 3 years without a title is not a great showing.
Hinch has some but apparently not even half of what the big teams needed. I could see him buying in to a Coyne seat for Indy though. Honda would be a big part of this seat no matter the number of races.
I know nothing about Palou other than he wasn't storming the field in his single F2 season but seems to be running well in Super Formula.

I would guess barring anything crazy it's Camara's seat to turn down. I don't know if SealMaster left with Bourdais or Coyne still has that sponsor in his pocket. If he does that helps Hinch, if not.

In fairness to Palou, he only ran a handful of races in F2.
However, his GP3 and F3 seasons (three seasons in total) weren't indicative of a future superstar.
3rd in Super Formula as a rookie though is pretty impressive. It's not a series where rookies traditionally do all that well.

[rwintle]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

I don't know if SealMaster left with Bourdais or Coyne still has that sponsor in his pocket.

I feel like SealMaster leaving/ending their sponsorship is what killed Bourdais' ride, no?

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by rwintle

I feel like SealMaster leaving/ending their sponsorship is what killed Bourdais' ride, no?

According to Dale Coyne Racing's website, SealMaster are still a Team Partner.

https://dalecoyneracing.com/teampartners/

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by rwintle

I feel like SealMaster leaving/ending their sponsorship is what killed Bourdais' ride, no?

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

According to Dale Coyne Racing's website, SealMaster are still a Team Partner.

https://dalecoyneracing.com/teampartners/

No one has really said exactly why he lost the seat other than he no longer drives for us. And surprisingly neither MP or Robin had anything about why other than he was screwed out of the seat. I figured it had to be something about a sponsor and cash but didn't know who his partners were.

[broadrun96]

Ok, Indy might have been right and at least Ganassi has put in effort that makes the aeroscreen look decent. Yes, it's ungainly a bit but better than version 1 with the full sponsor/livery wrap.

From Mike Hull through Racer.com

[bjohnsonsmith]

Next season's schedule has been announced.

https://www.indycar.com/News/2019/12...FTimesReleased

[rwintle]

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

According to Dale Coyne Racing's website, SealMaster are still a Team Partner.

https://dalecoyneracing.com/teampartners/

Ah, thanks, I missed that.

[rwintle]

So this is what I have from various press releases and whatnot so far. Full-season entries only, *=announced/confirmed. I've made no attempt to include partial entries (are there any announced?) or the inevitable slew of Indy 500-only entrants.


Feel free to update, add, modify, re-post, etc. as more info becomes available.


A.J. Foyt Enterprises
4 Matheus Leist? (not under contract)
14 Tony Kanaan? (“handshake agreement”)

Andretti Autosport
26 Zach Veach*
27 Alexander Rossi*
28 Ryan Hunter-Reay*
98 Marco Andretti*

Arrow McLaren SP
5 Patricio O’Ward*
6 [reserved for Robert Wickens?]
7 Oliver Askew*

Carlin
23 Charlie Kimball?
59 Max Chilton? (road/street only?) / ? (ovals?)

Chip Ganassi Racing
8 Marcus Ericsson*
9 Scott Dixon*
10 Felix Rosenqvist*

Dale Coyne Racing
18 James Hinchcliffe?, Alex Palou?, Sergio Sette Camara? (all “shortlisted”)
19 Santino Ferrucci? (deal “looks like it’s coming together”)

Team Penske
2 Josef Newgarden*
12 Will Power*
22 Simon Pagenaud*

ECR
20 Ed Carpenter* (ovals) / Conor Daly* (street/road)
21 Rinus VeeKay*

Harding Steinbrenner
88 Colton Herta*

Meyer Shank Racing
60 Jack Harvey*

Rahal Letterman Lanigan
15 Graham Rahal*
30 Takuma Sato*

[NaBUru38]

Drivers with no confirmed rides include Bourdais, Hinchcliffe, Kanaan, Ferrucci, Pigot, Leist and Jones.

[Formulahistory]

Charlie Kimball very likely to Foyt.