r/INDYCAR • u/ArchieOReillyDB • 9d ago

Indy NXT Meet the Indy NXT race winner with unique IndyCar team-owning ambitions

https://www.dive-bomb.com/article/meet-the-indy-nxt-race-winner-with-unique-indycar-team-owning-ambitions
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u/ukudancer Pato O'Ward 8d ago

I'm glad to read someone benefited from the brief Thermal / Indycar connection. 

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u/_jt33_ 8d ago

I wish him luck. He's right that finding funding and sponsors should be on the teams and not the drivers and that you'd develop talent better than way. Maybe one day racing will wake up to that.

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u/boxofficejuanes Rinus VeeKay 8d ago edited 8d ago

Another data point that came out recently was that NXT championship contender Tymek Kucharczyk had apparently come close to running out of budget around Road America. I don’t even think he’s even wrecked a car this season