The second round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is being held on the same weekend as IndyCar’s second round at Texas Motor Speedway. While it was hoped that some IndyCar drivers would “do the double”, and be third drivers for the classic IMSA enduro, in fact none will do so.
IndyCar’s qualifying session for Texas is being held on Saturday, March 19, the same day as the 12 Hours, so any driver who missed the session would be obliged to start Sunday’s race from the back.
Hence Meyer Shank Racing had to find an alternative to its originally appointed IMSA enduro extra Helio Castroneves to race the #60 MSR Acura ARX-05 alongside fulltime sportscar drivers Tom Blomqvist and Oliver Jarvis. That opportunity has gone the way of Vandoorne for whom this will be a first start in IMSA.
Vandoorne, who finished runner-up in the WEC’s LMP2 championship last year alongside Blomqvist at Jota Sport, said he was “really excited” to make his IMSA debut “because the…
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