Paretta Autosport will miss the Indianapolis 500 this year in favour of taking on at least three road and street course events in the 2022 IndyCar season.
Team founder Beth Paretta has chosen to continue the programme kick-started by the team’s Indy 500 entry last year by contesting a trio of events starting with a pair of road courses races, Road America in June and Mid-Ohio in July. The team will return for a third event the following month on the streets of Nashville.
Their number 16 IndyCar entry will be driven by Simona de Silvestro and crewed by the same, largely female squad which tackled the 2021 Indy 500 last year. However the engineering partnership it formed with Penske last year will not continue, as the team members involved have moved on to other motorsport projects this year.
“I started working on this, realistically, right after the 500 ended last year,” Paretta explained. “I knew that my arrangement that I had with Team Penske was not going to be the…