IndyCar race winner Simon Pagenaud will substitute for the injured Ryan Briscoe at the Level 5 American Le Mans Series squad at Road America this weekend.
Add to that 12 other
IndyCar race winners and a whole host of other talented young drivers, and you're looking at probably two - thirds of the grid (or more!)
Not exact matches
2012 Pro Mazda champion and 2013 Indy Lights
race winner Jack Hawksworth participated in his second
IndyCar test, this time with Dale Coyne
Racing.
It was the final win of his career, and as well as making him the oldest
winner of an
IndyCar race at 53 - years - old, it also meant he'd won
IndyCar races in four different decades.
Kanaan is the defending
winner of the Indianapolis 500 but is still looking for a ride next season as his
IndyCar contract with KV
Racing ends at the conclusion of the season.
The Canadian is in his fifth season of
IndyCar racing and is a four - time
winner, including an April victory in the Grand Prix of Louisiana.
The
winner of each year's series not only gets $ 1 million in scholarship money to join the big boys the following year, but he or she is also guaranteed a spot in at least three
IndyCar races — including the 500.
The Dubai - born Brit and reigning Indy Lights champion (the main feeder series to
IndyCar) qualified 11th and finished third, just half a second away from
race -
winner Takuma Sato, and was ahead of Alonso at the time of the Spaniard's retirement.
Ganassi's Scott Dixon was originally classified the
winner of the 2008
IndyCar race at Chicagoland but that was overturned when slow - motion footage showed Penske's Helio Castroneves was in fact ever so slightly ahead.
2013 Indy 500
winner Tony Kanaan, a driver with Chevy
IndyCar racing team, takes journalists for hot laps on handling track next to Las Vegas Motor Speedway in»19 Corvette ZR1.
BMW's partner, Rahal Letterman Lanigan
Racing, based in Hilliard, Ohio and co-owned by three - time
IndyCar Champion and 1986 Indianapolis 500
winner Bobby Rahal, former CBS Late Show host David Letterman and Mi - Jack co-owner Mike Lanigan, has been competing for almost three decades.
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IndyCar Series
race winners Ryan Briscoe and Simon Pagenaud will join Corvette
Racing's GT Le Mans - class lineup in the opening round of the 2015 IMSA Tudor United SportsCar Championship at...