FRENCH FOLLOWS IN INDYCAR AT LONG BEACH WITH McLaren!

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French driver Théo Pourchaire will make his US Indycar Series single-seater debut this weekend.

Indeed, the Riviera crowned F2 Champion in 2023 and currently participated in the Japanese Super Formula Championship, was enlisted by the prestigious McLaren team to participate this weekend in the California event in Long Beach, south from Los Angeles, driving the number 6. Dallara Chevrolet of the McLaren Arrow Team.

He replaces one of the existing drivers, the American David Malukas, the last one again and is still absent since his recent accident, the McLaren team therefore had to hire a ‘freelancer’, which was made official this Thursday April 18, 2024, and arrived and joined and his ranks French driver Théo Pourchaire, at the Long Beach Grand Prix event.

After surgery on his left wrist before the start of the North American Indycar One Set Championship and this after a fall while riding a mountain bike, David Malukas had to announce once again and as in St Petersburg, withdraw from for the Long Beach Grand Prix, the second round of the 2024 season.

During the first event in Florida, Callum Ilott took his place but was prevented this weekend by his endurance duties, during the WEC World Tour held at Imola in Italy!

Which announced : This is a great opportunity to drive with such a legendary team in a legendary series like the NTT IndyCar Series. I’ve been watching IndyCar since I was a little kid and the racing is great. I was happy to receive a call from the team. I am grateful that McLaren CEO Zak Brown, team principal Gavin Ward and their sporting director Tony Kanaan thought of me for this opportunity and to the Sauber team for allowing me to go to the compound in Long Beach.

Peter GRISWOLD

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