Dreyer & Reinbold Racing announced today it has signed a deal with British racer Mike Conway to become the team’s first
confirmed driver for the 2009 Indy Racing League campaign.
The 25-year old rookie comes to the U.S.-based open-wheel series after spending the majority of his career in the European formula car ladder.
Most recently, he completed his second season driving in the GP2 Series with Trident Racing in 2008. He was also a Honda F1 Racing test driver for the past two seasons.
“I’ll be visiting a lot of new tracks for the first time, especially oval tracks, but I'm very much looking forward to the challenge.” Conway said.
Conway has been one of the top up-and-coming British drivers for the last several years, having won the British Formula 3 Championship with Räikkönen Robertson Racing in 2006. That year was also highlighted by a win in the famed Macau Grand Prix. His most recent success was winning a round at the famous streets of Monte Carlo in Monaco in the GP2 Series in 2008. In 2004, he won the Formula Renault UK Championship, and in 2005, he was recognized twice by the British Racing Drivers' Club for his achievements in Formula 3.
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Hysterical. Hope he has good insurance.
vi$ion$ indeed. :duh:
Nothing says Indy like a midpack European road racer. Nice vision FTG.
I wonder if the Roll Coater money went away.
a. gomertopia with chevy ford and billies and bubbas and dales on circle tracks all over the midwest, keeping the indy tradition alive? (97-01)
b. cart II with honda, yoda, italian engines, road racing and street parades?
:lol; ya'll got token.
He has absolutely nothing original to offer. Just more of the same old run 'em down mentality. Maybe he'll get lucky and be able to be the water boy for the Vision Racing Team this year.
Indy is just a street parade in rectangular form. People who don't care about racing come for some show they expect to see. Sounds like a couple of people who are regulars here.
That would be more people attend the Indy 500 than any race in the world. I think this year you will see many NASCARs with many open seats.
when your arguement doesn;t work, then just resort to personal attacks. :lol: i keep giving you the same arguement because it is THE RIGHT POINT! look, FTG sold you all down the river, and you all know it. Axe Fred Nation about the Vision. The vision is and always was about grabbing control of OW racing in NA. You bought it all, hook, line, and gomertopia!
jokes on who? jokes on YOU! :)
side note: is Milky Donuts coming back? have not heard, cause basically have not gibbed a shizzy. :lol:
Never said you won't. It is funny watching you guys act like the IRL is the only racing series having issues. This year will be tough on any series. Sorry guys, without TG, ow would be gone. We saw what the c>rt/owrs/ccws business model was, it was a long downward spiral. They had the cars and the stars, they had all the premiere tracks but one. And they went bankrupt how many times?
Uh, obviously you haven't noticed. It is gone. Earl ain't racing. You Hulmanistas are disturbing.
I enjoy it, so that makes me an idiot?
Innovation in interesting and fun and competitive. The 94 Penske was fun to watch in practice, and in qualifying. But the race was boring and I can't imagine it was much fun for anyone to compete against.
The irl* has, allegedly, tried to control costs. But it is still unpopular and has a poor business model.
Opinions vary. Everyone running the same equipment is boring. As is the same rehashed field fillers year after year. BTW- Dixon lead 115 laps last year, how's that for parity. Not quite as many as Montoya's 167 but still not much of a race.