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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Vuse is excited to kick off the race season with its partner Arrow McLaren SP (AMSP) for the first official race of the 2021 INDYCAR season at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, AL on April 18. AMSP will take the track for the first time in 2021 at the Honda Grand Prix of Alabama, which will air on NBC at 3 p.m. ET.
The No. 5 Arrow McLaren SP car and No. 7 Vuse Arrow McLaren SP car will take on 90 laps and more than 214 miles on the permanent road course at Barber Motorsports Park, including 17 flowing turns and 80 feet of elevation change.
It has also been announced that Montoya will race with the number 86 in a tribute to Peter Revson, who claimed pole position there for the team in 1971.
“I’m delighted we are able to honour Peter Revson’s historic pole at Indianapolis in 1971 by having Juan Pablo Montoya run the No. 86 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet at this year’s Indianapolis 500,” said Zak Brown.
“This entry represents the combination of three strong relationships: McLaren and Indianapolis; Juan Pablo and Indianapolis; and McLaren and Juan Pablo, so the number just clicked for all of us.”
The Colombian has won the race on two occasions, in 2000 and 2015, but has not competed in it since 2017, when he finished in P6.
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IndyCar fan-favorite and lovable Canadian James Hinchcliffe lost his full-time IndyCar drive for 2020 when his team, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, was taken over by McLaren and switched to Chevy power. A Honda ambassador, Hinch ran a few races with Andretti Autosport last year, and for 2021, he s rejoining the team full time driving the No. 29 car. This team has been like family to me since I first joined back in 2012, Hinch said, per NBC Sports. We always said we would get the band back together. We did a little reunion tour last year, but now we’re fully back together. Hinch got three of his six career wins with Andretti, and will join a formidable lineup, as he ll be paired with Alex
The July 31 edition of “Celebrity Family Feud” will take on a “male vs. female” theme.
One competition will feature five “Bachelors” from ABC’s reality show universe taking on five “Bachelorettes.” The other will feature five Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models competing against five male Verizon IndyCar drivers.
In advance of the broadcast, ABC provided lineups from the four teams. The network also shared first look photos from the taping. Those follow:
The Bachelors – playing for Girls Inc.
Shawn Booth – Kaitlyn Bristowe’s fiancé from season 11 of “The Bachelorette”
Ben Higgins – “The Bachelor” from season 20
Chris Strandburg – One of Kaitlyn’s bachelors from season 11 of “The Bachelorette”
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An IndyCar driver may seek greener pastures by joining another team or leaving IndyCar racing for another home. Sometimes these moves work, while other times they can prove to be detrimental. Here’s 10 IndyCar career moves that just didn’t work out.
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After a brief stint in Formula One in the early 1990s, Alex Zanardi was coming into his own as a driver in the CART IndyCar World Series in 1996. He would win the 1997 and 1998 CART titles for Chip Ganassi Racing before leaving the U.S. for a Formula 1 seat at Williams in 1999 alongside Ralf Schumacher.