IndyCar Series: Luczo Dragon Signs On For 2009
The IndyCar Series has added another full time team for the 2009 season. Luczo Dragon Racing, who ran in just six races in 2008, will come into the 2009 campaign with a full year of funding to carry the livery. Symantec will be a primary sponsor in 2009, which also carried the team in 2008. There is one monumental change with the team that is noticeable: The driver.
2008 Firestone Indy Lights Champion Raphael Matos will take over in the cockpit of Luczo Dragon Racing. Matos, who won the Championship with Andretti Green Racing in the Indy Light series this year, feels he is ready to make the jump to the “big league”. When Tony Kanaan signed a 5 year extension with AGR towards the end of the IndyCar season, Matos had little choice but to switch teams if he were to run with the big dogs in the ICS. Andretti Green has focused hard on maintaining a winning balance on four cars. The team would have trouble finding that balance if they were to go to five entries, and that fifth entry is where Matos would have landed. Danica Patrick, Marco Andretti, Tony Kanaan, and Hideki Mutoh will be with AGR for the foreseeable future.
As a long time fan of the IndyCar series and all the wonderful personalities that have risked their life for our entertainment, I am once again feeling sorry for Tomas Scheckter. Scheckter can be as quick as anyone on the track. I have seen him race the wheels off of his car on more than one occassion. The problem with Scheckter is that eventually, his wheels really do fall off and it is usually when he slams into the outside wall at 220mph. For IndyCar fans, I hope Tomas gets another shot as few would argue he is amazingly entertaining and very aggressive. But from an owners perspective, I will understand if he is left out in the cold. In this economy, the thought of buying new race cars every week isn’t an attractive one.
One final note of interest: Luczo Dragon is co-owned by Jay Penske. Yes, that Penske. Jay is youngest son of Roger Penske.
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