Luczo Dragon Racing released a statement today revealing that LDR and de Ferran Motorsports will join forces for the 2010 season. This is great news for the former Indianapolis 500 champion’s suddenly ailing team.
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Last year, Gil announced that 2009 would be his last year in the cockpit of a racecar and he was going to focus on being a team principal fielding both an ALMS prototype effort and a two-car effort in the IZOD IndyCar Series. As the season ended, and we got deeper into the off-season, it became less and less likely that we would see de Ferran field any racing effort at all. This recent announcement of a merger with LDR salvages the de Ferran Motorsports company, and creates a team with a combination of lightning fast young talent from LDR’s crew and their driver, Raphael “Rafa” Matos, 2008 Firestone Indy Lights Champion and 2007 Atlantics Championship Champion, and DFM’s immense engineering and racecraft prowess.
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“We have been talking to Gil about this for some time and we felt this was the perfect opportunity to combine our resources,” Luczo said. “Gil has the experience of working with major manufacturers and leading racing teams all over the world and we feel we can bring the essential business acumen and managerial expertise to the operation. Our skills are highly complementary and we all have the same vision and ambitions. We’re very excited about the direction of our team.”
At the moment, they will remain a single-car team, but everything is set in place for LDR/DFM to become a serious contender in the series and with a little bit of success, we could easily see a part-time 2nd car added at any time.
Air Force car = dead sexy car…At least unlike in Nascrap, we don’t share sponsorship with Little Debbie