Here goes great news for the fans of Max Chilton. He is looking forward to join Chip Ganassi racing in 2016. Previous British Formula 1 driver Max Chilton will join Chip Ganassi Racing for the 2016 IndyCar season. Chilton, 24, drove for two seasons in F1 with Marussia before losing his seat in 2015 after the team was re-marked as Manor Marussia.
He contended in Le Mans 24 Hours in 2015 and last season raced in America’s Indy Lights arrangement, winning once.
Chilton said: “In the last three years I haven’t had a car that can get a podium. This year I have no excuses.”
Team proprietor Chip Ganassi made the declaration Monday, saying Chilton will pilot the No. 8 Chevrolet in 2016. Sage Karam and Sebastian Saavedra drove that car a year ago.
The expansion of Chilton means Ganassi will keep up a four-car lineup that incorporates protecting arrangement champion Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan and Charlie Kimball.
Chilton made 35 begins in F1 somewhere around 2013 and 2014, with a best complete of twelfth, and he drove a fractional season in Indy Lights in 2015. He indented one win, six main 3 completions and 10 main 5 results in the IndyCar feeder arrangement.
Ganassi said the 24-year-old driver “brings a decent arrangement of experience” to the team’s lineup.
Australian Scott Dixon won a year ago’s IndyCar drivers’ title with Chip Ganassi. Chilton, who will drive a Chevrolet, will turn into the fourth British driver in the most recent 24 years, after Nigel Mansell, Mark Blundell and Justin Wilson, to join IndyCar full-time in the wake of contending in F1 in the same limit. Wilson died at age of 37 years old in the wake of flying so as to be struck trash and enduring genuine head damage in an IndyCar race in Pennsylvania last August.
Chilton made 35 begins in F1 over the 2013 and 2014 seasons and set another driver’s record of 25 sequential completions, with 19 of them coming in his first season.
Newy said, “Though we managed to win four titles, in 2010 and 2012 the battle went down till the last race. With aero and chassis it is out on view, people can see designs, understand and copy. But with the engine formula you can’t see your competitor’s engine. The only way to catch up is with huge investments and people moving. Ferrari improved from 2014 to 2015 but it cost a lot and needed people from Mercedes.”
