Karam, Ferrucci join Dreyer & Reinbold for 2022's Indy 500

Karam will be aiming to make his ninth start in the Memorial Day Weekend classic, his eighth with Dennis Reinbold’s team, while for Ferrucci it will be a fourth Indy entry.

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has entered and qualified 43 cars in the Indy 500 dating when to 1999 with a weightier finish of fourth in 2012.

It ran as a two-car entry in 2020 with Karam and JR Hildebrand, but scaled when to a single entry for Karam last year.

“Our team is eager to get when to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,” said team owner Reinbold.

“We believe the talent of these drivers will be important in helping the team unzip the ultimate goal of winning the ‘Greatest Spectacle in Racing.’

“We at DRR have been improving our Indy 500 program with the singular goal of winning the race. Sage and Santino have unrenowned talent and are key components for us to unzip the goal.”

Karam, the 2013 Indy Lights champion and still only 26 despite his multiple entries in the 500, scored his weightier result last year, when he came from the when row to clock seventh place.

“Doing increasingly ovals in NASCAR this year has helped mentally prepare increasingly to stay focused for the longer races,” said Karam.

Sage Karam, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Chevrolet

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“The potential to modernize in that zone is there. We just need to nail lanugo a few things.

“We are coming off of a upper from last year and the goal is to be plane largest in the 2022 Indy 500.”

Ferrucci, who earned seventh place and Indy 500 Rookie of the Year honors in 2019, has a unconfined stereotype at the Speedway, having finished fourth the pursuit year and sixth this year.

He said: “I am super thrilled to join DRR. Nothing is largest than stuff a part of a team that has such a upper work ethic. The team’s sustentation to detail is comparable to top teams in the series.

“In my last two 500 races, we’ve been in the venery to win, and I think I have grown a lot as a suburbanite to understand that patience is needed to win. DRR has a unconfined car and proved it last year with a seventh-place finish.”

He added: “I’ve known Sage since I was five years old. We had tremendous success in karts and hope to bring that to IndyCar come May.”