Racing season has't started well for Ana Beatriz who undergone surgery to repair her scaphoid bone (wrist) and she is obliged to stay out of Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park, in order to be fully recovered. Instead of Beatriz, the No. 24 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing car will be driven by American Le Mans Series champion and former Champ Car driver Simon Pagenaud, who will makes eventually his IZOD IndyCar Series debut.
Newman/Haas Racing (NHR) has announced that Canadian James Hinchcliffe will drive team's No. 06 entry for the whole 2011 IZOD Indycars season with the support of Toronto-based Sprott Inc., a leading independent asset managing company founded by Eric Sprott.
Although IZOD Indycars 2011 season has already started and his partner Gil de Ferran announced the closure of De Ferran Dragon Racing Team, Jay Penske still struggles to keep his INDYCAR team alive. In fact, it is reported that he has already signed the popular veteran Paul Tracy to a five-race agreement, reuniting Penske and Tracy names 20 years after his father Roger launched Tracy's CART career that includes 10 race wins for Penske's Racing Team.
