IndyCar – AJ Allmendinger will return to Fontana

He is not finished with it?IndyCar. AJ Allmendinger will once again be entrusted with a car by Team Penske this year. Indeed, the Californian will be entered in a third car during the final round of the season at the Fontana superspeedway, where he will be able to support his teammates. Helio Castroneves, currently leading the Drivers standings, and Will Power.

It was Roger Penske who delivered the information to the magazine Racer. “He's going to run for us in a third car at Fontana, and he drives for us at Mid-Ohio in Nationwide, so he has two more races planned for us this year.”, he explained. “We would like to run him a little more, but sponsors are the key everywhere today. The costs just to race an Indy Car have gone up, and that's not something you can do without having the budget in place. »

AJ Allmendinger has not driven in the Indy Car Series since the double meeting in Detroit, where he finished both races in the wall. As for the positive doping control carried out in Nascar in July 2012, and which put an end to the career of the Californian, Roger Penske believes that this episode is now behind him: “My main mission was to get him out of his troubles, which he did. He faced that problem, drank his antidote, and came back even stronger. I think people are now thinking about moving forward with him based on what he achieves today and not on the negative things that happened before in Nascar.