George Steinbrenner IV believes his new IndyCar team has the right setup in order to succeed in the series due to the partnerships and previous success he and the team have made in recent years.
Steinbrenner comes to the IndyCar series after forming a partnership with Harding Racing and becomes the youngest team owner in the series' history at just 22 years of age.
After two seasons in the Indy Lights series in partnership with Andretti Autosport – his team enjoyed relative success winning six races across 2017 and 2018 with Colton Herta behind the wheel.
Herta has moved up to the IndyCar series for the 2019 season with Harding Steinbrenner Racing and will drive the #88 entry.
The partnership Harding and Andretti have will also continue into IndyCar as the Andretti Autosport team does help provide some technical support to the HSR outfit. This is now also helped by HSR's move to Honda engines.
"Partnerships create a great working and competitive environment," Steinbrenner told Forbes.
"Being a new and young team owner having Michael Andretti when I was involved in Indy Lights, who has been successful in racing for as long as I can remember allows me to soak in how Andretti Autosports operates and how they essentially turned into this incredible machine of efficiency in IndyCar.
"And then taking what I’ve learned there, partnering with a new team and forming Harding-Steinbrenner Racing helps further that."
Despite his youth, Steinbrenner was never tempted to get behind the wheel of a racing car as a child but was more in awe of the figureheads who ran the teams from the pitwall.
He now aims to emulate their success with his own team and create a legacy of his own in motorsport, adding to continued success his family has enjoyed owning the Ney York Yankees baseball team.
"I never really entertained getting involved with Karting or getting behind the wheel of another form of auto racing," he added.
“I started following racing at age 12 or 13. I knew then I wanted to be involved in some capacity.
"My vision, starting as child, was largely built through people I looked up to, such as my grandfather and people in sports business and ownership.
"So, when I started to come around IndyCar races I would look up to the Roger Penskes, the Michael Andrettis, the A.J. Foyts as the ones that fit that profile of what it meant to be in the IndyCar series, so the impetus was not the drivers, but the guys on the pit stands."
