Juncos Hollinger Racing has confirmed that it will be fielding a second car in the 2023 IndyCar season, expanding from its current single-car operation.
JHR has run a few limited IndyCar races since its debut in 2017, but had continued to heavily focus on its operations in the Road to Indy series while it built a complete program.
This season, team owner Ricardo Juncos teamed up with Brad Hollinger to continue expansion and joined for a full season with rookie driver Callum Ilott.
Now only one year into the team’s fully-formed IndyCar ambitions, a #78 entry will be added alongside the #77 for the entirety of next season.
“To be able to announce this today and make this a reality is incredible,” said JHR co-owner Ricardo Juncos. “We have stood by our words from the beginning that we would continue to grow and expand and that is what we are doing.
“We wanted to start this year with one car, to start the protocols and procedures for the team. Our philosophy that we work with is a little bit different than the standards, so we wanted to make sure we implanted our plan the right way by focusing on one car before we expanded.
“We are doing exactly as we planned and will continue with our two-car team for the foreseeable future starting in 2023. We are going to keep building this team the way Brad [Hollinger] and I planned from the beginning, and to do what is the best in terms of development, technical, marketing, and everything else.”
There had been rumors for quite some time that the team would expand for the upcoming season, and Ilott even described how he has been instrumental in helping the team make decisions surrounding the expansion.
Having a team-mate will be of great help for both driver and team, especially considering JHR does not have a technical partnership with one of the bigger teams like other small teams on the grid do.
A driver for the new entry has not yet been decided upon, and will be announced at a later date.
