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GRAND-AM: Kanaan, Hunter-Reay, Viso Out Of Rolex 24
Three IZOD IndyCar Series stars got bad news on Tuesday when the sponsor for the No. 2 Starworks Motorsports entry pulled out.
E.J. Viso, along with a host Venezuelan countrymen, debuted the No. 2 Starworks entry at last year's Rolex 24, and the team had, up through Tuesday, an all-star IndyCar cast for 2012. (Marshall Pruett)
2004 IndyCar Series champion Tony Kanaan had been looking forward to making his Rolex 24 Daytona Prototype debut in the Starworks Motorsports-run Riley-Ford this weekend, but as the Brazilian revealed on Tuesday afternoon--just 36 hours before the start of practice--the team's sponsor had disappeared.
"Guys, unfortunately I will not race at the Daytona 24H this Saturday," Kanaan wrote via Twitter. "The funding that the Starworks Motorsports team had went away..."
Kanaan was set to share the car with fellow IndyCar drivers Ryan Hunter-Reay and EJ Viso, and Starworks owner Peter Baron told SPEED.com he held out hope to run the trio of open-wheelers until the last minute.
"The funding was supposed to come through for that, we we're waiting for as long as possible and holding out hope, but it all fell through at the last moment and we can't funds things out of our own pocket," he said.
Like Kanaan, his IndyCar teammates also expressed their disappointment at having to skip Daytona.
"We had a sponsor who wanted to make this happen, and had me and Tony [Kanaan] and [Ryan] Hunter-Reay all fired up to go with Starworks, but then the guy backed out," said Viso. "I'm sad, Tony's sad, Ryan's sad. We had a great team, but this kind of stuff happens."
"This is really a bummer," said Hunter-Reay. "The Rolex 24 has really become like a tradition for me; this will be the first one I've missed since 2006."
Without funding for the No. 2, Baron said he will continue to evaluate his options before making a formal announcement on Wednesday about whether the car will race with different drivers.
"We're doing our best to see what we can figure out," he said. "I can't really say more, but we'll have a press release out tomorrow."
Marshall Pruett is SPEED.com's Auto Racing Editor, covering IndyCar and sports cars. He also contributes to Road & Track and Racecar Engineering. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
"Guys, unfortunately I will not race at the Daytona 24H this Saturday," Kanaan wrote via Twitter. "The funding that the Starworks Motorsports team had went away..."
Kanaan was set to share the car with fellow IndyCar drivers Ryan Hunter-Reay and EJ Viso, and Starworks owner Peter Baron told SPEED.com he held out hope to run the trio of open-wheelers until the last minute.
"The funding was supposed to come through for that, we we're waiting for as long as possible and holding out hope, but it all fell through at the last moment and we can't funds things out of our own pocket," he said.
Like Kanaan, his IndyCar teammates also expressed their disappointment at having to skip Daytona.
"We had a sponsor who wanted to make this happen, and had me and Tony [Kanaan] and [Ryan] Hunter-Reay all fired up to go with Starworks, but then the guy backed out," said Viso. "I'm sad, Tony's sad, Ryan's sad. We had a great team, but this kind of stuff happens."
"This is really a bummer," said Hunter-Reay. "The Rolex 24 has really become like a tradition for me; this will be the first one I've missed since 2006."
Without funding for the No. 2, Baron said he will continue to evaluate his options before making a formal announcement on Wednesday about whether the car will race with different drivers.
"We're doing our best to see what we can figure out," he said. "I can't really say more, but we'll have a press release out tomorrow."
Marshall Pruett is SPEED.com's Auto Racing Editor, covering IndyCar and sports cars. He also contributes to Road & Track and Racecar Engineering. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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