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INDYCAR: Changes Coming For KV?
Will KV Racing return with three cars next season, a single entry or could it join forces with another team? Marshall Pruett speaks with KV's Jimmy Vasser.
Tony Kanaan is the only confirmed car at KV Racing for 2013 at present. (Photo: Marshall Pruett)
One of the IZOD IndyCar Series’ bigger teams could return next season in a more streamlined form if efforts to fill its available seats are unsuccessful.
Indianapolis-based KV Racing has worked from a three-car business model since 2010, but with two of its current drivers looking for new homes, KV’s only confirmed program for 2013 involves 2004 series champion Tony Kanaan.
With his teammate and best friend Rubens Barrichello working through options elsewhere, and his other teammate, E.J. Viso, exploring opportunities to form his own team, Kanaan has become the primary focus for KV.
“Right now we’ve tried to put all of our efforts behind Tony and put all the wood behind one arrow, so to speak,” KV co-owner Jimmy Vasser told SPEED.com “Then, whatever business decisions are made after that, we’ll see what they are.”
Vasser and Kevin Kalkhoven, his partner in KV Racing, suffered a down year with the new Dallara DW12 package, enduring a season that was challenging at the best of times.
Barrichello’s late signing certainly didn’t help the team to form as strong a unit as was expected from the outset, and Viso’s season, which initially benefitted from Vasser moving onto the Venezuelan’s timing stand, started a downward spiral before the championship hit the halfway point.
Kanaan offered the most consistent ray of hope for the team, but also saw his season end on a low note, falling from sixth to ninth in the standings over the last two races.
The team, which earned 10 top 6 finishes and three podiums with its drivers in 2012, has shown that it can field a competitive effort, but as Vasser shares, delivering on those capabilities was much harder than expected this season.
“We've been fighting that hard battle for a long time and it doesn't seem to get any easier for us for some reason,” he said.
“I don't know why that is. We were working real hard to build. It just seems to be the decisions and directions to choose, they got more difficult this year.”
Vasser said he and Kalkhoven continue to talk to interested drivers, including Viso, to try and keep their three Chevy-powered cars on track.
Each entry has earned a Leader Circle contract for 2013, which should help to alleviate some of the financial requirements for those who’ve contacted KV’s owners, but the team is also making it known that until it solidifies its plans beyond Kanaan's Geico/Mouser-sponsored No. 11 car, it’s open to selling some of its fleet.
Indianapolis-based KV Racing has worked from a three-car business model since 2010, but with two of its current drivers looking for new homes, KV’s only confirmed program for 2013 involves 2004 series champion Tony Kanaan.
With his teammate and best friend Rubens Barrichello working through options elsewhere, and his other teammate, E.J. Viso, exploring opportunities to form his own team, Kanaan has become the primary focus for KV.
“Right now we’ve tried to put all of our efforts behind Tony and put all the wood behind one arrow, so to speak,” KV co-owner Jimmy Vasser told SPEED.com “Then, whatever business decisions are made after that, we’ll see what they are.”
Vasser and Kevin Kalkhoven, his partner in KV Racing, suffered a down year with the new Dallara DW12 package, enduring a season that was challenging at the best of times.
Barrichello’s late signing certainly didn’t help the team to form as strong a unit as was expected from the outset, and Viso’s season, which initially benefitted from Vasser moving onto the Venezuelan’s timing stand, started a downward spiral before the championship hit the halfway point.
Kanaan offered the most consistent ray of hope for the team, but also saw his season end on a low note, falling from sixth to ninth in the standings over the last two races.
The team, which earned 10 top 6 finishes and three podiums with its drivers in 2012, has shown that it can field a competitive effort, but as Vasser shares, delivering on those capabilities was much harder than expected this season.
“We've been fighting that hard battle for a long time and it doesn't seem to get any easier for us for some reason,” he said.
“I don't know why that is. We were working real hard to build. It just seems to be the decisions and directions to choose, they got more difficult this year.”
Vasser said he and Kalkhoven continue to talk to interested drivers, including Viso, to try and keep their three Chevy-powered cars on track.
Each entry has earned a Leader Circle contract for 2013, which should help to alleviate some of the financial requirements for those who’ve contacted KV’s owners, but the team is also making it known that until it solidifies its plans beyond Kanaan's Geico/Mouser-sponsored No. 11 car, it’s open to selling some of its fleet.
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