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INDYCAR: Viso Contemplating Starting His Own Team
“Having my own [team] is a big challenge, but I love challenges,” Viso tells SPEED.com.
E.J. Viso will complete a half-decade as an IndyCar driver at the conclusion of the 2012 season. The Venezuelan came into the series with HVM Racing, and has driven for KV Racing since 2010. (Photo: Marshall Pruett)
Five years into his IZOD IndyCar Series career, E.J. Viso has been hit by the revelation that strikes many drivers in his position.
With a supportive group of sponsors and a burning need to get back to the winning form he displayed in the GP2 Series, the 27-year-old Venezuelan revealed to SPEED.com that he’s considering starting his own IndyCar team for 2013.
“Having my own [team] is a big challenge, but I love challenges,” he said after qualifying at Baltimore on Saturday.
“If you’re going to do it, you need to do it the right way. At this point, my mind is very open and analyzing things for next year.”
Now in his third season with KV Racing, Viso’s 2012 campaign started off with great promise. Team co-owner Jimmy Vasser moved over to handle race strategy for the No. 5 entry, which had an immediate effect.
Although Viso’s finishing record in the first half of the season doesn’t reflect the positive changes—and additional speed—that came from the No. 5’s revised line-up, his performances were reminiscent of his rookie season with HVM Racing in 2008.
Faced with another season of placing his hopes (and sponsor’s dollars) in someone else’s hands, and with his recent fortunes on a downward trend, Viso figures it might be time to take more control of his career and competitive surroundings.
“One of [my options] is doing my own program, which is a little bit ambitious to think, but in another way, at the same time, it makes sense. I’m at an age, at an experience level in the series that I know how it goes. I just need to find something that’s really important—it’s who is going to run the team for me. I definitely don’t have time as a driver and a businessman; I don’t have a manager; I’m the one that puts every single deal together for myself or my kids (young Venezuelan drivers Bruno Palli and Diego Ferreira Viso manages as part of his ‘Team Viso Venezuela’ Star Mazda program).
“I’m pretty busy, so I need to make sure I can rely on that person—that group of right people to do that. I still don’t have them, so I don’t want to start something without having the key people. They are more important than anything else.”
With a long list of business aspirations—tied heavily to grooming the next generation of open-wheel drivers from his homeland, launching his own team, either as a fully independent effort or as part of blended program akin to what Dreyer & Reinbold Racing and Panther Racing have established, is the direction he’s leaning.
Arriving at his final conclusion for 2013 will involve a bit of advisement from someone open-wheel fans are familiar with and who Viso looks up to.
With a supportive group of sponsors and a burning need to get back to the winning form he displayed in the GP2 Series, the 27-year-old Venezuelan revealed to SPEED.com that he’s considering starting his own IndyCar team for 2013.
“Having my own [team] is a big challenge, but I love challenges,” he said after qualifying at Baltimore on Saturday.
“If you’re going to do it, you need to do it the right way. At this point, my mind is very open and analyzing things for next year.”
Now in his third season with KV Racing, Viso’s 2012 campaign started off with great promise. Team co-owner Jimmy Vasser moved over to handle race strategy for the No. 5 entry, which had an immediate effect.
Although Viso’s finishing record in the first half of the season doesn’t reflect the positive changes—and additional speed—that came from the No. 5’s revised line-up, his performances were reminiscent of his rookie season with HVM Racing in 2008.
Faced with another season of placing his hopes (and sponsor’s dollars) in someone else’s hands, and with his recent fortunes on a downward trend, Viso figures it might be time to take more control of his career and competitive surroundings.
“One of [my options] is doing my own program, which is a little bit ambitious to think, but in another way, at the same time, it makes sense. I’m at an age, at an experience level in the series that I know how it goes. I just need to find something that’s really important—it’s who is going to run the team for me. I definitely don’t have time as a driver and a businessman; I don’t have a manager; I’m the one that puts every single deal together for myself or my kids (young Venezuelan drivers Bruno Palli and Diego Ferreira Viso manages as part of his ‘Team Viso Venezuela’ Star Mazda program).
“I’m pretty busy, so I need to make sure I can rely on that person—that group of right people to do that. I still don’t have them, so I don’t want to start something without having the key people. They are more important than anything else.”
With a long list of business aspirations—tied heavily to grooming the next generation of open-wheel drivers from his homeland, launching his own team, either as a fully independent effort or as part of blended program akin to what Dreyer & Reinbold Racing and Panther Racing have established, is the direction he’s leaning.
Arriving at his final conclusion for 2013 will involve a bit of advisement from someone open-wheel fans are familiar with and who Viso looks up to.
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