INDIANAPOLIS – Veteran sports car racer Felipe Nasr will make his NTT IndyCar Series debut this weekend during the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
Nasr, 27, will drive the No. 31 Chevrolet fielded by Carlin as a teammate to Max Chilton in the No. 59. Nasr tested Carlin’s No. 31 at recent tests at Circuit of the Americas and Sebring Int’l Raceway in advance of the opportunity to compete in St. Petersburg, Fla.
More news coming from our #INDYCAR camp today! @FelipeNasr will make his @IndyCar debut at the @GPSTPETE in the No. 31 @TeamChevy alongside teammate @maxchilton! The Carlin alum duo hopes to replicate their success from last week’s Sebring test on the streets of St. Pete! pic.twitter.com/kDJL1JBiuR
— Carlin (@CarlinRacing) March 10, 2020
The opportunity to compete in the NTT IndyCar Series is the latest in a wide-ranging career that has seen Nasr compete for two seasons in Formula One for Sauber in 2015-16 before transitioning to sports car competition.
He made the full-time move to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2018, winning one race in the premier DPi class and capturing the series championship alongside co-driver Eric Curran for the Action Express/Whelen Engineering team.
Last year Nasr won two of IMSA’s biggest events, the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at Sebring Int’l Raceway and the Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.