2012 Silly Season Thread

[DanicaFan]

Not sure if there was one started yet so I figured I would get one going. It's definitely that time of year again.

I will first list the confirmed drivers and teams and then a list of speculations. Feel free to add any new developments or updates here too.

Target Chip Ganassi Racing - (Honda Engines) Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti, G2(satellite team) - Graham Rahal, Charlie Kimball

Team Penske -(Chevrolet Engines) Helio Castroneves, Ryan Briscoe, Will Power

Andretti Autosport - (Chevrolet Engines) Marco Andretti, Ryan Hunter-Reay

Panther Racing -(Chevrolet Engines) JR Hildebrand

Sam Schmidt Racing -(Honda Engines) Simon Pagenaud

HVM Racing -(Lotus Engines) Simona De Silvestro

Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing - Josef Newgarden

AJ Foyt Racing -(Honda Engines) Mike Conway

KV Racing Technology -(Chevrolet Engines) Tony Kanaan

Ed Carpenter Racing - Ed Carpenter

Bryan Herta Autosport -(Lotus Engines) Alex Tagliani


Teams with unconfirmed drivers at this time are..

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing -(Lotus Engines) Rumor has Katerine Legge driving for them with Truecar.com as the sponsor.

Dale Coyne Racing - Hopes to return with 2 full-time cars. James Jakes & Sebastien Bourdais highly probable.

Michael Shank Racing -(Lotus Engines) Plans unknown.

Conquest Racing -(Lotus Engines) Plans unknown.

Dragon Racing -(Chevrolet Engines) Plans unknown.

[DanicaFan]

There are quite a few drivers still in the hunt...

Justin Wilson - Could be back with Dreyer & Reinbold, he is sought after pretty strong rite now.
Oriol Servia
James Hinchcliffe
Ana Beatriz
Pippa Mann
Paul Tracy
Vitor Meira
Tomas Scheckter
Jay Howard
EJ Viso
Sebastian Saavedra
Takuma Sato
Townsend Bell

[DanicaFan]

Also Ryan Briscoe will bearing the #2 on his indycar next year, no more #6.

[heliocastroneves#3]

Hope Vitor Meira and Tomas Scheckter will go to KV.

[chuck34]

Also Ryan Briscoe will bearing the #2 on his indycar next year, no more #6.

Why no #6? Hasn't that been a Penske number for a looooong time?

[00steven]

I believe Sato will be in a Rahal car and Hinch will go to AA. As for Justin Wilson???

[DanicaFan]

Why no #6? Hasn't that been a Penske number for a looooong time?

Ryan also got a new engineer and Penske wanted to use the #2 again. They have used that number in the past.

[00steven]

Ryan also got a new engineer and Penske wanted to use the #2 again. They have used that number in the past.

Penske has used 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,12,17,31,66,68, and those are just the ones off the top of my head! So, it's not uncommon for Roger to do this sort of thing.

[chuck34]

Penske has used 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,12,17,31,66,68, and those are just the ones off the top of my head! So, it's not uncommon for Roger to do this sort of thing.

Yeah, I know he's used lots of numbers. But I thought 6 was his (Penske's) number. I'm thinking back to the Donohue days, and my minds eye is always picturing his cars with 6 or 66 on them. It's not really a big deal in the scheme of things, just sort of curious to me. Oh well.

[Dr. Krogshöj]

Ryan also got a new engineer and Penske wanted to use the #2 again. They have used that number in the past.

Could it be that Miller wants to extend it's Penske sponsorship into IndyCar?