A potential partnership between KV Racing and Carlin for the 2017 IndyCar season is very much in doubt, Trevor Carlin has told Motorsport.
The Carlin team joined the Indy Lights series in 2015, and have been looking at running a car in IndyCar. A deal between Carlin and Kevin Kalkhoven of KV Racing was on the cars, but it looks to have not be happening after the attempt to bring in Mikhail Aleshin.
“Through circumstances, 2017 seems to have slipped away from us,” Carlin said to Motorsport when asked about the partnership. “It’s getting so late, it would be hard to put a team together now – not impossible, but very difficult.”
Carlin said that he would have been excited to work with Aleshin. “He won World Series by Renault with us back in 2010, and he’s really looked strong in IndyCar, and he’s learned the limits of these cars; he’s not a wild rookie.
“So that was the deal we really wanted to put together, and if Aleshin turned up with the right money in the next two weeks, I’d have to seriously reconsider.”
The team boss went on to say that they would focus on the 2017 Indy Lights season, with the hope of defending the Teams’ Championship. Last season Ed Jones won the Drivers’ Championship with the team, beating Schmidt Peterson’s Santiago Urrutia by only two points.
