Brian Vickers: Indy 500 ride ‘not off the table’
Could you see Brian Vickers in the 100th Indianapolis 500 this May?
It’s not out of the question. Vickers, currently substituting for Tony Stewart in the No. 14 car in the Sprint Cup Series, has been mentioned as a candidate for a seat in the Memorial Day weekend race. And while Vickers stressed he doesn’t have a deal to run the race at the moment, the possibility isn’t dead, either.
“I’m open to all of those opportunities,” Vickers said after mentioning he’d love to run at Le Mans again. “Indy is one of them. I would love to have something to announce, unfortunately, there is nothing to announce at this point. It is still on the table. It’s not done, but it’s not off the table yet either. We will continue exploring that and if it happens great, if not, move on to the next opportunity and maybe next year.”
Vickers was previously linked to being a candidate for a ride with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. The team currently fields full-time cars in the IndyCar Series for James Hinchcliffe and Mikhail Aleshin.
Vickers is publicly on a week-to-week basis as the substitute driver for Stewart. Ty Dillon has also driven for Stewart in the races that the No. 14 has been sponsored by Bass Pro Shops and seems likely to continue in that role until Stewart gets back. There’s no official timetable for Stewart’s return to the Cup Series.
We do know that Vickers’ Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Kurt Busch won’t be doing the Indianapolis 500 in 2015. Busch, who finished sixth at Indianapolis in 2014 before running the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day, said earlier this spring that he would not participate in the 500. He’s the most recent Cup Series driver to do the Memorial Day weekend double.
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