Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing (NHLR) will continue their transition into the IndyCar Series with this weekend’s Road Runner Turbo Indy 300 at the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway. Only one person on the team has actually seen the track in person and that is the youngest winner in a North American major open wheel racing series – Graham Rahal, driver of the No. 06 Hole in the Wall Camps race car.
Rahal, 19, will make his oval racing debut this Sunday in Kansas. He was unable to compete in the season opening event at Homestead-Miami Speedway when the team did not have enough time or spare parts to repair his car after a testing crash earlier that week. Rahal won in his IndyCar Series debut on a street course in St. Petersburg on April 6 but knows he has a steep learning curve ahead of him.
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