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IndyCar: Dale Coyne Racing set to have two full-time drivers in 2019

By Asher Fair

SONOMA, CA - SEPTEMBER 15: Sebastien Bourdais, driver of the #18 Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan Honda, on track during pracrtice for the Verizon IndyCar Series Sonoma Grand Prix at Sonoma Raceway on September 15, 2018 in Sonoma, California. (Photo by Jonathan Moore/Getty Images)
SONOMA, CA - SEPTEMBER 15: Sebastien Bourdais, driver of the #18 Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan Honda, on track during pracrtice for the Verizon IndyCar Series Sonoma Grand Prix at Sonoma Raceway on September 15, 2018 in Sonoma, California. (Photo by Jonathan Moore/Getty Images) /
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For the first time since the 2014 IndyCar season, Dale Coyne Racing are set to have two full-time drivers driving for the team in the 2019 season.

Shortly after Dale Coyne Racing that four-time Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais would be returning to the team as the full-time driver of the #18 Honda in the 2019 IndyCar season, Santino Ferrucci was tipped to sign with the team as the full-time driver of the #19 Honda.

Ferrucci has now officially been confirmed as the team’s second full-time driver, the driver of the #19 Honda, for the 2019 season, meaning that one of IndyCar’s most successful small teams are set to field entries for two full-time drivers in 2019.

Dale Coyne Racing have not fielded entries for two full-time drivers since the 2014 season when they fielded the #18 Honda for Carlos Huertas and the #19 Honda for the late Justin Wilson.

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In the 2015 season, Pippa Mann drove the #63 Honda for the team in select races while Huertas, Conor Daly, Rodolfo Gonzalez and Tristan Vautier split time driving the #18 Honda. Vautier, Francesco Dracone and James Davison split time driving the #19 Honda.

In the 2016 season, Daly was the full-time driver of the #18 Honda while Mann, Luca Filippi, Gabby Chaves and RC Enerson split time driving the #19 Honda. In the 2017 season, Bourdais was supposed to be the full-time driver of the #18 Honda, but he missed several races due to injuries that he sustained in a crash during qualifying for the Indianapolis 500.

As a result, Davison, Vautier and Esteban Gutierrez split time driving the #18 Honda in the 2017 season. Ed Jones was the full-time driver of the #19 Honda. In the 2018 season, Bourdais was the full-time driver of the #18 Honda, but Ferrucci, Zachary Claman DeMelo and Pietro Fittipaldi all split time driving the #19 Honda.

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Will Sebastien Bourdais and Santino Ferrucci end up competing in each of the 17 races on the 2019 IndyCar schedule to make the 2019 season the first season since the 2014 season during which Dale Coyne Racing fielded entries for two full-time drivers? The season is scheduled to get underway with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg from the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida on Sunday, March 10, 2019.