IndyCar: Sage Karam to drive for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in 2019 Indianapolis 500
By Asher Fair
Sage Karam is set to make his sixth start in the Indianapolis 500 in the 2019 IndyCar season, and he is set to drive for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in it once again.
After driving for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in four of his first five Indianapolis 500 starts, Sage Karam is set to return to the team as the driver of the #24 Chevrolet for the 103rd running of the Indy 500 in the 2019 IndyCar season.
His primary sponsor for this 200-lap race around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana is set to be WIX Filters, just like it was for last year’s edition of the event.
Karam has driven in the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” in each of the last five years, and the only time he drove in the race for a team other than Dreyer & Reinbold Racing was in the 2015 season, which is when he drove in 12 of the season’s 16 races, including the Indy 500, for Chip Ganassi Racing.
Karam announced that he is set to return to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing on his Twitter account.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Returning back to the speedway this May with @DRRIndyCar and @WIXFilters!!! This will be my 6th Indianapolis 500 and my 5th with DRR. Celebrating 80 years with Wix and hoping to get the 24 Wix special into victory lane! #WIX80 #WIXUnderTheHood #WIXIndy pic.twitter.com/eEtWn9jDxl
— Sage Karam (@SageKaram) February 28, 2019
The 23-year-old Nazareth, Pennsylvania native has only finished one of the five Indy 500 races in which he has competed, as he finished the 98th running of the race back in 2014 in ninth place after starting it all the way back in 31st.
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A lap one crash ended Karam’s race in the 99th running of the Indy 500 back in 2015 after he started in 22nd place, and a lap 94 crash ended his race the following year in the 100th running of the event after he worked his way up to fourth after starting in 23rd.
In the 101st running of the Indy 500 in 2017, a battery failure on lap 126 prevented Karam from finishing the race, and after working his way up into seventh place after starting in 24th in the 102nd running of the race in 2018, he crashed on lap 155.
The Indy 500 is the only IndyCar race in which Karam has competed since the end of the 2015 season, which is still his lone season as more than just an Indy 500-only driver.
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The 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 is set to be broadcast live on NBC beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET on Sunday, May 26 from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, so be sure not to miss it. You can view the full 2019 IndyCar schedule by clicking here.