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IndyCar: Ed Jones to drive the #63 Chevrolet in 2019 Indianapolis 500

By Asher Fair

FORT WORTH, TX - JUNE 08: Ed Jones, driver of the #10 NTT Data Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, prepares to drive during practice for the Verizon IndyCar Series DXC Technology 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 8, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
FORT WORTH, TX - JUNE 08: Ed Jones, driver of the #10 NTT Data Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, prepares to drive during practice for the Verizon IndyCar Series DXC Technology 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 8, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) /
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Ed Jones is set to drive the #63 Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa Chevrolet in the 103rd running of IndyCar’s most prestigious race, the Indianapolis 500.

Last October, Ed Jones was confirmed as the road and street course driver for Ed Carpenter Racing for the 2019 IndyCar season, as team owner Ed Carpenter confirmed that he would return to the team as the drive of the #20 Chevrolet in the oval races for the sixth consecutive season.

Scuderia Corsa formed a partnership with Ed Carpenter Racing to field the #20 Chevrolet for Jones in the 12 road and street course races on the 2019 schedule. But they also formed this partnership to field an entry for him in the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500.

As as result, the 24-year-old Emirati-born British driver is set to compete in this 200-lap race around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana as a teammate to Carpenter and to the team’s lone full-time driver, Spencer Pigot.

Now it has been confirmed that Jones is set to drive the #63 Chevrolet in this year’s running of the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing”.

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Last year, Scuderia Corsa formed a partnership with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing to field the #64 Honda, which was driven by Oriol Servia. Servia finished the race in 17th place after starting in 26th and leading 16 laps, including 15 toward the end of the race.

With eight laps remaining in the race, Servia led the field to the green flag for the final restart, but he quickly fell back to fourth place. He advanced to second as a result of the fact that the first two drivers who passed him had to come into the pits for fuel, but he, too, ended up having to come into the pits so that he would have enough fuel to make it to the end of the race.

Meanwhile, Jones has competed in the Indy 500 on two occasions before. He was the race’s highest finishing rookie in 2017 after starting in 11th place, as he finished in third, but he crashed last year on lap 58 after starting in 29th and was officially scored in 31st.

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NBC is set to air qualifying for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, May 18 and at 11:00 a.m. ET on Sunday, May 19, and it is set to air the race itself live beginning at 11:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, May 26. The race itself is scheduled to begin slightly after 12:00 p.m. ET, so be sure not to miss the crown jewel of the IndyCar schedule.