IndyCar: New team set to compete in 2021 Indy 500

Top Gun Racing are set to attempt to make their IndyCar debut in the Indy 500 with RC Enerson behind the wheel of the #75 Chevrolet.

Top Gun Racing, which have their sights set on a full-time IndyCar campaign in 2022, had planned to make their series debut in last year’s running of the Indy 500.

But with no fans allowed to attend the world’s most attended annual single-day sporting event due to restrictions related to COVID-19, they could not justify such an entry for sponsorship reasons.

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This year, however, they are set to compete in the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing”.

They are set to run a Chevrolet-powered entry, and it is RC Enerson who is slated to pilot the #75 car.

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Official confirmation was not made by the team this week, but IndyCar confirmed their entry in this 200-lap race around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) oval in Speedway, Indiana when the official entry list was released on Wednesday. The team had also been clear that this was their plan all along.

With 35 cars on the entry list for this event, the 24-year-old New Port Richey, Florida native will need to beat out at least two drivers in the qualifying session to get Top Gun Racing into their first IndyCar race — and to get himself into his first Indy 500.

Enerson has made four IndyCar starts throughout his career, including three in the 2016 season and one in the 2019 season. He finished in a career-high ninth place at Watkins Glen International in 2016. He has never competed in an oval race.

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Indy 500 practice is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, May 18. Qualifying is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 22 and Sunday, May 23, and the race itself is set to be broadcast live on NBC from Indianapolis Motor Speedway beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET on Sunday, May 30.