Historic: Agustín Canapino will race in Indy Car, one of the most important categories in the world

Hours ago, the Juncos Racing team had used their social networks to communicate this together with Agostino Canapino They were going to make an announcement this Thursday. The news that had been speculated on Twitter for weeks has been confirmed: the native of Arrecife will leave the Argentine circuits to move to the United States and race in one of the most important categories on the planet: the Auto Indy.

“I am happy to accept this huge challenge”underlined the multiple Argentine champion who will race with car number 78 and has been confirmed as the official driver of Juncos Racing for the entire season, both on traditional circuits and on ovals, including the Indianapolis 500.

Within three days Canapino will settle in the United States, near the Juncos Racing workshop in Indianapolis, together with his girlfriend, Josefina Di Palma, with the illusion of never returning. “I don’t know when I’ll be back or how it will turn out, I hope in many, many years“, wished the reef.

“I prepared very well for the physique. I trained for a month to stay on track for the whole race -he confessed-. It’s a leap to a professional level in every way for me. It will take some time and some driving to get used to the car, but I am taking it easy and ask you to join us and be patient with us.”

Furthermore, Canapino, who informed the ACTC and Gustavo Lema that he will not be racing in Argentina’s top category this year, underlined: “It’s a learning process, but I’m leaving with the aim of not being the only year, I’ll work for a second chance“.

The most important milestone of Argentine motorsport it began to take shape in 2022. In October, Canapino traveled to Florida with his brother Matías and Héctor Martínez Sosa. Hours later, he was atop one of the Argentine Ricardo Juncos team cars at Sebring International Raceway.

The test with a car from the most important single-role category in the United States he had an excuse: the exhibition that was soon to be held in Argentina. But there was an even bigger backdrop: this is the arrival of the multi-champion of Turismo su Strada and Super TC2000, considered by many to be the best driver in the country.

The exhibition of the Indy Car driven by Canapino was divided into two parts. The first took place as part of the Race of the 200 National Tourist Drivers. On November 5 and 6 at the Oscar and Juan Gálvez racetrack, the number 77 Chevrolet of the NTT Indycar Series spun to the delight of around 50,000 fans, who filled the grandstands at the Buenos Aires racetrack.

Then, the Dallara and the thousands of kilos of equipment, fuel, tires and machines needed to start the vehicle, were prepared for the trip to Termas de Río Hondo. There, on November 9, Canapino did about 15 laps, stopped to change tires and accelerated to 300 km/h 51 years after that distant race of the 300 Miglia di Rafaela, in 1971.