Indycar Series: Jack Harvey ready for fresh start in 10th season

Jack Harvey's best finish in 2023 was 13th place at the Grand Prix of Long Beach

Lincolnshire driver Jack Harvey says he is relieved to have found a new team ahead of his 10th season in the Indycar Series in the United States.

The 30-year-old from Bassingham lost his seat with the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team part-owned by US chat show host David Letterman in 2023.

But just days before the 2024 season opener in Florida, he was confirmed as one of Dale Coyne Racing's drivers.

"We'll see what happens," Harvey told BBC Radio Lincolnshire.

"Hopefully it goes well and leads to either just continuing again or some other opportunities.

"For right now, the overwhelming feeling was one of just, happiness, gratitude, and appreciation that we get to do this for another season, as an Indycar veteran, but still feeling young, just having another crack at something cool."

Harvey began his racing career in Formula BMW when still a teenager and was runner-up in the Indy Lights championship in 2014 and 2015 after moving across the Atlantic.

He then switched to the main Indycar Series with Shank Racing and achieved his first podium in 2019 with third place at the Indianapolis Grand Prix.

There have been no top-three finishes since then, but despite that, his excitement at being involved in the Series is undiminished.

"Getting a new helmet, a new suit, I'm excited about that," said Harvey.

"We were dangerously close, more than had our toe dipping in the pond of not driving, really it was very 50-50.

"As soon as it was all official, that relief comes over you and then it's like 'ok, let's get to work and make this successful'.

"That determination to make it successful is probably at an all-time high because I've got this experience to go with the hunger and desire.

"Having been through a situation that didn't work, you now know what can make it better."