Juncos Hollinger Racing has made it official, signing Rinus VeeKay for the 2026 IndyCar season. It is a crew he’s already conversant in, driving a Juncos-prepared automobile to the 2018 Professional Mazda championship, in addition to second within the 2019 Indy NXT (then Indy Lights) championship.
In the beginning of September, the Dutchman revealed that he would not be returning to Dale Coyne Racing after one 12 months with the group. This will likely be his third completely different IndyCar crew since making his debut in 2020, beforehand spending a number of years with Ed Carpenter Racing.
The 25-year-old is being described because the ‘new lead driver’ for Juncos, which ran with Sting Ray Robb and Conor Daly this previous season. VeeKay is a confirmed race winner (Indy GP 2021) and a veteran of six Indy 500s, the place he has three prime tens. He ended the 2025 season 14th within the championship standings.
“I’m excited to formally announce my transfer to Juncos Hollinger Racing,” stated VeeKay in a press launch. “This can be a crew with actual momentum, excessive ambitions, and a transparent imaginative and prescient for the longer term. There’s a shared willpower to compete on the highest stage, and I’m assured that collectively we are able to obtain nice issues.
“Signing with Juncos Hollinger Racing additionally seems like a return house – Juncos Racing gave me my begin within the Professional Mazda Championship (now USF Professional 2000) in 2018, and we continued collectively in Indy Lights (now Indy NXT) in 2019, successful 13 races and a championship title collectively. I imagine that is the precise setting for me to proceed rising as a driver.”
Juncos believes Rinus partnership will “ship outcomes rapidly”
Rinus Veekay, Dale Coyne Racing
Photograph by: Penske Leisure
Juncos ended the 2025 season 18th and twenty fifth within the crew standings, ending as excessive as fifth with Daly within the season finale at Nashville. Daly can be liable for the crew’s first podium end, however that got here in the course of the 2024 season at Milwaukee.
“At Juncos Hollinger Racing, we’re totally targeted on constructing a program able to sustained excessive efficiency within the years forward,” stated crew principal Dave O’Neill. “We now have thrilling plans throughout each space of the crew – on and off the monitor – and bringing Rinus on board is a serious step in that path.
“Reuniting with Rinus seems like a pure continuation of the success we’ve shared prior to now. As Juncos Hollinger Racing enters its fifth full IndyCar season, and with Rinus bringing six seasons of IndyCar expertise at simply 25 years of age, we imagine this reunion will ship outcomes rapidly. He brings the best mixture of pace, consistency, race craft, and expertise that we’re searching for.
“Rinus will likely be a key a part of a refreshed driver lineup that displays our ambitions and long-term imaginative and prescient. We’re working laborious to assemble the right combination of expertise to raise our competitiveness, and we’re assured that Rinus will play a central function in that progress.”
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