source:
crash.net
Infiniti Pro Series frontrunner Paul Dana is confident that he will be
stepping up to the full Indy Racing League this season, having completed a
handful of test sessions with the Hemelgarn team.
Although Hemelgarn dropped out of the senior competition to concentrate on its
more successful MIPS campaign, the team is poised to re-enter with Dana in 2005
provided sponsorship issues can be ironed out.
"It has been the programme's intention since late last year to step up," Dana
told a news conference during the recent pre-season test at Homestead, "We
worked with Ron last year, with Hemelgarn, and also the sponsor, which is the
Ethanol industry. It is going to happen, and we are going to be at the
first race at Homestead. It's just that, given the size of our programme on the
Ethanol side - there's over 25 companies involved that make it happen - and some
late issues coming together with formalising the programme, we've been unable to
do a formal announcement yet.
"We're waiting on pinning down some equipment details, but we will most likely
be at the Phoenix open test and we expect to have a formal announcement between
now and then. Part of [the delay] is that the Ethanol industry has got a new
colour scheme and a new logo that is going to be a part of the announcement.
There are a lot of details that meant, unfortunately, we weren't able to make
[the announcement] here, but it is happening and you can look at us for
Homestead for the first race."