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McLaren has announced it will run Formula 2 racer Enzo Fittipaldi in an IndyCar test on November 19.
He will drive at The Thermal Club, a private circuit in California which held a non-championship IndyCar race this year and will join the calendar as a points-paying round in 2025.
Fittipaldi’s day in the car comes under the remit of an evaluation test, and it will mark his second running in an Indy car. The 23-year-old Brazilian previously tested for Dale Coyne Racing late last year.
From 2017 to 2020, Fittipaldi was a junior driver of McLaren’s Formula 1 rival Ferrari, then he spent last year as a Red Bull Junior Team member. In May of this year he drove for Jaguar in Formula E’s rookie test in Berlin.
Fittipaldi is currently 12th in the F2 standings, with the majority of his points coming from round two of the season in Jeddah when he finished third in the sprint race and took the fastest lap en route to victory in the feature race.
Last year he came seventh in the standings with 124 points, winning the Spa-Francorchamps sprint race and making the podium four other times. That was one position higher but two points less than in 2022, when he collected six podiums.
Fittipaldi is the grandson of Emerson, who won the 1974 F1 world championship with McLaren, and the brother of Pietro who contested his first full season in IndyCar this year.
A step below IndyCar, Juncos Hollinger Racing has signed Paraguayan driver MiguelMa Garcia to its Indy Nxt line-up for 2025.
Garcia raced in Italian GT last year, and before that made two starts in Argentina’s premier TC2000 touring car series as well as trying out rallying in his home country. He has done single-seater testing in Europe to get open-wheel experience.