RACER talks with some of the likely contenders for this year's Verizon IndyCar Series championship about how they're approaching the coming season. The complexion of Josef Newgarden's 2016 IndyCar campaign is remarkably different from what the 2015 season offered. A split between last year's team ownership base, and downsizing for the driver rotation in the reconfigured team's second entry leaves the American as Ed Carpenter Racing's only full-season hope. As part of the previous two-car Carpenter Fisher Hartman Racing program, the young Tennessean contested every round in his No. 21 Chevy, had Luca Filippi in the sister No. 20 on road and street courses, team co-owner Ed Carpenter at the...
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